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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Feb 10, 2011 - 12:24am PT
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I would like to believe that no one would pay that, but human nature what it is...
Wonder if they'll get any bids?
Good units at the real price.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
The Seas of Stone.
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Feb 10, 2011 - 12:25am PT
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That sh#t is steep. Too steep. Stupid steep.
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Feb 10, 2011 - 12:32am PT
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lulz
Way steep for old gear...
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MTucker
Ice climber
Arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 10, 2011 - 12:37am PT
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Hi BASE3462
Thanks for the bump.
Since you are such a wonderful person with a great vocabulary I will sell them to you are a good price. Or other gear that I have for sale. Just PM me. I can end that Ebay auction.
Everyone else has to bid or Buy Now. BASE bros get special attention.
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Feb 10, 2011 - 12:50am PT
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Many Yates Big Dudes have sold on Ebay already, most for under $100.00 each.
Quality pieces of gear for sure, but this auction cost beggins for a sucker.
Only a Big Dude #5 or Big Dude #9 may fetch a high price since less than 10 were made of each.
Rock on! Marty
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Marty said: "Only a Big Dude #5 or Big Dude #9 may fetch a high price since less than 10 were made of each.
Rock on! Marty "
Hi Marty, what does the number 5 measure? I doubt only 10 were made - I think that I may have one.
Rock on!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Apr 20, 2016 - 01:23pm PT
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Luckily you can get your leg in that size crack....wouldn't want to take a real fall on one of those "dudes."
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Apr 20, 2016 - 03:23pm PT
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karabin museum. .Trad climber, ,phoenix, az
Feb 10, 2011 - 12:50am PT
Many Yates Big Dudes have sold on Ebay already, most for under $100.00 each.
Quality pieces of gear for sure, but this auction cost beggins for a sucker.
Only a Big Dude #5 or Big Dude #9 may fetch a high price since less than 10 were made of each.
Rock on! Marty
hmmm a #5 you say?
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Oct 24, 2016 - 09:15am PT
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couchmaster
climber
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Oct 24, 2016 - 09:49am PT
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Thanks for that Stephan, good looking cams as it it clearly shows the cam trigger evolution changing to anodised.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 24, 2016 - 10:14am PT
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the shoe lace allows one to retrieve the unit from a deep set placement
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Moof, on the off-width chance that someday my A-Smasher,
that was filled with tools for the Valley, ever gets released by the Pennsylvania State Police,
who took it off the back of a man who, on his one & only trip to the Ditch
pulled off a solo on-sight of the Shield, then, sadly fatally laid his Harley down ,
on a sunny summer day, on a straight away a mile from his home . . . .(RIP K Uhul)
So,
If that bashed up road rashed quarter pig ,
where the #6 & #7 sit with Tube chocks and 1st gen, (so not so good) Big Bro's,
On that off chance the cops may some day say come and get it
I am holding onto the #5 Dude,
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since we're confessing to our sickness of wide-itis, I have the required, If old, big Green (#5) Camelot's and similar skinny lobed Blacks(#4). Of course in pairs.All the very small mainstream stuff.
As for the real big 'uns? I have none? When I was just recently handed
one of those VG #9's just the one.
I declined to even try the trigger action
for fear of instant love/need/want . . . . . sin- drool.
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JBro, hope you tell Plaidman that Turnbuckle placements Should always be in pairs !. .,too, redundancy man
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Moof
Big Wall climber
Orygun
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Oct 24, 2016 - 10:43am PT
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Big cams seem to maintain their mythical status. For quite some time there have been teasers of Cloud 9's, Pamalots, etc. So far Tom has been the only game in town for at least a decade. They are fine units for sure, but I'd still like to see some of these other ideas come to fruition. Lighter would be nice too.
Not that I need any more. Currently I have heap consisting of a couple old #5's, a #7 Tech Friend, a #6 Yates Big Dude, and a couple #9 VG's. But like a good gear whore, I would always buy some more if the chance came up...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 24, 2016 - 01:27pm PT
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Cloud nines (I have two sizes) and pamalots ( know where there is one within a few miles of where I sit....) are more real than Ned's moon boots!
But, for a nominal fee, I can take those VG Nines
(Liability, attractive hazard, after all....) off your hands...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 24, 2016 - 01:37pm PT
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And, let us not forget Brother plaid's contribution in this field...
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Oct 25, 2016 - 12:12am PT
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Jaybro: could you please post good photos of your two Cloud nines here. I still have not been able to get in touch with the designer yet...
But... the real good news is that... you do no longer need your Wired Bliss Big Bud #7! Hurrah! Feel free to ask me my address...;-)
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 25, 2016 - 02:55am PT
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? so these two # 4s are vintage one has straight lobes
(Back Edge) while the othe has a more curved,sculptured, back edge.
The older is the right flat edged ......right?
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Oct 25, 2016 - 05:18am PT
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To my knowledge, the sample on the right is a Wild Country Friend #4 “second generation”.
What I call the “1st generation” is the Friend #4 which projects saw marks on the cam lobes (1979).
The sample on the left (with a thicker trigger bar) dates back 1983.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 25, 2016 - 05:53am PT
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Oct 25, 2016 - 05:57am PT
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Jaybro... I said "a good photo";-)
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 25, 2016 - 06:04am PT
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I was thinking something along those lines....
I've photoshopped a picture of one of his monster cams, hanging off a truck(?) bumper.
While search for it here's a few bad pictures:
Buddies?.. .anyone B~>
For the of all that is sacred why?
because plugged straight up into just the perfect roof crack ......They make real Working gear for that now...
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Oct 25, 2016 - 06:20am PT
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"Another rival to the Friend was conceived by the very creative David Oldridge in 1982. An Englishman who emigrated to Canada, he founded Canadian Quest Technology around his brain child, the Buddie. In spite of a great deal of advertising, this remake of a manual razor did not reach the road to success. A mechanical chock with two opposed cams made of moulded aluminium, its design allowed it to be used as a passive chock, the cams could not be reversed, but it was unreliable in downward-outward flare cracks, very much the favoured territory of the Friend!"
From my "Nuts’ story: Clockwork Friends"
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 25, 2016 - 06:43am PT
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Geez for someone who wants to scam my rack you don't task much, do you.....
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 25, 2016 - 06:49am PT
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This is a cropped & then Flipped shot.
It came from some where on this site I did not check where I posted them the 'flipped' im sure that it is recognizable, a picture posted by
By the Wide master, Jbro, but where? The Blatchly(?) camp thread?
hope you don't mind Jbro.ee
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 25, 2016 - 07:07am PT
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On the back of Gary Carpenters truck @ Indian Creek
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Oct 25, 2016 - 08:19am PT
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Geez for someone who wants to scam my rack you don't task much, do you.....
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 25, 2016 - 08:57am PT
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1st generation you say?
I am and so are my friends 1,2&3 bought in England in '79, the #4
Came out after that ( before or with 1/2 sizes ? 80(?)
One of the 1st #4s to be placed in Gunks Rock (even before RClune had them)
At the time, It was still considered to be "cheating" to use springs and things.
You realize I still place this gear usually in pairs but....
and your photography is always amazing
Thank you so much !
I also used the Buddie, slotted into a roof crack till -(95(?) when the 1st 'U' stem - body
smaller Camalots came out
the purple .5 & Green .75
I've only got one of each of those left of the dozen I used to carry.
Both those sizes , small hand/finger size, changed the whole game for me.
Work horses for hanging off, they were not...
but as free climbing gear went they held full 40 footers and remaind usable.
I'm not going to embarrass myself with more bad fuzzy snaps.
Ho no ! I'm missing the .75 green!
My collection is so poorly representing the age of excitement 1984 through the '90s.....
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Despite what is mentioned on this advertisement, the #4 was never produced.
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Dec 26, 2016 - 01:35am PT
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Here is a photograph of the Big Dudes with the rare "missing link".
This photograph would not have been possible without the immense generosity of Father Christmas Dahu...;-)
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Dec 28, 2016 - 09:44am PT
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Tork
climber
Yosemite
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Nov 24, 2017 - 10:57am PT
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What's a fair price for a 6 and a 7?
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Nov 24, 2017 - 11:06am PT
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^^^say do you have some to sell maybe?
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Tork
climber
Yosemite
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Nov 24, 2017 - 12:27pm PT
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Ya thinking about letting them go
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