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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 26, 2011 - 09:12pm PT
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Who makes them? I remember a newer company. Who are they?
Recent CAMP China recall...shocking!!!!
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hoipolloi
climber
A friends backyard with the neighbors wifi
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Apr 26, 2011 - 09:12pm PT
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BD. In SLC.
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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Apr 26, 2011 - 09:24pm PT
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Weld_iT's biners are USA right?
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2011 - 10:13pm PT
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Of course, i guess this thread applies to any manufacturing process where there is a reliable and 'trusted' smelting process to achieve awesome, reliable alloys for biners. Could be Mammut too, I dunno....
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Apr 26, 2011 - 10:17pm PT
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A good biner is a good biner, regardless of where it's made. Likewise, crap is crap, whether it's made in China or the US or Germany or Absurdistan.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2011 - 10:24pm PT
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I agree on that one, Matt!
Look at the rest.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Apr 26, 2011 - 10:26pm PT
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Okay, I'll blame all the nyquil, but what is that biner for? I get the creeps just thinking of running into that thing at a crux while needed to clip.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2011 - 10:29pm PT
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Crimpie it's to prevent inadvertent un-clips in a fall, where bumping the gate, or slamming it in a fall, would open it up.
Looks lame though. But they DO have some good stuff at their site. More expensive, but tasty looking!
EDIT: I think that biner is intended as an alternative to a locker, Crimpster.
Yeah. Same thing...
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Apr 26, 2011 - 10:31pm PT
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Thanks. I'll have nightmares nonetheless now. :)
PUMPED! GACK! FOOT'S GONNA BLOW...PULLING UP THE ROPE...ARG! FRIGGIN' DRAG...GONNA DIE!... WTF IS THIS BINER?? AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2011 - 10:59pm PT
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No, Matt, their standard Ovals and D's look sweet though. I like their locking ovals too, the twistlocks. That's where ya do yer yardin'!!!!
Woot!
The dude who runs that biz should post up!@ I know he prolly posts here...
Since Bush/Obama/EPA have shut down steel production and pushed metals refining overseas, we've been screwed. We used to make the best alloys and steels, right next to Japan, Switzerland, and Germany.
It's a damn shame. We used to have some of the best metal alloys! I thik Germany still does. Fuxking GW idiots shut it all down. Let China do it!
Meh....
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2011 - 11:06pm PT
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It ain't as if you'll ever be pushing any biners to their limits.
I never claimed to be. AT least I still climb moderate grades though. Do you even climb anymore? Or do you you just bitch and whine from yer chair? Claiming how you USED to be all that?
I never claimed I was all that, Johnson! Who's the pretender? There's a saying - put up or STFU!!!
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2011 - 11:16pm PT
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Go ahead KerBleuy....
Show us where I claimed to "be all that!".....
Tosser.
Not only am I not not a tosser, Johnson, I never brag. I never pretend that that I was better than anyone. You always imply you have more experience and skillz by insinuation.
And you know this as everyone else does. Always the f*#king critic of everyone else's climbing, and none of yer own stories.
Lame! I don't really care, really. But STFU! I like ya and all, and I'll climb with ya too! But quit the f*#king criticism unless you can show me how the PRO's do it, like you.
I'll be available this year for lessons from Crowley....
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Hardluck
Social climber
Just who wants to know...
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Apr 26, 2011 - 11:22pm PT
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AC is on it---CMC is made in the USA. They make high quality gear, including that BiWire (no sexual orientation jokes please). In the interest of full disclosure, they put me in their new catalog...
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2011 - 11:31pm PT
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You can get your lessons from Fatrat, Bleuy....
I'll rely on my own skilz that have kept me alive. You two, despite all yer bickering, are lame. I'd have have to lead both of you up anything out there...And prolly guide you down.
You two are all talk...
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Apr 26, 2011 - 11:50pm PT
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Girlz, girlz, girlz get a room. May I suggest Laughlin.
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jack herer
climber
Veneta, Oregon
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Apr 26, 2011 - 11:54pm PT
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I think Sterling is making biners in the USA now? Much like the Rock Exotica product line.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 27, 2011 - 12:14am PT
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I onsighted Bishop's Terrace (5.8) [even though Ezra was on the sharp end ;)] and it felt light. However I tend to excel at jam-cracks and upper body work. I'm not pumped, just light.
I'm not sayin' it ain't 5.8, just sayin it's a great 5.8 hand-jam workout.
5.8 Tuolumne faces are way more terrifying, let alone the .9's and .10's.
--kerbleuy
Uh, ask murcy if I ever onsighted BT, dude. You're talking out of yer ass. I didn't even want to climb it that day. I was headed for Peruvian Flake, but Mark (Murcy) said, "hey, there's noboby at BT." We stopped, ran up there, and climbed 'er onsight after that russian chick, Paulina.
I ain't bragging, really. But get yer facts straight. Murcy and my buddy Jeff are witnesses to my onsight. It ain't bold, but it was an onsight.
Me and Mark floated it.
Next!
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 27, 2011 - 12:38am PT
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I felt pretty solid the whole way up it, mostly. I ran-out the last section for 15 feet or so because I ran out of #2 cams and #3's. But i felt solid with the jams and went for it. Felt solid.
No big deal.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 27, 2011 - 12:49am PT
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I always have to resort to cam-hooks and bashies, if only to effect my desperate retreat.
Nice try...you're still lame.
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