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Title: Your favorite Hook?
Post by: MUCCI on February 24, 2009, 09:43:06 AM

What is your go to hook for bolting?  Maybe the one you have used the most, or the one that always seems to grab at just the right time before you fall and meet the "Barnacle Party"?  The Talon Hook seems to yield the most placements for me. 

*Mucci*

Title: Re: Your favorite Hook?
Post by: squiddo on February 24, 2009, 09:47:17 AM

My favorite hook is Redhook IPA:-) That bottle gets me out of many a pinch!

Title: Re: Your favorite Hook?
Post by: mynameismud on February 24, 2009, 11:17:46 AM

Never been much for the IPA's

The pre-sewn Petz hook.  I thought the whole pre-sewn thing was dorky but there is something about that hook.

Title: Re: Your favorite Hook?
Post by: squiddo on February 24, 2009, 11:32:30 AM

lots like the BD cliffhanger no? I remember buying that hook as a wee which makes it 26 years old!

Title: Re: Your favorite Hook?
Post by: mynameismud on February 24, 2009, 12:33:22 PM

Very similar to a cliffhanger.  There are subtle differences.

Title: Re: Your favorite Hook?
Post by: F4? on February 24, 2009, 04:20:43 PM

Leeper Flathead....my trusted hook it`s never failed.

I still need to find my pre-sewn Petzel skyhook...might need larry to re-sew the webbing.

Now for the bottled Hook I`ve been drawn to the LongHammer IPA. It`s light, yet hits the spot after a day climbing. And Safeway always seems to have it on sale.

Title: Re: Your favorite Hook?
Post by: mungeclimber on February 24, 2009, 04:53:15 PM

Cliffhanger all the way, because if it sticks on the type of edge I usually reserver for it. Then it's likely bomber.

note the cliffhanger at the bottom even though I'm leaning/hanging on a grappler in this instance...

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3049/3054515763_1e81ece1c5.jpg)

Title: Re: Your favorite Hook?
Post by: MUCCI on February 24, 2009, 10:18:37 PM

Munge- nice job incorporating the drill into your safety protocol!  I like to tie my bit off once the hole is deep enough with a thin dyneema simply girthed, it doesn't grab the bit and lets it rotate freely while giving me that "mental Security" at the same time!
*mucci*

Title: Re: Your favorite Hook?
Post by: mungeclimber on February 24, 2009, 11:25:50 PM

every time I girth it to the bit, it wraps around it with the twists. biners tend not to.

Title: Re: Your favorite Hook?
Post by: Ubergoober on February 24, 2009, 11:36:14 PM

small cam hook

followed by a right hook

Title: Re: Your favorite Hook?
Post by: mynameismud on February 25, 2009, 10:21:41 AM

Good one there Uber.

Note:  I used the bit as a backup once and it did not hold.  I ended up yelling Drill! Drill! Drill! at my belayer.  Thankfully it missed him.

Title: Re: Your favorite Hook?
Post by: mungeclimber on February 25, 2009, 10:45:05 AM

did the hole blow out?  pre-hole being deep enough to use as back up?

Title: Re: Your favorite Hook?
Post by: F'ueco on February 25, 2009, 10:57:39 AM

I'm going with the Copperhook in the bottle...

Title: Re: Your favorite Hook?
Post by: mynameismud on February 25, 2009, 10:20:04 PM

Hole was deep.  Drill bits are brittle.