Homemade Climbing Gear / Pro

Hey Mountain Project! Been looking to expand my rack on the cheap, and had an idea: for nuts, I should just use literal nuts (PICTURES ATTATCHED). I created this nice little prototype today, along with a couple others. Planning on taking my new baby plus the other 8 "cams" I've got out for a spin in Yosemite Valley this weekend for some big wall climbing (going to try Free Rider 5.13a up El Capitan lol), excited to see how well it can hold some falls, might make a good bail piece if I decide the route will take more than eight hours and I get hungry. Has anybody else made any cool bootleg gear on the cheap to expand their rack? if so, please share ideas and include pictures, I'd love to see what you got! PS let me know if you want to see any of my other prototypes.

I have not dabbled much in homemade gear mainly cause my parents would die if they found out I fell on a nut from their car... but when i get home i definitely want to see how bomber that would be.

At least you took the time to add the clip art of the BD logo onto your mac. 2/10

Travis S wrote: At least you took the time to add the clip art of the BD logo onto your mac. 2/10

No famalam its literally real

jackson reich wrote: I have not dabbled much in homemade gear mainly cause my parents would die if they found out I fell on a nut from their car... but when i get home i definitely want to see how bomber that would be.

Do it. we'll rise up together, brother. The bootleg gear revolution is coming.

aiden o wrote: 

Hard to tell from the pic but it looks like the nut still has the threads inside. I highly recommend taking a rat tail file to the threads to smooth them out, otherwise they will compromise your cordage.

Shelton Hatfield wrote:

Hard to tell from the pic but it looks like the nut still has the threads inside. I highly recommend taking a rat tail file to the threads to smooth them out, otherwise they will compromise your cordage.

Great tip, thank you- Ill do this as soon as I get home... Didn't even think about this!

aiden:
Didn't even think about this!

Great tips here.

aiden o wrote: Hey Mountain Project! Been looking to expand my rack on the cheap, and had an idea: for nuts, I should just use literal nuts (PICTURES ATTATCHED). I created this nice little prototype today, along with a couple others.

You're aware that this idea is 70 years old, yes?

https://www.climbing.com/people/the-nut-chronicles/

"Legend identifies the actual birthplace of the “nut” as the railroad along the approach to Clogwyn Du’r Arddu, one of the iconic crags of Welsh free climbing. Sometime in the 1950s, British climbers discovered that the steel machine nuts found scattered along the tracks worked much better for climbing protection than pebbles. The hexagonal facets allowed more consistent wedging action, and the center holes allowed the nuts to be pre-slung with cord. Soon climbers, with meticulous attention to detail, were filing off the threads and making various other modifications to a whole size range of machine nuts, slinging them, and taking them up to the crags for pro—and sometimes falling on them."

What kind of carabiner is that?

Dylan Pike wrote: What kind of carabiner is that?

Im not really sure, I found it in the creek in American Fork canyon

Dylan Pike wrote: What kind of carabiner is that?

Maybe this one?

For the price of that autolocker, you could afford a wiregate and an actual nut. Maybe even a sling too.

I'm thinking even Devin would pass on this if he saw it unattended by some Valley fries-

If you think you can do freerider in 8 hours then my hats off to ya. With booty gear and what I’ve read on here have fun getting rescued by YOSAR. 

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Not being mean just being objective. Or have you any big wall experience? 

aiden o wrote: PS let me know if you want to see any of my other prototypes.

Oh we do my man..we do...

Might as well be consistent and sling that machine nut with swami belt tape (new, of course) and get a good, old-fashioned Chouinard oval to round out the pre-modern era set-up!  Then go for the all nut ascent of Nutcracker or Pratt's Crack!  Make sure to wear your headband (with shaggy long hair) and jeans cutoffs; only EBs allowed on your feet (or Chuck Taylors).  Man up, man!

its a troll people.....