These are Mammoth Grips, high-strength handles that can help you more comfortably hold a shockingly vast range of products.
At the least, they help to save your fingers from plastic grocery bags that would otherwise dig in. Yep, I’m a “carry as much one trip” type of grocery shopper, usually because I’m always hungry when I come back from the store and try be as fast as possible.
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The Mammoth Grips can carry a LOT of plastic bags, and the weight is evenly distributed in my hands without any hot spots.
What I also like about these handles is that you can load them on one or both sides. When loading something on just one side, the handles still feel very comfortable and balanced.
Following is a list of the types of things you can carry with it. I tested the Mammoth Grip handles with about half of them, and you can see the others in usage examples on the company’s website.
The Mammoth Grip handles can be used to carry:
- Plastic shopping bags
- Paint cans
- 5 gallon buckets
- Propane tanks (20 lb size)
- Clothes hangers
- Hay bales
- Juice and water jugs
- Sports equipment bags
I can see these being useful for carrying other types of things too, such as duffel bags with thin and coarse straps.
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Mammoth Grips are made in the USA. Right now they’re only available in orange, and I like the color, as it makes the handles very quick to locate.
The handles each have a weight capacity of 100 pounds.
I was a little worried about how well they’d hold up over time, but they’ve performed comfortably and seem to be exceptionally durable.
Price: $20 for a 2-pack (plus shipping)
fred
Look like they might be useful.
For single can carry – there are these:
https://www.amazon.com/Paint-Easy-Grip-3pack/dp/B07T75877F/
But a slit section of old garden hose might work as well
Matt J.
I picked those up a while ago for my gardening 5 gallon buckets and they work well. 5 gallons of soil or compost can get heavy and they definitely make it more comfortable. Probably a lot better for single carry, although I don’t find paint cans that uncomfortable enough to justify it for that application. Maybe professionals if you do lots of 5 gallon paint jobs.
tim Rowledge
Best not to use those plastic grocery store bags. I have large collection of cloth shopping bags gleaned from going to conferences for work – some over 30 years old and still perfectly functional. Quite aside from the ‘less plastic ‘ thing, they are much less painful to carry.
Ball_bearing
Cloth bags with thin handles will still cut circulation and hurt. I know you are not supposed to take everything at once, but climbing stairs with grocery bags is tiring, so carrying a lot of them at once is easier. An item that distributes the weight of the bags across a larger surface area will be useful with cloth bags too.
fred
I agree with you on that – better to use re-usable bags. Furthermore – as an old codger – I still worry about the plastic trash legacy we are leaving for our descendants. If we can figure out how to put men in space – maybe even as short-stay tourists – we should be able to tackle our garbage issues.
BTW – my primary residence state has outlawed their use. That might be good for the environment – but now we all tend to buy plastic bags for kitchen waste and dog/cat poop instead of reusing those grocery-store bags. It has seemed to have a positive impact on parking lots and fence lines – where you no longer see those plastic bags blowing in the wind.
Ball_bearing
Simple and useful.
I usually carry most of the grocery bags in one or two trips. My fingers get red and sometimes white and purplish due to the weight of the bags. A pair of this could really help.
fred
If you search Amazon for “grocery bag carrier” – you will find ones like these that Amazon says is an “Amazon Choice”
https://www.amazon.com/Pankia-Handle-Grocery-Shopping-Carrier/dp/B07Y4RM371/
The ones Stuart pictured – look (to me anyway) a bit more compact and robust
Ball_bearing
Thank you.
MichaelT
And also this five pack on Amazon, also rated at 80 lbs, not 100. But, two five gallon buckets of pretty much anything is > 100 lbs and 1 is < 80 lbs, so…
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BMP5MM/
David
Not even close to the same thing.
Koko The Talking Ape
$20 for the pair is JUST cheap enough that I’m not certain I would make my own out of plywood. The shape is intricate, and the edges would have to be carefully rounded over (or else what’s the point.) And I bet 3/4″ or even 1″ plywood isn’t thick enough. So I’d have to laminate some pieces together, etc. Maybe I could use some PVC pipe for the handle, but that’s no fun, and already I’m bored.
Well played, Mammoth Grip. Well played.
fred
If you want different colors – I found this listing – and they offer it as buy the pair and get one free:
https://www.gethandzy.com/
Chris I
I call BS. Who’s carrying two 5gal paint buckets at a time?
Adam
the helper
fred
Or King Kong – two on each “handzy” (as the item seems to be named) – with one handzy in each hand – while climbing up some stairs to deliver the 170 pounds of paint.
MM
No reason you couldn’t use it to give a better handle on a single 5-gallon bucket.
fred
Its an idea but I’m not sure you could bend the pail’s bail around enough to balance the weight on both sides of the handle – or do so without breaking the plastic that the handle is made from
MM
Just hang it on one side hook. Sure you’ll have to tilt the grip a little as you carry it so that the bucket handle stays under the center of the “Mammoth Grip” but it looks doable to me.
Jp
Tried twice to buy from here. Won’t let me.
Jp
Finally got it to work. Make sure you get your commission. That’s why I went through your site!
Stuart
There aren’t any affiliate links in this post.
X lu
I had long forgotten his Sears and some other paint companies had ‘rubber’ handles on the can wire handle. Another concession to cost reduction.
Shane
How feasible would it be to print one? I don’t have a 3D printer yet but wouldn’t something like that be in the wheelhouse?
Jason
You could get the basic design done easy enough but most 3D printers are FDM and you would have layer issues trying to achieve the same strength. You could get pretty fancy playing with different infill patterns and trying more rugged filaments but at $20 for the pair you would be hard pressed to come out ahead after the time and energy invested. Injection molded parts are just physically stronger due to their construction.
Addicted2Red
Meh print them flat and their plenty strong enough as the layer orientation isn’t the week point.
I’ve printed several throughout the years and they have all held up. It ends up being like $3 worth of plastic for a pair
Kevmatic
Put plastic grocery bags on your wrist and not in your hand! Turn your palm up to carry. The heal of your hand will keep the bags from slipping. Trust me it’s a lot more comfortable and you can carry as much as you care to lift. Learned this from a guy that worked in a grocery store long ago.
Stephanie Turnage
We just received our grips and are going to order a set for our son, my dad, and others for Christmas! These are absolutely awesome. You won’t be sorry that you bought them!