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Robbie
Trad climber
Cheyenne, WY
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 7, 2009 - 10:45pm PT
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Ok, i have done a search on google, et cetera, but i am wondering what design some of you Supertopians have used when building said machine. gotta build one soon so i can practice when its raining here in Cheyenne, which appears to be everyday this year.
Also, any climbers here who live in Cheyenne? i'm having a hard time meeting people to climb with.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
way, WAY out there....(OMG)
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Look for Dogtown, Man.
He's out there someplace. You guys can tear it up until I arrive.
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Ricardo Carlos
Trad climber
Off center, CO.
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Rain rain is what Dogtown said tonight.
He was out yesterday at the Woo.
Email Jaybro for wide crack machine info
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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follow the Redwood terrah training program and design school.
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Dude, I'm tired. Just got back from Indian rock with the wide plywood crew. Yeah, I know, what were we doing on the crimpers at Indian Rock. Actually it was awesome and fun.
Anyway, ScuffyB', Gary Carpenter and I have all got wide plywood cracks. I will try to link the appropriate threads tomorrow.
Zander
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
way, WAY out there....(OMG)
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Wide....It's WIDE, dude.
Dig it.
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rwedgee
Ice climber
canyon country,CA
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The left side is secured to the wall, the right side moves to the desired width then has a few braces I screw in. Pretty simple and goes for well under $50($20 lumber, $30 hardware).
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rick d
climber
tucson, az
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meep, paging jaybro, meep meep.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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meep - meep, Zander winded me @indian rock tonight. But, I'll get on this. If you absorb the Gary/Zander data, you'll have enough to go on for years...
As for wide Vedauwoo partners stationed in Chey town, get hold of that dogtown guy.
Which cal cnyn you in, wedgee? Think the BAWC could make a field trip there?
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scuffy b
climber
Sinatra to Singapore
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There's a design??
rwedgee, how deep?
How high?
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Here's the shop
somewhere there's a thread with Brutus, Jaybro and Greg doing 360s in the chimney
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rwedgee
Ice climber
canyon country,CA
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Scuffy, it's a mere 12 feet tall, 14" deep, and I used
1/2" x 36" all thread cut in half, so up to ~15" wide.
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scuffy b
climber
Sinatra to Singapore
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With only 14" depth, you'll be working some very specialized
skills when you adjust it wide.
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spyork
Social climber
A prison of my own creation
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14" isn't deep enough. How are you going to throw a high leg in? Unless you are nick-named "Stumpy"...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Brutus once turned me on to a maybe seven Inch (or wider, I got wierd chicken wings) crack that was only a two by four, deep. They used to have it at Class 5 in Marin. What would be a casual size was desperate, neither of us ever got it, I went back maybe four times....
Another take on the offwidth machine.
This unit resides in the Armbar Ranch in portola Ca,
The horizontal bit is a monkey bar kind of deal with an adjoining textured fist cracks on either side. The deal is that you wear inversion cuffs to hook the rungs or hook them with your toes (it's a better hang with the cuffs) There is an additional 15' section the does a right angle and would come straight for the camera.
detail of the rung/monkeybar deal looking up.
So the deal is you climb inverted to the major Jeffery then switch to the slack line
Cruise that and enter the campus/session cave
One lap up (and down) the 2x4's for a warm up, then one up the little holds on the 2x4's, one up the metolius rungs, then one up the woodies, then reverse.
You end up having your feet off the ground for the better part of half an hour, and it's a reasonably profound pump, if I do say so myself.
Note seven foot long Praying Mantis PVC Sculpture avalanched by pine needls, somewhere I have a photo of him with the portable section of this unit set up @ Burningman.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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The portable crack @ Burningman 2000, the Mantis is on the other side, I'll find the photo
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Double D
climber
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I want to see a "stepper-motor", pnumatic or cam-lever controlled job that can change sizes within a few seconds. It's not much of an engineering feat and would be very cool to have the ability to switch sizes quickly from even finger to off-widths. Some 2x6's textured with a epoxy-sand combo, rounded and sculpted exterior edges braced with some angle irons, etc.
Come on all you engineer types, what gives? Post up the drawings and specs.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Wouldn't it be fun to have what you describe and change the size while your friends are climbing it?! We used to do that with the motorized treadwalls at the OR shows.
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Robbie
Trad climber
Cheyenne, WY
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 9, 2009 - 08:16pm PT
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Thanks for the ideas! should have enough info to go through for a while. now to design the hydraulic-size-changing-flared-wide-crack o doom. at least it hasn't rained the last two days, things are looking foward. Jaybro, that torture chamber in portola looks great, might have to build one of those too while im at it, you know, to stay strong during our 10 month long winter. anyone know this dogtown person, or how i might contact him?
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