I'm redesigning a Garden Kneeler!

forget about knee protectors .... think deeper ...

you need to design something that will make woman want to do a man's job

best invention for gardening in the past few years was the flymo ... made lawn mowing look easy .... they had adverts on tv ....

men used to (and still do) tells their wifes to look carefully, as mowing with a flymo is so easy

men then buy the mowers for their wifes and will pay whatever price ... wifes end up mowing while hubby sips a beer and watches footy on tv .... money worth spent ....

brilliant!

 

Go on then Shiney! I'd appreciate any ideas. Although I must admit the footstool looks really tempting.......

 

I don't doubt you. That's why I always get myself into a comfortable position to work, except of course when that's not practical.

I've trained my missus to mow the lawn. Its not a flymo though, I refused to buy one of them after the last flymo we had broke, finally justifying the expense of replacing the grass tearing, mess leaving, lawn stripping thing.

 

Thanks Shiney! Hope you are feeling much better by now. Have a lovely day!!

 

Now, here's style. A lady acquaintace has a nice kneelner, it is the leather rear seat arm-rest from a 1930's Rolls Royce.

And no, she doesn't have Corgies !!

a-a

 

I discovered this to be true a few weeks ago when I decided to sit on an upturned plastic planter. It didn't last any time at all. It caved the instant I put my weight on it. Good job I was wearing jeans, broken plastic can be surprisingly sharp. I've so far managed to avoid A&E for embarrassing injuries, and I'd be happy to keep it that way

 

once you have re-designed the garden kneeler, have a look at a garden recliner:

 

I don't use a kneeler for a whole host of reasons, so if you want to design one I might buy, then it would have to include ....

1 A decent 'seat pad' bit (for want of a better description). Someone earlier suggested filling it with a gel which could work, but the bit of foam over a wooden or metal platform - as in the current designs - is totally inadequate. The cover would also need to be made of something like ripstock nylon, i.e. wipe clean and hardwearing.

2 Again, something raised by someone else is manoeuvrability. I've got a plastic 'thingy' on wheels, you lift up the top (which is also the seat) put a few garden handtools in it, close the top and trundle it around. The 4 chunky wheels mean you don't have to keep getting up and down and allow you to propel yourself (sideways) around the garden. Something similar fitted to a kneeler might work.

3 All the kneelers I've seen have two handles of some sort at either side. Now that's great if your able to put your hands on them (so that your elbows are up somewhere level with your shoulders) and push up. Many people can't do that. Of course it's done for ease of manufacture, (and so that the thing can be turned over and used as a seat) but a much lower handle, sloped towards the user at something like an angle of about 40 degrees would be much more comfortable to use and provide more 'leverage'.

 

An old pair of jeans and a trowel is all I need. I don't ever even use garden gloves :D

 

:D

I like to keep abreast of new technologies!

 

here's one for you ....adjustable handles, toolbox, easy to maoevere, add a gel cushion to the seat?

 

Mel, you can already get gel kneeling pads.