Creeper recommendations

   Sunday, my dad told me he had just backed over his creeper and broke off one of the wheels. He can have mine.
   I have not used a creeper since the early 80's because i spent more time getting my over-all-collar out from under the wheels, and i was constantly running up against something or running over the trouble-light Cord.
    Cardboard is so "user-friendly" for us-guys and soft for the knees while kneeling-down onto it.

   I keep an assortment of wood blocks within reach and stuff those under my head for long-duration isometric-exercises. (long stubborn threads)

    Fast forward from 1971 to 2015, i began growing my hair out 2-years ahead of retirement, and I figured I couldn't get fired, so today, 3-years-plus later, i am happily retired, and looking like a grey-haired Daniel Boone.
_ _ _ _ and happier than an Clam at high-tide.
   (and still plagued by a Solex-clone with crappy idle _ _ go figure)

   I have my wife keep some cardboard in the back of her Suburban to use as a good disposable carpet protector.
   I was encouraged with how many of us are using cardboard.

We have been using foam snow sleds for years a creepers.  You have so skooch them around but they work great on cement, 115 degree asphalt, gravel and on the trail instead of laying in the mud, rocks or wet grass.  They also save your knees if you have to kneel down to change a tire.

Edited by Stev - 29 Aug. 2018 at 1:13am

I've had a creeper for well over 20 years and use it often changing oil and such. The plastic wheels finally began coming apart so the family bought me a new Craftsman replacement one christmas (simular design but cheaper wheels) and I've been using it for a little over a year.

Edited by 48cj2a - 28 Aug. 2018 at 11:41pm

Try pricing good replacement wheels or at lease ones that will work with minor modification...went to probably a half dozen stores in the area that carry them and about choked since I need 6.

48cj2a wrote: Try pricing good replacement wheels or at lease ones that will work with minor modification...went to probably a half dozen stores in the area that carry them and about choked since I need 6.

That's true Art....I've got that same creeper.

Sorry , but I was referring to the 'old Style' creeper wheels that sort of pivot around a central axis. I have an older wooden creeper that I fixed the wheels on...I didn't have to replace all of them.

Yours (and my Craftsman ) are more akin to castor wheels.

I picked up one of those with steel casters, an old Motomaster wood creeper for $20 at an antique store! Two of the casters were stuck, but with a bit of elbow grease and 3 in1 oil I can shot across the whole length of the garage.   Too bad all my oil changes are out in the gravel driveway.