Home Made Sandbags

Sandbags are extremely handy to use as shooting rests or to weigh down the base of a temporary flag pole or basketball hoop or even to tie the base of a camp-fly to.

Being a Parachute Rigger, I'm fairly handy with a sewing machine, and was thinking of going to Wal-Mart to buy some blue tarps to cut & sew into sandbags.

However, I came up with a easier & cheaper solution.

Take a worn-out pair of blue jeans (or khakis) and cut the legs off.  Turn them inside out, and sew across one end to close the "tube".  Now turn it right-side out, and you can fill it 3/4 with sand, pea gravel, saw dust, wood chips, etc.  Take a shoe string or piece of parachute cord, wrap & tie the top, and you have a perfectly serviceable sandbag.

 

Good idea! I'll have to start keeping old pants for this.

I took an old t-shirt from on of my boys and created a drawstring bag out of it with the sewing machine. Turned out pretty well. It's great to reuse things any time you can.

Thanks.

When you turn it inside out to sew the bottom, if you sew the unfinished (cut off) end, when you turn it right-side out, you will have a finished seam around the opening (unless the pant bottom was all frayed).