Whenever you think of camp chairs. What often comes to mind are aluminum frame folding chairs from childhood, or similarly unsteady plastic ones trotted out. But today, there are many sturdier and more comfortable camp chairs on the market that will accommodate people of all shapes and sizes. But how much weight can a camping chair hold?
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How Much Weight Camp Chairs Hold on Average
Approximately a quality camp chair must hold the weight between 250 to 800 pounds. But all depends on the quality of chair from where you buy
Honestly speaking, plastic and mesh chairs have a lower weight capacity than metal and fabric chairs. You also need to take care of chair just like don’t put much weight on the chair. The longer the person will stay on the chair higher chance of breakage
What Are the Most Lightweight camp Chairs?
The most lightweight camp chairs are made from plastic, aluminum, or synthetic fibers like canvas, nylon, polyester, or polypropylene. Wicker chairs and wood chairs can also be pretty lightweight, though they tend to be a bit more expensive.
The following materials are all used to make camping chairs:
- Plastic
- Canvas
- Wicker
- Nylon
- Aluminum
- Polypropylene
- Polyester
- Wood
Plastic
Mostly plastic camping chairs are the light weight and super easy to clean. And these chairs are easy to carry. A plastic camping chair has a pretty high weight tolerance. It may be less stronger than metal or wood chairs
Aluminum camp chair
Aluminum/metal always comes as a stronger base. it is light weight and easy to carry as compare to others. It is also excellent for outdoor camping. You can checkout in image I have shown you can ask for customize design
Wooden camp chair
In my opinion, wooden camp chair is always first choice of mine. Although its weight is little high as compare to other. But you will feel comfortable while sitting on the wooden camping chair just because of its natural look and style
How to Prevent Breaking camping chair
I will add only one heading for this
Sit PROPERLY!
The main reason why camping chair breaks while sitting. Is that if jump in or play with that chair. It will definitely break. So what are my views about how you can avoid from this loss? Always sit properly. A normal chair can bear the weight of any person like fat. But what you need to do take care and usage of that chair perfectly then it will not break in a short time
Conclusion
I have done the comparison of all major type of camping chairs. Every camp chair has its own features. It depends on the quality made by manufacturer usually. As I told above every chair can bear the weight that can be between 200 pounds to 800 pounds. You can add more weigh but its all depends on the chair quality
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