Stand or sit while casting

[johnnyjr]

Which do you prefer ? I just changed my shed around and will be trying standing up to see how it goes. I ladle pour..

 

[Brad]

Stand. Bench was designed for standing and sitting would just not work.

 

[Petrol & Powder]

Seated, but I built the casting table specifically for that purpose.

 

[MW65]

Sitting... outdoors covered area, with everything within reach...

 

[waco]

Stand

 

[462]

I stand. My casting bench is a four-foot section of old kitchen counter cabinet and is too high to sit and cast.

 

[JonB]

Seated, but I built the casting table specifically for that purpose.

Same here...sitting.
At a garage sale, I bought a heavy duty kitchen table with heavy (real maple) butcher block top, I cut it to size and secured it to the wall. I elevated the melter/furnace on a wood block (so I can easily see the pour spout for line up...everything is secured to the butcher block table top, so casting is like sitting at the kitchen table.

 

[popper]

Sitting.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Even with a bum knee. Standing. Reloading too. Some process's Ill sit like brass prep or standing bullets after powder coat.

 

[Ian]

Sit. Knees and back are getting worn out so when I set up my loading room 15 or so years ago I planned ahead for impending decrepitity and forced myself to convert to loading and casting while sitting down. A good, steel rolly chair and plastic office mat makes kicking back from lead spills quick. Overhead fume hood with attic-mounted, remote suction fan allows indoor casting 24/7.

 

[JustJim]

Sitting. I want to be low enough to have line of sight to the flow of lead. . . and I've done so much damage to my bum leg over the years that standing in one place for more than a couple minutes is painful.

 

[Cadillac Jeff]

I sit in a big bar type chair , but I wear a canvas apron

 

[johnnyjr]

Same here...sitting.
At a garage sale, I bought a heavy duty kitchen table with heavy (real maple) butcher block top, I cut it to size and secured it to the wall. I elevated the melter/furnace on a wood block (so I can easily see the pour spout for line up...everything is secured to the butcher block table top, so casting is like sitting at the kitchen table.

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That's a good sett

 

[johnnyjr]

I sit in a big bar type chair , but I wear a canvas apron

I'll probably be getting a padded stool of some kind. But I usually only make a hundred or so. Shoot them up and make a few more..

 

[Snakeoil]

When I hand dipped my big Paul Jones bullets, I stood. But now that I bottom pour, I sit. All the disc in my lower back are shot so working at a bench standing comes back to bite me later in the day. Sometimes it can't be helped, like working on the lathe. Otherwise I sit.

 

[Ian]

I'm seriously considering putting my 9x30 down on a 28"-high bench so I can sit and work at it.

 

[RicinYakima]

Ladle cast and I stand. All other reloading tasks are don sitting.

 

[Rick H]

Stand

 

[dannyd]

Both, Sometimes I stand and sometimes I sit depending on how my body feels.

 

[Ben]

Sitting for me :