Description
- Comfortable Padding: Thick and supportive padding to ensure comfort during extended periods of kneeling. The surface is designed with a non-slip texture, providing added stability and preventing slips or accidents while kneeling or sitting.
- Integrated Tool Pouch: Equipped with a convenient tool pouch, our garden kneeler keeps your gardening tools within reach, saving you time and effort as you work.
- Compact Storage: Foldable garden kneeler for easy storage in sheds, garages, or closets, saving valuable space when not in use. Set them up quickly and start using them right away.
- Easy to Clean: The garden kneeler is easy to clean with just a quick wipe-down after use, high quality and sturdy materials perfect for outdoor environments, remain in good condition even when exposed to outdoor elements.
- Multi-Functional Design: The Flip Kneeler can be converted into a garden seat to accommodate different users or tasks, adding versatility to your outdoor activities.
Texas Rose –
I’m SO glad I ordered this! I’m getting on in years now, and bending over, squatting, and kneeling in the garden has become more difficult than it used to be. So I ordered this folding bench/kneeling pad to help me out, and I USE IT ALL THE TIME! It’s actually made gardening so much more pleasant, I’m not sure why I didn’t buy this sooner?! It’s very high quality, made of heavy duty steel and well put together. I’m a big guy (6’3 275lbs) and it holds my weight like a champ — it doesn’t make me nervous like some of the cheap stools out there. The green paint is thick and it feed like a quality product that will last for years. If well taken care of, I’m confident this will last for a decade or more. Great value!
Texas Rose –
I seldom trust 5 star reviews, and I rarely give them. This is one of those items that earns it. It’s light, folds up nicely, and is made to last. The fact that you can use it in different ways has been a back (and knee) saver for my husband, who won’t garden without it. In fact, he likes it so much that we had to get another one so we didn’t have to thumb-wrestle over who gets to use it. The only thing I wish is that the tool bag that rests over the handle had a small piece of Velcro to hold it in place. It’s such a small thing that I can’t take any stars off it.
Marsha –
If you’re like me and you’ve been searching for the best garden kneeler, reading reviews, and trying various ones and having to return them (or leave them at the store), stop your search and order this one. You won’t be disappointed! This is everything a garden kneeler is supposed to be.
I’ve had a lifetime of knee and foot issues, and age isn’t doing me any favors. With a large raised bed garden, 260 linear feet of in ground flowerbeds, and another 140 linear feet of in ground flowerbeds in the works, I spend a lot of time on my knees or sitting on a stool. For the past 5 years I’ve been a big fan of Earth Edge kneeling pads. The past 2 years, I’ve had to stack 2 of them together most of the time. I needed a taller stool since I installed a Vego 17″ metal raised bed this year, which is 7″ taller than my wooden raised beds and I’m not getting any younger, so I decided it was time to give one of these contraptions a try. I was about to give up after returning 6 others and trying 3 at local stores, because they all would have necessitated stacking 2 Earth Edge kneeling pads on top when using it as a kneeler, which would be a pain. I tell you all that so you will know how good this garden kneeler/stool really is. I’ve been using it almost daily for 2 months now, and my photos are from yesterday, which gives you a good look of a well used product, dirt and all. That means it’s really been tested well, so you can trust me.
There’s not a thing about this garden kneeler and stool I don’t like. It’s not too heavy to carry and it’s not too hard to squeeze the mechanism to unfold it at the beginning of the day and unfold it at the end of the day. All the meta is welded on both sides at the connection points, and the paint job is perfect, with no bubbles or missed spots. It’s got pads on both sides, so it’s quick to go between sitting and kneeling. (Some garden kneelers require you to move and reattach a pad every time you change how you’re using it, which is a pain.) When I first got it, I thought the pads appeared too thin and thought I’d be stacking one of my Earth Edge pads on top when kneeling, but the pads are really great. The pad supports your knees well without squishing down too much, but it is also soft enough to make your knees really comfortable. I spent 3 1/2 weeks of 8-10 hour days (6 days per week) digging out decorative stones kneeling on this, and the handles were definitely appreciated the more tired I got. The kneeler was really stable, even when it was sitting on the uneven stones. Not matter how sharp some stones were, I never had to worry about it tipping when I was getting up or down. I’ve been putting this job off for 2 years, and I honestly don’t think I could have gotten this huge job done by myself without this product.
I had hostas between the stones that needed to be moved too, so the next week I went to work on my next project. (The stones and hostas used to be around my garden, but after some garden expansions, they were now in the middle of my garden in what is now a main walkway. Stones aren’t great if you’re not willing to spray herbicides, in my opinion, and hopping over 3′ hostas is a recipe for disaster at some point.) Our yard has a lot of quackgrass, which is literally evil. After my husband used a sod cutter to remove the grass, I still spent 3 weeks on these 2 30’x3′ beds digging down 10″ to get out as much of the quackgrass roots as I could, planting the hostas, installing the edging, laying down cardboard, and spreading mulch. Half of that time was spent kneeling on the driveway. While I was at it, I spent 3 days doing the same to create a flowerbed around our mailbox. The whole time this garden kneeler protected my knees and performed perfectly. The only issue is that I scuffed up the paint while using it on the driveway (and probably from the stones too). I probably should have been more careful moving it. One improvement I think could be made to this product would be having some protection where it rests on the ground, whether sitting or kneeling. As is, I’m worried about rust on the now unprotected metal. I think I’m going to wrap some Gorilla duck tape around the metal where the paint is scratched off to protect it, rather than continually repainting it.
At the end of those projects, I injured the cartilage in my right knee. I’m doing physical therapy and likely headed to surgery, but the yard and garden work doesn’t stop. I’ve had to add a thin kneeling pad on top that was a giveaway from an Extension class I took, since kneeling is horribly painful at the moment, but other than that this garden kneeler/stool is still doing the job. I’m using it to support 90% of my 170 lbs when getting up and down, and it hasn’t flinched. I’m telling you the truth when I say I couldn’t get up or down without these handles the past few weeks. Even with the painful injury I dug 6″ down and pulled the dirt away from all 140′ where I installed a fence around the garden kneeling on it, so I could bury the fencing to keep the voles and rabbits from digging under it and have done all the other garden work I could. Yes, I’m not able to spend as many hours on my knees at the moment, but without this product I’d be spending no time on them.
No matter the reason you spend time on your knees, need a stool to sit on, or need/want some extra help getting up or down, inside or outside the house, I highly recommend this garden kneeler/seat. The only thing I wouldn’t use it for would be to stand on it outside on less than level ground, as shown in the listing’s video. I can’t imagine that would end well for most of us.
Marsha –
PROS:
+ Easy to open/close
+ Pads are permanently attached for kneeler and seat; no switching necessary!!!!
+ Handy pockets for tools: easy to switch sides for kneeler, seat, or storage
+ Sturdy
+ Easy to get up from the ground or kneeling position with strong handles
+ Not just for the garden; great in the house to get down low and back up again
+ Lightweight: easy to carry and store
CONS:
– Padding quite stiff; better than kneeling on rocks, but not cushy on the tush
– Rocks just a little until you put weight on it
Net/net => I really like it and consider it a great add to my garden tool collection
If I’d had this a few years ago, my post-stroke husband might have been able to use this to get off the floor after a fall instead of calling the fire department in the middle of the night. Hope we never have to try it out for that, but it might have made a difference for him, even with just one hand.
As it is, I’m a year post hip replacement and I can get off the floor when I get down to look in a bottom cabinet, but this little kneeler makes the operation fast and easy. Kneel, back off to get down and look, get back on kneeler. Use the handles to get right up. That right there makes this kind of “priceless” as they say.
Thumbs up for garden and home.
UPDATE: This little kneeler helped me do what could have been a painful and nasty job quickly. I had to straighten out the hose from our RV black tank on my knees with my head dangerously close to the sharp corner of the slide out. I was also wearing a sundress.
With the help of some rubber gloves and the kneeler, I was able to get close enough to the problem area under the rig, avoid kneeling on sharp pebbles, get the job done fast and get up again without banging my head, messing up my dress or fumbling around in a potential hazmat situation. Quick and easy down and up again.
Today I used it in the driveway to see if the cat was still hiding under the car. He was. I was down and up again without mooning the neighbors.
This thing is growing on me… 6 stars. I’m keeping it with my garden tools in a big storage box on my patio. So awesome and handy.