“I’ve been through the gambit of store-bought collapsible chairs to bring along on my canoe trips and none of them have really grabbed me, until I came up with this one. I ran across a photo of a two-piece chair similar to this in a book about ancient Vikings and was inspired to modernize it.
I played around with the shape and dimensions and came up with this comfy model. On a recent canoe trip with five seasoned campers, this wooden camping chair was by far the camp favorite. The two large holes at the ends provide a nice spot to hold the chair pieces while carrying.”
by David Radtke
Looking for ideas
looks fairly easy I think I will build one
Looks great would like to make one!
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I Love These Type Of Chairs
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looks like a good plan
Woodworking
Love the designs. Want to make some asap!
I would like made a little chair to help my legs
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Love this idea
I would love to try and make a couple of the camping chairs.
Piles of grief with this design, looked so attractive but the wood selection for the outer rails is critical. There is a huge amount of shear force carried on these members. I had failure after failure until I finally used ash. Unfortunately the average weight of a modern day well fed male is edging up around 200 lbs which is about the design limit of the chair. I added some steel banding to cover where the slot is, a bit of overkill with the ash but frustration got to me in the end
I’ve been looking for a good pattern for one of these chairs for years. Looking forward to making a couple for camping this Spring.
Pondré manos a la obra, saludos cordiales.
Perfect
I like it ……….
Great looking chair
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I would appreciate the plans for the viking chair. Thanks in advance.
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Like the chair
nice chair plan
how do I get the plans for this?
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Would like to see plans did you use 1 or 2 by thickness
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It. Isaok
Thanks for all you do
would love to build this for family and scout camping
OK, you said there were 6 plans. All I can find is ONE. How in the world to I find the other 5???
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Like to see the chair
looking forward to building this chair.
I think this looks great! I’m in Heritage Carpentry school but with COVID 19 going on; our classes have been cancelled and I’m really missing my Joinery class so I’m doing projects of my own at home! I think this will be perfect for my list and my partner and I will enjoy them here in Canada! Thanks for letting me be a member!
Camping chairs
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Looks great
Good
looking forward to making a carry along wooden camping chair
Is it practical and/or feasible to build one with the seat not so low to the ground? Older people in my family have a problem getting up from chairs that are too low.
Hi Pat. You could raise the intersection of pieces to be a bit higher, but I would be careful as this could potentially make it tippy. Honestly, I would probably not suggest building this chair for an older person who might have challenges getting in and out of it. Probably worth using a more comfortable chair for them.
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I am a woodworker and make instruments.
hi
I want a guild in my career
A scaled down version of this also makes a great cell phone holder.
Love the chair
This looks great. I like the “carry hole ” idea. I think the next time I build some I am going to incorporate them in mine.,,thanks for sharing the idea. These are fun projects to make with/for kids; let them paint them as they will.
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I’d like to see the camping chair.
I’d like to see the chair
I am a gold member and cannot access the pdf for these chairs
Great idea!
plan
Looks like a fun project would be a good one for my small shop (7×13) and my grandson would love it for our backyard fires.
Love to have. It nice
how many times do I have to pay you before I get something out of your company
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Interested in the chair plan
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This is AWESOME! I raise dairy goats… I often need to sit with a doe during kidding, but unless I remove the chair every time I leave (which gets a bit tedious) both the goats and the dogs tend to nibble on the folding canvas chairs I have put in the “maternity ward”. I can’t tell you how many chairs we go thru each year! This plan is a game changer! When I’m not using it, I can simply hang it on a hook above eye level of the four-legged thrill seekers. Thanks for sharing this!!!
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The angle of the chair looks nice for sitting. Many of the chairs that I have seen like this look more like an “X” and far too reclined to be comfortable. Would you have changed the setting angle after using it and setting in it for a while?
David S. has a problem with it being too low to the ground and bad knees. Has anyone tried making one with the seat higher off the ground? I would like to make one but I have bad knees also.
Why can’t i download the plans? I think i could build it in an afternoon
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Looking forward to making out of hard wood I have
why do I need to provide all kinds of info which by the way was provided for the reciept of the newsletter to simply find out what ” the different typpes of memberships” apparently cost ? particularly after you imply that I can watch it without obligation. TURNS ME OFF to WGOA rather than endear me.
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This chair looks low to the ground. I have bad knees. If I sat in it I wouldn’t be able to get up.
Curiosity? This looks like a very good beginner project. What would be the estimated work time for this type of project? Also, I think some nice seat and back cushions made by my wife would mate up perfectly with this design. Thanks WWGOA!
Hi Bob. It depends completely on your skills and tool set, so it is impossible to speculate accurately how long it will take someone. It is a nice design and should move along reasonably well for a woodworker with basic to intermediate skills.
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I like the chair
works great for Tailgating also
Looking fofr a copy of the plans for the Carry-Along Wooden Camping Chair
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Becky, I tried the link but no good:
“The requested URL was not found on this server.”
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Want to see how to build it
Love of my life
I would really like to build this Carry-Along Wooden Camping Chair! This would be for my personal use. I am not experienced in wood working so this would be my 1st attempt.
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Jerry
Looks interesting
Looks interesting, fun to make
I’m thinking about building them with a surfboard look. The seat back tapering to a point and the seat tapering slightly to represent a squash tail. May paint it to give a surfboard look.
Sounds like a great idea.
Would love to see pictures of the finished project.
going to make it
Love it
Looks good I’d like to try it. Because I don’t type my comet are usually short.
Because we travel a lot these chairs look great
Looks good I’d like to try it
any plans for drafting tables ?
Unfortunately we do not currently have a plan for a drafting table, but it is a great suggestion and we will keep it in mind
LETS TRY…
Where do I get the dimensions for this chair. Thank You!
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With all I’ve read here not sure I like your attitude. Think I will hold off joining.
Take care,
Doug
Nice and fancy. I use to make them from 8′ 2×12 cut in half – quick and easy seating.
Ditto
Same here
Just a beginner, playing around with wood!
I’ve had a guy who weighed about 275 pounds use one of the glue-up type chairs made from maple and the chair held up well. Another good wood to use would be white oak. I haven’t tested the chair to it’s breaking point, but it seems solid for most users.
What would you say the user weight limit might be?
From David….. I’ve had a guy who weighed about 275 pounds use one of the glue-up type chairs made from maple and the chair held up well. Another good wood to use would be white oak. I haven’t tested the chair to it’s breaking point, but it seems solid for most users.
I have been looking for ideas of some kind of seat that I can use at the Wolftrap Theater on the grass slope. They dont allow folding chairs and the angles of slope would’n’t allow it anyway. This is perfect and I can’t wait to get into the shop and build it. Thanks for sharing.
This is an excellent design! Any thought as to adding carrying straps to throw it on your back for easy toting whilst hiking? The simplicity is genius.
James Groover. I’m sure the author has seen things that are done differently than he does but I think resorting to violence because of it would seem a bit unreasonable. Perhaps you’d like to share how YOU make Bog Chairs. I, for one, would love to see how YOU do it and perhaps, peacefully, learn a thing or two in the process.
I’m Appalled! i build Bog Chairs, the old fashioned way. Then I see this and it makes me want to throw a mallet at someone.
Hi James. I’m sure the author has seen things that are done differently than he does but I think resorting to violence because of it would seem a bit unreasonable. Perhaps you’d like to share how YOU make Bog Chairs. I, for one, would love to see how YOU do it and perhaps, peacefully, learn a thing or two in the process.
You seem very angry about a chair. Looking at your comment history, you seem very angry about a lot of things.
Nothing wrong with being angry. As long as it’s only words, it’s a great way of venting.
Oh, come on. Everybody has to start somewhere. 😀
We built a version of this for our scout troop years ago. I like the material used for this version, it looks much nicer and not as rough. I still use mine when I go hunting because it is flat when not in use and sits on the front of my quad until needed.
Wondering what size of wood is being used for the wooden camping chair?and is it strong enough for adults
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