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mrtristan
Mar 10, 2011, 8:37 PM
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What piece of gear have you had the longest? And is it still on active duty or is it in your closet or gear bin?
I've had my nut tool (the old DMM one with the blue plastic handle. Love it.) since probably 2000, and the little carabiner on it since 1999ish. Still use 'em. Up until last year I still had and climbed with my first chalk bag, which I got in 1996.
How about you?
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kovacs69
Mar 10, 2011, 10:01 PM
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mrtristan wrote: What piece of gear have you had the longest? And is it still on active duty or is it in your closet or gear bin? I've had my nut tool (the old DMM one with the blue plastic handle. Love it.) since probably 2000, and the little carabiner on it since 1999ish. Still use 'em. Up until last year I still had and climbed with my first chalk bag, which I got in 1996. How about you?
My chalk bag...1984...still in use
I still have my first harness, 8, locking D and rope but no longer use them...1984.
JB
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ENARE
Mar 10, 2011, 10:01 PM
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mrtristan wrote: What piece of gear have you had the longest? And is it still on active duty or is it in your closet or gear bin? I've had my nut tool (the old DMM one with the blue plastic handle. Love it.) since probably 2000, and the little carabiner on it since 1999ish. Still use 'em. Up until last year I still had and climbed with my first chalk bag, which I got in 1996. How about you?
My lucky tighty whities.  Est. 1994
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cracklover
Mar 10, 2011, 11:05 PM
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My Omega Pacific locking d-ovals. First locking biners i bought, when I got them for toprope anchors and belay biners.
Heavy as sin, but the things are indestructible. I still use 'em as belay biners. Long after we're gone, when the cockroaches have evolved to be too big to climb without ropes, they will find my OP d-oval in the rubble and climb on. Except for the one cockroach who'll be like - "Dude, don't you know you can't climb on used gear? Microfractures!"
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moose_droppings
Mar 10, 2011, 11:31 PM
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My brain......pretty well used and ready for retirement.
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gunkiemike
Mar 10, 2011, 11:48 PM
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Spring loaded 1X11 mm Sticht plate. 1975. Chouinard hexes and a few Chouinard biners from 1976-7.
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billcoe_
Mar 11, 2011, 3:38 AM
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5,6, and 7 Chouinard hexes which I bought @ 40 years ago. Still in use, abiet less that days of old. Here they are @ 4 years or so back on a FA.
You can click on the pic to make it bigger, but there's some serious Cowbell happening on the rack there:-)
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shockabuku
Mar 11, 2011, 4:10 AM
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Had the longest? Some military steel oval biners
Had the longest and still in use? A set of black diamond stoppers and some OP carabiners.
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mattm
Mar 11, 2011, 4:48 AM
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Still in Use: GriGri from 1993
Not in use (but could be): Clog Locking Pear Biner - '91
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sungam
Mar 11, 2011, 12:28 PM
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Bill! Your hair is awesome.
Oldest piece of gear, harness. Petzl something. Really gotta replace it soon.
Second oldest is a couple of HB draws I got for a fiver, then a 2.5 HB flexicam, from like 05 or somethin.
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billcoe_
Mar 11, 2011, 4:07 PM
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sungam wrote: Bill! Your hair is awesome. Oldest piece of gear, harness. Petzl something. Really gotta replace it soon. Second oldest is a couple of HB draws I got for a fiver, then a 2.5 HB flexicam, from like 05 or somethin.
Hah, I see more hair in the drain in the am these days than on my head there. LOL.
Petzl something? Sounds like you must have the Todd Skinner model harness.
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potreroed
Mar 11, 2011, 4:46 PM
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I own, and still occasionally use, a hammer that was given to me by Pat Ament in 1968 that made an early ascent of The Nose on El Cap.
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sungam
Mar 11, 2011, 4:46 PM
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billcoe_ wrote: sungam wrote: Bill! Your hair is awesome. Oldest piece of gear, harness. Petzl something. Really gotta replace it soon. Second oldest is a couple of HB draws I got for a fiver, then a 2.5 HB flexicam, from like 05 or somethin. Hah, I see more hair in the drain in the am these days than on my head there. LOL. Petzl something? Sounds like you must have the Todd Skinner model harness.
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drector
Mar 11, 2011, 4:50 PM
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Nuts that are about 10 years old. The rest of my gear from then has been discarded or replaced and discarded. I might have a DB Enduro carabiner on a key chain that was one of the first I bought but got a bit worn from top roping through it for ten years.
Dave
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durangoclimber
Mar 11, 2011, 5:57 PM
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Deez....deez nuts !!!!! :-)
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jeepnphreak
Mar 11, 2011, 6:25 PM
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My oldest piece of gear is an set of 1975 forest arrowheads; retired
the oldest piece that still on active duty is a few red gate bd biners for 1995 or so.
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cornstateclimber
Mar 11, 2011, 6:55 PM
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BD harness, chalk bag and 5ten spire shoes bought all at once,about ten years ago, still in use these days, but only as loaner gear, ive replaced all my softwear
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lena_chita
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Mar 11, 2011, 7:09 PM
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ENARE wrote: mrtristan wrote: What piece of gear have you had the longest? And is it still on active duty or is it in your closet or gear bin? I've had my nut tool (the old DMM one with the blue plastic handle. Love it.) since probably 2000, and the little carabiner on it since 1999ish. Still use 'em. Up until last year I still had and climbed with my first chalk bag, which I got in 1996. How about you? My lucky tighty whities. Est. 1994
Hmmm... either you have an exceedingly gentle washing machine, or you have a very ratty-looking underwear.
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boo
Mar 11, 2011, 7:41 PM
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My Jeep. Bought it several months before I started climbing with little idea that I would 'need' it as much as I did. For the first couple years, it made multiple trips in 4WD/weekly up to the local crag. Later it would be the 'chosen' vehicle to reach hardly cut roads. Drove from the east coast to WY and drove all over Medicine Bow USFS land on original wagon train roads.
With 297K miles, I could say it has been my most consistent and reliable partner. 
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TarHeelEMT
Mar 12, 2011, 1:01 AM
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Gear: ATC from when I started climbing in the late 90s
Pro: Yellow TCU
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granite_grrl
Mar 12, 2011, 1:13 AM
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I've donated most of my original biners to various people and places, but I still have two Lucky notches nose biners, they called them guitars or something. Probably got them back in '01 or there abouts.
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JohnCook
Mar 12, 2011, 3:33 AM
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Two MOACs and a clog hex from the late 60's and a pair of spuds. All regularly rethreaded and in regular use. Original stitch plate (a circle of ally with two slots, dead complex!) retired as newer devices became available. Also an original rigid stem friend from the late 70's, still used occasionally. Snowdon mouldings curver ice axe with glass fibre shaft, still good and used when I can get to steep frozen stuff. Loads of other hoarded old stuff that is there for the memories and to show to modern techno-freaks.
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gmggg
Mar 12, 2011, 3:37 PM
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lena_chita wrote: ENARE wrote: mrtristan wrote: What piece of gear have you had the longest? And is it still on active duty or is it in your closet or gear bin? I've had my nut tool (the old DMM one with the blue plastic handle. Love it.) since probably 2000, and the little carabiner on it since 1999ish. Still use 'em. Up until last year I still had and climbed with my first chalk bag, which I got in 1996. How about you? My lucky tighty whities. Est. 1994 Hmmm... either you have an exceedingly gentle washing machine, or you have a very ratty-looking underwear.
If they are really lucky then I hope that he wouldn't have made the catastrophic error of washing the luck off.
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Paul_W
Mar 12, 2011, 6:36 PM
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Clog locking D biner from '78? Retired last year. Still use my double set of rigid stem friends from late 80's having new slings put on now.
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Gmburns2000
Mar 12, 2011, 7:53 PM
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a set of Wild Country nuts. Not a complete original set anymore, but the set is still full.
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Bulletproof2000
Mar 25, 2011, 6:23 PM
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Still use:
Old DMM/Camp? all black nut tool that had broken and that I had brazed back together (92).
Clog 11mm superlocks(92).
Charlet Moser Super-12 new-matics(92).
oldest and retired:
Mc Innes Terrordactyl Ice Hammer with the original orange leash.
http://www.smhc.co.uk/...em.asp?item_id=32140
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edge
Mar 25, 2011, 7:01 PM
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Well, I still have the first rope that I ever bought, a 3/8" Goldline that I led on for about a year and a half. The Whillans harness and steel oval biners that I bought at the same time were either sold or destroyed years ago. These were all purchased mail order from EMS in 1976.
As for pieces still in current usage, probably some assorted Chouinard wired stoppers and small hexes circa 1976.
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climberslacker
Mar 26, 2011, 5:08 PM
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2nd Grade: I was going to a birthday party at a climbing gym for Beaver's (the founder of Prana) daughter and they gave us chalk bags. Its been on my harness since Ive started climbing, no reason to get a new one. Ive been climbing (if you count in gyms) since like 4th grade and took it along then. Now Im a junior so I've had it for like eight years.
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jacobs
Mar 28, 2011, 7:44 PM
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my climb high nut tool from 98 and my friends from the same year. I guess my first set of bd nuts as well. I think I bought them all the same week. I never had a good reason to replace them yet.
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cacalderon
Mar 28, 2011, 11:13 PM
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lol.. a daisy chain.. good reminder to retire that thing
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darkgift06
Mar 29, 2011, 4:16 PM
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I have & still carry from time to time an old fig 8 from 91' or something like that..
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jakedatc
Mar 29, 2011, 4:20 PM
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yep, still have my first set up but don't use them.. BOD harness, trango jaws, 5.10 spires.
i suppose i still use my original OP Jake biner for a spare locker on my trad rack that i don't use for belaying anymore.
oldest that i still use on a regular basis are my OP JC biners that are the rope end of 90% of my sport draws.
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Mar 29, 2011, 4:49 PM
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I still have and occasionally use my very first piece of gear--a locking steel biner from the early 1970s. For pro, I have a set of rigid stem friends (with a Gunks tie-off, of course) from the early 1980s.
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