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Height of Metolius Campus Rungs?

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Max Tepfer · · Bend, OR · Joined Oct 2007 · Points: 3,349

I'm in the process of setting up a campus board and am wondering what the height of an individual campus rung is. I already know that they're 16" wide and that they come in three different widths, (3/4", 1", and 1 1/4") so please don't tell me that.

I'm interested in specifically how high each rung is. Looking at pictures, it looks like the three different widths might have different heights as well?

Thanks in advance,
-Max

Scott Bennett · · Western North America · Joined Jan 2008 · Points: 1,265

I just finished adding a set of campus rungs to my bouldering wall, and I used 1.5" tall rungs.
I have two sets, one 1.25" deep, one 0.75" deep, and I alternated them 4" apart. Works well, since I didn't want to take up too much room on the bouldering wall. I had to incut the rungs a bit since I found that the wall was too steep to use them otherwise.

Here's a pic:

Max Tepfer · · Bend, OR · Joined Oct 2007 · Points: 3,349

Thanks for replying Scott, but what I'm interested in is specifically the height of the three different sizes of rungs Metolius makes. As those are the rungs I'm planning on buying.
Anybody?

Kevin Stricker · · Evergreen, CO · Joined Oct 2002 · Points: 1,242

Max,
From the perspective of building the campus wall the ring height is irrelevant. Break up the total height based on the rung to rung spacing you are interested in (4 to 8") for the small guys and (6 to 12") for the biggest ones. Start your lines so that the bottom rung is completely on the wall, I recommend marking the screw holes and starting the spacing from this reference point. Now measure upwards and mark every 4" to 12" then snap out lines with chalk or use a drywall square and pencil. Now all you have to do is line up the screw holes on the rungs with your lines and drill/drive them into place.

You don't need to have the height be say 4" plus 3/4"(ring height), just base it on a constant. Also if you are running large and small rungs in the same row(not recommended BTW) you need to have the same spacing for both.

Hope this helps, sorry to not have your original question available but I am sure a call to Metolius could provide you with an answer.

Scott Bennett · · Western North America · Joined Jan 2008 · Points: 1,265
Kevin Stricker wrote:Also if you are running large and small rungs in the same row(not recommended BTW)
Just curious, why wouldn't you recommend this? I hadn't seen it done before, but it seemed like a good solution to having to different sized sets of rungs in a smaller space. I've used both sets and they don't interfere with each other. But then again I'm not a training guru and there's probably something I'm missing.

-Scott
Kevin Stricker · · Evergreen, CO · Joined Oct 2002 · Points: 1,242

The large rungs can get in the way of your moves on the small rungs. Also skip 1 or skip 2 exercises gets super complicated (now skip 2 and skip 4 which is harder to do when there are that many rungs on the wall). If you are going for a skip one exercise on the large rungs (now skip 2) and accidentally grab #3 you will be in for a surprise.
(edit: maybe mark one set of rungs with paint to distinguish them)

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