DURASACK Heavy Duty Sand Bags with Tie Strings Empty Woven Polypropylene Sand-Bags for Flood Control with 1600 Hours of UV Protection, 50 lbs Capacity, 14x26 inches, Orange, Pack of 50

The sun bleached the orange color within two weeks. Sandbags look dirty yellow now. Do not recommend.

I’ve been using them for rocks relatively the size of baseballs and softballs that are NOT round. This is not the intended use and I know that but knowing I was going to be using these with the intent of them wearing out quickly I have used multiple bag with rocks under high flow water multiple times being tossed from locations and have yet to have one fail.

My house is not in a mandatory flood insurance zone but several of the neighbors' are, and a pile of sandbags in case of emergency seemed like a good idea.I'm no expert on sandbags but I'm not sure I'd call these "heavy duty" given that I can poke a fingernail through the weave without too much effort. At the end of the winter I'm short on sand so I filled one with 20 pounds of wood pellets; it could have taken more but was about 3/4 full and left plenty of room for tying and for the filled bag to still conform to and make a seal with surrounding surfaces. (Of course they'll be significantly heavier filled with actual sand, which is much denser per volume.)Some smaller flakes of wood particles sifted through the bag weave, which makes me wonder how tight they'll be with sand. The one I pulled out also had a hole about 1/2 inch in diameter under where the ties meet. Granted, sandbagging is not a detail operation but again leaves me wondering about sand leakage. Ties are well situated about 3.5 inches from the top, leaving enough material above for a solid handhold.These bags are rated for 1600 hours of UV protection, which if you figure 12 hours of sunlight per day works out to about 19 weeks; in other words, they're for short- to medium-term but not longer-term use.Bottom line: Even if it turns out they have to be double-bagged, I'm glad to have them on hand for emergencies and light duties like anchoring the driveway basketball hoop against high winds.

When you live in the Gulf South, where heavy storms and flooding are guaranteed yearly, quality sandbags are a must-have. I found that these were surprisingly like the Sandbaggy brand. Which is one of the types of sandbags that we were provided by FEMA in the past. Looks the same, performs about the same. If you're not familiar with using sandbags, and you expect possible flooding, do yourself a favor and watch some videos on how to properly fill and stack them. You don't want these filled all the way, or they'll leave small gaps.We have several family homes spread across our land, out in the country. The area floods, especially when the culverts for the massive ditch that runs along the highway gets stopped up with debris. We recently had a few days of heavy rain, so we positioned these outside my Mother in Law's home (one of the few that wasn't built on an elevated area). It takes more sandbags than you'd probably guess, to create a barrier about a foot high that's properly layered. We have a sump pump in case of leaks, thankfully it didn't have to get used. But it can easily take 50, 60 bags to create a ten foot barrier that's 10 to 12 inches high. So order at least 100 to make sure these will work for you, then order more.We also try to keep the sandbags away from sunlight once they're not in use. When you get a strong Deep South sun like you do here, it will absolutely degrade the bags if you leave them outside for a few months. Then when you try to lift them, they'll rip enough to render them unusable. So if you keep them filled, cover them, or tuck them away in a storage shed. One person can fill and stack these alone, but you're better off using a chain gang approach to stack them (hand them off one at a time from person to person from the wheelbarrow).We'll see how well they do as the months and years go by. But so far, I'm satisfied with these. They're made from the same exact stuff that Sandbaggy uses. And they seem to perform the same. So that's a plus, you don't want any surprises when the water starts rising.

I needed to move pebble gravel from one place to another, but I don't have a truck. I do have a large SUV but I didn't feel comfortable shoveling gravel on a plastic sheet in the back of the car. I seen this and thought it might work - and it did. I shoveled about 40 to 45 lbs. of gravel into numerous bags and loaded up the car. I didn't have any problems unloading since they held up great. The ties are secure with no leakage. I will definitely keep these on hand, as I do live in a flood zone. Just hope I don't have to use them for that!