E Robinson
climber
Salinas, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 28, 2012 - 09:28pm PT
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Need to remember not to get the urge to build any more of these things.
The new backyard boulder is finished...yeaaaaaa!
It's just downhill from the original wall
Enough to keep me busy until I'm too old to hang on to small stuff or to get a jam/lock/stack...then I'll have to figure out vertical moss gardening.
E
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E Robinson
climber
Salinas, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 28, 2012 - 09:40pm PT
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Thanks much...don't know what got into me...can't wait to check the side I just finished...I'm hoping it has some easier variants...I'll have to have a bouldering party one of these days.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
the crowd MUST BE MOCKED...Mocked I tell you.
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May 28, 2012 - 10:14pm PT
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looks great!
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Heyzeus
climber
Hollywood,Ca
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May 28, 2012 - 10:22pm PT
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That thing looks great, nice job.
When you coming over to start one here? :)
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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May 28, 2012 - 10:56pm PT
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That is jamming.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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May 28, 2012 - 11:14pm PT
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Nice with the carpet square in lieu of a crashpad. Is the idea to prepare for 'real' routes, or is the wall/ cracks an end in themselves?
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Cole
Trad climber
los angeles
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May 29, 2012 - 12:28am PT
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Are you freakin' kidding me!? That isn't just "great," it's damn near the radest DIY home climbing wall I've ever seen!!!!1111
I love all the cracks and features, those aretes look fun too! You, sir, are living a dream of mine that I won't likely be fulfilling for many years to come, enjoy it!
I would love to see a bigger album with more photos of the construction process if you got em.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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May 29, 2012 - 01:22am PT
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Great work!
I'd also like to see any build photos and construction details you'd like to share.
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tarek
climber
berkeley
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May 29, 2012 - 03:17am PT
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Nice work Elliott!!
Why if I had that boulder, I'd be on it at 3am instead of online.
Looking forward to another visit.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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May 29, 2012 - 06:47am PT
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You've gone Chameleon.
Good looking wall.
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eKat
Trad climber
BITD3
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May 29, 2012 - 06:52am PT
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HOW TOTALLY RAD IS THAT!
YAY!
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E Robinson
climber
Salinas, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 29, 2012 - 07:03am PT
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Still can't wait to give the wall under the roof a spin...hopefully after dinner today, if I won't eat too much and fall asleep instead.
Here's a thread with construction pics - http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1250531&tn=20
Tarek, the left hand crack on wall under the roof is slanted and angled rattly finger/thin hands...drag David down one of these days.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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May 29, 2012 - 07:04am PT
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pacify the mob
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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May 29, 2012 - 07:04am PT
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Really wild! Awesome work. Have any photos from during construction? Cool!
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euro-brief-guy
Boulder climber
Auburn, ca
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May 29, 2012 - 07:28am PT
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Yeah,
Details on construction, design, cost would be helpful.....want....one....now!
What kind of foundation you got under there? How big are the beams? What's the recipe for the outer surface?
Thanks in advance.
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neversummer
Trad climber
30 mins. from suicide USA
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May 29, 2012 - 08:04am PT
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Baddest home wall i've seen !!!!
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E Robinson
climber
Salinas, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 29, 2012 - 08:57am PT
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So some details -
It's hard to know the cost since I didn't keep track of it and spread out buying stuff over 8-9 months. I'm guessing somewhere around $5,000 and way too many weekends of time spent in a cementious purgatory. Though there was some kind of burly adventure involved in building it - particulary since it's not something I know a whole lot about doing. Uniquely wild in a very man-made kind if way.
It's built kind of as a fence around nothing. There's a tripod of 4"x4" posts embedded in cement buried deep to help with stability, not to mention the u-shape and weight of the cement. The foundation is really just treated 4"x4"s forming the base of a 2"x"4 frame sitting on the ground. The walls are 3/4" plywood covered in building paper with an overlay if wire lath and Rapid Set Mortar Mix. I used Good Stuff foam for bulges and a few boards to shape deeper cracks (shallower thin cracks are just in deeper Mortar Mix and not as satisfying.) The plywood on top is covered with pond liner with an overlay of sealed stucco (I want to try to grow some ground cover or maybe see if I can get a moss farm started up there.) The roof crack is made from two 10' 2"x10"s coated with Rapid Set Cement All and two big bolts around wood blocks at midpoints (strong enough to sling for top rope anchors...would hate to fall out of the roof crack...) I also set some big lag bolts around the top since I'm not nearly as agile as I used to be and I may want to put a rope on for sportier problems...we'll see they struck me as kind of lightweight when putting them in...but who knows I want to get at least 10 year of enjoyment out of it all.
Tilting up the walls and bolting them together was VERY sporty since I mostly did it solo (sometimes I convinced my wife or kids to to help.) Screwing on the plywood sheets also got sporty - had a few of those big sheets flying overhead when I was too lazy to set up a rope to lift and hold them up. It's quite a stiff boulder problem in and of itself to slide up a sheet of 4'x8' plywood up 4' onto a lower piece of plywood and hold it up vertical with one hand while desperately trying to get a screw in to hold it into place - all with about a foot and a half of leverage.
Here's my rough plans:The roof crack is over the 8' U. The posts are at each end of the 8' wall on the right and in the middle of the wide cracks. There are triagular braces over the other two corners.
This is my prototype wall - it's lasted well over the past 4 or 5 years so I figured I'd do another. This one is about 10' high and 35' long on the back side of deck built around a now defunct above ground pool...trying to think what to put there now...maybe a raised bed garden...hmmm.
Here are some construction photos -
The real key to it all is Rapid Set Mortar Mix...I'm a complete fan.
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Tami
Social climber
Canada
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May 29, 2012 - 09:43am PT
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IMagine 2,000 years from now and our descendants discover this thing. I wonder what they'll think :-)
Great job on a huge project. I used to work building concrete climbing boulders and they were big jobs when done with a crew. Nice that you included so very many features.
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Latitute 33
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May 29, 2012 - 09:50am PT
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Very impressive and cool. Congratulations on an excellent job.
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