Amish Heavy Duty Rocking Chair Review 2024

Are you a bigger, taller, or heavier person? Do you love rocking chairs?

Have you been frustrated searching for one big enough and robust enough to support you properly? You’ll love what you read in this review if you answered yes to those questions.

We regard the Amish Heavy Duty Rocking Chair as the final word for high-weight capacity rocking chairs. It is the gold standard that every other heavy-duty market rocker must beat, and so far, we haven’t found anyone who can.

In the following sections, we’ll tell you everything about this chair so you can decide if it’s the one you’ve been looking for. We think you’ll be impressed even if you opt for another model. If your interest is piqued, see what this can do.

Amish Heavy Duty Mission Pressure Treated Rocking Chair Key Features

The Amish Heavy Duty Rocking Chair looks like a rocking chair made for giants, so it looks like what it is. Amish Casual takes great pride in its furniture, and with good reason. It makes great stuff, solidly constructed with simple, clean lines, and this chair is an excellent example of its work. There’s nothing fancy about this design, and that’s the point. Mission-style furniture is simple and functional. That’s what you’re getting here.

The chair is constructed with pressure-treated pine, the material used to create many outdoor decks.

Finish Options

If you decide you want one, you can order yours in any of the following finishes: 

The bottom line is that no matter what finish you choose, it’s a simple, handsome design you’ll be proud to own.

Chair Specifications

Moving on from the look of the piece, let’s turn now to the basic statistics that define the model:

Note that big and tall office chairs have a seat height adjustment range that typically starts at 18” and goes to 22”, which puts this chair’s seat height in the big and tall range. It’s at the low end, which is true, but that still counts.

Overall, we like these numbers. The chair is certainly big enough to support a big and tall person. However, although this chair will support up to six hundred pounds if you weigh something close to that, you’ll probably need a chair with a wider seat. For most people, though, these numbers will work very well indeed.

Adjustability and Comfort

There’s nothing about the Amish Heavy Duty 600 lb Mission Pressure Treated Rocking chair that’s adjustable, and you wouldn’t think it would be all that comfortable, but it is. Adding a padded seat or seatback cushion is easy if you’re not happy sitting on the wooden seat or leaning back against the wooden seatback. If you opt to go that route, you can make the chair as comfortable as possible.

Assembly is Required

As with most of the furniture sold online today, the Amish Heavy Duty 600 lb Rocking chair will arrive at your door in a large box and about a dozen pieces. Fortunately, the assembly instructions are quite clear, and the process is straightforward. Expect it to take about 30 minutes, plus another 10-15 minutes to unpack everything and organize the pieces.

If you have an aversion to assembling your furniture, this product does come with an expert assembly option. Unfortunately, if you opt for it, you’ll add about 50% to the total cost of the chair, which is a bit too much for us, but some people might find it of value.

Pros and Cons of Amish Heavy-Duty Rocking Chair

We like everything about this chair. It looks great. It’s solidly built. It’s as comfortable as you want to make it, and it comes in a modest selection of finishes. If you want to do your own thing or leave it unfinished, you can do that, too.

The only potential snags we see that may be off-putting to some potential buyers are these:

1. If you’re pushing close to the 600-pound weight limit that this chair supports, the seat width may not be enough for you.
2. And if you’re not a fan of putting your furniture together, the expert assembly fee makes this chair a less spectacular value but still a fairly good deal.

It’s as close to the perfect high-weight capacity rocking chair as we’ve found, and we’ve sifted through many different options.

Amish Heavy-Duty Rocking Chair Review Conclusion

The Amish Heavy Duty Rocking Chair is a superb chair that will look great in just about any home, although the simple Mission aesthetic is skewed more toward home décor schemes that tend toward the rustic. Even so, with a coat of stain, this beauty will fit in almost anywhere, and it’s built to last. We highly recommend it.

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References & Resources:

• Five Characteristics of Mission Style Furniture, Barn Furniture.
• How to Paint Unfinished Wood Furniture, Real Simple.
• 10 Secrets of Amish Furniture Makers, Family Handyman.
• Rising Trends of the Amish Decor Today, Lets Renovate
• Antique Amish Furniture, Love To Know.