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Anyone impaled themselves on a nut tool?

Sarah Gara
31-Aug-2009
12:22:08 AM
On 28/08/2009 egosan wrote:
>The hole in my hand is healing nicely. I will have to defer posting about
>my tale of
>impalement for the time being. I will share as soon as I am able.

Thanks. Will you also start a recipe corner -I want some porridge knowledge. - Sol makes a wicked and healthy breakfast. x

ajfclark
31-Aug-2009
9:18:10 AM
On 31/08/2009 Sarah Gara wrote:
>Thanks. Will you also start a recipe corner -I want some porridge knowledge. - Sol makes a wicked and healthy breakfast. x

Maybe add it to this thread?
olbert
31-Aug-2009
3:23:11 PM
On 27/08/2009 Guniea Sauras Rex wrote:
>I had a guy once tell me not to use a carabiner to clip my chalkbag to
>my harness as it could break my back were I to fall on it.
>
>hmmmm.
>
>He was cagey as to what would happen if I clipped my full trad rack to
>my harness. Wouldn't answer my question (imagine that!)
>
>Anyone know of such an injury?
I keep a small rock in my chalkbag for such occasions as I need a little help bashing out a nut with my nut tool. I sat down rather uncoventionally on Saturday and sat on my chalk bag. Let me tell you, it hurt to buggery! And that wasnt even a fall I just sat down!
Guniea Sauras Rex
1-Sep-2009
7:52:48 AM
>Guinea, about ten years ago I saw a guy crack his coccyx when he was attempting a >sit start to a climb in a gym

I don't know if I am totally convinced about the dangers of chalkbag/carabiner combos. It still has a touch of urban myth to me.

I have heard (and do know) a lot of people who have broken their coccyx from landing on their bum heavily - this includes bum injuries from ice skating, bike wheelie-ing all gone wrong and also from people bouldering - without the carabiner/chalkbag combo.

So it is not a difficult injury to sustain and doesn't need a carabiner. The carabiner clips near your saccrum. I reckon if you broke that sitting down is not the only problem you would be having.

It must have been a rather large carabiner to have reached his coccyx in such a way that there was no give in the bones/flesh/muscle.
Wendy
1-Sep-2009
8:13:00 AM
On 31/08/2009 olbert wrote:

>I keep a small rock in my chalkbag for such occasions as I need a little
>help bashing out a nut with my nut tool. I sat down rather uncoventionally
>on Saturday and sat on my chalk bag. Let me tell you, it hurt to buggery!
> And that wasnt even a fall I just sat down!

Have you never had the pleasure of sitting down on the rack hanging off your harness? I thought it was rather common that people found themselves cushioned by a 3 camalot and quickly bounced up to rearrange the rack. As an aside, you can use a medium-large cam as a hammer for your nut tool so you can avoid carrying the rock around.

Sarah Gara
1-Sep-2009
8:55:25 AM
>On 31/08/2009 olbert wrote:
>
>>I keep a small rock...

>On 1/09/2009 Wendy wrote:
you can use a medium-large cam as a hammer for your nut tool
>so you can avoid carrying the rock around.


Use a hex. a big jock off hex.

>Have you never had the pleasure of sitting down on the rack hanging off
>your harness? I thought it was rather common that people found themselves
>cushioned by a 3 camalot and quickly bounced up to rearrange the rack.


yes ow ow and ow. I've also sat on the spouty thing on though camel back drink things and ended up with wet knickers - not pleasant freezing in winter in wales. I had to take my trousers off it was so bad. - wore the belay jacket as a skirt for a bit while they dried in the sun x
Wendy
1-Sep-2009
9:07:11 AM
On 1/09/2009 Sarah Gara wrote:
>
>yes ow ow and ow. I've also sat on the spouty thing on though camel back
>drink things and ended up with wet knickers - not pleasant freezing in
>winter in wales. I had to take my trousers off it was so bad. - wore the
>belay jacket as a skirt for a bit while they dried in the sun x

I've also managed to open the spouty thing mid pitch and suddenly found myself climbing a small waterfall in the middle of the crux!

The other thing I successfully do with the rack on my harness is wedge it between myself and the rock and enter the mental debate of is it more painful to squish my hip against rack or get out of this awkward but welcome rest and have to hold on again.
Tlockwood
1-Sep-2009
9:14:13 AM
On 1/09/2009 Wendy wrote:
>The other thing I successfully do with the rack on my harness is wedge
>it between myself and the rock and enter the mental debate of is it more
>painful to squish my hip against rack or get out of this awkward but welcome
>rest and have to hold on again.

and that crucial runner you want is always wedged away out of reach!
Edit: and as much as one tries to foresee having the rack on the outward side by reading the moves, there's always those times when I'm wrong.

evanbb
1-Sep-2009
9:34:33 AM
I've auto placed a few hex's while belaying, and climbing. I dream of the day when 9 pitches up I auto place a hex, then fall, tearing off my gear loop, and watching the whole rack fall to the deck.
Tlockwood
1-Sep-2009
9:41:27 AM
On 1/09/2009 evanbb wrote:
>I've auto placed a few hex's while belaying, and climbing.

yeah me too, mostly with wires though

Sarah Gara
1-Sep-2009
5:58:18 PM
On 1/09/2009 evanbb wrote:
>I've auto placed a few hex's while belaying, and climbing. I dream of the
>day when 9 pitches up I auto place a hex, then fall, tearing off my gear
>loop, and watching the whole rack fall to the deck.

We were climbing sea cliffs in Wales and one of the guy's gear loop failed and he lost loads of lovely gear - plop! into the sea. (egosan: also another good reason to rack you nuts so you've got different sizes on each side)

Wendy: I also find the that when on second with a bag and two pairs of shoes i get stuck in silly positions unable to get round things. x

shortman
13-Oct-2014
12:35:41 PM
On 28/08/2009 egosan wrote:
>The hole in my hand is healing nicely. I will have to defer posting about
>my tale of
>impalement for the time being. I will share as soon as I am able.

Did this tale ever get told?

Hopin to drag Sol up to the Mt this weekend too folks. Help me with a bit of peer pressure.

IdratherbeclimbingM9
13-Oct-2014
12:45:07 PM
On 13/10/2014 shortman wrote:
>On 28/08/2009 egosan wrote:
>>The hole in my hand is healing nicely. I will have to defer posting
>about
>>my tale of
>>impalement for the time being. I will share as soon as I am able.
>
>Did this tale ever get told?
>
>Hopin to drag Sol up to the Mt this weekend too folks. Help me with a
>bit of peer pressure.

A hard man like egosan should be giving his sermon there a guest speaker at the Australian Climbing Festival this weekend, instead of being dragged up the local Mt!

ajfclark
13-Oct-2014
3:58:13 PM
On 13/10/2014 shortman wrote:
>Did this tale ever get told?

Not as far as I'm aware. It wasn't super exciting really. He just impaled his hand on the bit sticking out of the trunk where a branch had been snapped off. He did a good job because he was falling over at the time, on the walk down from Tarzan area. There was a hospital trip to get it debrided which turned out to be a waste of time a week or so later when a chunk of tree emerged from the wound.

>Hopin to drag Sol up to the Mt this weekend too folks. Help me with a bit of peer pressure.


shortman
13-Oct-2014
4:09:10 PM
On 13/10/2014 ajfclark wrote:
>On 13/10/2014 shortman wrote:
>>Did this tale ever get told?
>
>Not as far as I'm aware. It wasn't super exciting really. He just impaled
>his hand on the bit sticking out of the trunk where a branch had been snapped
>off. He did a good job because he was falling over at the time, on the
>walk down from Tarzan area. There was a hospital trip to get it debrided
>which turned out to be a waste of time a week or so later when a chunk
>of tree emerged from the wound.
>
This is the man who wants to take up highlining....hmm, :)
egosan
13-Oct-2014
5:11:37 PM
Very nicely told, Andrew. You just missed the part where I initially attempted to debrid the wound my self and went a bit weak in the knees. Then asked Sarah to have a go and watched her go pale and soft in the knees. Then came to the trip to the hospital.

As an aside, Sol and Suzie are moving to Kyneton in a week. Scary.
kieranl
13-Oct-2014
8:25:00 PM
On 13/10/2014 egosan wrote:
>
>As an aside, Sol and Suzie are moving to Kyneton in a week. Scary.

for whom?

Miguel75
13-Oct-2014
10:00:31 PM
Holy cow, Sol on chocky...
Wendy
14-Oct-2014
12:53:02 AM
Sol, you said you were coming to visit last month. That means you are very late. You should listen to Dan. And btw, do you still have my books from way back when you were injured and housebound? Actually, I still have 3 of yours as well.

Ben_E
14-Oct-2014
1:32:59 PM
On 13/10/2014 kieranl wrote:
>On 13/10/2014 egosan wrote:
>>
>>As an aside, Sol and Suzie are moving to Kyneton in a week. Scary.
>
>for whom?

No, it's scary. When I fled Kyneton back in the 90's I never would have predicted it would turn into the sort of place one might move to voluntarily.

I've got to say it's improved a lot in the last 20 years, though, and the average IQ of the population is back into double digits (perhaps aided by my leaving).

Plus you're 10 minutes from the soaring walls of Black Hill...

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