I don't understand the "crawling around on the ground" comments in reference to the Coats 200. One lays the wheel down onto a pad to break the bead (requires bending over - oh my! 
), then operates the lever at waist level to break the bead. <shrug> One must then bend over again to flip the wheel, repeat, bend over to pick the wheel up and put it on the changer. Oh the horrors.
Well, the crawling around on the floor reference was meant for the rabid & max units, not the Coats or the bead breaker any of these manual changers. The Coats was my preference at the time I was looking for a manual changer but they were out of production and I wasn't able to locate anything used at that time. And, bending over is an issue for me since I no longer have a "young" back (boo hoo, woe is me). Yeah, I can bend at the waist but straightening back up is difficult for me, as is stooping down to pickup everything I drop on the floor
Age has nothing to do with it, I just don't like working on the floor. Heck, I put the bike on lift to check the tire pressure 
Me either but haven't been motivated enough to put the bike on the lift to check TP.
I don’t find the Coats 200 I have here at my home shop to be a “crawling on ground” inconvenience in any way, either. I like it very much
Me either although I don't have a Coats
guzziart: "Although I'm not a fan of crawling around on the ground to do a tire like with the Max & Rabid." No reference to the coats in his comment??
I don't understand the desire to work at ground level, so I guess we agree to disagree. Personally, my days of working on the floor are over. I don't care if everyone else works in a hole in the ground in my world the work comes to me and my back is better for it. YMMV
Yeah, I didn't mean to come off as enjoying to work at "ground level" I don't.
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