[gme]

Just use the cheapest stuff you can find. We built the school out of absolute shite reject shuttering ply and the boards are still fine now having had a lot of miles on them. (admittedly not much in the last five years.)
The only reasons commercail walls used the better stuff is1)looks and 2) they repeatedly screw and unscrew holds gradually filling the boards with holes. I am pretty sure that the average home wall would not have a problem with this.

Also with holds, the school holds were given a lot of hammer over the years but i guess 75% of the holds were wood, a majority of these were made from off cut softwoods dug out of a skip. Some of them the edges snapped off but this either happened straight away or after years of abuse. 90% of them were fine.

[SA Chris]

Cheers guys.

Yeah I think less steep board and worse holds is probably the way to go. I've got quite a few holds already (bought from dave years ago!) plus a shitload of bits of softwood from the frame of a (now dismantled) sofa the was left behind in the house when we moved in (kept the seatcushions!). The round feet from the sofa will make good holds too. Reduce, reuse, recycle.

[Jim]

could you not put a board over the freezer at an angle and pad that out?

[Paul B]

Cheers guys.

Yeah I think less steep board and worse holds is probably the way to go. I've got quite a few holds already (bought from dave years ago!) plus a shitload of bits of softwood from the frame of a (now dismantled) sofa the was left behind in the house when we moved in (kept the seatcushions!). The round feet from the sofa will make good holds too. Reduce, reuse, recycle.

cragx board? Best fingerboard there is IMO (footwork will suffer though, given they never move and you only ever have one foot on).

[SA Chris]

Sorry, you confused me? What's the cragx board? I'm looking to build a woodie, got about 2.6 m of height. I've got a beastmaker fingerboard / pullup bar combo already.

[Paul B]

Gently overhanging, hanging start. Terrible holds etc.

[SA Chris]

Ah ok.

[Fadanoid]

My eldest has asked me to build her a climbing wall cave in the unused half of my workshop.

I was wondering what holds people on here have bought and can recommend in terms of quality, variety, realism (like a real rock feature rather than a letter or number or animal shape)?

I like GME's idea of cutting and shaping bits of wood into holds as you could probably come up with some holds, but I would guess that using these as feet holds is what wrecks them?

[peewee]

90% of the holds on my board are wood and we do use the hold for feet aswell, unless they have sharp edges then they tend to be ok and don't get wrecked apart from having a layer of rubber on them but this can be brushed or sanded off easily. The type of wood you use also makes a difference, Hardwood stands up a lot better than soft wood but it isnt as grippy.

[Fadanoid]

I think the wooden holds in my local wall were not of the best quality as they have a lot of splits.

I did see a video a while back of a home made wall where someone had made some great slopers by gluing some sandpaper over some halved 9" posts. Can't blooming well find it on youtube now though.

[Fadanoid]

I'm liking the core climbing holds grit range. Anyone got any of these?

[Durbs]

They've got some at Craggy 2 - I like 'em 

[rich d]

I'm liking the core climbing holds grit range. Anyone got any of these?

is the colour based on the headless horseman arête video?

[JamieG]

Saw this on Reddit. Pretty impressive effort.

http://imgur.com/a/lAaYy

[rginns]

Saw this on Reddit. Pretty impressive effort.

http://imgur.com/a/lAaYy

Wow, nice rebuild...

[Fadanoid]

Yep I'm liking that

I've just been working out the sizes panels and angles of the cave I'm building for the kids.

So far I've come up with these:

Right hand side panels


Left hand side panels

Room is 3.6 x 2.4, Central Room height is 2.36m

Now to calc how many holds i'll need 

[SA Chris]

That's pretty complex amd may be more of a faff to build than it's worth, unless you are a master carpenter. Worry about how many t nuts you'll need first. Buying and putting holds up is the easy bit.

[Fadanoid]

That's just the ply surfaces, I will have room surrounding it to build the frame.

I plan on spending some considerable time down there to build it. Just hope I don't do a Caldwell 

[roddersm]

Apologies if this has been covered.

I'm keen to build a moonboard, or something of similar dimensions but it needs to be free standing and rain covered as I don't have room indoors or a suitable fixed outdoor structure to build it on.

Does anyone have any suggestions or built anything similar?

Thanks.

[Fadanoid]

Rodders, I've nearly finished my garden moonboard.



I just need to put the felting cover on the back and its weather proofed. Its the full size moonboard. Was reasonable easy to put together and doesn't flex as much as the other outdoor board designs I saw.
I intend to put some playground chippings below to cover the concrete too.

[Fadanoid]

Better angled shot before the top bracing went on.

[Durbs]

Those are some serious supporting beams.

[Fadanoid]

Its over engineered as I want it to withstand a hurricane.

[roddersm]

Excellent, thanks for the response.

What are you using for the beams? My yard is concreted so something like that may work for me.

Any estimate how much this cost you? How do you plan to cover?

Cheers. 

[Fadanoid]

I'm basically going to panel the back and put felt on it. If I want to put a canopy on the front, I will get a canvas one made up to clip on and off. I will see how I feel about climbing in the rain...

The beams are (100mm diameter x 3.6m) machined round timber posts.
These were £14 each

The swing brackets were off ebay. I think they were £50 for the pair

The treated timber for the frame work was £13 per 4.8m length
The wbp ply was around £25 per sheet 18mm & 6mm for the rear cover panels.

Price breakdown:
£298 all timber items
£50 Brackets
£30 all fixings and treatments for the exposed metals
£25 for all tee nuts and bolts. (Lucky ebay bulk auction!)
£120 for school set B holds £10 for footholds
£20 for felt
£20 for concrete

£573 total which looking back was more than I thought it was going to be. However you may be able to do it cheaper as mine is OTT