What Does Your Woody Look Like??? v3.0

My walls are very textured with paint and fine sand. You might try that with your holds, in reverse. Take either some paint or wood glue, paint the backside of the holds, sprinkle in some fine sand, let dry, grippy.

My $.01 1/2!

Vanilla Drilla From Manilawrote:

That’s probably what I’ll have to do, blue loctite 

I would seriously caution against loctite.  The Anti seize the previous poster was commenting on is not a loctite type thing but a lubricant, which IS what you would want on the bolts to keep from corroding.  You will likely just need to tighten bolts somewhat regularly.  That’s normal 

Todd Berlier wrote:

also was just thinking this morning has the home wall boom hurt the gyms at all?

i guess that covid in general was MUCH worse; but, there had to be a few gyms barely hanging on that folded since the return to almost normal wasn't as robust. or has the growth offset the loses?

I canceled my membership when I built my wall...I’m sure I’m not the only one. But my local gym seems to be doing ok though.

My walls are painted with some sand mixed in, no issue with loose holds. The downside is the holds don’t want to come off. Sometimes a whack with a rubber mallet gets them to pop off, others I’ve had to pry off. For part of the wall I used some finished birch panels that I had on hand, then painted them. Removing the holds on those panels has resulted in chunks of the finished layer coming off. 

Finally finished my moonboard. 

Finishing up the Swol Barn. 45° 8x12 moonboard. Only holds A + B for now. Going to add in some jugs for a warm up. The goatys approve.

 

Max Rwrote:

Finishing up the Swol Barn. 45° 8x12 moonboard. Only holds A + B for now. Going to add in some jugs for a warm up. The goatys approve.

 

I've heard about goat yoga, but is goat bouldering a thing too??

Max Rwrote:

Finishing up the Swol Barn. 45° 8x12 moonboard. Only holds A + B for now. Going to add in some jugs for a warm up. The goatys approve.

 

IDk man...I see all that room in the barn and wonder why the whole thing isn’t a climbing wall.

Following along again.  Looks like we'll be moving to a house with an old barn that has a 40' ceiling and open floor plan in a few months, so the current little basement wall we have going will be getting removed but hopefully used on a big upgrade.. 

Needs more holds but it gets the job done. Actually have more holds just ran out of bolts which should be here in a couple days.

Nicholas Kwrote:

Thoughts? Any ideas to improve?

1st - Don't rely on Maurizio Cattelan to design your climbing wall.

2nd -  8 taped bananas @ $120,000 each... uh

10 by 10 ft with a 1 ft kicker at 40 degrees. Very stoked on it.

I shared my build right when I finished it, maybe on the second thread. Finally getting close to max out on hold space. I’ve got it set in a spray wall/circuit combo style. Pretty effective and fun IMO.

10.5’x8’ @ 20 degrees 

my only regret is not building it wider. I really wish I extended it that final 4 feet to the wall on the right as it would give a lot more square footage and room to traverse.

My woody is really skinny

csproulwrote:

I painted my wall. Even after letting it dry for a couple of weeks, the holds are stuck to the paint pretty well and do not spin. To the point that I could remove the bolt and most of the plastic holds would still support body weight. My syn-rock holds don’t stick quite like that. I don’t have wooden holds so not sure if wood would stick.

A little dusting of baby powder or chalk before mounting the hold will prevent the sticking. Takes the tack out of the paint, if that’s what you’d prefer. 

Todd Berlier wrote:

finally complete. 

its been mostly done for a year, but there's constant minor tweaks. the sun shade on top i just added.

Sweet wall. Where do you live that you aren’t concerned about rain/snow? 

10' (tall) x 8' (wide) @ 33 degrees overhanging. I think if it were any bigger, i would never leave the house to go climbing haha

Here’s my contribution - 10 ft x 10 ft at 40 degrees, with a 1 ft kicker. 

The holds are mostly Beastmakers, with a set of eGrips and few odd other holds thrown in. I used 1 inch pieces of baseboard for the kicker, and wow are they slippery. Those wood holds take a lot of squeeze!

Does anyone have recommendations for large single matchable slopers that are good to use(v5 and up) on a 35-45 degree wall? I would like 1 or 2 large single holds instead of that standard set of 5s.

Last year I put up a warm-up / kids area in a shed I built, this year I expanded the shed and just put up a system board (Lemur panels for 7x10 Kilter) last week.