Finding furniture/cars that fit my size/height/weight needs.

Discovered that the pneumatic LaunchPadChair weighs 40# - a lot of weight for a folding chair. Has no one at all designed a sturdy lightweight folding chair for BIG FOLKS? All of the weight-rated tubular seating I've found is so heavy that it's not actually portable (for me). Yet we all *KNOW* that tubular lightweight seating exists in 'normal' sizes. How so? Is this a market opportunity for whoever is producing smallish cardtables/chairs? Maybe.

I have the Browning Big Tall Chair. I love it/them!!! They are high, wide, and sturdy, and they fold!!! They are no problem to put in a car trunk and they are not heavy to carry.

I have no trouble rising from them. They are rated for 325 lbs but they easily took my weight when I was over 350 lbs.

I forgot, there is also a foldable chair that's called Maxxdaddy that holds more than 400 lbs.

This chair is reminicent of the folding chairs you see people carting over their shoulders at festivals and outdoor events.

It's extra, extra sturdy and though it's rated for 400 lbs it's been proven to hold 600 lbs with no strain on the structure. Further it has arms and the arms also hold 400 lbs and so can be used to assist in rising from the seat.

Here's a review: Sorry I can't put the link but you can do a search.

Comfort

The MaxxDaddy Monster is a large folding camp chair with a removable footrest and padded headrest. Sitting in it is much like sitting in a large Easy Chair. It seems to have been made for people who are fairly tall. While I found it to be quite comfortable, a couple of shorter people that tried it out felt that it was not quite as well-suited for them. Taking off the footrest seemed to make them considerably more comfortable. Everyone still agreed that it was the most comfortable camp chair they had ever tried.



Performance

The thing that makes the MaxxDaddy line of chairs special is its ability to take large amounts of weight and stress. The chair is tested with static weights of 1400 pounds, and is safe to hold up to 800 pounds. Each arm can hold up to 400 pounds. To test it, I got a 500 pound person to sit in the chair and had someone else sit on their lap. As they bounced around, the chair did not even wobble. Then I sat another person on each arm with no problems at all. Unfortunately, after that I ran out of heavier things I could fit on the surface areas of the chair.



Durability

In order to test the durability of the chair, I put it through a number of stress tests. First, I took it out of its carrying bag and dropped it 15 feet onto concrete. There was no damage. I picked it up and bashed it repeatedly into concrete steps. This scratched the finish and put a few nicks into the steel frame and some scuffs to the fabric, but the chair remained essentially undamaged and completely functional. I left it out in the rain overnight and then packed it wet and let it sit for a week. After I washed off the mould, the chair was entirely undamaged.

Size

Another thing to mention about this chair is that it is extremely big. Here are the unfolded dimensions:

<!--[if !supportLists]-->· <!--[endif]-->Seat area: 26.5” width X 23” depth

<!--[if !supportLists]-->· <!--[endif]-->Entire seat size: 26.5” x 25.5”

<!--[if !supportLists]-->· <!--[endif]-->Back height with headrest: 44”

<!--[if !supportLists]-->· <!--[endif]-->Width between the bottom of the arm bars: 23”

<!--[if !supportLists]-->· <!--[endif]-->Seat height is 17”

<!--[if !supportLists]-->· <!--[endif]-->Width between the top of the arm bars: 29.5”

This size is a great feature if you are in need of a chair for a larger person, the purpose for which the MaxxDaddy was designed. Unfortunately, this comes with the down side of extra weight. The MaxxDaddy Monster weighs a whopping 24 pounds. Closed, it is the size and shape of a small golf bag and can be carried without difficulty. It would work great for car camping, but it would certainly be too big to carry for any distance.



Conclusion

The MaxxDaddy Monster is an extraordinarily well-constructed product. It is more comfortable, sturdier, and better than any other camp chair I have seen. The only restrictive part being its weight, at 24 pounds, it is ideal for trips with a stable camp site, but not for backpacking trips. Koolest Products produces other, lighter chairs that would be more suitable to that sort of trip which are also built to the same quality standards, though not to support the ludicrous weights of the MaxxDaddy.

Wonder why a simple card-table chair made of aluminum tubing with an adjustable-height leg is not available. Puzzles me. Seems logical to me to expand on a simple folding chair that can be taken into a restaurant where I would hesitate to set up a camping chair such as these are. I have a folding chair that I carry in the car, but it SEEMS to have gotten shorter(!!!) and I cannot rise from it now as I have done in past years. Go figure!

Thanks, Zule, for sharing these two examples of what is available for BIG FOLKS to sit in if they are "challenged" by average furniture or are not easily able to perch on a rock while camping. Making a seat so heavy that it is not portable? What's THAT about, I wonder?