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Truck nuts

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Trevor Taylor · · Seattle, WA · Joined Nov 2020 · Points: 0

First would you whip? Second as a reformed redneck with a mullet how are these things really that different than hexes? Third, would it make me even a bigger tool for racking up with another set of nuts? Forth, these seem better than blocks of wood for pro?

Gunkiemike · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2009 · Points: 3,687

You mean these?

Trevor Taylor · · Seattle, WA · Joined Nov 2020 · Points: 0
Gunkiemike wrote:

You mean these?

Yeah I don’t see why you couldn’t clip em and whip on em.

Ben V · · Central Maine · Joined Nov 2016 · Points: 1,949

I know someone made truck nuts out of two huge bootied nuts and attached them with something with a known breaking strength in case they got caught on something. 

Daniel Chode Rider · · Truck, Wenatchee · Joined Sep 2020 · Points: 7,484

Aren't nuts called nuts cause the first nuts were actual nuts and some nut with huge nuts nutted up and jammed 'em in a crack?

tdoughtyjr · · Paonia, CO · Joined May 2010 · Points: 5

When I had no money to speak of, I slung a few different size machine nuts, as well as pieces of iron pipe. Glad I never fell any great distance on those pieces. 

Allen Sanderson · · On the road to perdition · Joined Jul 2007 · Points: 1,100
Daniel Chode Rider wrote:

Aren't nuts called nuts cause the first nuts were actual nuts and some nut with huge nuts nutted up and jammed 'em in a crack?

The first climbing nuts were machine nuts from railway tracks and were used as artificial chocks (as opposed to natural chocks).

Daniel Chode Rider · · Truck, Wenatchee · Joined Sep 2020 · Points: 7,484
Allen Sanderson wrote:

The first climbing nuts were machine nuts from railway tracks and were used as artificial chocks (as opposed to natural chocks).

So yes, basically

Yoda Jedi Knight · · Sandpoint, ID · Joined Apr 2019 · Points: 0

Try it and report back

Max Houck · · Arvada, CO · Joined Apr 2019 · Points: 6

Yes, would whip. Sorry for the garbage snapchat screenshot, it's all I have right now. 

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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