Gear Museum
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I found this photo album full of some pretty amazing vintage rock protection. Some of this stuff I have never seen before, let alone know what it is called and how it's placed. |
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Another great website. It is in spanish but the pics are fantastic. |
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Great history! |
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Cool stuff. Some people have called my gear 'museum quality' in the past. Check out these items. |
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Another fantastic web site for the history of your Nuts. |
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A ton of the material in the 'cumbresaustrales' link is cribbed from Stephane Pennequin's Nut Museum site as I see some of the gear I donated to him in the pictures. Don't know if that's with Stephane's permission to get it out there in another language or not. |
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Ken has recently been recognized for his great works in Yosemite. I hope the valley museum finds a home soon, that collection deserves to be seen and appreciated. I remember I used to stop by the kiosk outside the Ansel Adams gallery and talk to Mike Corbett about collecting stuff and preserving the heritage. I donated some old Raffi Bedayn pitons. Everything was kept in an old tent cabin up by Curry (if I recall correctly) before a huge flood in the mid/late 90s. |
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Brian, how old do you think the bottom two hummingbirds are? Those are the original production type right? |
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Nice MacInnes Terrordactyls! And the rarely seen Roosters in great condition too! Damn, those things should have been called the "Knuckle Annihilators".... That little pointy bit on the bottom did next to nothing. At 40 or 50 cm and straight shafted the leverage could be brutal. |
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Has anyone ever whipped on a crack up and lived to tell? |
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Took a thirty footer onto a #3 Crack 'N Up on 'Rain' in Eldo back in '75. |
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I fell on one in a funky seam on the backside of Pikes Peak. |
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Here's some stuff from a guy I recently worked with. He went to the Lowe brother's climbing school in the late 60s, and started an outdooring/climbing/survival school a couple years before Outward Bound started. |
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Hehehe! You should put some weight on that rope... I think you'll find that a lot of words come to mind to describe it... Static will not be one. |
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ACR wrote:Brian, how old do you think the bottom two hummingbirds are? Those are the original production type right?Close to first issue. They both have the picks mechanically attached, which, was an issue with the very first ones (press fit or glued in). Recalled and refurb'ed with a rivet or fastener to hold the pick onto the head. Neat to chat with Greg about his old gear designs. L.A.S. cams and early ice gear...pretty amazing. Footfangs, snargs... Good stuff. |
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ACR wrote:Hehehe! You should put some weight on that rope... I think you'll find that a lot of words come to mind to describe it... Static will not be one.Yeah, goldline. I still have my dad's. Definitely NOT static...ha ha. Neat collection of stuff. I think Outward Bound started in the US in the early 60's. And, some/most of the Lowe brothers worked for it as instructors or directors. Some of it looks commercial. The copperhead can and is easily made with wire rope and a swager. The hexes look like clog (or ?) and maybe had wire added? Nice work. Especially if they were homemade. Any idear if they were ever sold? Kit of wire and bare hexes looks like they're ready for assembly. Nut tool looks commercial as well. Nice! |
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I dont think he sold any of the stuff he made, just for him and his friends in a buddy's machine shop. The hexes are cut from a solid bar and then fit with wire and crimped. The plastic sleeve on the swage was just vinyl tubing headed up and slipped on. The copperhead was just hand crimped on wire, he had the crimping tool in the box too. Didn't get a pic but he had a 50 year old braided swami belt as well. |
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Healyje wrote:Took a thirty footer onto a #3 Crack 'N Up on 'Rain' in Eldo back in '75. I rig them like this for free climbing:Damn. Good on ya mate. Glad that thing held! |