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6 Camalot with wood blocks zip tied to it?

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Robert Rowsam · · Grand Junction, CO · Joined Oct 2012 · Points: 230

Saw a picture a couple weeks ago of a #6 with some wood blocks zip tied to the outside of the lobes to make it fit in wider cracks. Pretty sure I saw it here but cant find that thread. Anyone else see this and have a link? Any thoughts on the odds of it holding body weight?

Zac St Jules · · New Hampshire · Joined Dec 2013 · Points: 1,188

Took a screen shot of it awhile ago

#6 with wood blocks. Owner unknown

Phil Lauffen · · Innsbruck, AT · Joined Jun 2008 · Points: 3,098

100%

Robert Rowsam · · Grand Junction, CO · Joined Oct 2012 · Points: 230

Awesome thanks Zac. Thing looks bomber.

Zac St Jules · · New Hampshire · Joined Dec 2013 · Points: 1,188

It really does look like itd be pretty solid.

Muscrat · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Oct 2011 · Points: 3,625

Speechless...
from the grain on the wood, someone knew what they were doing....well, i mean....i am speechless.

Justin S · · Plattsburgh, NY · Joined Feb 2014 · Points: 120

At least they were smart enough to run the grain horizontally. I could see that working as a walking TR in some good aggressive rock. I'm a pretty avid wood worker and I wouldn't trust the wood to hold up in a whip, maybe if it was iron wood haha. There's a few Valley Giants made out of beautiful cabinet grade plywood, but they're valley giant paper weights. I'm going to make a couple of my own:)

eli poss · · Durango, CO · Joined May 2014 · Points: 525

why do this when you could get a bomber Valley Giants? Or better yet, don't climb awful-width

lozo bozo · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Feb 2015 · Points: 30
eli poss wrote:why do this when you could get a bomber Valley Giants? Or better yet, just run it out
fixed that for you.
Muscrat · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Oct 2011 · Points: 3,625
headead wrote: fixed that for you.
Took me a minute...cute.
Robert Rowsam · · Grand Junction, CO · Joined Oct 2012 · Points: 230

So I took inspiration from the six and souped up a #9 Valley Giant for a tower last weekend.

#9 to #12

khoa · · Tacomarado · Joined Mar 2007 · Points: 53

well.... did you whip?

Muscrat · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Oct 2011 · Points: 3,625

WOW. I do not want to start a flame thrower here, but that picture frightens me.
Correct me, please, if i am wrong, but it looks as this modification is done with solid 1x? I have not done the test, so this is abstract, but having worked with wood for a few years, OK, decades, i would fully expect with any meaningful impact (a fall) that the wood here would explode, splinter, detonate, and otherwise go away. Even if one used quatersawn maple (or another hardwood) the nature of the shape of the interface between the cam head and the wood would create weak spots, which would break along grainlines.
The answer, if one is crazy enough (i am seriously thinking of doing this to my #6 BD) to do it, is something like an 11 ply 1" hardwood ply, routed to set the cam head edge into the ply. Less likely to 'explode' on loading, less likely to rotate off the wood, and might even be lighter than solid wood.
Just saying.
Of course, they make them large sisters, or whatever they are called.

csproul · · Pittsboro...sort of, NC · Joined Dec 2009 · Points: 330

I can imagine this would be useful for some aid routes.

Kevin Mokracek · · Burbank · Joined Apr 2012 · Points: 342

Most likely going to be used for aid. Wood blocks and large cams have been used for decades. Excalibur comes to mind.

Justin S · · Plattsburgh, NY · Joined Feb 2014 · Points: 120

I agree with Muscat like I said above. I would think the zip ties would blow out as well.

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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