Kneeling support rolling chair

[luvmytoolz]

At the risk of maybe sounding a bit wussy this product that just hit my inbox looks great! No doubt there's other similar stuff that's been around for years, but this is the first time I've seen anything like it:
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https://kevmor.com.au/knee-pads/547...s2SjMsjkoS9ygXWgdM_SUTQDGBhbyFERBT94rI.TU75rS

After all my years kneeling and working on concrete in the timber mills I struggle to kneel for long now, this would have been really useful to me years back.

 

[live4ever]

I have a Rac-a-Tac, which I believe is the original version in the US.  It’s awesome for any tedious task on the floor - tiling, surface prep, laying flooring, etc.  Hard to justify the price for my occasional use but my knees and back aren’t what they used to be.

 

[Muttley000]

I’ve never seen one of these, wish I would have years ago!

 

[hdv]

Nothing wussy about it!!!

After putting my knees on concrete for many years I have some trouble with my right knee. There is tissue that has come loose (nothing is torn, it just moves around just below the kneecap) and putting pressure on it hurt a bit (much) too much for comfort these days. So now I always wear kneecaps when I have to kneel down.

 

[Packard]

Lots of offerings and lots of variations.  No one variety seems to have taken hold of the market.

A google search of “Kneeler roller” will get a large swath of that market.

Here is my search: https://www.google.com/search?q=kneeler roller&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-m

Fewer offerings, but the videos are revealing from YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Kneeler+roller

And this one was “reviewed” (though it feels like a “sponsored review”) and seems competent.

 

[squall_line]

Any assistance that helps with long-term comfort, day-to-day comfort, and long-term quality of life is a benefit, as far as I'm concerned. There is always going to be a group of individuals who see such things as unnecessary or even a sign of weakness because they grew up without them, but I'm guessing that if you told someone that they could "buy back" 15 years of post-retirement pain for the price of an exoskeleton, rolling knee pads, etc, they would kick themselves for not doing so.

I'm fortunate that my day job involves a keyboard and many monitors, but that comes with its own health detriments from sitting too long. If I were a laborer, I would definitely consider assistive devices that would allow me to either work later into my years or live with less pain later into my years.

 

[luvmytoolz]

@squall_line As an IT worker I learnt long ago when you spend all day looking at screens, it's worth spending a bit more to get a really good quality monitor. I'm very lucky that my eyesight is exceptionally good all things considered, but I have got rid of so many inferior monitors over the years that you could tell will cause a migraine or bad eyestrain. One of the benefits when I worked for a large multi-national is you can simply put it down to health and safety reasons and it just get's done!

 

[Packard]

I had a co-worker who was convinced that each person had a finite number of “bends” in his back. Once you used up your bends, you were done.

And my uncle was convinced that your brain had a finite capacity to remember things. He avoided learning new stuff out of fear that they would exceed his brain’s capacity and force him to lose older memories.

I asked him what algorithm his brain used to discard older memories. He thought I was being stupid.

(And I was.)

But he gave me some right-on-the-mark-advice when I was in high school. So he had some real-life smarts.

 

[smorgasbord]

And my uncle was convinced that your brain had a finite capacity to remember things.

Conon Doyle wrote that into a line for Sherlock Holmes back in the day:

“I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”

I agree with "for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before," but our brains have automatic recycle bins, like our computers but automatic. Things that have a large effect on us are remembered no matter what, but everything else needs to be pinged to be retained. If you don't re-access a memory for years, you'll forget it - like what you had for breakfast on Tuesday last week.

 

[Packard]

It’s interesting that my uncle and Doyle shared similar concepts.

I doubt he consciously parroted Doyle though. Interesting.

The bit on memory makes more sense that the finite number of bends you can get from your back. Though now that I think on the subject, the more sense it makes.

Tires are rated on their projected mileage. Bearings are rated on hours of service. So it would make sense to assume nature designed our backs for a specific range of service. Counting “bends” would be one way to do so.