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knieveltech
Jun 17, 2007, 1:18 AM
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C'mon folks, I'm sure everyone has at least one manky anchor story, so break out the photos and war stories and post up! My contribution:
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sparky
Jun 17, 2007, 2:18 AM
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The first pic was a fantastic homemade hanger, with a quality bolt, the hanger can't be clipped, you have to thread it with webbing.
The second pic is a pile of rocks for a 150' rap.
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climbinwv
Jun 17, 2007, 2:20 AM
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This is a story from another post I did...kinda scary...
I was @ coopers rock and was gonna set up on zig-zag wanderer 5.8 as my wife had yet to climb it. Zig-Zag is in an area known as big blocks. It is only accessable via a 5.2-5.3 25ft. scramble. The route we were gonna climb was close to the nightmare scenario. I am talking to these people from Pittsburgh and they tell me they are gonna break down and do I have any advice on how to get off the top of the blocks (you gotta rapel off a tree that almost leans up against the blocks). I offered to break down for them if i could hop on their rope and breeze through the 5.6 they were set up on and I had climbed a hundred times. They didn't look like nOObs....so I get to the top and see.........HOLY SHIT!!!!! I had just trusted my life to the following.
1. The previously mentioned biner chain which was a figure 8 knot hooked into one end. The knot was on the back of the tree and the biners wraped around and clipped onto the rope on the other side.
2. The static line the biner was hooked into ran over to the edge where they had an overhand knot on non-lockin biner as the anchor. THAT'S RIGHT...ONE ANCHOR...I couldn't see it from the ground...I assumed there was a back up...i was wrong.
3. I unclipped it and tossed the whole mess to the ground...the biners hit a rock and the one guy shot me a dirty look...like a biner is gonna get f-ed up from falling 40ft.
The worst part is I couldn't say anything to them...I was sooooo pissed I just proceded to set up my anchors as they walked off into the distance. I know I shoulda torn them a new one. I also am pissed because I had my camera in my bag and didn't take a picture of it....I mean it woulda made one hell of a thread on here.
I climb @ coopers a lot. I usually can spot a nOOb a mile away(we get lot's of them). These guys (2dudes, 1chick) looked like they knew what they were doing...I got f-ing lucky....I'm down to 7 lives now (if you read my cinch vs. grigri thread you know why). I gotta be more careful....we all do. 
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jrzacher
Jun 17, 2007, 2:47 AM
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this is a chain that was jammed into a crack and some tat around a horn
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unreleasedenergy
Jun 17, 2007, 3:52 AM
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some reposts.
my favorite personal experience would either be some 60 year old ring angle pitons at seneca or the piton pounded into a tree...
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kobaz
Jun 17, 2007, 6:01 PM
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unreleasedenergy wrote: some reposts. my favorite personal experience would either be some 60 year old ring angle pitons at seneca or the piton pounded into a tree...
Those images only load when I do a direct load of the target (ie: right click -> view image) or click the link.
I don't see any pitons other than the lost arrow, those looks like manky old 1/4 inch bolts with manky homemade hangers. Total mank!
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unreleasedenergy
Jun 17, 2007, 7:22 PM
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unfortunately I don't have any photo's of the pins, or anchors from seneca, I really should take some, there are some really manky looking ones.
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jeff_m
Jun 17, 2007, 9:48 PM
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A little more subtle, but this one has character (or at least it was character building when I came across it)....
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snoopy138
Jun 17, 2007, 9:56 PM
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jeff_m wrote: A little more subtle, but this one has character (or at least it was character building when I came across it).... [image]http://www.citycg.com/DSCN8913.jpg[/image]
location?
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knieveltech
Jun 17, 2007, 9:57 PM
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Holy crap! In the third pic down, is that a damn engine valve that's been hammered into the rock??
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majid_sabet
Jun 17, 2007, 11:20 PM
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One of the main reasons on why I like RC is the ability to collect photos like these.
Thanks for posting them.
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hosh
Jun 18, 2007, 12:53 AM
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majid_sabet wrote: One of the main reasons on why I like RC is the ability to collect photos like these. Thanks for posting them.
So you can repost them to scare n00bs and pretend that all anchors that climbers use look like that? Cool. real cool.
hosh.
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knieveltech
Jun 18, 2007, 5:22 AM
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hosh wrote: majid_sabet wrote: One of the main reasons on why I like RC is the ability to collect photos like these. Thanks for posting them. So you can repost them to scare n00bs and pretend that all anchors that climbers use look like that? Cool. real cool. hosh.
We appreciate your attempts to keep Majid in check, however it's widely known that when he decides to be a toolbox there's really nothing that will stop him. That being said, would you like to share a war story about encountering true mank in the wild?
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jakedatc
Jun 18, 2007, 5:36 AM
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majid_sabet
Jun 18, 2007, 5:58 AM
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hosh wrote: majid_sabet wrote: One of the main reasons on why I like RC is the ability to collect photos like these. Thanks for posting them. So you can repost them to scare n00bs and pretend that all anchors that climbers use look like that? Cool. real cool. hosh.
it is safer and much better to scare bunch of n00bs then trying to collect their parts to fit in to a body bag.
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carabiner96
Jun 18, 2007, 2:51 PM
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majid_sabet wrote: hosh wrote: majid_sabet wrote: One of the main reasons on why I like RC is the ability to collect photos like these. Thanks for posting them. So you can repost them to scare n00bs and pretend that all anchors that climbers use look like that? Cool. real cool. hosh. it is safer and much better to scare bunch of n00bs then trying to collect their parts to fit in to a body bag.
Wow. That's a new low. "Make like a tree and fuck off!"
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binrat
Jun 18, 2007, 4:02 PM
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jeff_m wrote: A little more subtle, but this one has character (or at least it was character building when I came across it).... [image]http://www.citycg.com/DSCN8913.jpg[/image]
That's a quick link that you are suppose to weld to finish it.
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jeff_m
Jun 18, 2007, 4:19 PM
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snoopy138 wrote: jeff_m wrote: A little more subtle, but this one has character (or at least it was character building when I came across it).... [image]http://www.citycg.com/DSCN8913.jpg[/image] location?
North, and long since turned to dust.
binrat wrote: That's a quick link that you are suppose to weld to finish it.
Yeah, I know, but it's been a while since I've welded on lead... 
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binrat
Jun 18, 2007, 5:06 PM
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Yeah, I know, but it's been a while since I've welded on lead...
Too Too funny.
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justthemaid
Jun 18, 2007, 5:09 PM
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LOL ^^^
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richardvg03
Jun 18, 2007, 5:42 PM
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majid_sabet wrote: it is safer and much better to scare bunch of n00bs then trying to collect their parts to fit in to a body bag.
and you've picked up body parts and put them in a bag before?? I'd like to hear this story.
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knieveltech
Jun 18, 2007, 5:51 PM
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reno wrote: jakedatc wrote: [image]http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/4742/pict0062sc4.jpg[/image] [image]http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/smiley_10sign.gif[/image] [image]http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/smiley_10sign.gif[/image] [image]http://www.jesseshunting.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/smiley_10sign.gif[/image]
Dang, looks like Reno's in the know on this one. I've got to go with Microbarn on this one, what are we looking at here?
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