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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 19, 2016 - 05:23am PT
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Sinister forces at work.
Venn the tough get going on one another, the diagram is the key.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Oct 19, 2016 - 08:17am PT
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Gotta love Colbert!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 19, 2016 - 09:08am PT
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Damn, thought this was gonna be about industrial riggers, or even movie riggers.
You know, something interesting and meaningful. ;-)
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Oct 19, 2016 - 09:17am PT
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At this moment in history, what could possibly be more interesting or meaningful than pointing out Trump for the idjut blowhard that he is?
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Oct 19, 2016 - 10:02am PT
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I, too, thought it was about rigging. Maybe about riggers on acting sets, or rigging sailing ships, or rigging on Space Stations. Rigging as the structure for a climb, maybe. Never crossed my mind about political rigging or voter rigging or anything like that.
Nice knots.
ff
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Oct 19, 2016 - 12:54pm PT
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I just bought me a bunch of that boat rope. Just as strong as 'climbing' rope but way cheaper.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 19, 2016 - 01:33pm PT
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HaHaHa! FYI, Wino, don't plan on taking too many flyers on it unless yer
spine is like really elastic! ;-)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 19, 2016 - 02:30pm PT
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It's a comedy thread.
It's a political thread.
It's a thread about knot-tying.
It's not a thread about thread.
It's a vintage ambulance thread.
It's a thread about Merced.
It's a thread about this long.[Click to View YouTube Video]Went to school with Riggs' kids.
I've ridden the comfortable Riggs ambulances.
I suggest staying out of them mostly, but if you need one, you need only call 911. Tell them Mouse sent you.
I miss Sheriff Pazin. Such a square, but one of the locals who is now working a half-week in Sacto and getting retirement from the county.
It's all rigged, I'm tellin' ya.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Oct 19, 2016 - 02:58pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 19, 2016 - 03:24pm PT
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It's all bullsh#t.
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i-b-goB
Social climber
Wise Acres
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Oct 19, 2016 - 03:33pm PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Oct 19, 2016 - 05:33pm PT
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Beeg rig
micro rig
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 19, 2016 - 05:45pm PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Oct 19, 2016 - 05:46pm PT
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Hey
I'm walkin' here
gerryRig
Rigamortis
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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Oct 19, 2016 - 06:28pm PT
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"Riggers"
I'm ashamed to say it, but I misread the title at first glance. I mean, it's only one letter away from something completely different...
Riggets, I've had a few;
But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption.
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Oct 20, 2016 - 03:12pm PT
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Reilly, I ain't stoopid. I NEVER actually tie into the boat rope...... I always got a bungee between us. You can buy like a whole package of them at Harbor Freight for like $5.00 - and they come with hooks!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 20, 2016 - 03:32pm PT
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Damn, Whiner, why haven't I thought of that? Brilliant!
Edge, I thought you were expecting Ringers. We gots a few of them here.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Oct 20, 2016 - 03:47pm PT
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All Systems are Rigged
Don't gimme that rigamarole
Ya rig rats don't know?
The moron-meter's broken now
It's gone beyond the Rig-chter scale
But in-rigger-bating as that might be
Riga-mortise has set in
I'm cranking up the Riggae for
My rigatoni's getting cold
-bushrig
-0/20/2016
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chill
climber
The fat part of the bell-curve
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Oct 20, 2016 - 04:16pm PT
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I was going to curse the racist SOB that started this thread but then I realized...
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Oct 20, 2016 - 04:17pm PT
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Pictures tomorrow Reilly!!!!! I got other good ideas too; I'll reveal a few......
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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Oct 20, 2016 - 04:19pm PT
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Damn, thought this was gonna be about industrial riggers, or even movie riggers.
You know, something interesting and meaningful. ;-)
My occupation is generally interesting but rarely, if ever, meaningful.
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jeff constine
Trad climber
Ao Namao
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Oct 20, 2016 - 05:27pm PT
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Cosgrove Showed me the ropes.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 20, 2016 - 07:36pm PT
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My brother Mike assassinated Tigger on Mom's orders.
He was framed. I'm the only one who cried and I don't even know where he was buried.
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Oct 21, 2016 - 12:36pm PT
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Hey Reilly, as promised here are a couple of pictures of my sweet bungee connection. Total cost for 12 (!) bungees at Harbor Freight was $6.49, including tax. I rig with three because then you have backup. I'll probably tie them together with cable ties just to make a neater bundle. Anyway, sweet and easy and cheap!
So there you have it!!!! Easy Peasy and cheap. Plus you got that backup stuff goin' on. People I meet climbing keep telling me about safety, so I guess it's important.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Oct 21, 2016 - 07:18pm PT
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Too bad they didn't have that getup when the Titanic went down, but who'd have thought it was necessary.
Cap'n Bligh, who was rumoured to be much smarter, used it, dare I say it, religiously when keelhauling the riff raff.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 21, 2016 - 07:27pm PT
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Wino, I like the way you roll! Way to think outside the box! So, how the phuk was this 2014
Chateau Cristia Chateauneuf du Pape so damn drinkable? I wasn't even gonna open it but
they assured me I wouldn't be disappointed and, boy, howdy! It would certainly benefit from
a few years in the cellar but I had no idea a '14 Pape could be so ready!
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Oct 21, 2016 - 07:43pm PT
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My operating theory is that the Pope, hence God, had something to do with it. Only good if you're Catholic though. And not a choir boy.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 21, 2016 - 07:46pm PT
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With a name like mine you didn't have to go too far out on that limb!
Guilty as charged!
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Oct 21, 2016 - 08:44pm PT
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Honestly, who knows? I've had some wines taste so good in barrel after one year you would swear they were the second coming, only to find, two years later, they were just great. When tannins age they polymerize, making long chain molecules out of the shorter chains. The way we perceive tannins is though our taste buds and the long chain tannins bond preferentially with our taste buds, damping out the perceived harsh tannin astringency. So long chain is good. This sort of explains why aged wines feel better on the pallet than new wines. From there, it's sort of a guess and the subject of a much longer response than this. Hope this is helpful.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Oct 21, 2016 - 08:59pm PT
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So the bungees bind the short chains together, but what about the look and feel ?
I guess it's OK as long as nobody looks inside that cask of Amontillado?
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Oct 22, 2016 - 08:22am PT
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T, I used to use those!!!!! So many people at the rocks were coming up to me, though, and piling bad sh#t to me about them I stopped. I try and use only tested biners now, ones that have been pulled and proved they work; my theory is the rougher they look the more they've been used, so they must be stronger. It's like leg muscles. I think this is true about all climbing gear - if it's been tested, it's proven tough! Notice my proven tie in biner.
Got any 'proven' gear you'd like to sell?
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Oct 22, 2016 - 09:04am PT
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I was sitting here, sipping my second 'morning' brandy when the thought occurred to me that lots of climbers have no science training and so are ignorant in the ways of science. Probably a lot of you are like, bus drivers, or cafeteria workers, or maybe just welfare queens! Who knows?
Most of you probably don't realize how scientific wine making is. For example, I have to deal with stuff like 'grams' and 'liters' and '%' (my favorite is 14%) and '°C' (that's a temperature thing; I usually do my calculations in 'Kelvin' and then convert). Anyway, I'm sure you can see how scientific it is when you have to use the European science stuff without being able to speak France.
I'm explaining this so you understand how valid what I am about to reveal is. It's pretty much a given that any climbing gear has a 10% chance of failure at any time; that's my experience for sure. So that means if you have 10 pieces of gear strung out there, if you fall you have 100% chance of system failure! That's why people who use like two biners when you could get away with using one have actually doubled their potential failure rate! It boggles the mind that supposedly intelligent people can't do these easy statistical calculations! How far our school system has fallen.
Bottom line? Use less gear, use tested gear, think positive!!!
Thanks for reading my little rant. I don't 'wall climb' but do have some ideas about how to improve things. If you're interested in my latest idea let me know and I'll post it up.
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Happy Cowboy
Social climber
Boz MT
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Oct 23, 2016 - 10:18am PT
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Hey Mouse, what kinda thread is this?
I can assure you the system is rigged here in Montana.a good day for a JW Whiskey commercial based (loosely)around rock climbing? Sure, I'll come outta semi-retirement for a day to coordinate/safety rig under the big sky. Used to do a lot of it, now fun to see old production friends.
Camera arrives, we're to shoot some straight down perspective and CU's first, I'm stuffed in for the talent's belay. Then it's clear everything off except the female climber, stunt woman Alice extraordinaire for magic hour Heli shot. As MIB prepare to dash to such bird, I remind the Director "there needs to be someone on this top line as she climbs...absolute". OK, stay stuffed and I'll paint you out. Soon the memories flushed, the noisy radio chatter as heli positions itself, fancy Tyler like nose cam/remote mount, a familiar Montana pilot I'd worked w'before and knew could trust, soon pass after pass, "reset", i'd jump from my hole back to the prow and lower the trooper Alice 40' back down fast I could, while keying the walky as we discuss next thoughts,then pull back to hole and rake in all line to keep it from being sucked up. I'd had the sense to tell her before the mayhem, that no matter what I'm needed to multi-task you are always #1. You might wonder but I will not drop you!
Next few passes they start hovering for CU's as she tops out. Hunkered in the hurricane's eye, the ship's skid would snake by an arm length or two away. Alice could barely keep on her feet. A great Johnny Walker shot!
Oh, and a last note, no one died so there won't be worry of any voter fraud.
Thanks Mouse, hope i'm not a bore.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Oct 23, 2016 - 10:27am PT
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What in god's green earth is that bungee rig? No offense but I've had better nightmares.
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Happy Cowboy
Social climber
Boz MT
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Oct 23, 2016 - 10:29am PT
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I'm glad you asked first FF
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 23, 2016 - 10:30am PT
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HC,
Never boring on the ST. Yer just fine. Jake with me.
I've never heard of harassment by whirlybird before. That's a new wrinkle.
Yer a stout-hearted champion of the fair sex.
Montana rocks rock!
edit: Boi-oing!
edit #2: I don't know what this thread is about. I just provided the canvas. You guys and gals are supposed to bring the art supplies.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Oct 23, 2016 - 10:37am PT
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Now your basic Negro, now there's a natural athalete, and, when improperly socialized, tends towards fighting, break-dancing, and that exaggerated form of jumping gait called hip-hop.
We're gonna look into this real hard in my first hundred days, bigly.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Oct 23, 2016 - 10:58am PT
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It's pretty much a given that any climbing gear has a 10% chance of failure at any time; that's my experience for sure.
Kind of argues for using just hands and feet, no?
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Oct 23, 2016 - 01:58pm PT
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Flip Flop, the reason for the bungee rig is to allow COMPLIANCE in the system. With this deal you're good to go in three axes and two time zones.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 23, 2016 - 02:27pm PT
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Interestingly, among the anagrams for "COMPLIANCE" is the word "POLICEMAN," if one "C" is dropped.
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Oct 23, 2016 - 02:29pm PT
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Thanks for all the positive feedback in regards to my bungee rig!!!
As I mentioned, I don't know anything about 'big wall' climbing, but have a good idea to improve climbing up ropes. I always have trouble remembering how to tie that prestwick knot, so thought I would use some common layin' around machinery to help. This is the sweet rig I came up with. I added the vise grips for more leverage. They say if you have a big enough level you can move the earth - we just need to move a body!!!
I'm a pretty 'technical' guy, so if you need any advise please don't hesitate to ask!!!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Oct 23, 2016 - 02:34pm PT
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Have heard that systems like this fail as much as 10% of the time.
↓ ↓ ninety percenter, eh
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Oct 23, 2016 - 02:43pm PT
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Hey z, I've never had anything fall off the trailer yet!
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Oct 23, 2016 - 03:24pm PT
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Good point T, good point. I was also thinking of using zip ties to make sure the hooks stay where they're supposed to on the rope, etc. Also, I'm not entirely sure about how to release the whole thing when I want to use it as a rappelling device.
Damn! I'm glad all of you are giving me feedback!!! I just realized I've got it rigged backwards!! I want the fixed length to be attached to me, no the rope!!! Just a little technical glitch that's to be expected with new stuff.
Edited to add: That is an impressive pump.
Edited to add: No, I had it right the first time. 'The brain will ..... out, damn spot' as my Grandfather used to mumble.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Oct 23, 2016 - 04:12pm PT
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Reefers coming to Caifornia and a state near you !
Uh, did you hook up the cables dude?
Huh?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 23, 2016 - 04:28pm PT
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Hall & Oates On the Bowline
Give away the stern anchor.
Sheet on the bowline.
Hempel on the guitar.
Guido is the helmsman.
Wino's just a tar.
They're following a star.
It's rigging this.
Then frigging that.
They won't get very far.
You knotty boys
Belay that noise
And open up the bar.
Yer gonna die
And go to hell.
You'd better call out the SAR.
--M.F.M. De Rigeur
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2016 - 12:26am PT
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 24, 2016 - 01:56am PT
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Politics behold! a Gnome free zone, almost
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 17, 2017 - 03:56pm PT
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I admit to bribing young Gnome to bump. Does that make me a rigger?
Winemaker, are you still even alive?
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jeff constine
Trad climber
Ao Namao
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Oct 17, 2017 - 04:20pm PT
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Key Rigger on Ultimate Beast Master, Stallone's new show. (Adult tinker toys).
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Oct 17, 2017 - 07:02pm PT
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Yeah mouse, still kicking. Ran into a few problems with the WM Cranko SystemŪ while on rappel but duct tape seemed to solve the problem.
Winter's coming so I'm working on a new design for crampons; thinking about putting little heaters in each point so they 'grip' better and dig in easier. Probably call them WineWalkersŪ. They might be solar powered, although wind power might be good for night use; a few little propellers on the helmet should do the trick.
Another option might be calcium carbide powered heaters/lights on each point to help with night climbing; thought of that from the old caving days. Plus you could launch rescue capsules loaded with gear, etc. with a collapsible carbide cannon mortar and thus avoid the climbing part; I'm thinking a carbon fiber tube of some sort since carbon fibre (Brits) is cool and I used to design things using it (B-2 bomber refueling receptacle (really)).
The brain simply seethes. It's harvest.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 17, 2017 - 08:10pm PT
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Both Jeff and Winemaker, you do us proud!
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