[onenut58]

I operate heavy equipment for a living. I frequently jump from one piece to another.I carry my lunch and tools of the trade in a jansport pack that is about 15 years old. I have a eye level and folding engineers rule as well as a retractable engineers tape for taking shots of my grade. I also cary engineers ribbon in three colors balc and red markers a leather man metal thermos and all my documents There is a hammer hatchet for digging and driving lathe. I often throw the bag uponto the deck of d-10 bull dozers and other equipment that requires both hands to climb the laders up on and i hate to have to stand on the narrow decks and take off a pack at the top. So I usualy throw it up and grab it as I enter the cab. When I climb down I usualy drop it to the ground and pick it up when i step off the ladder.The pack is beat up ugly stained with grease and oil and ground in dirt on the out side but has never broken and still very serviceable.

[Vincine]

Originally Posted by Vikingdad

Whaja do with the old press photographer?

Took her to Nursing school.

[Old_Crow]

The Walmart bags are pretty sturdy. I get several years of use from them. I usually put something in mine that pokes a hole in the bag or the zipper dies. If the OP is ripping the handle off the bags he might want to look at a backpack with a metal frame. To rip the handle off a Walmart bag he has to load the backpack with 50lb or more. Loading a pack like that requires a metal frame.

Really if he is carrying a backpack by the handle he might be better off with a brick masons tool bag. Backpacks are meant to support the load with the shoulder straps, not the handle. The masons tool bag is meant to be carried by the handle.

[Aaron32nd]

You need a Man-PACK. It fits the bill of what you are looking for exactly. It's made of canvas so it's durable. It looks manly, and it's stylish.
check out the website http://www.Man-PACK.com
also check out the funny youtube commercial "The Man-PACK man" It's hilarious!

Originally Posted by Wiebelhaus

Or a back pack to be specific, all day every day but they keep ripping and tearing and wearing out exceptionally fast, I guess you could call it a bug out bag but it's one that's always with me, to and fro, at work, even when I run an errand so I need something stronger, better and tougher but I'd like it to not be camo or obvious hunting/tacticool looking because I'd get stopped everyday. maybe plain grey or earthy or black would be a doable.

Any suggestions?

By the way, my daughters call it my "Man-Purse" so that's where that came from but hey man! it's not fair women get to carry all that stuff! my pockets are full of too much already! I need a purse...err I mean a bag too!

[Sonic82]

Originally Posted by Aaron32nd

Man-PACK

Not sure if I like the name...maybe Beau-BAG or Mr. Stuffsack

[Colby]

You see many guys on the streets of Manhattan - office types - carrying shoulder slung bags. It is very normal and accepted. Briefcase are no longer - it's forms of bags.

I'd be checking out some business or office supply types shops - especially in the Manhattan NY type area. The one suggestion you got already - the kind of tear drop shaped bags were close.

[Mosin]

Man-pack...LOL

Now I have a new nick-name for my submariner friends.

[Sonic82]

Originally Posted by Vikingdad

Oh no! Not at all! She was just playing the straight man without having to do a thing. She enjoyed it as much as I did- she knew me well enough to know I was just fooling around.

PS. She passed away 5 years ago at nearly 99 years old.

it was in gest

[Vikingdad]

Originally Posted by Sonic82

Not sure if I like the name...maybe Beau-BAG or Mr. Stuffsack

Scrotum bag?

[trip286]

Originally Posted by Vikingdad

Scrotum bag?

That's already reserved for the most valuable jewels.