G-spotter Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 http://www.onsight.com.au/news-blog/index.php 8mm bolts in 9mm hole, look good until weighted then pull out, killing climber when his rope cuts over edge as he falls Quote
marc_leclerc Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 That is really stupid. Those bolts looked like perfect brand new pieces of equipment and pulled out with a tug... I can't believe that the route equippers didn't notice that they couldn't tighten down the bolts properly. Quote
Ishmael Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 or they did notice but did not know that was bad... All in all a very sad story. Quote
Moof Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 About 6-7 years ago when I first got interested in a couple rebolting projects. After reading up on the plethora of bolts in use, and installed I went through a pretty long period of "bolt freak out". Bolts can be bomber, but there are tons of overtightened, badly drilled, rusted, or simply crappy bolts. A lot of the advice that shows up for bolt installation is just wrong (safeclimbing.org is an excellent source of the right way of doing things). I cringe when I see folks advocating the bulk construction grade junk (redheads, rawl knock offs, etc). Shit like this just brings back the heebie jeebies I thought I was over... Quote
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