Do you stand or sit while casting?

[tinsnips]

Sit my knees are getting old.

[imashooter2]

I stood for years. Would like to stand now, but the arthritis demands I sit.

I use a tall wooden stool. No back means I have some ability to move if something happens. Not the same though.

[TMB]

Stand

[swamp]

I usually sit for bottom pour casting and stand when ladle casting.
swamp

[Hossfly]

I sit in a rolling chair.

[charlie b]

Sit. Even when I was younger. Wear cotton long pants and shoes. Usually long sleeve shirt as well. Glasses.

Now days I couldn't stand if I wanted too. A few min and my back will give out.

[Ickisrulz]

I have a high enough table to stand while casting. If anything unwanted happens I can just back away instead of getting it on my lap. Just wondering what others do.

I stand for the same reason...and I am more comfortable doing so.

[BNE]

Interesting thread. I have always stood. I tend to move side to side as I pour, then knock off sprues to the left, then to the left one more time to dump bullets on the towel. Then step back and start over. I probably only step about a foot back and forth.

I'm glad to hear that many of you sit, I am old enough to know that I may not always be able to stand.

BNE

[15meter]

For casting, it is standing. Two reasons, my pot is on a high riser sitting on a high bench. It's a bottom pour RCBS with the spout almost to chest level. the top is almost at eye level with a hood down within 4" of the top of the pot.

It keeps the fumes almost above me and going up the hood which has a fan pulling air up over the pot continuously.

And if the tinsel fairy visits, the vast majority, if not all will be above me and hopefully captured by the hood over the pot.

Reloading is usually sitting, unless it is case forming that requires a little more body english than the standard reloading operations require.

[GregLaROCHE]

I sit because it is more comfortable. Also, it puts me at eye level with the spout and mold. I wear a heavy denim apron to protect me from the splatter when the pot is dripping. Safety glasses too. If I am melting questionable scrap for ingots, I am standing at a distance, until I am sure everything is calm.

[barrabruce]

I started sitting on a bar stool over a table.
Then I would stand as long as I could endure then back sitting.
I had one knee replaced so I sat.
Then stood till I had enough.
Now I’m back sitting on a milk create bent over like a half closed pocket knife.
Have to organise to stand and sitting proper again.
Not sure about this getting old thing thou.

[GregLaROCHE]

I started sitting on a bar stool over a table.
Then I would stand as long as I could endure then back sitting.p
I had one knee replaced so I sat.
Then stood till I had enough.
Now I’m back sitting on a milk create bent over like a half closed pocket knife.
Have to organise to stand and sitting proper again.
Not sure about this getting old thing thou.

Have you considered putting the pot on top of something so you don’t need to be so bent over?

[sharps4590]

Yes. If I'm hand dipping, I stand. If bottom pouring, I sit.

[dale2242]

My back tells me to sit.
I have no other choice .
It works fine for me.

[ioon44]

I always stand wile casting, like to stay mobile.

[brass410]

I sit due to years of abuse to my knees. My floor is glass smooth, my office chair has better wheel bearings than my truck, I can just scoot back from spills, and mishaps are adverted by my leather apron and appropriate foot wear.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

Sit ...cuz I got bad knees

https://castboolits.gunloads.com/sho...u-sit-or-stand

[Ithaca Gunner]

I have bad knees and hips, but I stand.

[lightman]

I sit on a stool. So do the 2 guys that I often cast with.

[JSnover]

Years ago it was drilled into my head to keep the floor in my workspace as clear as possible, plus I seem to be mildly claustrophobic (from working in a lot of confined spaces, probably) and a chair or stool in the area just takes up too much space.
My knees and hips are telling me to get over it.