Long line weight ideas

[Kevin Puls]

I did a little searching and didn’t come up with much. I need some more long line weights. My supply of sash weights has dwindled and apparently they are now “vintage” items on marketplace. What other simple diy ideas are out there short of spending $20 a piece on 5 pound mushroom anchors?

They are used on semi sporty conditions so need to be somewhat heavy.

 

[J. Overland]

I was going to say sash weights, but I see you covered that. Could fill a coffee can or something similar with concrete and stick an eye bolt in it before it hardens.

 

[Bob Reitmeyer]

Can you use a simple gym dumbbell or a 5-10 pound barbell weight? Some even have rubberized coating.

 

[roy brewington]

Find some old barbell weights. You can even get them new at wally world. Probably cheaper now than the newly collectable sash weights

 

[tod osier]

I did a little searching and didn’t come up with much. I need some more long line weights. My supply of sash weights has dwindled and apparently they are now “vintage” items on marketplace. What other simple diy ideas are out there short of spending $20 a piece on 5 pound mushroom anchors?

They are used on semi sporty conditions so need to be

Cast lead mushrooms using a lead pot and screw eye or the small size claw anchors (cabelas has 2.2 pounders for less than 20) either holds better than a non anchor shape like a dumbbell or sash weight.

 

[Capt Rich Geminski]

Use a plastic tub filled with concrete and a copper wire for attachment. In thr 70's we used clorox bottle painted black with junk weights is case we had to leave them because of weather. Cheap rig we shot many birds from...

 

[Kevin Puls]

For some reason barbell weights don’t hold. They roll. But thinking about it maybe if I could weld an eye on the end it would be more like a mushroom anchor.

I’m thinking about pouring hot lead into a soup can with an eyebolt suspended into it.

 

[RM Anderson]

Kevin,
Would those 3 lb. folding grappling anchors work?