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Nathan.... don't you just HATE it when you slide under the car and the plastic side skirt grabs your belly like at chinese finger trap and won't let you slide back out? Ask me how I know...
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Yep, I like the idea of the 5" casters with rubber tires. Not only can you roll on rough surfaces, but it's smoother on the garage floor too.

My old creeper is just that - old. I've had it so long I'd feel weird replacing it...even with something newer and better like a Bone......

 

When you're an Old Fat Fart (aka Silver Back) the best creeper I've used is the one under the young skinny guy that's helping me work on my car. (I've always hated those Chinese Finger Trap things!)

 

The Bone-ster is my preferred one out of them all, really. It's very comfortable, and holds a lot of weight. It's rated for 300, but you can put far more than that on it. We roll around Packard V12 engine blocks on our creepers - they make great dollies if you load the weight on top of the wheel pods!

Anywho, we had a guy at SEMA the year we launched the Bone-ster lay down on one, he was over 350 lbs. You couldn't see the creeper, but he still rolled around just fine.

 

The bone sucks....

For anyone that really uses a creeper, the uplifted parts by the shoulders makes it TERRIBLE if you have tight quarters to move your shoulders.

I've had a bone for at least 4-5 years and to be honest, I like my snap-on creeper better. It's lower to the ground, I can move around on it better and it rolls better.

The bone is good if I'm working on the lifted H2 where I've got room for my shoulders but still... very constricting IMO.

Mark

 

Well, I appreciate the honesty...

 

Orange, which bone model do you have? It does look like there is a pretty big difference between the shoulder heights of the different models.

 

I have also been a long time cardboard user, however the last time I was on the garage floor, my old bones started complaining. For Christmas my wife gave me a Pit Crew Mat which should help out without the problem of the added clearance needed for a creeper. I haven't had the opportunity to use it yet, but I'm sure my next roll on the flooor will be a lot softer.

 

I use cardboard currently but did use the Bone creepers in the Army. They do work very well on rough terrain and are comfortable enough for close to average sized people (I'm 5'7" and around 210lbs) to slide under a Hummvee, loop your hands up into a part of the undercarriage, and take a short nap.
If you have a smooth-enough floor my dad's 25 year old creeper (looks like the one Minidave pictured) works just fine.

What I really need, since the custom ramps I have don't lift the car very high in the air, is a super-low profile creeper that, rather than have four casters, is extra low and just has a bunch of ball-bearing style wheels all over the back.

 

I don't have one but I want the Bone. It's well engineered, has extra large casters that make it easier to roll around and tend not to get stuck on "divots" in the concrete. I hate it when I roll into a crack and I can't get the caster to jump out of the groove. It's also made by an American company with American workers. At least it was the last time I looked.....

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Yep they are made in Kent Ohio.

As far as your crack problem goes.....

 

I didn't even they made things like this to work on your car. Sheesh.