What does your Woody look like???

I have a pole outside, located up on an 8 ft. raised platform next to my climbing wall. Sure adds to the nighttime bouldering fun.

Here's what I'm hiding above my garage.

holy crap Tony; that's porn star wood right there, that is.

Thanks, Andy. Once I decide what I will do, I may send you a PM, because that is almost exactly what I envisioned in my backyard, plus the added kicker.

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after seeing Tony's woody, i'm heading out to buy a flashy sports car...

Ok. Finally finished it enough to climb. Still have to make two more crash pads like the one in the pic and I have a lot more holds on the way, specifically for the 45 degree wall and the roof.

Hey Kiel - how did you make the texture bumps that look naturally built into the wall? Also is that actual wall-texture?

Nice woody!

Kiel, that looks like a homeless persons pad under lower Wacker Drive in Chicago...with the holds added for a fine touch. Awesome.

Andy Librande wrote:Hey Kiel - how did you make the texture bumps that look naturally built into the wall? Also is that actual wall-texture? Nice woody!

I actually bought the panels from a guy on craigslist. It appears he used a 45 degree jigsaw cut and then screwed it on to the full sheet. He even put t nuts in the bumps. I think he then smoothed it out with a spackle like substance. He had already painted it with Metolius paint and a homemade paint with coarse sand in it. I "sand caulked" the seams and then repainted everything with a "skid-stop" paint from Lowes. They sell extra fine grained sand as well, so I put two of those in the paint too. It is super grippy.

Woodchuck ATC wrote:Kiel, that looks like a homeless persons pad under lower Wacker Drive in Chicago...with the holds added for a fine touch. Awesome.

Thanks Woodchuck! Yeah, it didnt quite turn out like Mike's pad, did it. I am making two more, so I have two more tries to redeem myself!

Built this free standing woody in my apartment awhile back. It was perfect because this was in my room (which was fairly small) so I would have to slid my mattress under it to sleep and I could just stare up at night visualizing sequences and wake up and literally climb out of bed!

Here is my brother-in-law's sweet woodie back in Iowa.

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OK, it's not in my backyard but I did design and build this one in a warehouse last summer. It's still a woodie full of sharp angles.

After 4 years I finally got around to taking advantage of my tall ceiling in the garage....

Shaun, you must like finger rippin' pain with all those tiny crimpers! You can load up on inexpensive holds via ebay sales. Go for it and best of luck.

Wow!

Tony Vavricka wrote: Here's what I'm hiding above my garage.

It is spring-time so I went around adding some new features to the climbing wall which always seems to amp me up to spend more time on it.

This volume got a little out of hand when we were building leading us to create the Optimus Prime volume.

Some more pics and details can be found on my website: andylibrande.com/news/2010/…

Optimus Prime Owns my Climbing Wall:

SICK!!!

(I want that)

Nice size, great colors! Volumes are THE best part of home woodys. And pretty easy to make, even for me, a non-carpenter kind of person. Let me loose with a hammer, square, and some spare lumber and here are some features I"ve added to my walls in the last year.

Finished my woody a few weeks ago...a couple pics, and more, including construction pics, at my blog: occlimb.com/?tag=woody