Posted by hipstomp | 30 Oct 2008
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A good bench is sturdy and heavy; it's also a pain-in-the-neck to move. But Dutch designer Rogier Martens has handily solved the problem:

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A good bench is sturdy and heavy; it's also a pain-in-the-neck to move. But Dutch designer Rogier Martens has handily solved the problem:

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You're kidding...?
I guess I might find a bench has been moved once a year or so? So the trade off of seeing that wheel for 364 days of the year isn't too bad..........
I can see myself moving such a bench, every time I need to mow, at the very least. Don't like seeing the wheel? build a skirt around it. Also a skirt will shield the tire from the sun. The only drawback to the good idea, the sun rotting the tire over time. Building an all wooden or steel wheel would fix that as well.
Build it with removable stake pockets along the forward edge of the sitting surface, then build a "gate to fit the pockets, and you have a side loading hauler to use when not using as a bench! Git R DONE!