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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Oct 17, 2007 - 11:28pm PT
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Boy does that old style coated fabric stink!
Got a couple of Warren's hammers, pins, and a homemade steel figure 8 descender too.
What with my disenchantment with the AAC, it looks to be a good bet for your museum, but your display intentions and my tax profile (i.e. write-offs per given specific year) would likely be the major influencing factors.
Because I'm single and don't have my accountant try a lot of hankey-pankey the AMT dinged me for a thousand bucks last year. That thing really sucks, and could prove to be a major disincentive towards charitable donations, not just on my part but all accross the board among those who, in the past, have given most.
Goddamn strapped-for-cash Uncle Sam. I might not gripe so much if they spent it better.
(rant over)
So anyway, we'll see Ken.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 17, 2007 - 11:29pm PT
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Yes, the fabric reeks - it's quite gross. Probably carcinogenic, too.
I vaguely recall removing the label from the thing - at one time I was anti-label. Long before the No Logo bunch. But I'm not certain what the label was.
Once I demonstrated the hammock for a girlfriend's parents. We climbed together, and so one night gave them a little talk about what it involved. We hung it in a tree, and both sat in it - very cozy.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Oct 17, 2007 - 11:37pm PT
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I'm just forming this mental picture of you getting into a one-man hammock with both of her parents,...
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Oct 17, 2007 - 11:40pm PT
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Ron and Anders, I meant to mention that in my last post. The Nylon reeks to the point that I would have to have air freshener on hand to display it. Apparently, all the old Nylons have a similar problem, and it wasn't just residuals from our feet. Roger Breedlove checked into a non-stink treatment for older Nylon and made some progress. I have the information somewhere. Roger?
Ken
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Oct 17, 2007 - 11:45pm PT
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Ron,
He did say both. That could mean the parents, or he and the lucky young lady.
Ken
P.S. Anders, I got your back.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 17, 2007 - 11:46pm PT
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Being stored in closets and basements for 30 years, folded on itself, in a plastic bag, probably hasn't given it much chance to outgas, either.
Ron, you are a naughty person. One man, or two persons/one couple.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Oct 17, 2007 - 11:48pm PT
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You and the mom?????????????????
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Oct 17, 2007 - 11:48pm PT
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Anders, You friggin crack me up! Hope to see you next year.
Ken
Edit: Gives the other definition of or meaning to the word "Coupling".
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 17, 2007 - 11:50pm PT
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Ron, on the other hand, has occasionally been known to outgas.
Perhaps I'll provide a demonstration of the two persons in a BAT hammock trick at the FaceLift next year - Crimpie would possibly be interested in helping. Beats being sawn in half by a would-be magician, maybe.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 17, 2007 - 11:59pm PT
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Here's a picture from Downward Bound of a BAT hammock. Warren Harding's magnum opus from 1974 or 1975. Looks much the same.
The fine print mentions that copies were being made by Denali, Forrest, and Swallow Mountain.
If I mail it to Ken and the YCA, hopefully Homeland Security won't wonder what the funny smell is. Maybe I'll have to bring it myself.
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Oct 18, 2007 - 12:28am PT
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Hey Anders,
Swallow Mountain sounds like a Warren Harding joke!
Ken
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Oct 18, 2007 - 01:26am PT
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Actually its the nickname of a large woman named Lucy who hung out in C4 thirty years ago.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Oct 18, 2007 - 01:57am PT
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Hey,
were he and Anders seperated at birth?
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Oct 18, 2007 - 02:12am PT
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Thanks Werner and Anders. Be nice Ron!
Ken
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WBraun
climber
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Oct 18, 2007 - 02:15am PT
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Thanks Anders
Maybe you can help me find some information on the Sea Tomato that Charlie built for Ned Gillette's sea crossing expedition years ago?
There was an article about it in The National Geographic.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 18, 2007 - 02:25am PT
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Seeing as we're talking about hammocks...
My parents have a lovely large hammock woven from string, which they got in British Guyana in 1953. You have to suspend it between two trees, but it holds two or three people, and is exceedingly comfortable.
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Oct 18, 2007 - 02:31am PT
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Anders, For both?
Cheers, Ken
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