How heavy is YOUR heavy bag?

[Royal Dragon]

Ok guys question here, but first my explanation.

About 3 years ago, I noticed that our horisontal band saw leaves alot of metal shavings (like saw dust, only metal) when we cut steel for the product we make. Now, I happen to have 6 military surplus bags made out of canvas. If you filled all 6 with sand, you have just enogh sand to fill one of Everlast's "Big" Leather heavy bags. I also noticed much of our equipment does this.

So, I started saving all the metal and drill shavings thrown offf by our equipment (drills, saws, pipe threaders etc.)

Well now, I have 4 bags of VERY heavy metal shavings with the consistancy of sawdust, but the wieght of metal and i'm on my way to filling the last two.

I weighed one of the bags today on the UPS scale, and redlined ithe scale at 92 pounds. NOW, this is as high as our scale goes, and I'm SURE these bags are at least 100 pounds each, very likely more (possibly 25 pounds or more over 100)

So, if we multiply 100 pounds (minimum) times 6 canvas bags we get a 600 pound heavy bag!!!!

I was wondering, how many of you have a bag THAT heavy, and if you did what benifit would it bring?

Comments anyone?

RD

[Water Dragon]

Bro,
Do you realize what a 600 lb heavy bag will do to your wrsits?

[JWTAYLOR]

Wait a minute, something's not right here. If you have 6 100lb bags then you have 6 100lb bags. If you had another giant bag and filled it with the shavings from the 6 100lb bags, then you would have 1 600lb bag.

Getting this to hang would be a b!tch from hell. And I think you might as well punch a wall.

I have a 190lb. horse hide bag from Everlast. I love it.

JWT

[Badger]

I have an 1000 lb. 4ft x 10ft tree trunk from Everglades Sports.











Badger

[CanadianBadAss]

"I have an 1000 lb. 4ft "

I have sevenstars mom.

[nospam]

Our heavy bag is so heavy its got its own area code!

nospam.

[Royal Dragon]

Wait a minute, something's not right here. If you have 6 100lb bags then you have 6 100lb bags.

If you had another giant bag and filled it with the shavings from the 6 100lb bags, then you would have 1 600lb bag.


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Actually, the 100 pound bags are rather small, it's rthe fact that they are filled with metal shavngs that makes them so heavy.

The Punching bag i want to put the shavings into is the big leather Everlast bag (you know, the one we all dream of?)

I didn't think about wrists, glad you mentioed it. I supose I could use a 600 pound bag (If I can even HANG it!!) to build side kicks that can kill an grizzly bear!!

Comments anyone?

RD

[Budokan]

I have the side of a brick house. And a tree. Those are my punching bags at home.

[SevenStar]

I would hang Canadian BadAss's mom, but I don't know of anything less than a crane that could hold her. And even that would begin to give after a few days.

[MonkeySlap Too]

My heavy bag is so heavy it has its own gravity well.

[Royal Dragon]

Well, that beats ME out!!!

[straight blast]

My heavy bag is 38 Kilos. (Just weighed it ). Much too heavy even with wrist wraps on. Will be fixing problem shortly.

[Kristoffer]

I want to buy a bag to hang in my room but the only one I can afford is 20 kg.. But I guess that's enough.

[scotty1]

I went from sawdust to paper shavings. Sawdust was just too dense, and hurt my hand. I wuold rather work out with something like paper shavings, which are dense enough but give a little, and be able to work out for longer. After all, your targets are not hard as steel.

Budokan, don't you worry about the effect hitting a brick wall will have on your hands/wrists/elbows/shoulders/back after a few years?

[JWTAYLOR]

RD, cool. I'd make sure you a some strong leather, but even so I think it would break before long. However, but I think you could leave it sitting down and propped up against a wall or something and develop an UNFRIGGINHOLY round house kick with it.

JWT