What does your Woody look like???

Woodchuck ATC wrote:4 Sale! tons of lightly used holds here,, as my local gym closed and I'm now without a fun indoor place and with buckets of holds to spare. PM me for pics and what I've got to sell. Hundreds of holds, in color sets too.

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Matt Roberts wrote:Just finished it this weekend, though since I didn't realize that holds would take a while to get, its still pretty bare. Its pretty much Metolius plans, but with a different design on the kickboard, plus a 24" roof. T-nuts on overlapping 8" grids. Now if I just had some holds...

Backcountry.com can get holds to you super fast for pretty cheap. Selection is limited but usually takes just 3 days to ship to Colorado.

So ill holds and Three ball climbing (plus some others) generally have all of their holds already made and they ship out fast too.

Awesome garage wall!

Another hint here: In pic shown, I'm guessing that lone hold is a great 'launcher' for dyno's. Be sure to back that t-nut up with a chunk of plywood like 5" by 5", a washer and extra nut. A couple years ago a big dude blew the hold right off the dyno wall at the Red River Gorge Rocktober'fest event. A t-nut can only take so many hard pulls on a steep board.

You're gonna want to make that way steeper. I think the spec in hit strips is 55 deg (ie steeper than 45 degrees). Otherwise looks great!

Starting construction next week. My only question is the installation of the t-nuts: how big a hole do you drill? do you really just hammer them in?

anybody got any tips?

I had the same question when I built mine. Get one of these:

7/16 Forstner

The spade type bit will work too, but the whole will not be nearly as clean and if you're as stupid as I am, you'll impale yourself with a 3'' wood sliver while cleaning off the back of the plywood.:

doitbest.com/main.aspx?page…;sku=324159

Yes, you just hammer them in, make sure they're straight. It is loud and tedious as hell.

tks wrote:Starting construction next week. My only question is the installation of the t-nuts: how big a hole do you drill? do you really just hammer them in? anybody got any tips?

they're a little more expensive, but you can get screw-in t-nuts. I have a mix of both, and have to say the ease of placing the screw ins make them worth the extra $$, IMO.

Monomaniac wrote:You're gonna want to make that way steeper. I think the spec in hit strips is 55 deg (ie steeper than 45 degrees). Otherwise looks great!

Yeah I have been needing to increase the angle since I built it. Currently it is about 37 degrees. ;(

That has taught me that eyeballing it, might not always work. ;)

tks wrote:Starting construction next week. My only question is the installation of the t-nuts: how big a hole do you drill? do you really just hammer them in? anybody got any tips?

7/16 hole with paddle drill works great for me. Pound in t-nuts are cheaper by bulk. IF you can get behind your wall to fix a loose one, they should be fine just hammered in LEVEL. Otherwise I glue the edges of each nut after pounding in flat(tedious but worth it to avoid spinners) with liquid nails or similar caulk like glue tubes.

In September I hosted our 2nd Annual Bouldering Competition on my home woody. If you have the space I highly recommend doing something like this with your friends. It is a friendly comp with fun prizes; entry fee was a 6-pack of beer, dinner was provided (slow-roasted 17lbs of pork for carnitas), and prizes ranged from 1st-3rd for Mens/womens to best costume, best determination, best beer, etc.

Details on the competition can be found here:
http://andylibrande.com/news/2011/09/backyard-bouldering-comp-2011/

Details on last year's comp can be found on the previous pages in this thread.

Additionally I built a new feature onto my wall with the purpose of housing the Boss hold which I picked up from Pusher.
pushergear.com/The-Boss_p_8… The unpainted vertical wall on lookers left is the new section and it added quite a bit to the wall.

With the new section we set a route that was 15 moves and you couldn't really skip any of them. Pretty surprising with just a small home woody.

I like to keep things fun and festive

Keith, is that a queen or full size landing pad? Looks sweet!

Wood chuck its a full. We also added a horizontal panel on the bottom of the loft

crash pad hint: IF you have any old tires laying around, they make a great base surface layer under the mattress. The bounce you get from it is really nice. I"ve got a 30 inch thick pole vault pit stacked on top of tires and we can drop from 20 some feet high, flat on our backs and feel just great.

Our garage also doubles as my workshop so the tires wouldn't really work.We have two matresses and a large pad that is 4'x8'x3" when fully open or 4'x4'x6" when folded in half that does the trick for our needs

Just finished my woodie this weekend. The frame is built from 1x1 steel tube and is bolted to 3" I-beams sunk down 18" in concrete.

14' at the high point with a slight overhang.

wow,so cool.