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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 5, 2010 - 11:26am PT
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This is something Bridwell came up with. It has a concrete nail and was intended for use in small openings in a seam. It may work on a broken copperhead. Either way it is pretty interesting.
Ken
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Ken, question is, did he ever use it?
I'm sure I wouldn't have!!!
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 5, 2010 - 12:47pm PT
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SteveW,
I don't know. If he did it wasn't often. I wouldn't want to stand on it either. Still pretty cool.
Ken
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Crack 'N Ups
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groundup
Trad climber
hard sayin' not knowin'
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how about those cassin "blitz" cams that looked like a folding ladder. Tried one out at a friends shop in a homemade jig and it was bombproof, took one outside and... well, lets just say there is a reason you don't see them around.
anybody have a picture? I've looked and can't find one anywhere.
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
SoCal
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Round "Pecks" & other tube chocks.
That piece above follows the logical progression from Bridwell's aluminum dowel technique.
Just goes to show, sometimes having NO money can be the engine for development.
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Matt M
Trad climber
Alamo City
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removable bolts have gone through several generations since that picture. I've heard they're very popular with the new router / sport climbing set.
Max Cams? Got a lot of pre-release hype and then people seemed to notice they were a lot harder to place correctly.
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 5, 2010 - 05:45pm PT
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I posted this one before. It certainly qualifies. It worked well but was too heavy to justify climbing with it.
Ken
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Disaster Master
Social climber
Born in So-Cal, left my soul in far Nor-Cal.
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It worked well but was too heavy to justify climbing with it.
Ken
What the heck is it?
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Yeah. In auto body work, the original is called a slide hammer. They are used to pull out dents in bodywork by screwing the business end into the sheetmetal and sliding the weight hammer-style to de-dimple it. An early funkness device.
Back to the original post and Bridwell tool. By the time this piece got made, El Cap was getting the final crap climbed out of it and seams were what people were finding instead of actual real cracks once they finally got up to some of the features scoped beforehand. Drill the seam a little as if it was a crack and use this little monster. It was one of those kind of "netherworld" tools, half way between legitimate aid (pins, nuts, cams & similar) and the world of devices like bathooks and removable bolts.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, ken, peter... wow, you learn so much around here...
thanks for the history and such...
:)
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Disaster Master
Social climber
Born in So-Cal, left my soul in far Nor-Cal.
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I invented a hand on a pole, the Trick Clip, to place and remove RB,s.
Turns out it works for SLCD,s too!
The concept has not been fully developed.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Does anyone remember peanuts? I don't have any to post a photo, but a friend had a set. They were pretty good.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Crackjacks (invented and manufactured by myself and Les Wilson, 1965)
the strongest wide protection ever made, let me tell you. Broke climbing ropes trying to extract them from cracks with a running start with a car and 20 feet of slack!
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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Do you all think Tri-Cams are in this category? I used a couple of the big yellow ones on Paisano’s back when, only because we couldn’t find anything that big that was clean. Anyway I found they rattle a bit the second one I set cleaned itself !!! Which at the time was motivating. I NEVER used them again.
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Disaster Master
Social climber
Born in So-Cal, left my soul in far Nor-Cal.
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Crackjacks (invented and manufactured by myself and Les Wilson, 1965)
Classic and (I think) un-heard of before. More info / a story?
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 5, 2010 - 07:17pm PT
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Peter,
Do you have any of those babies left?
Ken
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