Filling sandbags/car support

[elsahoffmann]

#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 Plume]

#298354

Rice or small beans?

[elsahoffmann]

#298345

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

[bomtek]

#298352

dense plastic or rubber balletjies works best

[SimonDP]

#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….

[elsahoffmann]

#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 Connan]

#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.

[elsahoffmann]

#298347

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

[Christo Schutte]

#298350

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

[elsahoffmann]

#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 Schutte]

#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.

[elsahoffmann]

#298349

thanks Christo

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