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Don Lauria

Trad climber

Bishop, CA

Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 24, 2013 - 03:32pm PT

A gift from Russ McLean. What is it?

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TrundleBum

Trad climber

Las Vegas

Aug 24, 2013 - 03:35pm PT

I know what Locker's answer will be LOL !
(Must be an antiquated one as it is not blue and shiny)

Don Lauria

Trad climber

Bishop, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2013 - 03:42pm PT

I should have put something else in the photo for scale. It's about 5" high.

kaholatingtong

Trad climber

Nevada City

Aug 24, 2013 - 03:44pm PT

sounds about right.

Norwegian

Trad climber

dancin on the tip of god's middle finger

Aug 24, 2013 - 03:45pm PT

im thinkin frankenstein's left nut.

CAMNOTCLIMB

Trad climber

novato ca

Aug 24, 2013 - 03:48pm PT

Silly, it is his right nut.

mastadon

Trad climber

crack addict

Aug 24, 2013 - 03:49pm PT

It's either some kind of a shoulder bolt or a leaf spring bolt with a bushing frozen on it???

Norwegian

Trad climber

dancin on the tip of god's middle finger

Aug 24, 2013 - 03:49pm PT

no his right nut is a nut
and threads onto the rusty inclined plane
depicted above.

HighTraverse

Trad climber

Bay Area

Aug 24, 2013 - 03:51pm PT

That's a large shoulder bolt.
5" long. so approx 2" shoulder diameter.
So what's it for?
A simple bearing surface for slow moving rotation. Imagine a flat plate just slightly thinner than the larger diameter of the bolt is long. Now drop a washer on the bolt, lower the hole in the plate over the bolt, then a second washer. Add spacer, and nut and torque to spec.
Simple rotating joint. Lube frequently, rotate slowly. There'd be a dozen or more similar bolts of all diameters on an old tractor.
Could be 100 years old….or 30.

Doesn't Russ know? And what did you do to him to deserve this nutty reward?

TrundleBum

Trad climber

Las Vegas

Aug 24, 2013 - 03:52pm PT

I like Malemute's guess.

Tony Puppo

climber

Bishop

Aug 24, 2013 - 04:10pm PT

The hammer head adapter for a Porterdactyl?

Gene

climber

Aug 24, 2013 - 04:30pm PT

It's part of an early wide crack protection device.

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Don Lauria

Trad climber

Bishop, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2013 - 05:25pm PT

Okay, okay, you guys. I'm more interested in knowing whether you know the history of this bolt. It is a piece of climbing history and it's NOT from the Dolt cart.

Crazy Bat

Sport climber

Birmingham, AL & Seweanee, TN

Aug 24, 2013 - 05:25pm PT

I've got one on my 12 year old tractor. It looks about as rusted, but this is Alabama.

little Z

Trad climber

un cafetal en Naranjo

Aug 24, 2013 - 05:36pm PT

looks like there have been ropes pulled around it at some time, you can see a shiny patch on the right side at the top part of the thickest un-threaded cylinder as well as a rope-thick sort of stain all around that part of the cylinder and tilted at an angle you might expext if this thing was used as a rap anchor at one time. Turn it upside down and that's probably how it was placed in the field. But where and when? you've got me. I've never rapped off that sucker.

Don Lauria

Trad climber

Bishop, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2013 - 05:40pm PT

Yup, Little Z, it was used as a rap anchor on occasion. Also as a belay anchor. It was embedded threaded end first. But where?

Ihateplastic

Trad climber

It ain't El Cap, Oregon

Aug 24, 2013 - 05:46pm PT

Arrow tip? Seems like a likely place for that way back when.

Don Lauria

Trad climber

Bishop, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2013 - 05:50pm PT

Ihateplastic you're only 270 miles off.

Tony Puppo

climber

Bishop

Aug 24, 2013 - 05:56pm PT

The Mechanics route at Taquitz?

Don Lauria

Trad climber

Bishop, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2013 - 05:58pm PT

Cragman, might have been, but that's not where it spent upwards of 50+ years of it's life until Russ acquired it.

Don Lauria

Trad climber

Bishop, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2013 - 06:06pm PT

Tony, you're about 140 miles off.

life is a bivouac

Trad climber

Aug 24, 2013 - 06:15pm PT

Jeazzz Lauria, don't you have anything better to do on this beautiful Sat. afternoon, though it is alot stronger than a 1/4" button head...

Tony Puppo

climber

Bishop

Aug 24, 2013 - 06:15pm PT

How about something in the Pinnacles?

mark miller

Social climber

Reno

Aug 24, 2013 - 06:24pm PT

So now we are chasing geography? How about something from Pratt's crack?

Don Lauria

Trad climber

Bishop, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2013 - 06:37pm PT

Russ is on my ass for wasting a beautiful Saturday afternoon and I am guilt-ridden. My excuse is that Georg & Jill Bloksgaard are here and I'm bored.

Dennis Hennek

climber

Aug 24, 2013 - 06:42pm PT

life is a bivouac

Trad climber

Aug 24, 2013 - 06:59pm PT

Hey, Off Topic: I just got back from a short run, here in Bishop 4:00 p.m. ... There appears to be a fire and lots of smoke coming straight north from the Palisades, thick and dirty looking. Any one know whats going on? Big Pine folks, Independence, Lone Pine? Does not look good.

Don Lauria

Trad climber

Bishop, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2013 - 07:03pm PT

Hennek nailed it as I knew he would if he got online. That bolt sat atop Boulder #1 at Stoney for decades. I don't know who or when it was screwed into the sandstone. Does anyone out there know?

HighTraverse

Trad climber

Bay Area

Aug 24, 2013 - 08:12pm PT

I'll take a guess.
Its likely quite old, possibly 50's. A rope anchor was not its original purpose. Someone drilled a hole in the top of the boulder, set the threaded end of the bolt into the hole and filled it up with cement. Voila! anchor.

The pipe anchor on top of Castle Rock appears to have been set into concrete in the top of the rock much the way I describe.

Dick Erb

climber

June Lake, CA

Aug 24, 2013 - 08:30pm PT

In 1958, when I was 14 years old, I put my rope over that bolt, wrapped the dulfersitz around my body, and stood up to rappel. Then a bunch of people started yelling at me, afraid that by standing up where i was the rope would pull right off the top of that thing. Fortunately it didn't. I'm glad I made it through those early days.

Don Lauria

Trad climber

Bishop, CA

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 24, 2013 - 09:37pm PT

Thanks Dick. So now we know it was there in '58.

guido

Trad climber

Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific

Aug 24, 2013 - 09:47pm PT

Hell Lauria it was worth it to get the General on ST. the General and McClinski all in one day, shiz miracles never cease to amaze me. "Those oldies but goodies remind me of.............."

Happy Birthday to Joyce.

Fritz

Trad climber

Choss Creek, ID

Aug 24, 2013 - 11:27pm PT

Thank you for all the posts on this subject!

Fascinating.

little Z

Trad climber

un cafetal en Naranjo

Aug 24, 2013 - 11:47pm PT

yep, never been to Stoney Point (but I have been to Stoney Middleton). Cool story, and cool memento. Thanks Don.

Patrick Oliver

Boulder climber

Fruita, Colorado

Aug 25, 2013 - 03:34am PT

I've seen bolts like this in various places from the old times,
a few I think around Boulder... I have seen similar devices
that were placed deep in a drilled holed, then epoxied or cemented,
but the top had a bent kind of ring, or maybe even a fairly nice
quality ring.... a few of these on the Third Flatiron from days of old.

Patrick Sawyer

climber

Originally California now Ireland

Aug 25, 2013 - 04:00am PT

Don, Dennis, Pat, Joe all chipping in, so to speak. All people I looked up to when I started to climb.

This is why the Taco Stand is the best.

And I put that bolt in 1958, when I was two years old. Okay, I lie, I have never been to Stoney. I think Fred and Barney put it there, Wilma and Betty may have helped.