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fivetank
Oct 30, 2003, 3:35 PM
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That's it. It's not in the glossary here.
I saw for the Woodstock Rock near Baltimore that someone wrote they have "cold shuts" there.
What's a cold shut?
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gravitytheory
Oct 30, 2003, 3:39 PM
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A type of anchor. They have hook thingies so that you can just loop the rope through them and then rap (or, gasp, lower) off after a climb.
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ooievaar
Oct 30, 2003, 3:47 PM
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Here's a picture of one:
http://www.toolsearch.biz/hardware/other/Tools-1-9/12-Cold-Shut.html
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gravitytheory
Oct 30, 2003, 3:50 PM
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A picture is worth a thousand words...
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fivetank
Oct 30, 2003, 3:52 PM
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Thanks both.
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jumaringjeff
Oct 30, 2003, 4:11 PM
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cold shut: verb; when your girl slams the door in your face and leaves you out in the cold.
See also: "cold shot (SRV style)", "you ain't gettin' any", "sleep on the couch", "my baby don't love me no more"
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msiddens
Oct 30, 2003, 4:36 PM
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Yes the picture is priceless but one little bit of info is the overall weakness of "open" or unwelded coldshuts. These have been found to bend open at relatively low impact loads possibly even during toproping.
Keep that in mind when lowering off and be sure to leave at the very least one bolt clipped if you plan on TR'ing.
Hate those things.
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clymberboy
Oct 30, 2003, 4:37 PM
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i might be mistaken, but i was at woodstock rock this summer & do not recall any coldshuts anywhere. there is only one bolt, just above the cave . . .
In reply to: Note: there is a bolt most of the way up the face above the cave that ballsy climber can try to lead to. Be warned that you face imminent crater potential until you clip that bolt! (and said bolt is not the best, or placed in the best place on the rock; just be warned). |
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arrettinator
Oct 30, 2003, 4:44 PM
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It's cold shut the damn door.
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fitzontherocks
Oct 30, 2003, 4:58 PM
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Has anyone heard of cold shuts "shutting" when it's "cold"? When someone first explained them to me, she said the steel was designed to contract in cold temps (close) and expand (open) in hot temps. :?:
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noshoesnoshirt
Oct 30, 2003, 5:10 PM
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cold shuts are designed to join two sections of chain. you buy them open, stick them through the links of chain to be joined and pound them shut with a hammer (when used in this application, the end of the "hook" is driven through the eye, where climbers put an anchor bolt.)
nothing to do with temperature.
another cool feature of the shut is that they are generally made of ungraded (read "poor") steel, usually manufactured in korea or the like. i've had 1/2" shuts that took 20 minutes of pounding to close. i've also had 1/2" shuts that closed with a few hammer blows.
roll the dice...
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boltdude
Oct 30, 2003, 5:14 PM
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Here's an article on cold shuts from an old Climbing magazine:
http://www.safeclimbing.org/blind_faith.html
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fivetank
Oct 30, 2003, 5:18 PM
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Climberboy -- If you follow the link to Woodstock Rock through the "routes" section on the left, you will find he mentions a cold shut there.
I might cruise out on Saturday morn and see what the deal is with this place.
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jt512
Oct 30, 2003, 5:23 PM
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In reply to: Has anyone heard of cold shuts "shutting" when it's "cold"? When someone first explained them to me, she said the steel was designed to contract in cold temps (close) and expand (open) in hot temps. :?:
I've heard that the "cold" refers to the fact that the shuts are pounded closed with a hammer without heating the metal in a forge.
-Jay
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