Kneeling Chair?

[xela]

Does anyone have a kneeling chair you like, or know a brand/model of them that's solid and well-made? In my new job, I spend easily 90% of my working time sitting at my desk using the computer. But isn't that basically what your primary job has been for 20-odd years?, you say. True enough — but it's usually been more like 75% of my working hours, with the rest occupied by crawling around under desks, working in the network room, fabricating stuff in the machine shop, or even just sitting in a different chair in a different posture at meetings.

I remembered just now, as I was getting up to stretch just for the sake of not sitting in my desk chair for a few minutes, that the last time I was doing work this sitting-at-my-computer-intensive, I found a kneeling chair that some co-worker had abandoned, and kept it in my cubicle, switching back and forth between it and my sitting-down chair whenever I felt the need for variety. I'm thinking I could do worse than to replicate that.

But I do want to be sure of getting a sturdy one. I don't remember whether it was the one I had at that job or not, but I did once have a kneeling chair collapse under me. Which, while a less bad experience than having a normal chair collapse under me, is not an experience I'd care to repeat....

Comments

[hlinspjalda.livejournal.com]

I've been using the same one for about 25 years now. We bought two of them, cheap bent plywood frame knockoffs produced right after the expensive ones were introduced back in the 1980s. (I called them my "cheap immigrations.") I put one in my office at work, the other at home. We're down to only one frame now, and I've had to re-pad and reupholster it, but it's been a trouper. I'm using it now as I type this. It looks exactly like this one (http://austin.craigslist.org/fuo/3070131098.html).

Along the way I've used three or four other brands. Every time I'd get disgusted by their wobble, or their cheap plastic casters that broke, or by the bad angle. Mr. Fixer would reglue, re-screw, and tighten up the old ones again, and that'd be fine for another five or six years. He's promised me that when this one eventually breaks, we'll use the parts as a template for a new one.

I recommend you don't get the kind that adjust overmuch; they're usually the quickest to fail in my experience. Rolling ones just seem cheaply made, as nearly as I can tell. If you've got the $$$ for a top of the line one, well, I've never had that opportunity so I don't know how good they are. But the best thing is to go sit/kneel in one. If you like the angles it puts you at, and it doesn't feel wobbly, buy it. Chances are you'll have to buy another one someday, when it breaks. But until then, if it feels good it's done the job you bought it to do.

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

I do almost all my non-food shopping online anymore, and I'm not sure that without your comment it would have occurred to me that this is one of those things one has to try in person. Thank you!

[hlinspjalda.livejournal.com]

Which is funny, because I bought my original two from a catalogue without trying them first. ;-D But yeah, go see what makes your lower spine happiest, and take that sucker home with you!