Who to call for route maintance??

Post by **Sunshine** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:16 pm

The Rawl 5 piece is now the Power Bolt. It is still being produced by Powers Fasteners. I just bought 5 boxes for Miguel.

Post by **tomdarch** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:19 pm

Should donations to the 'community route repair drill fund' just be dropped at RRO, or is there a Team Suck Swiss/Nigerian bank account fund we can do EFTs into?

Post by KD » Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:11 pm

cool stuff, i'll put somethin' in on it. I really support the educational part of it. Some kind of anchor drilling schooling should be a prerequisite for putting up anchors.

Post by **Bashie** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:10 am

Gullwing,
Placing a bolt/fixing an anchor isn't rocket science. Rick Weber of Muir Valley fame wrote a great overview you should read. http://www.muirvalley.com/pdf/BoltingBook.pdf
Here is another educational link:
http://www.safeclimbing.org/
Buy a drill, spend some bucks on good anchors, and start fixing anchors.
I'm not sure I'm into the whole community tools thing. If you ever worked at a construction job, you will notice that the boss never provides tools for everyone. Nobody takes care of them unless they are the owners. I bought a used Bosch Bulldog on e-bay for 50 bucks. Wire up some NiMH batteries and you are good to go.
Yeah the forest service is all for good anchors and all against death in the woods.

Post by **pigsteak** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:38 am

Muir uses Dynabolt Gold, or the equippers choice.

Post by **kirker** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:12 am

Bashie,
About how long where the life of the batteries. "2 bolts = 1 battery?"

Post by **Christian** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:14 pm

tomdarch wrote:Should donations to the 'community route repair drill fund' just be dropped at RRO, or is there a Team Suck Swiss/Nigerian bank account fund we can do EFTs into?

It is actually the "Sunshine Entertaingment Fund for widows and orphans" attention Terry
The International Bank of Grand Cayman
I am the court appointed Trustee and you can send these donations to my office in the form of gold kruger rands or large denomination US currency with non-sequeential serial numbers. No electronic transfers will be acknowledged.

Post by **lordjim_2001** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:42 pm

If someone can spot the cash now, there is up for sale now on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Post by **tamara** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:35 am

This is a copied message from Ray Pantess, the FA of coffee talk.

Been travelling too much to keep tabs on the route(s). If I had time,
I
would refit the anchors, probably putting in a bigger bolt and
resealing it
with caulk. Anyway, If there is a forum on that site, you could
mention it,
and also say taht I wouldn't mind better anchors there, and I'd do it
myself, except I've been trqvelling too much to visit.

Appreciate it!! Next visit I'll be sure to check on it and redo it if
it
hasn't already been done.

Post by **Steve** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:40 pm

TradMike wrote:There should also be requirement/guidelines on hardware.

Check out this info from the RRGCC

http://www.rrgcc.org/new_route_app.php