Everlast Wood Beam Holder (EA)

This is a great piece of simple mounting hardware. I have two of them between joists in my basement ceiling hanging a single 100 lb heavy bag. Take a close look at the picture and you'll see that some of the thread on the horizontal bolt is in the mounting area of whatever you use to hang your bag. Ideally the thread should be pushed out a bit to give a smooth bolt interface to your bag hanging equipment. I couldn't find anything of similar size with the threads further out, so I hope the bungee cords I'm using for hanging don't fray on the bolt grooves. No sign of that after three months of daily use. The only problem with this hanger is the nut on the top. That nut can slowly loosen and even come off over a long period of time. Once it loosens it creates a gap between the two black metal surfaces that can then be heard clacking when striking the heavy bag. A trip to the local hardware store for a nut with a plastic locking collar was what I used to make sure I don't get any loosening of the hanger.

This is a super sturdy set up and is very easy to install. The base needs to be secured to a floor joist and is attached with two 3" lag screws. You will need a basic standard socket set at minimum to complete the install. I would recommend holding up the base where you want it, marking out the two holes for the lag screws, then drilling pilot holes with a 1/8" drill bit. This will make screwing these in a lot easier and will not compromise the weight rating. After securing the base, you simply attach the swivel with a lag bolt, lock washer and nut. This allows the bag a lot more movement. After the swivel is on, simply hold your bag up and put the included last lag bolt through your bags chains and tighten the last nut. The entire process took me 10 minutes and that includes cutting away a 4x4 square of drywall. The bracket is rated to hold 100lbs. Don't know that I'd test that though. I filled mine to 60 lbs which is plenty for who we installed it for.

I hung my 80 lb heavy bag from the center beam in my home in the basement on this and it works great. Use a caribiner or a little S hook to get the right swing on the bag. It works great though. I get no crazy wild swing on the bag, it stays in a small arc and no vibration or bounce. Also because I used chains up to an S hook, I get ZERO SPIN. Let me repeat that since everyone's talking about SPIN. I use an "S-HOOK" and four bag chains up to the S-HOOK so I get NO SPIN. None. ZERO. Bag doesn't spin, at all. So if you got spin, then try 4 chains and an S-hook (a climbing caribiner works great too). What I mean by that is each chain goes to the S-Hook. If there's a swivel bolt at the top of your bag chains then bypass it. Just hook one link of each chain to the S-HOOK and you'll get no spin. Also, if the main U bracket is spinning then you're not connecting it right. It has lock washers. Lock em down. Bought two, one for the garage.

Fast shipping and good quality at the best prices. I've bought from Amazon many times and I am almost always completely satisfied with the product. They describe exactly what you'll be getting. This is a good mount for a heavy/ punching bag. It works well and easy installation (2 screws). Comes with everything you need. However you might want to put a locking nut on the bolt that holds the two halves together instead of the one they give you. I tightened it up, but I punched it loose and I just tightend it back up. This only happened once, I maybe just didnt tighten it up that great the first time. Still might be a good idea if you have this as a problem though. I used it on my 80 lb bag and it worked well for that. The screws they give you hold pretty good. It's a good mount.

This has been doing a great job holding up my heavy bag and taking whatever abuse I throw at it. Great quality.

I am using this hanger to hold a 100lb heavy bag. So far it is doing just what it needs to be doing. I have seen some other reviews stating that the bolts have either shattered, bent, or broke in some way. Mine have not done that (yet) and I am not seeing any signs of that happening. I have had the product for about a month now. I will update if there are any issues with it. Again, this product is holding up my 100lb heavy bag from a wood beam in my garage and is doing just what I need! I would give it a shot even if you are second guessing with other reviews (it doesn't cost too much compared to other hangers)!

For my install I cut a board to span between two of the ceiling joists, screwed it into both joists, and then screwed this in the middle of the board. I saw that a couple other people had done a similar install and it seems like a good idea to avoid putting the entire weight of the heavy bag on one joist. I painted the board white to match the ceiling before I mounted it all and called it good. It's not a slick as cutting out the ceiling and all that, but I wouldn't think you would be that worried about the room being pretty if your hanging a heavy bag in the middle of it. I also paired this with a bag spring and though it makes it even noisier to hit the bag, it seems to help keep impact stress of the ceiling and this mount. The mount and hardware all seem to be well made and everything has held up great so far. Plus it's one of the cheaper and more professional ways out there to hang a bag.

I like the concept of the design it was a great idea, the execution on how they put it together is extremely flawed, as pointed out by many of the other reviewers. The biggest issue, and I saw only a few other comments on it, are that the size of the bolts per the instructions are completely different from what they actually are. I mean they are not even close, how the Everlast QC missed that is beyond me, you can look at the bolts and tell they are way off from what the instructions say they are supposed to come with. The hardware is complete crap, my recommendation is to throw away the nuts and bolts and go to lowes/home depot and pick you up some new hardware. I did this and it cost me a whopping 2 bucks. Like many of the other reviewers said, for the center bolt that holds the rotating bracket, it WILL come loose as you are punching your bag. And your bag WILL fall, and can cause some serious injury. Avoide this, and use the two nuts with a locking bolt in between, use some lock tite too for good measure. As far as the bolt that comes with it that actually holds the bag, the threads are exposed to the ring you will hang your bag with, and therefore strip the threads and also make a noise that makes you think the thing will not hold your bag. Get a 3/8 and 2 1/2 inch bolt and you shouldn't have to worry about the threads being exposed. If all else fails you can always place a sleeve over the bolt as well. Easy stuff to do, but frankly Everlast should have their stuff together before putting out crappy hardware like that. I'm surprised they haven't done anything about changing the hardware and improving the safety of this system by adding the additional bolts and lock washers. It literally would only add $1 to the cost. Anyways, after you modify it yourself, it's awesome and fun to have! 5 stars to this thing if Everlast cleans up their act and fires their QA guy.