What useless gear did you by?

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BD Couloir Harness.  Worse harness ever.  I bought it for scrambling and glacier tours. Every time I've worn it I would have gladly carried the extra 100 grams or so for a lightweight 'real' harness.

WC Zeros.  Wanted Aliens, but when Aliens happened to have exploding heads about the time I was buying my rack.  These things collected dust for years before I finally sold them and bought TCUs.

I'm pretty sure a few ball-nuts were the most useless purchase. I bought them for some aid routes on my tick list, but....can't quite trust them to take body weight, let alone a potential whip. 

Jumars, Aiders, talon/sky hooks, Lost arrow and angle pitons and fifi's.  I never did any aid climbing.

Sold the whole lot for $100.

ColinW wrote: I'm pretty sure a few ball-nuts were the most useless purchase. I bought them for some aid routes on my tick list, but....can't quite trust them to take body weight, let alone a potential whip. 

That's not the fault of the ball nuts, go out and bounce test em on top rope.

ColinW wrote: I'm pretty sure a few ball-nuts were the most useless purchase. I bought them for some aid routes on my tick list, but....can't quite trust them to take body weight, let alone a potential whip. 

I place them free climbing a decent amount. Used them to aid up a pitch that was too hard once too. Bomber

Buck Rio wrote: Jumars, Aiders, talon/sky hooks, Lost arrow and angle pitons and fifi's.  I never did any aid climbing.

Sold the whole lot for $100.

Damn, I would’ve taken that deal! :(. Incidentally, I built an anchor that ended up being a hanging belay (long story) with a #3 BD nut yesterday.  Nobody died...

Ted Pinson wrote:

Damn, I would’ve taken that deal! :(. Incidentally, I built an anchor that ended up being a hanging belay (long story) with a #3 BD nut yesterday.  Nobody died...

I hope there was more than that. 

Hahaha yes, of course.

Ted Pinson wrote:

Damn, I would’ve taken that deal! :(. Incidentally, I built an anchor that ended up being a hanging belay (long story) with a #3 BD nut yesterday.  Nobody died...

Since I know you meant that the anchor CONTAINED a #3 nut, I'll not make any comments.

The aid stuff I sold was just sitting there, so $100 to me was just gravy. I still have the Yosemite hammer and the daisy's.

Cheat stick. On a rare occasion one needs it there is no problem to improvise it.

(rock dependent) Nut tool. As we use beaks intensively one always carry a choice of next to perfect nut tools on theirs carytools.

Spork. If one is not strong enough to pull both a spoon and a fork up a wall there are chances they would better do strength training in theirs local gym instead of climbing dangerous terrain for a while.

Ultralight anything. Everything comes for a price. Ultralight always means "too fragile to be used outside a perfectly comfortable and safe environment".

Many of the items mentioned above: tricams, ball nuts, sliders...