Digging into the past

SoftBankHawks · Jun 24, 2017

Hello all,
I have begun a series of Rope workshops and am interested in acquiring historically relevant climbing gear that can be used for talking points.
Anything pre Frog Walker is missing from my collection. I'd love to have a set of Mar Bar's....Chest Roller....Sticht Plates.....any open shell ascender that is out of production and any older box lever type descenders.
I'm happy to receive donations (of course!) , but will be willing to reimburse too.

Many thanks

Paul

Tom Dunlap · Jun 24, 2017

For illustrations of climbing gear be sure to visit Gary Storrick's webpage

Any climber using hardware for treework would be well served knowing the history of the gear we're currently using. What was once cutting-edge gear sometimes looks scary now!

SoftBankHawks · Jun 24, 2017

I know his page and thank you for talking about it so long ago, Tom.

ARLO · Jun 27, 2017

SoftBankHawks said:
Hello all,
I have begun a series of Rope workshops and am interested in acquiring historically relevant climbing gear that can be used for talking points.
Anything pre Frog Walker is missing from my collection. I'd love to have a set of Mar Bar's....Chest Roller....Sticht Plates.....any open shell ascender that is out of production and any older box lever type descenders.
I'm happy to receive donations (of course!) , but will be willing to reimburse too.

Many thanks

Paul

I have several old Jumars that never get used anymore. You can have one if you want it. They were the primary handled ascender we used for SRT in the 1970's.

SoftBankHawks · Jun 27, 2017

ARLO said:
I have several old Jumars that never get used anymore. You can have one if you want it. They were the primary handled ascender we used for SRT in the 1970's.

Thank you.