Chunky Chair Outdoor Patio Furniture for Big and Tall

Designed and hand built for big and tall, short and fat people. I realized there is very little outdoor, deck or patio furniture sold for big and/or tall heavy and fat people. After a couple of attempts I have designed and built an ugly, heavy mostly wood chair for the tall and / or heavy man or woman to sit and lie on.
Patio furniture for the big guy or gal. Nothing fancy, very strong, stable and easy to sit on or stand from. Higher off the ground and solid.

A good idea is still a good idea

even if you have done nothing with it for a year or two. I have decided to make another Chunky Chair. Not as long, just as strong, not as tall as the one in the slideshows but just as strong.
Instead of marketing to fat giants I will market to normal sized fatties. Well built, very strong and heavy outdoor patio furniture for fat people.

Everyman has a price

As I secretly suspected my friend wants a Chunky Chair if it costs $200. After running the numbers for materials bought at Home Depot and my time at $10 per hour my best price is still $1000. Maybe I will make another chair and sell it on Craig's List.
For now the thrill of an order is gone.

Novelty value aside I believe this is a great outdoor / patio chair for very heavy tall or big people, I don't have the time to market it and make new versions. An integral part of the manufacturing process is using my dining room table to assemble the Chunky Chair and I need it to eat and entertain on.

I am still thinking and working on it in my head.

Can you put a price on wood & metal

& wheels & bolts & nails & paint & drawing and my time?

Best price I can come up with is $12-1500 for the chair I sit on every day, drink my morning tea, read my magazines and watch the birds fly by. The materials cost are higher than I thought but the biggest cost is labour. Isn't it always.

Creating a new Chunky Chair from scratch will take time. I work full time and do not look forward to building another one. When I built the first chair I moved my dining room table into the garage and built much of the chunky chair on top of it. It was a brilliant idea, 'made lining up and securing everything easier.

That really is not an option today. I am hosting my friends wine club meeting one day in April and want to hold a birthday party for me in May. Both need a dining room table.

Hopefully when I quote the price to my friend who wants a Chunky Chair he will crap at the cost and decline. It's funny, I thought I wanted to build these chairs full time and sell them to athletes, big and tall and just big people, now I am not so sure.

It's all in the Details

Proving a little more work than I thought. Friend of mine wants me to build him a Chunky Chair just like mine. Pricing all the bits and pieces is taking longer than I thought.

This patio, outdoor, all weather chair is damned ugly, heavy, red and very strong. It will support very big and tall people, short and fat, tall and thin or just gigantic.
Because I built the first one for my own use I kinda overbuilt. Solid steel axles, very heavy duty wheels that were doubled up at the rear, half inch steel bolts, all weather deck nails, two by eight and two by ten inch wood, all painted with a high tech elastomeric paint used by the US military and other reputable organizations to seal the wood for years of all weather service. Makes great copy but pricing quantity and quality is really tedious.

I'm getting there.

Pricing a Labour of Wood

As I mentioned in my last post a friend of mine wants me to build him a Chunky Chair "just like mine". In fact he wanted to buy mine, I declined. He actually fits better in my chair than I do. I'm 6ft and half an inch he is 6ft 3 inches, I weigh a cheeseburger under 300lbs he is really fat. I have no doubt the chair would safely support both of us however his wife would be jealous and I don't want to share.

3 years of designing, building, redesigning and rebuilding means I have no idea what it costs to build one. This weekend I start to add up the material cost and estimate the labour.

Bloody Hell, wish me luck.

Never Finished

As you can see from the 2 slide shows on the right of this post the Chunky Chair is constantly changing. The lower set of pics was taken when the chair was being built last year. I was unable to come up with a simple, strong, safe way to support the back of the chair to allow me to adjust it from nearly upright to lounging back for napping.
To get the thing outside and allow me to use it I opted for a simple solution that I thought would be temporary but now suspect simple is best. Details of the Chunky Chair back will follow.
As you have probably guessed i am very proud of this chair. It is very strong and stable. Sitting on it is like sitting on a rock. The version you see in the slide shows is actually big enough for a 7 foot tall person and will support at least 400 lbs if not more.
A friend of mine has asked me to build one for him. My biggest problem is when do I stop redesigning it and settle on a final version. I suspect I never will.

Wood and Steel

Mostly wood was needed to create The Chunky Chair. Built by me for the tallest, widest and heaviest people we know.
Short story is: Couple of years ago I was weighing close to 300lbs (actually I still am but that is none of your business), I searched for a long time for a comfortable, safe, long lasting outdoor, patio chair I could sit in to read, talk or snooze without fear of collapse, discomfort or pain getting in and out of the chair.

The result is a extraordinarily well built, very heavy, very solid outdoor / patio chair / lounger. Ugly as hell, heavier than me and mostly red it is a beautiful piece of furniture. As you can tell I am very proud.