Filling sandbags/car support

[elsahoffmannModerator December 12, 2017 at 11:01 am Post count: 3716]

#36265

I have a sandbag – which fits over a car door – as a support for my Wimberley
now the question is – what to fill the sandbag with…
Sand (since it is a sandbag) ?
traveling to the Kgalagadi – I will take it empty and borrow some from the park – or do you have any better ideas?

[Norm de PlumeParticipant December 12, 2017 at 1:11 pm Post count: 593]

#298354

Rice or small beans?

[elsahoffmannModerator December 12, 2017 at 1:13 pm Post count: 3716]

#298345

I have heard those things go vrot – but I have no experience of this myself.

[bomtekModerator December 12, 2017 at 2:14 pm Post count: 1048]

#298352

dense plastic or rubber balletjies works best

[SimonDPModerator December 12, 2017 at 2:39 pm Post count: 2143]

#298344

I use plastic beads in mine. Works the best and lightest to carry around. Rice, beans etc will really drive you nuts after a while, they start to ferment, mould, etc…and breed larvae sometimes….

[elsahoffmannModerator December 12, 2017 at 3:33 pm Post count: 3716]

#298346

@simondp 298114 wrote:

I use plastic beads in mine. Works the best and lightest to carry around. Rice, beans etc will really drive you nuts after a while, they start to ferment, mould, etc…and breed larvae sometimes….

mmm protein – and something extra to shoot 🙂

[Peter ConnanParticipant December 12, 2017 at 3:59 pm Post count: 817]

#298353

I think sand is the steadiest. But it’s also the heaviest.

And it can be dusty, so I prefer to use river sand that I have washed, or to put a plastic bag inside the sandbag.

[elsahoffmannModerator December 12, 2017 at 6:36 pm Post count: 3716]

#298347

thanks Peter. At least if I borrow sand I can return it 🙂

[Christo SchutteParticipant March 14, 2018 at 6:19 am Post count: 36]

#298350

I use small plastic balls, no problem and they will last forever.

[elsahoffmannModerator March 14, 2018 at 7:00 am Post count: 3716]

#298348

@christo Schutte 298314 wrote:

I use small plastic balls, no problem and they will last forever.

what kind – size – and where do you get it?

[Christo SchutteParticipant March 15, 2018 at 10:23 am Post count: 36]

#298351

@elsahoffmann 298315 wrote:

what kind – size – and where do you get it?

They are about 3 x 3mm in size. I got it from a company doing plastic ejection molding about 5 year ago. They were on the campus of the CSIR then but I don’t know if the company is still their.

[elsahoffmannModerator March 15, 2018 at 12:28 pm Post count: 3716]

#298349

thanks Christo

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