Has anyone heard of or used these things before?

www.climbtechgear.com/1-2-removable-climbing-anchor-2400lbs->>>

They have been around for years, they used to make 3/8" ones which I had for groung-up drilling until they fell apart. They are a pain to remove, even worse if you fall on them.

Can you whip on them or are they meant for body weight only?

From what I understand, they have been redesigned recently to make them easier to remove. There was a thread about them a while ago.

www.mountainproject.com/v/removable-bolt-trial-by-fire-by-ma>>>

• Edit, link wasn't working

Now there's a guy that stands behind his product. Not to mention falling way above it. Good for him. That's pretty awesome.

So, That must be fun climbing around looking for the holes to plug those things into

What can I say? It's the storyline of my life

Looks like the patent was granted in 1996, I got mine maybe 10 yrs ago.
The removing sleeve has been improved, thatīs the bit you have to hit with a hammer and a pin to get them free and was a weak point on he older models.
The big problem was using them for aiding when bolting ground-up as the repeated bending screws up the thin wires on the spoons, in the end the centre cable breaks as well.
A good product even though, I tried to get them to make a batch of the 3/8" model again but no interest from their side.

They never caught on for free climbing because climbers would have to invest about $500+ for routes which donīt really exist (a couple of desert towers were drilled for these). Then there is the question of stuck ones and hole wear which made their long-term future dubious. And they are a bit weak in terms of replacing bolts and you need to go up to the 1" ones for a true like-for-like equivalent at $250 bucks a go though Iīd be happy enough with the 3/4" ones myself, still going to be a pricey rack!

I still have a couple of the old-style 3/8th's which I use when bolting on lead when I can't get a good hook placement. I've never fallen on one but they certainly hold body weight. Here's a couple being used as an anchor. I trusted them to rap off and jumar back up the next day.

rb's in action Submitted By: Ed Wright on Jul 11, 2012

Ed, why don't you have those two rb's side by side and equalized??

Mr. Spikes: the vertical orientation is far superior to side by side in terms of loading, and he has them equalized too. How long have you been at this?

I was still moving up and had intended to place a real bolt a little higher but I ran outa juice for the drill. Like others have replied, those are fairly well equalized. By the way, this was almost 500 feet off the deck, so again, I trust these rb's.

The 3/8" were made for a long time and eventually we stopped for a couple reasons.

First, they don't have an application for industrial fall protection or rope access. The 1/2" are used for positioning.

Second, they're small, the 1/2"ers are small as is and with the spoons and the wires and the cone...its hard to fit all that in 3/8" with so much going on.

We do get some requests for them so this is great to have Totem spending time on these. Totem makes great cams and I bet they'll come out with a great RB in Europe.

Jim, cleaning the RBs from the hole is simple with the new cleaning bushing. Here is a demo video of our 3/4"RBs (pay no attention to the concrete specs and all that) :