[Paul B]

and why is Shrek pearing around the top of your 30 deg board 

[Eddies]

Whats the overhanging wall attached to? A roof rafter?

Yup, a big old oak beam, gonna be extending it soon as its a few moves too short at the mo!

Yeh, no idea where Shrek came from, beast a big gaping hole tho... got a problem on the 30deg wall called 'Shrek Direct' !!

[fatneck]

I can finally confirm that the 45% section of our woody is finished and we made a start putting holds on last night!
No doubt Rich or Tom will follow this post with photo's.

[Richie Crouch]

And here is the finished article (apart from the obvious lack of holds currently on! )

[Mike Tyson]

That is SWEET!

Its just like the woody at Keswick wall, its almost identical. I'm very jealous. Good use of the car for scale as well.

[Monolith]

She's a beast that's for sure. Took a lot of effort, soul-searching and raping the yellow pages and internet but sure enough it came to light. I'll dig out some more snaps now...

[Monolith]

et

A rather more moody proposition...



As you can see, not an ocean of holds on at the moment but have a lot of bolting/screwon work to do as well as some other tasks to make it more 'homely'. But yes, very happy.

[GCW]

Nice one guys, that looks ace! 

[richdraws]

Oh so very jealous. Very nice work people. x

[yoda]

Hey is that a VW fastback lurking beneath the covers??.

[Monolith]

I believe it is yes. That car is gathering a lot of interest I can tell you! Not sure what the owners plans are for it yet but have someone very keen to speak to him about it. 

[unclesomebody]

Good effort Tom and crew for finally getting the board built. All you need now are several hundred holds, a nice little stereo and regular sessions 5 days a week! Hope to get the tour if I'm ever up that way again.

[Paul B]

That car is gathering a lot of interest I can tell you! Not sure what the owners plans are for it yet.

Something like this perhaps 

[Monolith]

That would be a very cool look indeed!

a nice little stereo and regular sessions 5 days a week! Hope to get the tour if I'm ever up that way again.

Tannoy speakers and my amp are there. The acoustics are out of this world in that place what with it being a theatre. You're of course very welcome to the tour if you're about at any point Keith. As for 5 day sessions, try stopping me!

[Richie Crouch]

My joints ache already 

It's slowly gathering holds but we still need way more 50mm countersunks! Gonna start cutting up some bannister rail for pinches and just screw them on I think 

[Andy F]

Went down after Pex tonite, very impessive lads  . Can't wait to get a proper session on it.  for everyone.

[chappers]

nice one boyz.
ill have to come down and have a look. get some wood cut up and screwed on.

[Monolith]

Aye good call man. Will be getting round to making some holds in the next few days just been busy with other shit (and the incredible weather means outdoors).

[saltbeef]

that looks sweet.
climbing works take note, that is a training board.

[a dense loner]

monolith the incredible weather means indoors to train. i ask you has gaskins got a tan? before you say yes remember thats just a build-up of blood

[Monolith]

Dense my dear, uber early morning limestone sieges are my thing. You won't catch me with a tan either as the sun is barely up 

But seriously, the venue stays freezing cold. There's no windows so the building never heats up. There's also so much soil banked up around it, it's constantly cooly insulated from the heat.  A dream venue I think you will concur.

Feel free to drop us a pm if any of you Manc lot want a session sometime.

[erm, sam]

Well, my pride and joy is now complete... Behold, 40 degrees of justice:



The size is somewhat limited by the garage is sits within, but I get almost 8 ft of climbing height, not including the 10 inch kickboard of course. I guess you have to get used to super low starts. At least it is perfect practise for all the lying-start projects out there...
Since this pic was taken I have put a load of big home made wooden holds on, as I am (even) much worse at fingery steep climbing than I thought. I have now started tictaking up the resin holds and so far no finger death..

I used less sturdy timber than is generally recomended.. 2.5x3 inch for the verticals (5 across the 8ft width) and 15mm ply.. I cannot detect any flex on the actual structure itself, but holds in the middle of the gap between the uprights, right at the top do flex slightly due to the thinner ply, but I totally didn't notice it after the first 10 mins.. I guess I am not especially heavy (11.5 stone), but then again I am not especially light.
I had no handy exposed beams so I bolted horizontals on the concrete wall and roof with 5 bolts apiece, and wedged the uprights between them. Really difficult drilling straight holes in the concrete.. And I got my measurements wrong and had to drill two lots of holes in the roof. BOLLOX.

So far it has been up for a month and a half or so and I LOVE IT. The biggest difficulty is staying off it, terrified as I am of having to stare at it balefully every day whilst spending 4 months recovering from snapped finger..
Oh, and in germany they display the prices for ply by the square metre, not by the sheet. So if you are a bit of an idiot it can be a shock when you come to pay for your bargin plywood...."Oh, so round about TEN square meters then" "Fucksticks".

And in the background you can see a "Phil and Teds" state of the art 2 kid pushchair. An awesome machine. Buy one even if you only have one kid!

[fatneck]

Good erm, work Sam! Time to get strong...

[ned]

Wow! This is ace.

Buy these : http://www.expression-holds.com/english/gamme/pro_models/akira.htm

And put them in a roof like this: http://www.expression-holds.com/english/gamme/pro_models/akira_draw.pdf

And as if by magic you have your own 9b!

Sweet.

[steven82]

oh yes i am buying them will put them up at the tower let dave lose it