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more progress...

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So I had some spare time last night and cracked on with project crush board. Now it's looking better, the frame is now complete, with all five diagonals and support beams fixed. Next step is to drill the holes in the ply to receive the tee nuts and then mount the boards and bolt holds to it. About half way there I reckon... From outside garage... From inside..............

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Any spare time that would otherwise have been spent out climbing has been spent recently sorting the garage for the crush board. Progress so far... One diagonal beam cut for checking the correct length All other diagonal beams cut to the same length horizontal support beams measured and cut to shape Kickboard frame cut, constructed and bolted to wall mid-wall beam bolted to wall. Actually now that I have pretty much all of the wood cut to the correct size apart from the ply, it is proving fairly quick to construct. I now have three of the diagonal beams in place. Having never constructed anything like this before it is quite a learning curve for me - naively I thought I would be able to screw straight into the rafters without any pilot holes but even with the corded drill this is impossible, so now the process involves lining up a diagonal, nailing it in place, drilling three holes through the beam, taking it down, drilling through the rafter, replacing the beam, then using the drill t

Bits and bobs

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Well, not much of any great shakes has been happening at this end... I went to Cadshaw last week which was a bit of an anti-climax. I was expecting the conditions to be good as it had been raining in the day - as it turns out, this wasn't an issue actually - conditions were reasonably ok. The problem turned out to be the swarm of midges that greeted me as I arrived at the crag. Anyway, this is all starting to sound like an excuse. The bottom line was that I got back on to the problem I seem to have been trying for the last year, Brian Jacques and felt awful on it. The move to the good crimp which I've only managed to do once felt impossible. I might have to shelve this problem until I am a bit stronger or when I can get more mileage, which has been an issue of late. Tuesday saw a visit to Healey Nab, a pretty esoteric little venue a little further than Anglezarke. It's quite a scruffy little crag with the ubiquitous litter and graffiti, but there are a few quality problems