Looking to upgrade my creeper/roller seat.

[hensean]

Looking to get a new roller seat for the shop. These are some I am looking at. Anyone have any suggestions or experience with a good comfy well performing creeper seat?

 

[Drunkonunleaded]

I have the OEMTOOLS one. The can holder and drawers are super handy. I have zero complaints really. Use it all the time.

FWIW, I hate hydraulic seats. They always fail eventually.

 

[SusKatCas]

I have the Vevor from Amazon. It's a step up from the dying castors and seat plank on my old Harbor Freight.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B097DGQTLP/?tag=atomicindus08-20

I considered this HF rolling toolbox. However, one of the drawers was bent and did not work at my local store. Then when working at my Mom's in a different state I found the same drawer bend and unusable for their display sample.

Mechanics Roller Seat with Drawers

Amazing deals on this Mechanics Roller Seat W/ Drawers at Harbor Freight. Quality tools & low prices.

www.harborfreight.com

Cheers, Alan

 

[olytdi]

I just used a couple of HF dollies and made my own at a height useful for using under a MaxJax. Attached a baking pan to the back as a tool/nuts/bots holder.

 

[hensean]

I have the Vevor from Amazon. It's a step up from the dying castors and seat plank on my old Harbor Freight.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B097DGQTLP/?tag=atomicindus08-20

I considered this HF rolling toolbox. However, one of the drawers was bent and did not work at my local store. Then when working at my Mom's in a different state I found the same drawer bend and unusable for their display sample.

Mechanics Roller Seat with Drawers

Amazing deals on this Mechanics Roller Seat W/ Drawers at Harbor Freight. Quality tools & low prices.

www.harborfreight.com

Cheers, Alan

I like that vevor one and looks like you have the option to replace the seat pad if you need to?

 

[Jeff]

 

[AC-WC]

OK, I thought somebody photo shopped the SO but it's for real! Because of my floor I think the Vevor would be a better option and easier to roll.

 

[isb cornbinder]

I bought this SnapOn creeper off the truck almost 30 years ago. The next week I was at COSTCO with my wife and Costco had the identical creeper for $65.
The SnapOn creeper is a quality unit. I have used it to move many heavy things. he high price faded away when the creeper worked,
The grey 10 drawer cabinet weighs about 70 kg. It has been sitting on the SO creeper for 3 years.

 

[SusKatCas]

I like that vevor one and looks like you have the option to replace the seat pad if you need to?

Yes, the pad is held in place with elastic straps and can easily be replaced.

 

[zmotorsports]

I have had several rolling stools over the 35+ years of my career, the longest lasting one thus far has been my Snap-on roller chair, which I had for about 20 of those years.

However, about a year ago I replaced it with a Viper stool, and I wish I would have foregone the lesser chairs and just stepped to this one as it is leaps and bounds better than any of the previous ones that I've had. If I were to do it again I wouldn't waste the money on anything else. Although they weren't available back then if I were buying now I would buy once/cry once and just get the Viper.

 

[dlwilson]

Be sure that it goes low enough. My Harbor Freight stool broke, and I replace it with a Dewalt. The Dewalt is comfortable and nicely made, but it doesn't go low enough to comfortably work on things like brake jobs on a car on jack stands.

 

[the shifty jesus]

I have a McKesson pneumatic medical exam stool I use. Bought off Craigslist 10 years ago, and it was probably 10-15 years old at that point.

If it ever fails and I can’t find another one cheap, I’ll probably start grabbing old office chairs and pulling the backs off them.

 

[Nutria]

These are some I am looking at.

That Matco looks identical to a Pittsburgh seat that I picked up used, but I think that it sold new at HF for ~$30. Maybe it's not the same thing, but it sure looks like it. The Pittsburgh seat has been fine, and the adjuster works well.

 

[Cairo94507]

I hate to say it, but the Viper stool is likely the ones we will buy once our garage is completed; cry once then love the Vipers. Just broke ground on a 2K sq. ft. home garage.

 

[Rockable]

I have had several and currently own one like the Cornwell shown plus a Griot's Garage stool. They are good for different things. The non adjustable Cornwell style is by far the most stable and rugged. A friend plopped down on my Griot's one day and didn't center up. When he did, it shot out from under him like a bullet and it has nearly done the same to me. The other is rock solid because the casters are outside the perimeter of the seat, plus it's nearly indestructible.

 

[zmotorsports]

I hate to say it, but the Viper stool is likely the ones we will buy once our garage is completed; cry once then love the Vipers. Just broke ground on a 2K sq. ft. home garage.

I don't think you'll regret the Viper stool. I procrastinated for a while until I finally bit the bullet around the first of the year and I love mine.

 

[Cairo94507]

Oh, I am sure we will love them. I even have my wife telling me to buy one after she has seen the commercials on Motortrend!

 

[CSRPenFab]

I hate to say it, but the Viper stool is likely the ones we will buy once our garage is completed; cry once then love the Vipers. Just broke ground on a 2K sq. ft. home garage.

+1 for the "buy once, cry once" and get the Vyper. I lived with a POS Harbor Freight stool for way too long, and when I got the Vyper this year it had me saying "why didn't you buy this years ago!". It rolls so easily, even over my RaceDeck freeflow tiles. The Vyper will probably still be kicking in three generations. It's built to an aerospace level of quality.

 

[driftpin]

Those first two in the OP's post look very durable. The last one, a Matco looks identical to the Harbor Freight one, at three times the price.

Since so-many are saying 'Viper,' that does look like a durable, comfortable one. Price be-damned, if you're going to be using it frequently.

I like the adjustable height ones, as I can get it where I have the best access for whatever job I have. The Harbor Freight aren't decades-durable, but they do adjust.

The remark about the office chairs, and making your own, seems like that may work, but I suspect the rollers may not last in a rough, broken slab environment.

For a creeper, I use a HFT one, the red one they sell, that was being discarded in a Miami industrial warehouse area, I snagged it as the guy was bringing it to the curb. It needed a bit of repair, I used a piece of sheet steel to reinforce a crack at one of the casters, and no issues there or elsewhere, since.

 

[Stuart in MN]

I'd try to find a used medical equipment or office equipment store, and look for the kind of stools nurses and doctors use in examining rooms. They have five legs and are very sturdy (just be careful when googling 'medical stool'....)

 

[dante2]

I've had the red HF stool for quite a while. One of the wheels came apart and instead of filling the landfill I bought some office chair skate wheels. The same effort I used to move with the old wheels now sends me all the way to the other side of the shop. Need to re-pad the top at some point as well.

 

[Fixr]

I'd try to find a used medical equipment or office equipment store, and look for the kind of stools nurses and doctors use in examining rooms. They have five legs and are very sturdy (just be careful when googling 'medical stool'....)

We have a couple of medical stools with screw height adjustment, one in the kitchen and one in the garage. Not convenient if changing height frequently, but pretty much bombproof unlike the pneumatic ones. We have never needed to change the height once set. We upgraded to skate wheel type casters, which helps them roll much better.

 

[Stuart in MN]

We have a couple of medical stools with screw height adjustment, one in the kitchen and one in the garage. Not convenient if changing height frequently, but pretty much bombproof unlike the pneumatic ones. We have never needed to change the height once set. We upgraded to skate wheel type casters, which helps them roll much better.

The ones I see in my doctor's office are pneumatic, they also go down quite low to the ground so they'd be good for working on a car.