Lawn Chairs

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  1. Expat

    Expat Expat™ Knives Staff Member

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    It's not too early to plan your sitting mechanism for this upcoming summer adventures.

    Last year, I did away with those folding camp chairs that weigh a ton and never last more than season. I went old school and I'll never go back to the new junk.

    I can't recommend Lawn Chair USA enough.

    Lawnchairsua.com


    I bought the Charleston and it brings me great delight. Light enough to carry with one finger. Made in the USA. More sturdy than the other stuff, and when the webbing eventually breaks, it's a quick $10 and 10 minutes to re-web it back to good as new. Plus you don't sink down in it all slouched.

    For you true Expats on the run, they take Bitcoin.

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    This is not too far from the one used in one of the greatest movies of all time, Gran Torino:

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    Alternatively, you can wait for the new Yeti lawn chair. Probably heavy and probably costs $150:

    https://www.yeti.com/hondo-base-camp-chair/YHBCC.html
     
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    Good grief I'm getting old I remember when an everyday lawn chair was less then $1o. I have one that I reweb when needed haha
     
  3. Expat

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    You can still find them around in thrift stores and stuff for $10. I'd buy one if I saw one cause I can reweb them easily.

    Lawn Chair USA is priced to the rich hipster, and is pretty much the most expensive around.
     
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    I prefer those to the camping style chairs......i cannot tell you how many chairs I have found trashed and burnt and left behind as garbage at camp sites.

    It would not actually be that hard to make those old style chairs..............one could use old fire hose cut into strips...
     
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    How about designing a pack that uses this chair design as the external frame? What a classy way to hike in for a day in the bush, or go on the run from Sinaloa, whatever just everyday things.

    As for spending a crap ton on a camp chair, if i was rich or stupid I would be browsing forums for Busse or Turley. I'm poor, I work hard and barely sleep, and live off of whiskey and hate. If i find someone using an Expat knife and then sitting in a Yeti camp chair, Imma gon' slap 'em
     
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    Love that idea!
     
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    Start making them and we'll make you famous!
     
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    I’m thinking you could get $50 a chair what do you think?

    “A chair built from the materials to survive a fire so you can sit around one”
     
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    the aluminum tubing would be the pricey part........esp here in Canada....
     
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    Just make sure before you get the chairs to market that you obtain the sticker rights.
     
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    This thread is prompting me to get off me arse and invest in some new camp chairs, and now I'm reminded how far superior the 'old school' chairs really were. I'm so fed up with those modern folding chairs that do terrible things to my back and weigh a stupid amount for what they are. As long as the alu frames are sturdy enough to take some normal camp abuse, I'm sold on grabbing a couple from Lawnchairsusa.
     
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    I actually found a pack type chair at a thrift store a few years ago. $4 and I take it a lot of places especially family bbq's. Take what I need and have a chair to sit in,works great !!!
     
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    Very cool but hard to swallow for $40 each plus whatever they would charge for shipping on them.
     
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    Three chairs or one cleaver. Tough choice. o_O
     
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    Just buy one on craigslist or at a yard sale or eBay.
     
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    My job is done here.
     
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    ^ great sticker idea

    Expat Knives.....my job is done here.
     
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    I've had the nylon collapsible camp chairs for the last 10 years... the same collapsible camp chairs for the last 10 years. I'm not sure what you guys are doing to yours to make them disintegrate. I just sit in mine.
     
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    You're from California where healthy people live. They are "real" Americans.

    And I don't mean they're shooting them with 30rd magazines.
     
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    man I love and hate lawn chairs. The new style collapsible ones are awesome for portability but they always fall short in reliability. The pins at the joints are always a weak spot as are the corners of the fabric. And heaven help you if you're a big fella (or gal) like my brother in law, who has broken more of my chairs than everyone else put together.

    One of the local sporting goods stores here have some chairs by Alps and Browning that are rated at like 700lbs and I've been really tempted by them just to try and find something that will hold up more than a season or two but at 60-70 bucks each I've yet to pull the trigger. I just can't help but think that maybe being built to rate at that level will include pins that are sturdy enough to support 200lbs for years and years.

    They're probably made in the same Chinese factory as all the walmart chairs though.
     

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