PC camp stool?

check this out:

http://www.ropeworks.biz/archive/campstool.html

Very good idea.
One other simalar method, use 3 legs 2"x 24" bound with rope at the center, pre-make a triangular leather or heavy canvas seat that has pockets sewn at each point, insert the ends of the legs into the pockets and apply weight. This is a very easy seat to make, all you have to bring is the seat cover, and it will fold or rollup in you pack, just cut the legs when you get to where your going.

This seat looks like something a sailor would make while bored on shore.

Many Klatch

PC to what time period?

It has the look of those early 1900's "safari" bush camp type furniture to me, or that New England Adirondack "dude ranch" camps.

It's a neat idea, but a whole lot of work just for a place to set down. And not something you would ... pack along ... but make on site at a place you intended to stay at for a few weeks or a whole season.

Just my humble opinion, and best used in conjunction with your own research.

Mikey - yee ol' grumpy German blacksmith out in the Hinterlands

That's one of the designs I get my students to make themselves on the woodcraft courses I run. There's always enough 'found' material lying around to make one each. It gives them somewhere to park their posteriors when having a break.





As for period, I've used one in Iron age, medieval and Viking and nobody has commented negatively, not even the archaeologists. Mind you I do use home made cordage.

Eric

Hmmmm, The most PC arraignment I have seen is sitting on the ground and leaning against a tree. Works anywhere and you won't have to pack or assemble the ground or the tree.

Aye, but when it's been raining non stop for three days, your arthritic knees are playing up and your back is aching, sitting on the ground up against a tree doesn't sound that appealing. I can get down OK, gravity helps there, but getting back up again is a chore. With these stools, I can sit in comfort (and they are comfortable) under my tarp warming myself by my fire. It takes ten minutes to make one and they definitely have a place in my camp. If I make three or four, you'd be surprised at how quickly others come over for a sit down and a bit of a warm. Then invariably someone pulls out a bottle of amber nectar and before you can say Robert's your mother's brother, we have a party.

Eric

Hmmmm, The most PC arraignment I have seen is sitting on the ground and leaning against a tree. Works anywhere and you won't have to pack or assemble the ground or the tree.

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Hmmmmm, you obviously aren't 64 years old either.

reddogge said:

Hmmmm, The most PC arraignment I have seen is sitting on the ground and leaning against a tree. Works anywhere and you won't have to pack or assemble the ground or the tree.

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Hmmmmm, you obviously aren't 64 years old either.

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No disrespect intended, but I trek with a bunch of guys who are in their 40s, 50s and 60s. Not a stool seen in the whole group.

I'm not sure what age has to do with it, but physical ability/condition is an entirely different story.....

It's a funny thing, but I can "sit" on my knees for an hour or so. Maybe due to the years of Judo. But I cannot sit "Indian Style" for a full minute, and even with a backrest I can only sit on the ground on my backside for very short periods. (I can squat longer!)

I can't be unique in history. Makes you wonder how the old-timers dealt with their individual physical limitations. They sure can't have all done things the same way.

In any case, I like the stool. I believe I'll make one up.

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It's a funny thing, but I can "sit" on my knees for an hour or so. Maybe due to the years of Judo. But I cannot sit "Indian Style" for a full minute, and even with a backrest I can only sit on the ground on my backside for very short periods. (I can squat longer!)

I can't be unique in history. Makes you wonder how the old-timers dealt with their individual physical limitations. They sure can't have all done things the same way.

In any case, I like the stool. I believe I'll make one up.

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Given the "wear and tear" and lack of medical attention afforded to those in historical times, most of those "historical" folks probably did not see 64 years old :rotf: :rotf:
Dan