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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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I guess these were not a big hit?
The flexible CAMs - work good
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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About the original post and Bridwell's nail. Such a thing would be
perfectly suitable for tricky aid. People who didn't or don't do much
difficult aid don't realize you rearely need to put full weight on
something. Sometimes you distribute weight between three or four things
or even more. A nail in a seam could be bomber if it went in the
right way. I had similar devices I created in the early 1960s when
Dalke, Kor, and I were doing a lot of hard aid pitches... I mentioned
somewhere else I made a rurp of my own somewhat lousy design, but
it worked on several pitches approximating A5... We had all sorts of
these crazy little toys... some stuff we simply stole from our fathers'
workshops...
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Crack 'N Ups... I used them all the time, a really great Frost
invention among so many others of his.
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Banquo
climber
Morgan Hill, CA (Mo' Hill)
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Sep 21, 2011 - 03:30pm PT
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Climber's Iron Balls
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=cast+iron+balls+nuts
They are mine - shameless of me I know.
I listed them on Ebay to see if anybody would buy them as a gag. I'm planning to make more as gifts before Christmas. I am trying to decide what size to make and if I should make offset sets.
Perhaps I should donate them to the Nuts Museum
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Sep 21, 2011 - 03:58pm PT
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Tom Rohrer has a couple of similarly shaped "walnuts" that are cast in walnut shapes. He uses them for pro/aid! While singing "what kind of a nut are you?" :-)
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Banquo
climber
Morgan Hill, CA (Mo' Hill)
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Sep 21, 2011 - 05:18pm PT
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Drilling one hole them easier to make but not as pretty. Perhaps I'll make some that way to test and see if thy are as strong as the usual way.
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Sep 21, 2011 - 05:22pm PT
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Wow, an actual handle less Clog "Death Ascender" - very cool!
Have heard of them, but never actually saw one. Nice pics!
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Sep 21, 2011 - 06:22pm PT
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Those rusty old pins found in a mine a few pages back are most likely candle holders. I have found several in the Panamints and Inyo range mines with wax all over the ring end.
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Loomis
climber
Peklo Vole!
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Sep 21, 2011 - 11:47pm PT
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# 1 Crack n Up
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Sep 22, 2011 - 12:51am PT
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As Chouinard shut down a person there was kind enough to root around and send me the last of them they found. I've been free climbing over them forever and taken a few falls on them over the years including a thirty footer on a #2. But, they definitely never caught on...
How I have them rigged.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 31, 2013 - 11:50am PT
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Crackin' Bump...
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donald perry
Trad climber
kearny, NJ
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Does anyone know what the deal is with the round pick? It seems to me to work better, with less dinner plating. Were any texts ever done to see what the differences were?
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Plastic European stoppers. Mammut as I recall. YECHHH!!!
Circa 1978
I suppose they wouldn't deform under load too badly in soft snow.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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I carried a blue plastic Foxhead around for a very short while until I got tired of messing with it getting stuck. I liked the weight but not the wait...
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