Chockstone Forum

      Sponsored By
      ROCK
   HARDWARE

Chockstone Photography

Australian Landscape Prints

Chockstone Forum - General Discussion

General Climbing Discussion

Author

Anchoring a top rope at home

devlin66

9-Apr-2009
2:36:17 PM

After a couple of PM's with Dylan I had sat down to down a bit of a guide so he can build his free standing woody. When I had finished I thought it my be of benefit to others out there who were contemplating building a woody but weren't sure how to go about it. Some idea of tools and fabrication are still needed.

There is more than one way to skin a cat and this particular layout is just one. Feel free to copy, use, modify for your own use. I can send the AutoCAD file to anyone who wants to have a play with the design too. Just make sure you do a proper job on construction and don't cut corners. There is a lot of weight which can squash little climbers.

Edit: Rev B Have installed foot board that can be used for 30 and 45 degree angles. Following Lacto's suggestion below have amended notes to reflect sizes of generally available timber for framing.

Timber info here

devlin66

14-Apr-2009
10:44:17 AM

I have tried to post a link to a better res image to 'save as' . For some reason the resolution that shows up on chockstone is low quality. If anybody wants a better res file PM me.

dalai

14-Apr-2009
11:01:55 AM

Nice work Devlin66!

At the steepest angle, perhaps a kick board on the frame would be necessary for sit starts as the base of the board in that position may be too high?

devlin66

14-Apr-2009
11:43:04 AM

Yeah I have been playing with a couple fo ideas to solve that. Probably just a simple board that can be reached from both the 35 and 45 deg angles might be the easiest setup. Revision pending.

lacto

14-Apr-2009
10:49:38 PM

if you are going to specify timber how about sizes that actually exist 100x50 is actually 90x45 and a F rating F5 F7 OR F11 would be the three readily available sizes in pine kd hardwood is also well under 100X50 but rate f 17 to f34 the F relates to the extreme fibre stress in MPa so f34 is aout 7 times stronger than F5 or 3 times f11
Most timber has the f rating printed on it

devlin66

15-Apr-2009
10:04:25 AM

Edit above

There are 26 messages in this topic.