Who Needs a Creeper When One Has This?

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dibbons

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I have never been comfortable working on a creeper, i use this now.

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I use a corrugated cardboard/plastic sign Kitty got for me years ago. It hoses right back off if it gets something on it.
 
I've never liked creepers. They ALWAYS get stuck in ANY crack! Plus, you lose a couple inches of clearance that you may need. And they always want to roll away when you're trying to pull on a wrench.
I used to use carpet scraps. Now I have a couple vinyl covered foam pads that Jeg's sells. Or sold. I just looked, I can't find them on Jeg's site.
 
I got my creeper out today while I was swapping leaf springs since the garage floor was so cold.

Had to put it away and use cardboard because of the reasons mentioned above. Two heaters eventually warmed the concrete up a little.
 
Cardboard sometimes, gotten soft in my old age. Grew up on gravel, hard packed dirt with rocks sticking out of it, and suffering. Still do some things just knowing better...
 
I use a corrugated cardboard/plastic sign Kitty got for me years ago. It hoses right back off if it gets something on it.
Too much static. Lately I get shocked just touching the concrete. Never had that happen till recently.
 
Cardboard sometimes, gotten soft in my old age. Grew up on gravel, hard packed dirt with rocks sticking out of it, and suffering. Still do some things just knowing better...
Boy, you must been rich!!! All my Dad could afford for the driveway was Gulf of Mexico discarded oyster shells. I say discarded but in reality they still charged you to dump a truck load of shells in your driveway. Oyster shells are as sharp as a razor when cracked and broken by the cars driving up and down the driveway. I still have scars on my back from laying on the broken shells under our cars when I was growing up. I guess we grew up tough, no whining when you were under the car wrenching on a bolt/nut!! I always saved the blood stained shirts for working under the car on our driveway so I didn't ruin any good shirts. And if you think I'm joking....the shells are still there in my Dad's driveway. By now they have pretty much been ground down into powder but if you dig a little with a shovel you'll hit the whole shells underneath. Treblig


THIS IS HOW THEY LOOK WHEN THEY ARE FIRST DUMPED ONTO THE DIRT DRIVEWAY:
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Boy, you must been rich!!! All my Dad could afford for the driveway was Gulf of Mexico discarded oyster shells. I say discarded but in reality they still charged you to dump a truck load of shells in your driveway. Oyster shells are as sharp as a razor when cracked and broken by the cars driving up and down the driveway. I still have scars on my back from laying on the broken shells under our cars when I was growing up. I guess we grew up tough, no whining when you were under the car wrenching on a bolt/nut!! I always saved the blood stained shirts for working under the car on our driveway so I didn't ruin any good shirts. And if you think I'm joking....the shells are still there in my Dad's driveway. By now they have pretty much been ground down into powder but if you dig a little with a shovel you'll hit the whole shells underneath. Treblig


THIS IS HOW THEY LOOK WHEN THEY ARE FIRST DUMPED ONTO THE DIRT DRIVEWAY:
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There has got to be a bad joke about coming home smelling of clams in there somewhere
 
There has got to be a bad joke about coming home smelling of clams in there somewhere
Well I have to admit they did smell for a few weeks after they are first dumped but after a few rainy days and all the smoldering heat down here they dry out pretty quick. The only thing that will dull all the sharp edges is 20 years of driving back and forth.....but, not to worry, as soon as the shells start to loose their shape my Dad would have a new layer dumped to keep the mud holes from appearing here and there. THANKS DAD!!!
 
Another vote for carpet scraps, work excellent.
Everyone around here used to use oyster shells in their driveways. Its not legal anymore, they have to be returned to the water so new oysters will grow on them.
 
Boy, you must been rich!!! All my Dad could afford for the driveway was Gulf of Mexico discarded oyster shells.

WTH? What was the purpose? The worst I came across was under a raised foundation house that had busted up concrete as the floor, little concrete rocks the size of golf balls. PITA to crawl. I took a old boogie board down with me and just worked my way over the shards.
 
Why just a mat when you can spend a bunch of money on one of these Magic Creepers!

 
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I was always too poor to buy a creeper so an appropriately sized folded cardboard box was my creeper I still carry one when going to look at a potential purchase) but then I bout an HF creeper when they were $10. Pretty well spent ten bucks.

It's not so much the laying down and getting up that gets me as it is the sliding under.
 
WTH? What was the purpose? The worst I came across was under a raised foundation house that had busted up concrete as the floor, little concrete rocks the size of golf balls. PITA to crawl. I took a old boogie board down with me and just worked my way over the shards.
Well...to begin with....we were kinda poor. I live in a city where the ground is 70 percent clay (black clay). So if you're poor and you have a tiny house with a driveway and it rains (it rains a lot here) then you're gonna get these giant mud holes in the clay. Ever been stuck in clay?? It's slick slippery, goooey glue, if that makes any sense. We'd be out there on the weekends (all of us) pushing on the car to help get it out into the street so we could go to the store or ask a neighbor to get a chain and pull us out into the street. Anyway, the only way my Dad could afford to make the driveway usable was to use the cheapest method......Oyster shells!! You put a thick enough layer of oyster shells into the clay it will form a semi-hard layer to drive on. Remember, this was back in the 50s and 60s. Unfortunately, if you kinda poor, you also can't afford to pay a mechanic to fix your car sooooooooo, we had to do all the mechanic work ourselves, on the oyster shell driveway. I couldn't eat an oyster if you wrapped it in a steak!!!! And yes, from time to time we'd find a piece of cardboard to use as protection but it wouldn't take long for the cardboard to be cut to shreds. treblig
 
I like the support for the neck..... However I use entry mats from our linen company at work. Once they are deemed a quality no longer acceptable for use they sell em' for like $8.00. Thick rubber backing and comfy. I am sure plenty of you still hit the clock for the man and have linen service at work so next time you see them ask about the old ones....

JW
 
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