homemade ballast!!!!?

alright heres the deal me and my buddy are just getting into wake surfing, his family just purchased a 04 x2 and we are looking to add some more ballast besides the 1000 built in, but since we both spend all our money on gas we were thinking of some ways to add weight other then the obivious yet expensive fat sac without spending much money, after looking at pop-products.com we had the idea of sand bags, is there other homemade solutions? tell me your ideas and thoughts thanks!

Fat Chicks!!

cement bags from Home Depot, 60lbs or 90lbs and double bag them. cheap.

bryan, thats exactly what i thought when i read the thread title

Matt,

Seven gallon water containers from Walmart. They can be found in the sporting goods section. They fit perfectly in the storage lockers on the 04 x2 and they fit nicely in the bow. The containers are easy to fill, dump and move from one side of the boat to the other.

lead weights from tire shops, in burlap bags. Yeah, the are heavy and not easy to move but if your going cheap, and heavy it works.

hey thanks guys if any one has more ideas keep um commin

go steal some tractor weigths

ha ha j/k

You can find some cheap fat sacs on ebay as well.

Fat chicks make phat wakes...

that should be a t-shirt. lol

well i found a 750 pound fly high on craigs list with pump for 80 bucks, i figure that is the best deal out there thanks for all the ideas though

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Anybody ever try a waterbed bladder? I've seen new ones for $50 and used for $10. A single-bed-size mattress should be good for about 900 pounds when full.

if you used a waterbed bladder you would probably have to reinforce it with something. What could you use to rinforce it? BTW what size mattress would weigh 900 pounds?

I have used a waterbed bladder a couple of times. I went ahead and bought the upgraded one because they said it was reinforced. I never had any problems with it. It just takes up a lot of space.

what size waterbed and where did you put it

I got the twin size and I put it right in the middle of all the seats. We had a 95 mastercraft 225 at the time. I have also used one on my 06 malibu vlx in the same place. I always put a fatsac up front too. Makes the wake huge!!

how big of a fatsac up front and what rope length with that setup?

how big of a fatsac up front and what rope length with that setup?

This last Thursday my set up was as follows:

Goofy:
FH 750 Starboard locker
FH 750 Behind driver
FH 400 Starboard bow
...270 pounds of steel bow
...230 Center tank
... 80 Barbell weights stbd tower
Total 2,480 pounds

Regular
FH 750 Port locker
FH 300 under bench 3/4 FH 400
FH 750 on top of the bench
...270 pounds of steel
...230 center tank
FH 400 port bow
... 80 pounds barbell weights port tower
Total 2,780

http://www.wakeworld.com/MB/Discus/messages/8/463656.html?1182051438

if you havent bought any yet try this link

I was running in my vlx for surfing
stock ballast
500lbs back corner
I would remove the back corner seat and seat in front of it and thats where I put the waterbed.
450 lbs up front
and I would adjust it with the power wedge

For wakeboarding
Stock ballast
waterbed in the middle
500lbs up front
power wedge

The wake doesn't get taller just a lot harder. I ride 70 ft out.

thanks alot!