Bean bag pot tilters

[crust]

I have seen others designing trees and using bean-bags to tilt pots to visualize new angles. These seem to work better than shims. I want to make some. Anybody out there have them and if so what are some good bag dimensions and what is the best for filling?

 

[edprocoat]

I would say the dimensions would be according to your pot size, fill em with coarse sand, dry beans or corn, aquarium gravel etc.

ed

 

[jk_lewis]

Goodness . . . any old sack -- and beans. This seems an awfully simple thing to ask for advice about.

 

[crust]

Goodness . . . any old sack -- and beans. This seems an awfully simple thing to ask for advice about.

Do you have any?

 

[Bonsai Nut]

I use... wedges made out of 2x4s? Plus scrap wood... plus small children... plus anything I can shove under the pot and stay put

 

[fourteener]

I would make them out of denim. My wife does the bags you heat up in the microwave on a cold winter's night. Denim holds up better for the type of use it's going to go through. I would make one long enough to lift up the whole half of a large round pot so it doesn't rotate on you. Then the rest I would just make the size of your hand with a variety of how full they are.

 

[Smoke]

I fill mine with old pieces of gold and silver scrap...sometimes platinum when I have it.

 

[crust]

I fill mine with old pieces of gold and silver scrap...sometimes platinum when I have it.

Oh boy---so cute.

 

[crust]

well, I guess the consensus is size 14 silk granny panties filled with plastic skeletons. Platinum skeletons that is.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

My wife made a couple for me about 10 years ago, 2 8"x4" pieces of upholstery fabric sewn together and filled with about 8 oz of dried navy beans. I use them all the time, and they've very stable.

 

[Smoke]

well, I guess the consensus is size 14 silk granny panties filled with plastic skeletons. Platinum skeletons that is.

Size 14....I wish....

 

[Smoke]

My wife made a couple for me about 10 years ago, 2 8"x4" pieces of upholstery fabric sewn together and filled with about 8 oz of dried navy beans. I use them all the time, and they've very stable.

I can't believe anyone still has any of those crackle Shigaraki pots. Thats so retro man..can you dig it?

 

[Wee]

Cornhole bags should work....You can get them about any Mom & Pop feed and seed store.

On a side note I keep broken pieces of granite in different thickness to place under rootballs to get the level before wiring them in the pots.

Brian

 

[JudyB]

gee, all this talk of old sacs and grannie panties, and cornholes....

I had actually not seen this, or at least not noticed it, I think I'll make me some. My wedges sometimes make it too tippy to work on at the angle I want.