Hack a Tractor Seat Stool

I use a standing desk here at the lab, but sometimes I want to sit. So we purchased a nice tall adjustable stool with a comfortable tractor-style seat. The problem is, I'm on the tall side and rather lanky at that, so the desk is really high -- this is so, when I'm typing, my forearms are level with the floor, and my wrists are straight.

The stool was pretty tall, but not quite tall enough for that. It needed about 3 more inches for me to type comfortably while seated. Additionally, the tilt of the seat was the reverse of what my back needed. It slanted back, which encourages back-rounding, which makes my sciatic nerve really grumpy. I wanted it to slant forward, which would allow me to keep my spine in a neutral position, slightly arched.

So I decided to remove the seat and jack it up with a stack of 2x4s (2 x 1.5" = 3"). It turned out that the flange holding the seat on was where most of the seat tilt came from, and it looked like it would be easy to reverse since the four screws fastening it were in a square. 

Step 1 Materials

This is how the stool looked when I started. Notice that the bottom of the tractor seat is slanted back. If it wasn't, reversing the seat wouldn't make a difference!

Comments

[turbotosh]

Hacktor seat surely..........