I GOT A NEW DRILL! Need a name for it

[billcoe]

By way of thanking him, since Don came over to our personal bolt chopping thread (where I get told I'm an elitist for thinking that a voluntary restriction of bolts at the Far Side is a good thing) LOL. I thought I'd better bring this over here for Don as Ivan, who has intimately caressed and stroked the Lil Dawg himself, already hijacked that chopping thread with some great Yosemite pictures. I already have a "Lil Dawg", named in honor of Raindawg - the perpetual bolt bitcher/complainer/Elmer Gantry Gladys Kravits of CC.com. The "Lil Dawg" has seen lots of publicity and is very famous for it's numerous yet needless gratuitous taunts to Raindawg. Yet this new drill, who will be keeping the Lil Dawg company, is even smaller and perhaps, it may be said: meaner and nastier. Lil Dawg is 9.6 lbs. This lists even smaller and lighter at 6.25 lbs with battery. I've pulled the front handle off and this new one is actually under 6 lbs on the scale!!! 36Volts MORE POWER W00T! It's already done it's first bolts.

 

 

My special question is this. Don, (or anyone) what should we name this new beast?! Remember to bring out your sharpeye sticks for this christening:

 

ps, as an aside, the road going to that crag Don references below which he has never seen or heard about, is huge, with massive environmental issues and wildlife impacts. They will be spending over 10 million of your Washington Tax dollars this year to straighten out and enlarge @ 2 miles of it, that's $10,000,000 Washington State monopoly money - yet not a peep about that from Don.

This whole "discussion" is very entertaining.

The "bolters" don't own public space...Who does? I do and everybody else does...and nobody has a right to gratuitously and permanently alter OUR personal space.

Get used to the future..which is CLEAN and GREEN!

Bolt chopping? = a good clean form of monkey-wrenching (read a little Edward Abbey - "climbers" really should). I predict that it will become a trend and in the future it will be seen as positive and revolutionary.

 

- Raindawg/Dwayner/Don

Please remember that it' can't be called "Lil Dawg", seen below in action, as that's been done. Action pictures of the original "lil Dawg.

 

The Lil Dawgs good side

 

Lil Dawg and friends

 

Scott Peterson drilling the rap anchors on "Child Abuse" with The world famous "Lil Dawg".

 

Lil Dawg taking a nap.

 

ps: S'UP Dawg? Yo yo yo!

[Doug]

I would guess a contraction of two avatars would make a fitting name....Hmmmm.....lets see.....Dwayner.......Pope........

 

Dope! that's a great name for the drill!

[Choada_Boy]

The Pwayner.

[denalidave]

Dope-Dawg McPalin... Drill baby, drill. Just be sure to get the elders approval before firing that baby up... Oh wait, you ARE the elders... In that case, DRILL BABY, DRILL...

[G-spotter]

Bill's Penis Substitute

[rob]

Bill's Penis Substitute

 

Now, smaller than ever!

[Off_White]

Oooh, that looks just like your, erm, "lil dawg," but smaller.

 

You could just name it Il Papa

 

You know, name it after the Pope...

[Raindawg]

y,know, Mr.Coe...I really don't care what you name your latest machine. Name the new one after me again in your typical shallow high-school bully style. Have at it, and I can assure you that my buddy "pope" likewise remains unaffected. But here's something for you to think about: while you're whining about new roads and government spending and how it should be my or anybody else's concern, consider this: although it might be difficult to fight or halt "The Man's" actions, you certainly have control over your own. So if you choose to drill and permanently alter the environment in your own small-scale way, it ain't "The Man's" fault...it's your choice...something you have control over and you choose to do...the impact isn't physically as big as a road correction, but it is an impact. YOU make the initial choice how YOU choose to alter the environment and and see how it washes,or not,in the future. I already see attitudes changing,and they ain't in your favor.

Wanted a reaction? you got at least a response...don't expect too many more as I can't imagine that I have much more to say to you[cue the typical high-school bully taunt}.

whatever dude,

 

Raindawg/Dwayner/Don

[rob]

 

so uptight, dude.

 

In other news, that is some seriously bullshit looking rock, Bill. You climb that shit???

 

 

 

[dberdinka]

...The Pope....

 

....drilling TIGHT holes in VIRGIN rock....

 

there's something good in there....

 

That new Bosch is a beautiful thing. How many holes out of the little ?1.2? amph battery?

[billcoe]

In other news, that is some seriously bullshit looking rock, Bill. You climb that shit???

Yup! It's awesome climbing Rob, as fun as anything in the state. There's some serious bullshit there too as you say (nice call), not in a good way at all either: but when it's good, it's unf*ingbelieveably GREAT!!!!

BELOW -close up of stepping off that sub-pinnacle you can see in the left in the top pic. I thought I might be able to push off that pinnacle my right foot is on, and I tried to wiggle into the gap between the 2 pinnacles and push with everything I had lower down, but it stayed there so I slung it for pro. I think a car jack would topple it, but I'm leaving it. You can see all my gear below and my anchor tie off in the top pic as well:

Don will give me crap for that top picture as I'm caught in the process of leaving my trash behind to rap off, and not climbing with a leave no trace philosophy which he practices. Right Don? You PRACTICE that bullshit your spout don't ya? You don't leave your trash like slings behind on public property or use pitons as they destroy the rock? Right? To my credit, I did solo up that thing there, ground up, no bolts, with sparse natural gear, got lucky and made it to the top. I was too fearful (*cough* scared shitless relieved and feeling lucky* cough*) of downclimbing it, so I left the sling and rappelled. I wish I could be like Don and had the stones to downclimb it so as to have left no trace. Don, it hasn't seen a second ascent yet, it's all natural, no bolts, want to take a shot? I'd love to see if you could downclimb it after your remove my rap sling, that would be fu*king rad and bold sir! RAD AND BOLD!

 

Don, I didn't mean to be the bully on this drill naming thing, was trying to be playful - I probably need to put more smiley faces in my posts. However, as long as we're being serious, I just think that you interjecting yourself all the time where you are not needed is kind of off kilter, like in the conversation we were having on a regular forum thread. See, we were already having a discussion on restricting bolts at a cliff. I was getting crap for supporting a friend who would like to see minimal bolts on the crag, and for the place we were discussing there, I totally agree. What that means in real life is different than on the internet, and the disagreement we had was already laden with unfortunate miscommunication when you showed up with your foot in your mouth trying to cause more.

 

I suspect that if you looked at the cliff in question, you'd be in agreement with what the majority of us want for it. Take a shot at Josephs masterpiece "Hollow Victories" and tell me it shouldn't have a single bolt on it. Without that bolt, it would never be climbed. Suicide perhaps. As it stands with A single bolt, it's not a gimme at all, one needs to bring their "A" game and weave together the complex dynamic of moves and gear pro. It could easily have 9 bolts on it had another done it first. There are those who would still argue for it too. See, I object to those folks who want the 9 bolts, and I object to you. You would say that the route shouldn't exist then, no bolt. Getting to the top to just toprope it would not be easy or taken lightly. More like a mini-expedition. So we might as well stay home and watch tv then. So the questions we are trying to ask ourselves, those of us who live here and climb on this cliff, is what the place is going to look like for the next generation.

 

For the cliff with the pictures here, different place. It's out in the sticks a bit, with some great movement and challenges. Look at the picture below. Are you saying you want to climb that without bolts? There's bolts in the picture above me there, maybe you want to circle them in red or replace them with BLT pics? Go ahead, it will be fun. Find them, this is a close up as I'm 25-30 feet off the deck here.

I bought the new drill so that I can have it for another pinnacle project at this very spot. We have a route that goes up 200 feet or so to where the lil XXs are on the right in the picture below. Thats the high point. The picture above with the lil bumps is the start of that pitch up close. We're not too sure how hard that is, probably between 5.8 and 5.10 something I suppose. Anyway, need to head up for another pitch soon to get to the top of that pinnacle on the right you see below. I was going to try it with the tie offs on knob thing, but the knobs break off relatively easy, and a fall could easily be fatal. So I was going to climb up with a tag line, and if I needed it, pull up the new, lighter drill. It's sooooo much lighter. The top picture is the pinnacle on the left with the 00s. The 00s are that rap sling.

 

Seems to me, that not putting in bolts here is fu*king over everyone who follows. It's fun to do a route or 2 where a fall may mean death, the top pic might qualify for some folks, but what's the point of that unless you're trying to show that your penis is bigger than G-spotter thinks? As I already know mine is short, I have nothing to prove, I'll just put in the bolts for everyone else......

[dberdinka]

Look at the picture below. Are you saying you want to climb that without bolts? There's bolts in the picture above me there, maybe you want to circle them in red or replace them with BLT pics?

 

Unfortunately billcoe I think most people wouldn't want to climb that with or without bolts!

[rob]

Look at the picture below. Are you saying you want to climb that without bolts? There's bolts in the picture above me there, maybe you want to circle them in red or replace them with BLT pics?

 

Unfortunately billcoe I think most people wouldn't want to climb that with or without bolts!

 

Looks like a wall of hardened mud.

[olyclimber]

i didn't know they could stack shit that high

[ivan]

disagree - it looks like climbing a mama-san's studded dildo!

[rob]

disagree - it looks like climbing a mama-san's studded dildo!

 

except, one made out of mud.

[olyclimber]

The name of the new drill: Hayduke

[olyclimber]

irony is not just a river in egypt

[billcoe]

it is an impact.

 

Yo Don, if not Hayduke (who tossed his empty beer cans right out of his jeep for those who forget), how does ...........wait for it............

 

THE IMPACTER! roll off the tongue?

[j_b]

THE COFFIN BUSTER

[Off_White]

Kali?

 

 

 

Or, in the same vein, perhaps Fluffy (another destroyer of worlds)

[JosephH]

The drills barely do a thing, what you need a name for is your shovel...

[kevbone]

What would one use a shovel for in putting routes up? The unearthing of echo systems?

[num1mc]

i didn't know they could stack shit that high

 

How tall is Bill?

[Hugh Conway]

Peter_Puget? Always beating the same shitty tune