If you lay a wound up power cable with lots of current going through it you have an air cored transformer with shorted turns!
Get a 25 or 50' cable, and run a 2KW house hold heater for a few minutes and note the temperature rise!!
Many a caravan owner with a rolled up power cable (especially on original metal drum the cable came on) and running an airconditioner has ended up with a roll of molten PVC.
If you need the cable to be left long, lay it backwards and forwards, so as not to form a continuous loop.
Many power appliances have instructions to unroll power cable before use.
Super X3. 3600rpm. Sheridan 6"x24" Lathe + more. Three ways to fix things: The right way, the other way, and maybe your way, which is possibly a faster wrong way.