What does your Woody look like???

llanSan wrote: Can´t see the pic.

can you see it now?

Tavis Ricksecker wrote: can you see it now?

Woooow...

Yes I can

The Garage Cave

Who´s under the blue plastic?

Nice cave, are you going to put some color?

College dorm room woody with au-naturale hand-formed wooden holds.

Dorm room woodie

Our Christmas present to ourselves.

About 6.5' tall, and an angle of about 55 degrees

My first attempt at setting routes didn't go too horribly.

Holds by Metolius, Escape, and Synrock.

Water bouldering
My "woody" made out of steel and trex decking planks.
8' wide 12' tall angled over the water at 25°
Suggestions on improvements are welcome

https://youtu.be/f5_UgfLWCMM

Christopher Marks wrote: My "woody" made out of steel and trex decking planks. 8' wide 12' tall angled over the water at 25° Suggestions on improvements are welcome

My mom would have killed me if I tried to build a pool side wall at our home back when I was still living there (translate- often for years, between jobs, climber bum lifestyle). Even a nearby tree would have been fun to use.

Hey guys, new here. I'm in the planning phase of my woody build and want your advice. Check out the options I drew up below and vote for your favorite because I cant decide. This would help me out a lot. This is in a two car garage with an 8 foot ceiling (the roof pitch gives another 2.5 feet). Each big panel is a 4'x8' sheet of plywood.

Thanks

E

Option1

Option2

Option 3

Option 4

Option 5

Option 6

Option 7

Option 8

Eric M wrote:Hey guys, new here. I'm in the planning phase of my woody build and want your advice. Check out the options I drew up below and vote for your favorite because I cant decide. This would help me out a lot. This is in a two car garage with an 8 foot ceiling (the roof pitch gives another 2.5 feet). Each big panel is a 4'x8' sheet of plywood. Thanks E

For training I’ll go for number 1 or 8.

For fun I like option 6 with an additional flat plywood in the far back wall.

For Economy number 1.

Is the programm easy to use? and which one is it?

Go with whatever gives you the most surface area, with a little bit of variety.
I'd try to keep the framing as simple as possible, I like some of the ones with a little variety. Height is your friend as well.
I'd go with 2,5, or 8.

I like options 3 & 4 the best but 8 would probably be the best for training.

Eric, All your designs are nice but for a home woody you want tall and wide panels. A 12'x12' wall would be the minimum I would shoot for which you can get with 8' ceilings at 45 degrees. Follow the KISS principle.

My basement bathroom woody, not the greatest space but it's what was available. All my holds are home made from lava stone, just drilled and countersunk the holes for the screws, as well as grinding a flat side. Around 1/3 break when weighted, but the ones that last are great!

Rough homemade volumes

One of my favorites

Mono

Basically a hangboard

Thanks guys for your all your suggestions. I'm going to keep it simple with a 30 degree 12' x 12' plane and build a few volumes to add interest.

Backyard woody about 12'. Home made volumes and crashpad. Danglyballs made out of wood fence cap balls lol. Designed on google sketch-up to re-purpose panels I already had drilled and t-nutted in my basement traverse room.

So here's what I plunked down in my back yard last summer.

I had built a traverse wall covering a couple small, short rooms in the basement, and the ceiling but after a while I really needed more vertical action and thought I'd re-purpose the panels for outside.

I used (free) Google Sketchup to figure out how to best make use of those panels and then set a couple 16' 6x6 posts with cement about 4' down, and built it to the specs. Took me a couple weeks figuring out how to use sketchup and only a couple days to actually build the woody (solo too except for setting those posts lol).

I zinc coat sprayed the t-nuts as they weren't stainless, and did some water seal on the exposed wood for winter so I'll see how it fared when I start to reset.

Anyway, all she needs is some big slopers and pinches this year - not cheap :(

This thread actually gives me wood!

Finally got my Woody fully erected in the basement to show off.

The basement ceiling was 8'9". The largest section is a 30-degree overhang at 11-feet long, creating about 110 square feet of climbing wall. The 15-degree overhang (shorter width) wall is a bit over 6 feet long (75.5-inches). The back wall is vertical for my kids to climb on and to maximize the amount of 30-degree overhang. Overhangs are 2x6 and the vertical is 2x4. I purchased 8 sheets of plywood and used it pretty efficiently, so I would guestimate that there is a total of 240 square feet of climbing.

Construction:

Construction of my climbing wall, 15-degree in foreground, 30-degree in background

Construction of my climbing wall, 15-degree overhang on left, 30-degree on right, vertical on the back wall.

Finished:
30-degree overhang, about 11 feet long. the ceiling height is 8'9", resulting in about 10 feet of overhanging climbing surface.

Roof shot of finished climbing wall.

Finished climbing wall.

I painted the wall with porch paint mixed with sand, first time I haven't just left the wall bare plywood. The only reason I added sand was to minimize paint coming off with holds, no intention of providing additional friction. Seems to be holding up ok, and doesn't have too much paint or any plywood coming off when I remove holds.

For the floor, I placed foam I purchased from "The Foam Factory"; 2.5-inch regular charcoal foam and 0.5-inch firm charcoal foam between carpet. Originally I planned to place it in a layer with the firm foam over the regular foam, but I ordered enough to have two layers in the majority of the floor, so it is two layers of regular and two layers of firm (~6-inches in the middle). With carpet on top, I think you would be happy with just one layer of the 3- or 4-inch charcoal foam with carpet on top. Cost $287 shipped (carpet was free) for the flooring and You don't really need the crash-pads shown.

Shot of the padded flooring, 2.5-inch regular charcoal foam and 0.5-inch firm charcoal foam from "The Foam Factory".

Most of my holds are up but route setting will need some work. I had to get them up fast for my four year old (note the lack of much up high). The vertical wall is a bunch of big holds right now, but those are my current priorities.

Eric M wrote:Hey guys, new here. I'm in the planning phase of my woody build and want your advice. Check out the options I drew up below and vote for your favorite because I cant decide. This would help me out a lot. This is in a two car garage with an 8 foot ceiling (the roof pitch gives another 2.5 feet). Each big panel is a 4'x8' sheet of plywood. Thanks E

I'd recommend something like option 1 or 8. If you've only got a 12' wide space to work with keep it the same angle and maybe add some volumes. All the angle changes might seem cool at first, but are going to be very boring in the long run and will limit your setting options. This will also make construction significantly cheaper and easier.

jnowis wrote:Finally got my Woody fully erected in the basement to show off. The basement ceiling was 8'9". The largest section is a 30-degree overhang at 11-feet long, creating about 110 square feet of climbing wall. The 15-degree overhang (shorter width) wall is a bit over 6 feet long (75.5-inches). The back wall is vertical for my kids to climb on and to maximize the amount of 30-degree overhang. Overhangs are 2x6 and the vertical is 2x4. I purchased 8 sheets of plywood and used it pretty efficiently, so I would guestimate that there is a total of 240 square feet of climbing. Construction: Finished: I painted the wall with porch paint mixed with sand, first time I haven't just left the wall bare plywood. The only reason I added sand was to minimize paint coming off with holds, no intention of providing additional friction. Seems to be holding up ok, and doesn't have too much paint or any plywood coming off when I remove holds. For the floor, I placed foam I purchased from "The Foam Factory"; 2.5-inch regular charcoal foam and 0.5-inch firm charcoal foam between carpet. Originally I planned to place it in a layer with the firm foam over the regular foam, but I ordered enough to have two layers in the majority of the floor, so it is two layers of regular and two layers of firm (~6-inches in the middle). With carpet on top, I think you would be happy with just one layer of the 3- or 4-inch charcoal foam with carpet on top. Cost $287 shipped (carpet was free) for the flooring and You don't really need the crash-pads shown. Most of my holds are up but route setting will need some work. I had to get them up fast for my four year old (note the lack of much up high). The vertical wall is a bunch of big holds right now, but those are my current priorities.

Hey great job and use of space! I'd just be especially careful with that kind of setup as far as setting sketchy projects since a fall or stumble can easily result in smacking your head or face off a hold on the other side. It seems a bit close.

On the other hand, you can set some great chimney-like problems spanning the two sides. ;)