Um yeah...

Bakster

Junk chair!  LOL.  It was pretty comical really.  

Happened to me a few years ago, I was leaning back trying to pour the crumbs from a bag of crisp (potato chips) down my throat & BANG - landed on my back with a heap of crisps all over me (much to my daughters amusement).

Milair... Yours is a funny story too.  Too funny my friend.  I am still laughing.

Well, I guess I'll share my story too.  20 years ago when I was a house painter, our crew was having our Christmas party in a Temple, Texas restaurant/bar.  We were all sitting in those cheap, plastic "stacking" chairs.  We had had a couple drinks (it was still early in the evening) but I was not intoxicated at all.  I leaned back in that cheap-*ss chair and the rear legs just folded beneath it.   The whole crew roared laughing and everyone in the place turned to look.  I'm sure they all thought, "there's another drunk painter" but I swear I wasn't!!  Plenty of comments around the table, "Man, you've had enough!"   Oh well, I guess I provided the comic relief that night...

Gary

You know, I never bought a stool for my bench, I actually prefer standing up.

It' one of these furious, embarrassed & laughing at the same time situations.......

That's scary, Bak. Glad you didn't get hurt.

I work on a cement basement floor, the thought of falling over backwards from an elevated stool/chair isn't a pleasant one.

I'm glad  you guys didn't hurt yourselves.  That kind of thing can do a lot of damage to an old geezer like me.  A week ago I tripped over a cement curb, crashed in a heap, and four kind strangers rushed to my rescue and picked me up and gave me a chair to sit in,  while I took inventory of my body parts.  I am still seeing a PT 3 times a week and having pain and difficulty getting up and walking.  Fortunately, no bones broken,  just many bruised and strained muscles.

Be careful out there!

Tojo... I do that sometimes too.  For me though its  too hard on my back standing for long periods of time hunched over, hence the stool.  Glad that works for you though.

Thanks for the concern Greg.  Fortunately my WB and chair is on nice soft carpeting.  As landings go, it could not have been much better.  I had a little scrape on my arm to show for it.  You are right though...these things could go bad.

Bakster

Texgunner...yours is another fine story.  Lucky for me there was no one around  to see my comedy act.

You know, it's all funny stories, but this is really pathetic, actually. The cheap JUNK from overseas that has flooded the markets is just an embarrassment to America, and I honestly wish there would be an act of Congress or something to change it. MY fiancee and I have been trying to find a quality rocking chair to sit on the front porch for six months, and all we've found so far is absolute JUNK., The chair disintegrates after sitting on it a few times, doesn't rock evenly, has patches of paint  missing, or weak construction, poor design...I mean, really? It's getting that way in too many products where they're designed to get your money and then fall apart from the poor quality of their components.

LESSON HERE: ALWAYS SAVE YOUR RECEIPTS!!!!

I remember way back in the very early '80s (probably 1981, as my ex and I were still dating at the time), we were at a mud racing event on the outskirts of Memphis, TN, and this huge behemoth of a man (I'm estimating about 350lbs) sets a small lawn chair about 10 feet in front of us on the edge of a muddy bank, then sits in the chair to watch the Jeeps, Chevys, and Fords go at it in the mud. About 30 seconds later, all 4 legs of that chair gave out, each going outward at a 45 degree angle and at a HIGH rate of speed. It was all he could do to keep from rolling in to the mud with the vehicles. He spent a good 3 - 4 minutes clawing his way back up the bank. Needless to say, he took out his frustrations out on that chair in front of all of us. Hadn't thought about that event since it happened till I read this thread.........

Doog, a good way to get a well-made rocking chair is to have one built for you by a woodsmith. Sure, you'll pay a bit more than you would in a store, but the quality will be outstanding, and you can have it built in almost any way that you like. Hope that you and your fiance find what you're looking for.

Hey doog, are the rockers at Cracker Barrel any good?  I've seen them for sale, lined up on their porch.

Gary

I've seen those, too. They look as though they're good quality (they oughta be at $149), but I've never really looked up the manufacturer on the Internet.

Well doog if you'd read the instructions, it says

"chair intended for single occupant only".

I avoid the made in China garbage were I can, specially in dog foods. But as posted above, the overseas cheap stuff has invaded our markets to the max and is difficult to avoid.

We laugh at these stories but things can take a turn for the worse in a fraction of a second. Imagine holding a blade or chemicals while doing a crash and burn sequence on a faulty chair. Hopefully that lacquer thinner will just spill on the floor where it can be cleaned up along with the broken glass and the sharp #11 blade will end up on the floor and not stuck in your leg.

Alright you Guys !

I will put your fears to rest .I have a Cracker Barrel rocker and one I had made in an Amish furniture shop in Goshen ,Indiana .Both chairs were bought within a few days of each other .

  Both chairs are in excellent shape and condition .They were bought about twelve years ago while I was R.V.'n it all over this great country .Did you know that the Grand Canyon is Big ? I found out when I got to see it with my own peepers . Photos don't do it justice  .On a auto pullout,  in our rockers having a lemonade .( I don't drink and drive !     T.B.

   P.S. I have two of those guilty chairs . The cushions are cr%$ and the legs too . I will try to find another folding contoured chair at Camping World  .Mine, for outside, are twenty Five years old,  Made in America ! I can't stand for any length of time since my back and hip surgery from a car crash . I got " T- Boned " by a dump truck ( 10 wheeler) about nineteen years ago .

  Thank God I was driving a big American Made !  highway " boat "

Hey Plasticjunkie--that is a really good point.  You are right.  If I was holding a blade it might have been a different story.  The truth be told that right behind where I fell was a futon bed frame. I narrowly missed hitting that.  I did some research on this chair.  For one, I want to see if I can get my money back.  I purchased this thing on Amazon and I came to find that this happened to another person.  In his case though it happened when he sat on the thing for the first time.  Two feet broke off just like mine.  He admits that his weight exceeded the weight limit of the chair but,  he stated that the ad does not indicate what that weight limit is, and that he never had issues with chairs like this before.  He only found out what the weight limit was by looking into it after it happened. He is correct about that.  The ad does not give a weight limit.  In my case, I am about 80 lbs under that maximum weight limit.  As of now, I have developed a pretty nasty bruise and it's pretty swollen now.  I didn't think I hit anything that hard.  I guess I did!

Bakster

If recently purchased I would certainly pursue the credit angle. The sub quality of the products out in the US market is truly scary.

Better get out the ol' duct tape!

This reminds me of the time, back in the 1970s when I was about 15, and I had a drum set, my first one, and to play one, you sit on a special stool. One day, I was whamming away to some hard-rock band or other on my record player (no CDs then) and the drum stool, without warning, just folded up and collapsed underneath me. No damage to either my body or the drum kit, but I made sure it wouldn't happen again by taping the legs in place.

It's bizarre, the silly things we remember from our childhood and adolescence! 

Jim Barton

 record player (no CDs then)

plasticjunkie

 

Yep and 8 tracks. The new generation has no idea about LP & 45 records or 8 tracks. 

I used to have a pretty cool linear tracking deck with strobe & track programming......... Those were the days 

I was recently at an outdoor concert sitting in one of those canvas fold-up yard chairs from Wally-Mart.  Suddenly, it started to slowly (fortunately) collapse, leaving me sprawled on the ground.  Two or three bystanders helped me get back up on my feet, one of them threw the chair in the trash barrel for me, and another loaned me his sturdy chair for the rest of the concert, while he stood.

Being an older, overweight geezer, I really appreciated their help!

There are a lot of good people in this world.

Gary,

The ones at Cracker Barrel are fer lookin' only, lol. We found them to be very uncomfortable. The backs of them kinda dig into your back. We really didn't care for them.

Devil Dawg; I kinda came to that conclusion, that if you want a good rocker, you're going to have to pay.

We got one from Lowes, assembled it, and after 3 months, Jenn sat on it and the bottom post where it connects to the lower rocking bar blew through the wood, the screw blasting out of the bottom after the wood just mysteriously cracked. We took it back just yesterday and they refunded and gave us a new one even though th e90 days warranty had expired. AT least there are good people in management still left in the world!