help me make something to do pull ups on my ice tools

The ice sucks this year in New England and the season is going to be over WAY to soon. However, I want to continue to increase my grip and pull strength with my tools, so I started poking around on my back deck (2nd floor of a three story building) and found this...

support beam of the deck above

It is the support beam of the deck above me. I want to rig something (on the cheap, preferably from Home Depot) that hangs down a bit and that I can do pull ups off of. I also can't damage the beam since this is an apartment and I don't want the neighbors deck on my head. It is also to high to reach to just hook the beam.

Chains? Might damage my picks tho...

Other ideas???

i use cord with a biner in the end that i can clip into the head of the tool. put a couple butterfly knots along the length to do offset hangs.

I use an exposed I beam in my basement and my old grivel ice tools. Don't know if you have access to that. Maybe you could screw a 2x4 parallel to those beams, leaving some space so you could slide your picks in and start pumping them out.

alpinejason wrote:i use cord with a biner in the end that i can clip into the head of the tool. put a couple butterfly knots along the length to do offset hangs.

I may have to switch mine up. Good idea.

love the biner idea because it sounds simple AND cheap AND effective, but how is the pull on the tool? does it feel natural like being on the tip of the pick?

JBaker wrote:love the biner idea because it sounds simple AND cheap AND effective, but how is the pull on the tool? does it feel natural like being on the tip of the pick?

I hook my tools alternately over the top edge of the plywood of my woodie, and then pick tips on a campus-type rail. There's really no difference in how it feels.

Chains work great for training on ice tools. A couple fairly long chains and you can figure four between them or campus up for a way harder workout than just pullups. If you get smaller chains an occasional quicklink makes it easier to hook when you're really pumped and going for one more lap.

what do the chains do to the picks?

I haven't been able to find any damage on my BD Laser or Fusion picks. I haven't tried my Nomics but possibly the small teeth towards the front could get dulled if the chain isn't big enough to hook further back on the stouter teeth?

couldn't you just get a bucket to stand on so you can reach the beam and just hook it.

I also live just outside Boston and am thinking the same thing with the quality of the ice these past couple weeks.. To this point i just hook the top of a beam just like the one on your porch with my tools and it works fine.

I am thinking of building the whole multi wall/ceiling setup in the next month or two but my guess is the $$$$ is gonna add up quick.

To be honest hooking the bean works just fine for dead hangs so forth and so on.

Get a right angle drill and put a thin piece of old plywood on the top edge of that beam on your porch so you don't chew it up with your pick s and you should be good to go able to remove it no problem with no scars when you move out as the screw holes will be in the top of the beam outa sight.

This is my setup in the basement. Instead of bolts all the way throgh there are also screw in eye-bolts that will to the job. Mix sawdust, glue,and little paint to fill the holes before you move out.

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I've got chains as well in the roof of my woodie. I need to get some pictures uploaded but they work great to fig 4/9 between them.

all awesome ideas. i'm gonna play around with it today.

APBT where are in Boston? let me know if you need a hand with the construction. sounds pretty sweet.

JBaker wrote:all awesome ideas. i'm gonna play around with it today. APBT where are in Boston? let me know if you need a hand with the contruction. sounds pretty sweet.

Not Boston but to a non Bostonian it is pretty much,"Natick".

Ehy the Marathon runs through town kid it must be Bahston right guy...

Gonna be a few weeks as i still have ice to climb, you climb rock also?

Here are a few photos from my woody. The chains work great. I backed the eyebolts through a tnut and with a fender washer on both sides, super solid now. A quicklink is easier to get the tools out of than the chain so you can mix up the effort level and it allows for some tool rotation so as not to torque on the eyebolt all the time.

Chad in the roof

Aaron on the wall

Aaron getting strong!

mongoose wrote:couldn't you just get a bucket to stand on so you can reach the beam and just hook it.

+1 to this. and if you're really worried about the beams getting marred staple a thin peice of slat board to the top of it so you can put the wear on those. hanging on a beam with tools doesn't need to incorporate anything complex at all.

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