Sandbag

[Andrew Czaczkowski]

How to make cheapest way 300 lbs sandbag ??

[srojv]

army surplus store pick up an army ruck sac and fill with 300 lbs worth of sand duct tape there you go.

[Andrew Czaczkowski]

thanks jon

[Jim Harbourne]

army surplus store pick up an army ruck sac and fill with 300 lbs worth of sand duct tape there you go.

kind of a dumb question but do you just pour the sand in or do you keep it in the 50# bags and just put the whole bags into the sac?

[MarkSikora]

Here's what we've had good luck with:

Get a box of construction grade garbage bags. They are thicker than regular garbage bags.

Depending on the size bag you want: dump the 50lb or whatever you have sand bag into the garbage bag. (I double the bag first).

Put that doubled bag into the army duffle bag. Add bags to desired weight.

Putting them into the construction grade bags as opposed to leaving them in the sandbags, makes for a little looser fit, so the sand moves a little, which makes it harder, which is better. A lot depends on how tight you make the duffle too.

If you are really going to abuse the bags, then you can always try to double the duffle too, do this BEFORE you stuff them though.

The doubled garbage bags will hold 50 or 100 or probably more lbs of sand.

Mark

oh yeah, tie the tops of the garbage bags and duct tape them.

[srojv]

pour the bags otherwise you won't fit enough in it. another thing that works are feed bags that farms have same thing fill and duct tape.

[Matthew White]

Sea bags! (same thing as army ruck sack) but yeah, you pack those other bags in there tight and you'll have a really nice setup.