Installing a punching bag?

[BellyUpFish]

Hey guys-

My wife has been using a free standing bag and it scoots all over the place when she's kicking on it and she's pretty tired of that, so I was thinking about just getting her a regular bag and mounting it in the ceiling.

However, our ceiling isn't load bearing..

Is a punching bag likely to bring down the house?

 

[BeetleJuice]

If you have the ability to mount to studs on your walls, century makes a wall mount that Ive used for years. It was my only option at the time besides a free standing stand.

 

[BellyUpFish]

If you have the ability to mount to studs on your walls, century makes a wall mount that Ive used for years. It was my only option at the time besides a free standing stand.

Yeh, we were thinking about that as well.. Just trying to find the best spot may be the hard part.. I guess we'll look into it tonight..

 

[BeetleJuice]

One of the feature sof the mount that sold me, was its ability to swing out for use, and swing back to the wall when not in use. That way it only sticks out as far as the bag is wide

 

[mayday0017]

Just whatever you do, if you end up mounting to ceiling go above it and brace the **** out of everything or you will end up with cracks and what not in the drywall... If you can't get above it mount the bag to a piece of 3/4" plywood that is say 4'x4' and screw it into the rafters in several places. You will have several holes to patch later but holes are much easier to patch then drywall is to replace from busting free from the nails and all the cracks that will form.

 

[R6 Racer]

I just finished with my reply & thought... We are talking about a heavy bag, correct? & how heavy?


I mounted one in the basement of my previous house & only used it there once. It shook the rest of the house so bad dishes were rattling in the cupboards upstairs.
Was kinda funny tho, I was just getting into my workout & had just upped my pace. Next thing I hear the wife running down the stairs screaming "stop stop stop". She sounded like she thought the whole house was coming down around her.

After that I mounted it in the garage.
I ended up cutting a small hole in the cement floor by one wall, dug a post hole & cemented in a 10' 4x4. Made an arm on the 4x4 & hung my bag off the arm.
Never had any problems after that.

Mounting it directly to the structure of your home anywhere is going to cause major vibrations. Maybe you can isolate the mounting structure with some kind of rubber?

I mounted a speedbag & used 4 sponge rubber hockey pucks between the wooden mounting plate & the rafters. That worked ok for a speedbag.

Steve

 

[BellyUpFish]

70lb bag is what we are thinking about getting her..

 

[bullnerd]

I had the same as R6.

I screwed an eye hook into the rafter and would just unhook it when not in use.

Hook never broke or caused the house to crack.

But it rattled it pretty good.

 

[kenfain]

70 lbs. No problem. You can walk around up there right? Just spread the load across several joists. But like was said earlier, it's likely to vibrate quite a bit.

 

[loply]

If you don't want it to shake the house to pieces you need to hang it with flexible material of some kind, ie not chains.

Rubber inner tubes or suchlike might suffice. As others have commented you will shake the whole house down hitting a heavy bag attached to a ceiling or wall.

 

[bullnerd]

If you don't want it to shake the house to pieces you need to hang it with flexible material of some kind, ie not chains.

Rubber inner tubes or suchlike might suffice. As others have commented you will shake the whole house down hitting a heavy bag attached to a ceiling or wall.

I used rope and it still rattled it pretty good. So something more isolating that rope.

 

[shooting4life]

I would run a piece of unistrut across the ceiling with a trolley for the bag to hang on, then when you are doing you can move the bag to the wall. Also, you can get a bunch of strut hangers and hit as many joists as you wish.

 

[BearCuda]

Just get the weighted torso guy bag. He's more fun to hit anyway.

 

[BellyUpFish]

That's not a bad idea, right there..

 

[ichabod]

What kind of floor is it on, hard surface, maybe just a couple of strips of double sided tape on it should keep it from sliding, carpet, the hook side of some velcro tape might work........just a thought.

 

[BellyUpFish]

Concrete garage floor..

 

[srmofo]

tell her that people generally move when being kicked and to treat it as practice for the real world.

Then go make your bed on the couch, lol.

 

[bachertzhan]

It was my only option at the time besides a free standing stand.

 

[plow]

Hey guys-

My wife has been using a free standing bag and it scoots all over the place when she's kicking on it and she's pretty tired of that, so I was thinking about just getting her a regular bag and mounting it in the ceiling.

However, our ceiling isn't load bearing..

Is a punching bag likely to bring down the house?

(Note to self: Don't hit on BellyUpFishs Wife)

 

[RPH]

Hang the bag from a heavy duty spring. Get the correct one and no vibration transmitted. Did this for the sons girlfriend and it worked great.

 

[G_P]

Hang the bag from a heavy duty spring. Get the correct one and no vibration transmitted. Did this for the sons girlfriend and it worked great.

Yup. If you hang it with just a length of chain it will shake the hell out of the house. Friend had one in a lean to carport outside and it would shake the house when someone was hammering on it.

 

[skyking]

Just get the weighted torso guy bag. He's more fun to hit anyway.

" Bad Bob" that is what I have , works great. If you mount a bag to your house you will tear the house down.

 

[72Anthony]

They make springs for Heavy Bags. This model is rated for up to 70 pounds:

http://www.titlemma.com/punching-bags/bag-stands-accessories/fighting-sports-heavy-bag-spring

They also have a heavy duty one.

The down side is that it's about 6 or 9 inches long. By the time you add the extra snap links, swivel, etc. the top of the bag can get kind of low if you have 8' high ceilings.

If you really want to spend some money, Balazs has a heavy bag mounts with an integrated spring and swivel. They even have folding wall mounts.

https://www.balazsboxing.com/gear/bagmount/hbh.htm

 

[Djoz]

I also had an issue with it being too loud and vibration when it was hung up even with the spring. What I did was I used 8 bungee cords between the chain and the bags and it silenced it.

 

[Chris4x4Gill2]

Had a 70 lb bag mounted inb my Dad's garage for 20 + years now. Eye bolt into a joist and a heavy spring to mount the bag. No issues whatsoever, but no drywall on the cieling either - ceiling is ply.

 

[Dave in Mass]

I would run a piece of unistrut across the ceiling with a trolley for the bag to hang on, then when you are doing you can move the bag to the wall. Also, you can get a bunch of strut hangers and hit as many joists as you wish.

I did similar in my garage. I actually used one section of a Craftsman garage door opener rail and the sliding mechanism. Hung it from a chain attached to this. Extra parts I saved from an opener replacement.

The rail is hung between the ceiling joists by cross bracing and can slide out about 5 feet. When finished working out the bag can be slid to about a foot away from the wall and then pushed between two studs and held with a bungee.

Unfinished garage obvously but works well. Garage is attached but no lving space above it so no effect on the house itself

 

[crepr12]

great question OP and saved me a major headache

 

[greaseswabber]

I did similar in my garage. I actually used one section of a Craftsman garage door opener rail and the sliding mechanism. Hung it from a chain attached to this. Extra parts I saved from an opener replacement.

The rail is hung between the ceiling joists by cross bracing and can slide out about 5 feet. When finished working out the bag can be slid to about a foot away from the wall and then pushed between two studs and held with a bungee.

Unfinished garage obvously but works well. Garage is attached but no lving space above it so no effect on the house itself

Do you have a pic? Especially of the cross bracing.


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[USA Tool Supply]

I used 1/8 " square of plate steel with the ring of an eye bolt welded to the center. Drilled holes on 16 " centers and mounted with lag bolts to ceiling. 70-100lb. bag no problem.
If your ceiling is not load bearing, no way other than free standing, I do like the trolley idea. I had previously thought of attaching one to the I-beam in my garage so I could hang the bag and slide it out of the way.
Depending on your gf's weight and how hard she kicks will determine the amount of vibration. The young man I am working with now is 320lbs. " things vibrate a lot ".

 

[e-tek]

Bang her Sister!! Then she can practice on you!


(Kidding of course - ongoing joke.....)

 

[MoonRise]

Hang the bag from a heavy duty spring. Get the correct one and no vibration transmitted. Did this for the sons girlfriend and it worked great.

need picture of son's girlfriend hanging from spring. Was going to say "mounted", but that might be a bit toooo much, eh?

(notice the smileys there, it's a joke)

Free-standing bag on the concrete garage floor? Add a whole bunch of weight (couple hundred pounds) down low on the stand (weight plates, sand bags, cast iron big-rig brake drums, whatever). No more movement.

Hanging a heavy bag from some ceiling/floor joists and wailing away on it will transmit some level of vibrations to those joists and the rest of the building's structure. Exactly how much vibration can vary, sometimes you can 'get away with it', and sometimes it can make the structure shake like the second coming of a diety.

(had a heavy bag mounted to a house's main floor beam, not just a floor joist. The house shook enough when using said bag to be objectionable.)

Sooo, you're trying to tell us that your wife is banging (the heavy bag).

 

[3baygarage]

I'm not a boxer but I have an old heavy bag that was given to me attached to a chain fall. The chain fall is on a steel I-bEAM running across the garage. Not the ideal setup at all, but it used to be fun to beat it up across the garage. It doesn't always run away though, sometimes it swings back.

 

[BellyUpFish]

Bang her Sister!! Then she can practice on you!


(Kidding of course - ongoing joke.....)

Being that she used to be a kick boxing instructor, no thanks.. She quit when she got pregnant with our girls. Girl still has more power in her legs than should be allowed..

 

[skyking]

Being that she used to be a kick boxing instructor, no thanks.. She quit when she got pregnant with our girls. Girl still has more power in her legs than should be allowed..

Please go on !!!!!

 

[BellyUpFish]

please go on !!!!!

lol..

 

[Dave in Mass]

Do you have a pic? Especially of the cross bracing.


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forgive the crappy camera and the messy garage...

Cross bracing may have made it sound more elegant than it is. It is basically just 2x4s bolted on top of the joist which then allowed me to bolt the rail to the braces and have it run between the joists.

The first picture is just an upshot of the 2x4s and the garage door rail, slider, and arm used as a re-purposed bag mount. A little hard to see pointing up into the dark storage area above the garage.



The second picture is of the bag in it's put away position



And the third is of the bag out in a usable position.



* -- A little organization hint. I have posted before that I like the unfinished aspect of the garage because it gives me nice flexibility as far as mounting things to the studs or putting them between the studs. When I put something between the studs like you see here ( I also store ladders, ramps, and some long stock) that need to be restrained, I use the hanger screws that are meant for hanging suspended ceiling. I have the bit, they are cheap, they are strong, and they have nice little holes to hook bungess to.

 

[greaseswabber]

forgive the crappy camera and the messy garage...

Thanks for the pics. You are right, it is not too complicated. Great use of space. I'll have to look at something different. My roof is built up so the joists are not exposed on the top.

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[jeffmoss26]

Mine is chained around a beam in the basement furnace room.

 

[t7barron]

Zareba Tensioning Spring from Tractor Supply...

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[mike13u]

For those that suggested the BOB (Body Opponent Bag) mannequin type punching bag, these are nice bags but they are not serious tools. The issue with those (or any floor mount system) is that the bag doesn't move in and move out like your opponent would and it doesn't allow you to practice your footwork to create angles. Creating angles is essential to boxing/fighting. Make 'em miss, make 'em pay. As far as bags go, a swinging heavy bag is an absolute must-have tool for a skilled fighter's reps.

A lot of good suggestions here for mounting. I have a boxing gym close so never mounted one at home. Sorry I couldn't be more help. Best of luck.