What's going on in this picture?
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This is a photo from a recent climber get-together. Any guesses as to what it is? |
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Looks like load testing the oval carabiner (loaded across the gate) by pulling it with a comealong. Rope looks like it is there to keep things from flying around and plywood is a shield. |
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looks like crossloading a biner (possibly to failure) with some type of dynamometer to offer a reading. -- basically what Cush said. |
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Someone's plan to keep their little piece of California from sliding off into the ocean? |
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Looks like breaking stuff is fun! |
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Can you find the hidden climber in this picture? |
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Geir Hundal wrote:This is a photo from a recent climber get-together. Any guesses as to what it is?what is this? I've narrowed it down, and these are my final guesses. Drilling a glory hole, or two. Setting up for the annual "Burning Cam" event. Playing pin the big bro on the donkey. (He'd better be blind-folded!) Back woods red-neck trying to set a booty trap for a climber, because he's lonely, and hungry. He's dead drunk, about to puke, while trying to impress the girls at camp that he's figured out how the Titanic really sank. Edit: [send. more. hidden. pictures.] |
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Dirty Gri Gri, or is it GiGi? - "Drilling a glory hole, or two." |
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Award goes to Cush for the correct answer, with GiGi as a second runner up for the funniest post! |
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Geir Hundal wrote:Award goes to Cush for the correct answer, with GiGi as a second runner up for the funniest post! It's a pull test station we built to pull slings/rope/gear up to around 8,000 pounds. Here's another shot...May I ask why? |
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Stich wrote:Can you find the hidden climber in this picture? Yes, there is one.Couldn't find it. Post this in a higher resolution so I can get another look. |
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England wrote: May I ask why?I think the beverages you can see in peoples hands in the picture answers that. |
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HAHAHA Rick! |
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@Gier - |
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Geir Hundal wrote:HAHAHA Rick! Yeah, the beverages did make the whole event a lot more festive. England, Mostly out of interest. I've done some research over the years to check out various climbing myths, and this thing is a part of that. stuff like: is he EDK really safe for rappels? does a carabiner that gets dropped a long distance weaken? does use/aging weaken dyneema slings significantly? etc. I also wanted to do controlled testing of hardware so i built a "crack" into the form to pull cams & stoppers. (it's hard to see in the photos). Plus I know some folks that are designing new climbing hardware that wanted to test it.Is this the device you used to do your report on the Gri-Gri, and clove hitch slipping forces etc.., that was very informative. Thanks for that, good stuff. |
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I think barefoot and mildly inebriated are probably requirements for this sort of activity. |
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Geir Hundal wrote:HAHAHA Rick! Yeah, the beverages did make the whole event a lot more festive. England, Mostly out of interest. I've done some research over the years to check out various climbing myths, and this thing is a part of that. stuff like: is he EDK really safe for rappels? does a carabiner that gets dropped a long distance weaken? does use/aging weaken dyneema slings significantly? etc. I also wanted to do controlled testing of hardware so i built a "crack" into the form to pull cams & stoppers. (it's hard to see in the photos). Plus I know some folks that are designing new climbing hardware that wanted to test it.Myth busters for climbing, I like it. Post up. |
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looks like a picture of a guy not worried about losing a toe. |
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Stich wrote:Can you find the hidden climber in this picture? Yes, there is one.Is the climber trapped between her breasts? |
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Price wrote:@Gier - Ever break a comealong with that setup? I mean the plywood looks totally safe and all, but what if something breaks on the other side? Or rather when.God I really hope not! The comealong is rated to 8,000 pounds and I'm pulling no more than 3K right now - will probably have to get a bigger one just to be safe when it comes time to pull bigger loads. :) |
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That's a pretty cool setup. I'll be curious to hear what you discover. |