Stand or sit?

[Brad]

Only Ben would have a purpose built phone holder.

I need to make a padded drop space for my bench. I want a slight slope so bullets roll down to a collection area instead of sitting in the drop zone.

 

[KHornet]

I have always sat to reload. Many many years ago I stood to cast (probably about
40+ or so). However since that time I sit to cast and reload, and even with that, the
back requires periodic breaks to move around stretch, get something to drink etc.
Has been that way now for about 5-6 years. To me it is what it is, and I am very
satisfied that I can still cast and reload. Hope to be at it for quite a few more years.

Paul

 

[Ben]

I want a slight slope so bullets roll down to a collection area instead of sitting in the drop zone.

SMART ! !

 

[Ben]

Only Ben would have a purpose built phone holder.

 

[Brad]

SMART ! !

I have even wondered about the possibility to have a hole in the drop zone. Let the bullets hit, roll, then drop into a long sleeve of denim into a waiting container. Give them a chance to solidify a bit more then pile em up.

I don't miss wet bullets but I will say that water dropping does prevent some bullet damage from landing on each other.

 

[Ian]

We hope so too, Paul!

I'm glad to have made the decision to learn how to do all the casting and reloading operations while sitting NOW, so I'm well used to it by the time it becomes a necessity. It was really difficult for me to transition from reloading while half-perched on a stool (one foot on the floor, one boot heel hooked on a cross brace) to sitting because the leverage is very different from a sitting position. Also I had to learn how to work from sitting without putting my back in a kink, but eventually adapted. To seat primers on a press using the ram I have to grab the back of the die head with my off-hand for leverage. Casting, either with a bottom pour or with a big pot of alloy between my knees and a ladle, is very comfy as I can sit bolt upright except for ducking a little to fill the mould with a bottom pour pot. If I had the sense to fix up a mirror for my bottom pour that ducking to peer at the stream would be eliminated, too.

Brad, I love the idea of a sloped drop zone, or at least a small, flat drop zone adjacent to a ramp so the bullets could be briefly QC'd and then raked out of the way. My bench will currently let me get through one pot of alloy but by the end all the bullets have boxed me into in a hand-sized area and for the whole session I'm raking and pushing bullets out of the way.

 

[KHornet]

Life is a continual learning process (Thank God)! It would be very
mundane otherwise.

Paul

 

[Edward R Southgate]

Both .

 

[Bret4207]

Stand for everything- casting, loading, etc.

 

[Winelover]

Sit........standing would be akin to working on a assembly line.

 

[Gary]

I sit to cast/reload, as stated earlier, with one caveat; I use a 5 gal bucket with a surgical towel taped to the top opening and loosely configured to catch the cast bullets. It is like a small angled funnel that allows the bullets to "funnel" to a half dollar size cutout in the towel which ultimately lets the bullets drop into the bottom of the bucket that has either 3 or 4 layered towels in the bottom. I also at times will add water to the bucket and quench the cast at the same time.

 

[9.3X62AL]

I sit to reload and to cast. Always have. There was no need to do so in my younger years, though there is now. It's just how I learned to do things.

Nice that the subject came up right now. I'm in the process of revamping my casting area for The Great Winter Cast-A-Thon, a much-needed re-stocking of consumables that has been on hiatus for 2-1/2 years. The girls have depleted the larder of 9mm bullets, so I must labor in the casting garret yet again in order to keep them shooting. How awful.

 

[JonB]

SNIP...
It was really difficult for me to transition from reloading while half-perched on a stool (one foot on the floor, one boot heel hooked on a cross brace) to sitting because the leverage is very different from a sitting position. Also I had to learn how to work from sitting without putting my back in a kink, but eventually adapted. To seat primers on a press using the ram I have to grab the back of the die head with my off-hand for leverage.

I do the same to seat primers with the Lee econo turret press [while sitting in a old timey wooden office chair that is quite low since casters are removed]. BUT, my other turret press, [the Lee classic turret press] has much more adjustable handle. I have the handle adjusted to when the ram bottoms out, the handle is very near the back of the tool head area [I had to notch the work bench to accomplish this), then I can reach the back upright below the tool head with my fingers, and use my palm on the handle, So seating a primer is controlled with hand grip pressure...just like the Lee hand primer tool, except more leverage.

 

[Ian]

Good idea on notching the bench, Jon.

 

[Cherokee]

I do everything for reloading/casting while standing. Benches set up that way back in early 60's and found no reason to change. I do have the casting pot on a riser so the pour is at eye level.

 

[Chris]

here I stand... ladle in my hand... trying to make the best bullets in the land.

 

[RicinYakima]

don't now8 but yure a poe8

 

[CASTER OF LEAD]

He can make it rhythm everytime! I sit for all of my operations. I spend 28 days at a time on an inland towboat. Constantly on my feet on a steel barge, for 12 hours a day. On my 14 days off I choose comfort while at my bench. I do however see some benefits to standing. - Roger

 

[popper]

Sit to cast, reload, most anything I do at the bench. In an old computer chair with wheels in the case I need to move suddenly.

 

[Pistolero]

Standing for casting, sitting for reloading.