# Punching bag mount: Ideas
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [January 9, 2011, 10:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001 "2011-01-09T10:38:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2011, 10:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001/1 "2011-01-09T10:38:05Z")
I bought a heavy bag off NYspeed last year or the year before and put it up a few months back. I installed it in a pretty straight forward manner as can be seen below, however, because i tied it right into the floor board and because the house is 50+ years old it’s causing too much vibration and shaking the whole main floor. My wife is giving me shit for it.
So, i need to find a way to make it not shake the whole place… I was told i should use canvas strapping instead of the chains, which i can do, but what else can i do to significantly reduce the house-shakery?
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### Author:  [@Jon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jon)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001/2 "2011-01-09T13:56:49Z")
Buy a punching bag stand?
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001/3 "2011-01-09T13:58:38Z")
Speedped?
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### Author:  [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001/4 "2011-01-09T14:06:33Z")
Take a bunch if these:
And make one of these:
Then work your booty off until you look like this:
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001/5 "2011-01-09T14:18:02Z")
> [@Jon](#):
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> Buy a punching bag stand?
i dont have the space for this… i looked into it rather extensively.
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### Author:  [@burnt\_toast](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/burnt_toast)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001/6 "2011-01-09T14:42:25Z")
unfortunately since the you are using a heavy bag, it won’t matter what material is used in place of the chains. It will still be an obscene amount of force being directed to the hook in the floor board.
I had a 40lb bag mounted at my parents many years ago in the basement. It was mounted to the steel i-beam that ran through the center of the house. There were 2 basement poles on either side of the bag (only 8ft apart) running from the i-beam to the basement floor. Even at only 40lbs, that thing would still shake the shit out of the house, and the house was only about 12 years old.
A friend of mine had a 1 year old house and he mounted his heavy bag in the same way (to a steel i-beam) and the same thing happened.
With mounting it to wood, you pretty much are out of luck completely.
The only way to really eliminate it is with a punching bag stand, which you said you can’t do. Even then, the concussive sound of hitting the bag will still put some noise and slight vibration through the house.
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Maybe something like this would be an option, if you feel ok with drilling and putting lags into the basement wall (assuming the wall is safe to do that to)
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### Author:  [@Jeff95TA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeff95TA)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001/7 "2011-01-09T15:48:55Z")
Attach accelerometers to the system at multiple locations, record the data while using the bag to see what frequencies are being excited, order a custom tuned resilient mount to attentuate those frequencies.
Or if you want to do it the hard way 🙂 , maybe try a heavy spring to hang it and some isolation with rubber pads.
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001/8 "2011-01-09T15:57:12Z")
> [@Jeff95TA](#):
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> maybe try a heavy spring to hang it and some isolation with rubber pads.
i looked for that, but not sure where to get them locally… suggestions?
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### Author:  [@L8APEX1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/L8APEX1)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001/9 "2011-01-09T18:10:05Z")
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> Reduce the wear and tear on your heavy bag, chains, and mounts, plus reduce the vibration transmitted up to the floors above. 8 5/8" long x 1½" diameter and 1¾" diameter at the hook loops. Double loop ...
I had something similar at my parents house. It will take the heavy shakes out but it still shakes.
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001/10 "2011-01-09T18:36:27Z")
i’d like a more detailed listing of it… so gay.
i have extra coilover springs sitting around… i should try and incorporate those somehow.
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### Author:  [@L8APEX1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/L8APEX1)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001/11 "2011-01-09T19:01:53Z")
Give it a shot but I think that those will be too high of a spring rate and won’t dampen the shock. Try a truck snowplow shop. They have some medium duty springs that should work. Some of them already have rings on the ends of the spring. One other thing that may help would be to hard mount the end that attaches to the wall/ceiling. Much of the shock load that is jarring the house is when the bag ring jumps up then slams back back down on the mount ring.
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### Author:  [@sharpe\_corners](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sharpe_corners)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001/12 "2011-01-09T19:38:47Z")
put it on the ground, and punch it. 😛
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### Author:  [@Singh](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Singh)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001/13 "2011-01-10T15:04:54Z")
I don’t see you having any real success. I have a 100lb heavy bag i’ve had attached to to wooden beams in the basement, and it did the exact same thing. I tried mounting in different areas, but it always vibrated entire house. I tried running it on ropes instead of chains and all kinds of shit, none of it really made any noticeable improvements. If you can run a stand by drilling into the wall then you might have some success, but you said a stand is no go.
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001/14 "2011-01-10T15:26:09Z")
yeah the wife didnt leve me much room for anything other than what’s there. i’ll look into this spring issue.
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### Author:  [@Jeff444](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeff444)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001/15 "2012-01-28T16:01:39Z")
Check out tkomountings for their Rafter Mount. It does a great job to reduce the vibration of the bag.
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001/16 "2012-01-28T16:27:04Z")
i had it bolted into the floor joists but it shook the whole house… we got a stand.
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### Author:  [@1QIKZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/1QIKZ)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001/17 "2012-01-28T17:54:49Z")
Try bitch slapping it instead if punching. Tone it down a bit. “What’s with all the hostility man?”
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### Author:  [@somedude](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/somedude)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001/18 "2012-01-28T18:08:40Z")
sounds like this might be up your alley
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### Author:  [@gonzo891](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/gonzo891)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/punching-bag-mount-ideas/208001/19 "2012-01-28T18:36:51Z")
