Has anyone tried the Shur Trax water bag for weight in the back

This year I damaged my lower back taking 300 pounds of sandbags out of the back of my truck. Those $25.00 worth of sandbags cost me a ton in medical fees and lost time at work.

Winter is coming and I'm looking at these "water bags". What do you think? Anyone buy one? Any other alternatives to put weight in the back of my truck (besides hiring someone to ruin THEIR back instead of my back wrestling multiple sandbags)?

 

Where I live that would become an ice bag and I'd worry about it ripping from becoming ridgid and abrading on the bed.

 

Water for weight is one crazy idea. Sloshing around when not frozen

Dangerous AF soon as winter hits and it freezes solid.









Sand bags should not be that big a deal.

 

Not to mention that once it turns to ice, if you need to remove it to transport something, you won't be able to drain it for removal. I'd stick with sandbags and maybe some kind of portable hoist for putting them in and removing them.

 

alittle dash of anti frieze would stop the ice. Hopefully the bag is baffled to stop sloshing, looks to have tie downs. He might be fine.

 

Do you have a spot that you can drop the bed and back up to, that is level with the bed? Store the sand bags there and just slide them in.

My problem is the bags getting a hole over the course of 5 months.

 

I have two low profile tote bins that sit over the axle and are filled with stuff I think I’ll need. Some tools, draw bars etc.

 

Consider going to a hardware store and having them load the sandbags on a pallet with a forklift. Then return the pallet at the end of the season, have them use forklift to unload.

 

I usually just leave the bed empty and learn to drive

 

This just have the employees load them in your bed?

 

I use 60 lb sand filled tubes that I got at Home Depot a number of years ago. The tubes are made of a strong plastic material (Tyvek?) and have lasted 4 winters in the truck and 4 summers under the deck. I use 4 tubes and strap down to bed with ratchet strap. They provide enough weight and can easily be removed as each is only 60 lbs

 

300lbs of sandbags for winter driving seems excessive?

 

As a person who deals with back issues on an everyday basis I can empathize a lot with this thread, that being said, I don't understand what you would be accomplishing with carrying sandbags or even what is essentially a water bladder in the bed of your truck all day, everyday. If it's a driving thing because you get squirrelly back there when you are pressing the go pedal, you may want to consider either better tires or not laying into it as hard, or maybe even both if you feel it's not a user input sort of issue.

 

I use 2 or 3 concrete paver blocks (the same ones you'd use in your yard) with a plywood frame to fill in the dead space and prevent the blocks from shifting around. The blocks are heavy enough to give me traction, but they're relatively low profile (about 1.5" thick) compared to sandbags. It works great as they don't take up much space in the bed, and it's not an awkward shape like a sandbag so I can still load my box like nothing was there. Also no sand to spill. I suppose this doesn't solve your problem of being a pain in the ass to load, but you could probably rig up a hoist or something.

 

Had one. Never had any problems with it but it just seemed to be more if a nuisance than anything else.

300 pounds does seem very excessive. I usually have 50 or 100.
Maybe better/dedicated winter tires? Adjust the tire pressure?

 

Had one for a few years, eventually started leaking at the creases.


Now I just toss a couple bags of sand in.

 

External fuel tank mounted over the axle sounds much better

 

Kegerator!

 

Spose I didn't specify the type of fuel or who it was for