What does your Woody look like???

Adam Stackhouse wrote:Tavis, As an fyi, i have purchased most of my Threeball holds via cosmetic seconds. Saves a lot of money.

Word. They didn't have much in that department when I looked on the website. I bought one of the largest hold sets and although the holds themselves are quality, the set was very heavy in small crimps and foot jibs. I simply didn't think it was worth the money.

The set I got from Atomik for a bit less money had similar quality holds and larger holds on average. I think if you compared the two simply by weight the Atomik set probably had 30% more weight and cost 30% less, the quality seemed to be the same.

And then there is Buuda. Man you can get a big hold set from them for less than 50% of what the other two companies sell. And they are good holds. My only complaint was that the holds were dirty when they arrived. Like, dusty - as if they had been stored in some grimy warehouse somewhere. I am going to have to wash the whole set before I set with it. But... You get what you pay for. In this case the quality and quantity were both good and the price was low but it's bizarre, you would never get dirty holds from a company in the USA

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Tavis Ricksecker wrote: And then there is Buuda. Man you can get a big hold set from them for less than 50% of what the other two companies sell.

How are you getting such good prices from Buuda? I looked on their site and the prices are the same as Soill-around $10 per pound.

I have a lot of Atomic holds which are good enough, but not as interesting as Soill, which cost a fortune! Unfortunately my wall is so steep I can't seem to set problems with anything less than a finger jug or really good pinch, so interesting holds don't really do anything for me!

Ebay - 85 hold sets listed at $225 OBO, you can haggle them down a bit. Maybe they aren't being sold by the manufacturer but I think they are - they shipped from Mexico

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Damn, I'm almost embarrassed to share mine after that amazing home bouldering cave pic, but here's my system board in the garage:

System board + other training implements

Dry tooling until the ice melts out, rock system board afterwards! I'll probably get a bunch more rock holds to build a symmetric training board.

Good lord, Tavis, that looks better than the commercial gyms I go to. Any estimate on total cost of materials/holds? That looks amazing and I'd pay to climb on it.

Tony Monbetsu wrote:Good lord, Tavis, that looks better than the commercial gyms I go to. Any estimate on total cost of materials/holds? That looks amazing and I'd pay to climb on it.

Tony, I think we've dropped about $6K or a little more. Didn't need to spend so much on framing, think we could have saved close to $1K by using smaller pieces - its primarily 2x10 on the bigger/steeper panels. The lights are LED so they don't make much heat and will never burn out but were expensive, could have saved at least $1K by getting cheaper lights. But then we were given over $2K of holds as well so I'm going to go ahead and guess that to build this a little cheaper but buying all the holds would still run $5-6K

Tavis, that is the most professional looking wall I've seen on this site! Nice job...

Thanks man. Idunno Greg's is pretty nice too :)

This whole thread is awesome and inspirational. Great work everyone.

Tavis has a pretty great looking cave of fun......and well upolstered and padded too it appears.

Woodchuck ATC wrote:Tavis has a pretty great looking cave of fun......and well upolstered and padded too it appears.

Just regular carpet. Now there's ~8 pads and a mattress in there too. Looking into getting a custom floor from Asana but it's ~$5K so going to have to save up for a while

Not mine, but had to share. This was posted on the routesetters anonymous facebook page. Sick!

Sick home woody from routesetters anonymous facebook page.

Kevin Hilgert wrote:Not mine, but had to share. This was posted on the routesetters anonymous facebook page. Sick!

damn that is nice

rich bastards!! that's gotta cost some pretty good change.nice set up!

8X8, pivoting wall.

I finally got started building my woody this past weekend. It has taken a few weeks to just rip out old shelves / build new shelves and figure out where I was gonna put everything that use to be stored on this wall. It is still very much a work in progress and the garage is a complete disaster, but I'm close to having my own rock wall. The wall is built with 2x6's and is 10'7" tall and 15' wide. It wall also have a small vertical wall on the left side where it meets the wall. It's only 22 degrees, but thats all the space I had to work with. I originally threw around a few ideas on the design in this thread here , but I decided inorder to get the most use out of the wall to go with one large surface. I still have to be able to use my garage for working on the vehicles and projects around the house so it couldn't take up the entire garage. I had the extra wood and the studs were not completely straight so I added blocking 24" OC. This really tightened everything up. I purchased an extra sheet of 3/4 ply and I plan to make a few volumes to help keep it interesting. I bought the Atomik Great 108 starter set and it came with 3 extra holds so I'll have 111 holds to start with. I purchased 475 T-nuts so I'll add more holds as money allows.

I've got an engineering question. This should have been ask before I built the wall... Do you think the majority of the weight of this wall is pushing down on the concrete floor, pulling down from the ceiling joist above or combination? It seems like the only weight that would be put on the ceiling joist is the weight it would take to keep the wall from tipping forward. This of course doesn't take into account when someone is climbing on the wall. I may be wrong about the way the forces are being applied here. I put a spax lag scew in every ceiling joist above the wall, 11 lags total... So I'm not concerned about it ripping away from the ceiling, just curious how much down force I'm putting on the ceiling joist above.

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Will it looks like your wall might fall down. (sarcasm alert)

Now that I got that out of the way, great job. Looks like a bit overkill, but that's definitely the way to go (I definitely over engineered my wall). It's nice not feeling the wall move as you swing around :).

Keep your eye out on atomik holds website for the deals of the day. They can put stuff up for 50% off at times, and always try to check in for factory seconds (Atomik and other hold manufacturers). 90% of the factory seconds I've bought I have trouble finding anything wrong with them (most of them are small color blemishes). Project Holds just had a deal for cosmetic blemishes (factory seconds) that were on sale for less than $5/lb. I bought 20 lbs ($100) and just went back through their web site to check prices and I ended up with well over $300 worth of holds (if they were perfect). The only downside is you never know what holds you're going to get, but it's always fun opening the box :).

You can heel hook to the left, go through that garage side door, and enter into another climbing realm in the next room!! Go for it!!