Pull up a chair

37chief · Apr 7, 2014

When ever possible I find it easier to sit doing repairs, like changing blades on my flail mower. By leaving the mower on my trailer, the chair worked real good.I can't squat down to do anything. If I do it's hard to get up again. I'll bet others have the same problem. Stan

Dick2 · Apr 7, 2014

I can't squat and can't kneel, so sitting down is about the only option that I have - except for getting somebody else to do it!

fixerupper · Apr 7, 2014

I used to think a creeper chair was an unnecessary luxury. Not any more! Jim

dcarp · Apr 7, 2014

Same here. I use a roll around stool. When I get down on the ground almost need a crane to get back up.

Paul from MI · Apr 7, 2014

It's not the getting down, it's the getting up. On the smaller stuff I use the loader to lift it up more and more. As long as I get it done, who cares.

504 · Apr 7, 2014

My JD F-932 was on the trailer Saturday,it was a lot easier to work on than setting on the ground.

VicS · Apr 7, 2014

Know where you are coming from. I have two office chairs that will screw up and down. Try to raise everything up to their level. Vic

JRSutton · Apr 7, 2014

yup - getting there. Gets harder every year.

Now whenever I have to kneel I mentally work on my imaginary invention - leaf springs that mount behind each leg, and fold at the knee. When you stand up they give you a power assist.

Laugh all you want - next time you're kneeling you'll be thinking about them too now.

Dick · Apr 7, 2014

Boy I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who has this problem. I thought something was wrong with my legs when I try to get up from the ground. Now I know I'm not the only one.
Thanks guys,
Dick

Chuck (CA) · Apr 7, 2014

Jack Benny once said that when he bends down to tie his shoe, he looks around to see if there's anything else he can do while he's down there.

Dan T in MO · Apr 8, 2014

I have a few pinched nerves in my back. If I stand for more than just a few minutes, my left leg feels like it's being crushed and my right leg goes numb. Keep standing and the right leg begins to feel like a thousand needles are poking in my thigh. Not tiny needles, more like dull IV horse needles.

Yep, I sit for quite a few jobs.

RBnSC · Apr 8, 2014

I know what You mean. I spent the day welding patches in the bed of one of our dump trailers. Had to make a short stool out of a short piece of pipe and a saw blade. Still had to had to do some on my hands and knees. It's harder and harder to get up with bad shoulders.
Ron

TGIN · Apr 8, 2014

I have a few roll around office chairs too and a big heavy wood table that will hold up anything I can get up on it . I like suttons idea with the helper springs , 5 back surgeries , 50% a hip replacment 75% and a knee replacment better than it was but not real happy with it , need all the help I can get .

HillsofTn · Apr 8, 2014

It"s that danged law of gravity! If"n they would invent a switch to turn it off and on like electricity, life would be so much easier.

rrlund · Apr 8, 2014

I usually end up sitting on a bucket. I had a metal folding chair,but one of the boys took off and ran over it with the manure spreader.

Richard G. · Apr 8, 2014

I saw George Burns say that on the Merv Griffin show I think. Jack Benny would not have had that problem as he never aged past 39.
I sit when working in my shop if at all possible.
Feet and back give me fits.
Richard in NW SC

showcrop · Apr 8, 2014

I posted about this before. When I stated having major problems leading to knee surgery about three years ago I asked the transfer station operator to watch for a chair on wheels for me. He got me one that was more like an elaborate bar stool, but it was on five castors. I removed the arms and back and it allows me to sit and scoot around. Now I need one that will lift me about four feet for working on a big tractor, LOL.

wjytexas · Apr 8, 2014

I had a HF rolling seat in my shop but it kept flipping backwards if I rolled into a nut or something. Now I use and old office chair that adjusts and swivels. Better balance and bigger wheels roll fine.

gtractorfan · Apr 8, 2014

If there's anything worse for me it's having to work under something laying on my back, after a while I get nauseauted.

Mike (WA) · Apr 8, 2014

I've got two roll-around stools of different heights one is adjustable), plus a kneeling pad. And a table with a rolling office chair to work on small parts and components.

Kind of fun reading all these responses- what a bunch of hobbled up old geezers we are! Sounds like an organ recital! But at least we're still out there doin' the best we can, I guess.

Alan K · Apr 8, 2014

I always thought of something similar....when you wait until you have dropped a few things, then it makes the trip worth while....

Chuck (CA) · Apr 8, 2014

I'm sure you're right, Richard. It probably was George Burns, who also said he had the easiest job in the world when the Burns and Allen show was on. He would say "What's new Gracie?" and then he would just shut up. Gracie took it from there.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 8, 2014

That is so very true. I do that exact thing. While I'm down I try to do every thing I can.

Pair-a-dice farm · Apr 8, 2014

I use a 5 gallon bucket, my wife says I have a bucket seat but a barrel azz

randallinMo · Apr 8, 2014

It's a shame they don't have any more metal folding chairs in Michigan. Alas.

Cas · Apr 8, 2014

I am going to print this post and give it to my wife. At 66 years old, my wife says my knee and back problems are all in my head.

rrlund · Apr 8, 2014

Well,you know,you have to go looking for one...............

showcrop · Apr 8, 2014

(quoted from post at 05:49:04 04/08/14) If there's anything worse for me it's having to work under something laying on my back, after a while I get nauseauted.

See your doctor about vertigo. After I had an episode of vertigo it was over a year before I could go under a truck on a creeper.

Richard G. · Apr 8, 2014

Man I miss the old shows. Especially the comedians.
Richard

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