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Brad Johnson

climber

Jan 5, 2014 - 08:38pm PT

Not all of Tahoe, just The Emeralds and only the musseys that have pins. I like musseys for sport climbing and will continue to use them but this type would get kinda spooky several years down the road.

It's what we had at the time. Their strong and safe when new and probably strong enough several years later. I'm just not willing to take that risk.

Live and learn.

Brad

TREED

Trad climber

Gunks

Jan 5, 2014 - 08:42pm PT

Lazy and cheap is no way to go through life.

Brad Johnson

climber

Jan 5, 2014 - 09:05pm PT

Lazy and Cheap? Wow, what a moron.......

labrat

Trad climber

Auburn, CA

Jan 5, 2014 - 09:30pm PT

Brad,
Sent you a PM requesting how many to start and what type you would like. Please let me know if you don't receive it.
Erik

Brad Johnson

climber

Jan 5, 2014 - 09:41pm PT

Erik

Got your PM. Thx very much for the offer of hardware. I'll talk to John tomorrow and get back to you via email.

Brad

Dickly

Social climber

Jan 6, 2014 - 10:20am PT

"Lazy and Cheap? Wow, what a moron......."

Gunks, what can you say eh? its the epicenter of the new anchor police, now that they have 20 bolted anchors they are all experts now

tradmanclimbs

Ice climber

Pomfert VT

Jan 6, 2014 - 10:27am PT

call it what you will but INMOP they are some ugly ass anchors;)

johnr9q

Sport climber

Sacramento, Ca

Jan 6, 2014 - 09:47pm PT

If the Mussy's with the cotter pin are installed with the cotter pin on the side away from the rock, even if the cotter pin were to fall out, the installation would not fail. They are safe if installed properly and even if they aren't installed properly it would be very difficult for them to fail. We always install two so there is redundancy in the system. I would need a math major to calculate the chances for two that are installed improperly to fail. Probably in the order of 1,000,000 to 1.

nature

climber

Boulder, CO

Jan 6, 2014 - 10:02pm PT

This is a Mussy Hook:

Anything else should be called by a different name.

Jim Clipper

climber

from: forests to tree farms

Jan 6, 2014 - 10:10pm PT

How many of those rigs do you gotta buy to get a free taint abrader. I spied some prime natural lines. Once I gets the trees out of sit starts, the place will be epic. The abrader should help with the training for the opening moves.

allez in advance

mike m

Trad climber

black hills

Jan 6, 2014 - 10:22pm PT

Where is dingus McGee and the 10 cent hangers. Bet he can come up with something that works as well for 10% of the money.

dee ee

Mountain climber

citizen of planet Earth

Jan 6, 2014 - 10:55pm PT

What a bunch of pussies.

Just clip it and turf.

Spider Savage

Mountain climber

The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles

Jan 7, 2014 - 12:46am PT

I prefer Leeper hangers. It feels so good when you don't die.

tradmanclimbs

Ice climber

Pomfert VT

Jan 7, 2014 - 06:37am PT

that is some ugly ass sh#t. at least paint it whatever color rock you are working with..

johnr9q

Sport climber

Sacramento, Ca

Jan 7, 2014 - 10:56am PT

on 9/0/2013 I purchased mussy hooks for $2.04 each and quick links for $.91 each from U.S. Rigging http://www.usrigging.com/pdfs/pelican-rope-catalog-2013.pdf To get these prices you need a minimum order of $100. In their catalog the Tow Hook Forged (Mussy) is on page 66 and the Quick Link 5/16 is on page 64. These Mussy hooks are not the kind with the Cotter Key.

Bill Mc Kirgan

Trad climber

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Jan 7, 2014 - 01:50pm PT

So, I was wondering how the name, 'Mussy Hook' was coined and found this:

Fish is also the man who introduced the climbing world to the greatest thing since Friends: The Mussy Hook. This sickly strong anchor, (which bears the name of Fish´s other alias) is the new rage in anchor technology.

^^^ from: http://www.safeclimbing.org/news_archive.html