How-To: Turn an Old Tractor Seat into a Great Shop Chair
By Chuck CageThe Finished Product
Here’s how ours came out.
If you’d like something a bit more interesting, you can always take a few minutes to add some detail to the seat before you mount it. After using this one for a few days, we decided the black was a bit too boring. So, we pulled the seat off, painted it red, and added a skull.
There you go: an evil seat for a badass.
Have fun, and if you decide to assemble your own, why not take a minute and leave a comment below. Not only will your experience help others who decide to make their own cheap, cool shop chair, you’ll also be automatically entered into our Game Chair Giveaway.
June 30th, 2006 at 5:35 pm
[...] How-To: Turn an Old Tractor Seat into a Great Shop Chair We put the chocolate of an old tractor seat with the peanut butter of a broken office chair to make a slick little roll-around for the shop. Follow our instructions to build your own. [...]
June 30th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
This is the second project with the wirewelder that i’ve seen on toolmonger. If I had a better workshop area to store it in and work on projects I probably would have picked one up already. Keep the great articles coming!
July 31st, 2006 at 9:16 am
incredible!
August 15th, 2006 at 8:50 am
I’m a little late to this, but I’m new to the site and just had to say how much I love this project! I’m a huge fan of old tractors and this would be perfect for my barn/shop/garage. Thank you for this!
September 17th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
[...] Or maybe you could turn that old tractor or lawnmower seat you’ve got laying around into a sweet shop chair. We’ve got two of ‘em in the Toolmonger shop now. [...]
May 30th, 2007 at 11:13 am
[...] Welding is a skill that’s incredibly useful and a lot of fun, too. We’ve written quite a bit about it — including a few projects you might want to try — but today I ran across a great “getting started” guide from the people over at Custom Classic Trucks. Like us, they’re enamoured with the MIG/wire process, which is way, way easier than stick welding. So if you’ve tried stick welding and hated it, you might want to give wire welding a chance. Try it — you’ll like it! [...]
June 27th, 2007 at 11:34 am
[...] Since we were tired of standing (and kneeling and squatting) around the shop – and we had a few tractor seats and broken office chairs lying around — we welded ‘em up into some quick (and awesome) shop chairs, then posted a how-to to help you do the same. [...]
January 21st, 2008 at 9:46 am
[...] If you have an old tractor seat or lawn-mower seat lying around (or you could put a wanted ad on Freecycle, I’ve acquired an old tractor tyre in this way to make a sandpit for my young daughter) and a broken office chair, you can make this really cool tractor seat swivel chair. Full instructions here. I once bought one of these (with a flimsy plastic seat) from Ikea for my son and was charged a whopping great £19.99. You can make this project for nothing. But even if you resort to buying a tractor seat at a car boot sale or similar, it’ll still be a whole lot cheaper, and more unique, than shelling out for the plastic manufactured alternative (and of course there’s always the karma that comes from keeping stuff out of landfill - priceless). [...]
February 10th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
You also could buy a fancy store bought one like at http://www.denlorstools.com/ but that wouldn’t be nearly as much fun!
September 16th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
This is a really great Eco idea, especially for old tractor enthusiasts. I have the top of a broken Windsor arm chair fixed onto a broken office chair base that I use at my shop desk, but these look like much more fun.