DIY sand bags?

ZaZa,

I have to tell you. The 2dreamaker bags do seam pretty good, and they are -- for a while. They are a good budget alternative but they will fail over time.

I understand not everyone has $30 or $40 for a sand bag. There is one thing to remember about high end bags, they will last a lifetime.
 
phudsontx said:
ZaZa,

I have to tell you. The 2dreamaker bags do seam pretty good, and they are -- for a while. They are a good budget alternative but they will fail over time.

I understand not everyone has $30 or $40 for a sand bag. There is one thing to remember about high end bags, they will last a lifetime.
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This is very true and I totally agree....:happy:

...then again, everything will fail at some point!
 
1) Drink 4L of pepsi
2) Wash out the two bottles, strip off the labels
3) screw two long, coarse-threaded eyehooks into the side of each bottle, let the ends dangle on the inside
3) seal up the holes where the eyehooks went in using a bit of glue, caulking, tape
4) Fill the bottles with fine, wet concrete (sidewalk filler touchup-concrete, in the gardening section)
5) Wait
6) Tie webbing between the back eyehook of the first bottle and the back eyehook of the second bottle. Do the same for the front.

Now you've got two concrete-filled pop bottles attached by webbing. They're waterproof, mess-proof, idestructable, and heavy (approx 2.4kg per L, so about 21lbs total). Use smaller bottles (long, thin 1L water bottles work well) to get smaller weights. If your eyehooks are too fine-threaded they'll eventually pull out. With a bit of creativity you can screw them in to a piece of wood when you put them in, to prevent this.

You can modify this plan by using spaghetti-sauce tin cans instead, and then adding in some scrap bits of metal screws, bolts, fishing weights, etc before pouring in the concrete. You'll have to solder or wire the lid back on. Spraypainted black, this gives a more professional look than pop bottles.
 
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If you need them quick and almost free....

I just double bagged some plastic trash bags and filled them with sand from a local volleyball court.

Not a permanent solution, but all my sandbags lasted through an intense week of production on a short.
 
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