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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Kelly,
> And an ice pick for a nut tool? Too funny Clint! What's your
address, I just found a new one I'll send ya.
Actually I prefer the "ice pick". No hook to catch under my leg, and without the hook I can insert the pick into the side hole on larger nuts and loosen them to score booty! It says "SPORT CHALET" on it, and it was a copy of the Leeper design.
I have 4 other nut picks hanging in my gear collection that I've found, and I've given away others.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2007 - 03:11pm PT
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Clint,
A Sport Chalet nut tool? I think we have a winner...
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nick d
Trad climber
nm
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Not sure because a lot of my gear is 70s vintage. Have to say my sentimental favorite is the Eiger oval that I fished out of the ashes of the Durango Ganrdenschwartz store that burned to the ground in 72? I still use it for pulling pins. Gotta like the extra heat treatment!
MS
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Aya K
Trad climber
New York
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A #1 chouinard cam though in all fairness it is left behind about 99% of the time. So, otherwise, I guess it is a 00 metolius TCU. Or my nut tool - a present from the guy who taught me to climb about a month after I started climbing - but it is usually carried when seconding so not properly I part of the rack, I suppose.
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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I have one or two of the original army aluminum oval biners from the late forties or early fifties, as well as some other stuff from that era, somewhere. But then, I don't climb anymore, so maybe the gear doesn't count.
-StaleJello
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Kelly,
I think that Sport Chalet nut pick can't be that old, because it has a hole which fits the trigger bar of a Friend. Since Friends became available in 1978, it's probably not older than 1979.
I checked my rack just now, and I have Bonati Ultralight Ds on several of the quickdraws. I know I bought several of this type of biner in 1974 (my first big gear purchase!), so they are probably older than the nut pick, although I think they were made for several years.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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I have an orange anodized SMC biner that I bought during the gear famine of 1977-I had two but Steve Angelini appropriated one for his biner collection
murf
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TwistedCrank
climber
a luxury Malibu rehabilitation treatment facility
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A handful of Clog D crabs.
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Phil_B
Social climber
Hercules, CA
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As some of you noted when I posted this pic, I have some original Camalots that are older than my son:
I also have some knockoff friends that my brother got for me in Korea. I don't think I actually trust them enough to use them when it would really count. My old biners retire themselves when they can't open or close anymore.
I guess the Camalots would be the oldest pieces: 80's?
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Gene
climber
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My oldest stuff was a Dolt nut as well as some Peck and Clog nuts from the early 70s. They were pretty cherry so I gave them to Yager.
Current oldest is a bunch of Diamond C pins.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 6, 2007 - 01:08pm PT
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Clint, I'm not trying to imply that your nut tool is the oldest thing around, just one of the more obscure! As for the real winner,
I think Jello's aluminum biners from the '40s will be hard to scratch.
I do have some old RP's that's I still carry, I got 'em be sending some money to an address in the back of a Climbing mag sometime in the early '80s. They're still good as new!
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Barto
climber
Minneapolis, MN
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Active use #1: A threaded "micro" Teton the shape of a slice of Toblerone hangs off a high cabinet-handle so I can open the dang thing without a chair.
Active use #2: Still using my Chouinard Super Long Dong as my heavy duty cleaning tool. When did these things come out?
Active use #3: Rely heavily on ancient Hobo Dan as reference for lost memories.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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I've got a Salewa "Royal Robbins" oval biner. I keep my nut tool on it.
Wierd. I do exactly the same. Old hollow salewa Robbins biner on a early 80's WC nut tool. Only old gear on my rack.
I occasionally will carry some leaver nuts and/or soft iron pins, but, not standard rack.
-Brian in SLC
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T-rev
Trad climber
Escondido, CA
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I've got about four of the old original friends that I still use occasionally.
I've got a grip of chouinard ovals that I still love and use.
And I've got a Chouinard #4 Camalot that weighs as much as the rest of my rack combined.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Gary Carpenter usually won't let me take my rack... but some of the 'biners I have are probably the Chouinard-D's from '75...
a lot of the nuts I have are the original straight sided Chouinard...
I have a set of Friends from '85, the original manufactured models with the hex nut on the shaft...
I don't usually take my hexes out these days...
and the rope in the upper left background is a piece from my first rope ever, a Chouinard "rattlesnake" 11mm
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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Both of my nuts are circa 1950. Not much of a rack to brag about, though.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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I had forgotten about the nuts on my rack-they don't have too much use since the boys were born and their cable was cut
murf
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Varied locales along the time and space continuum
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Hey Sketch, I checked out what you get when you Google "tricam " (http://www.gorillaladders.net);. I've been looking for the manufacturer of Gorilla ladders... thanks!
10b4me is my goto resource for climbing history and old equipment. He has one of those Chinouard reverse screw gate lockers too. We love to show it to the young-uns and watch 'em get wigged out.
Fletch
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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a set of Smiley's wedgies...only been climbing 8 years or so.
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Bodega, CA
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Wired Bliss TCU's. Bought them in '92 I think, still bomber. But I don't climb on my own rack unless I have to.
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