The Climbing Wall: Moving, Rebuilding, & Upgrading

[@thisiseric]

Lolol Laura's butt holding up the panels is so relatable. I've had to do head holds in the same way to hold up shelving that was falling off the walls as Vicki would run to get the drill

[@SendStory]

Haha, it's a mark of a professional. Only the best use their butt's and heads (almost the same anatomy) for laborious maneuvers. The "butt bar", as Laura calls it, is her favorite climbing move.

[@thisiseric]

@@SendStory haha butt bar. I gotta use this elite technique. That will be the key to unlocking v7 for me.

[@casey_________8873]

Thanks for showing the upgrades, Im definintely going to be picking up those casters for my basement wall.

[@SendStory]

Glad it helped! It's super hard to try to edit every detail in, but one thought I had while adding the casters (on the kick plate area) was to swap the screws for through bolts to ensure they don't ever want to pull out. Not sure it's necessary, but figured I'd throw it your way in case it helps. Thanks for the comment!

[@yeahbuddy5004]

Good to see the wall back up, definitely higher quality than Ikea!

[@SendStory]

Haha, yeah. The wall survived the move better than a lot of Ikea furniture we have did.

[@RealWorldClimbing]

Heck ya! Love that solution! I take it your editing queue is a lot like mine 😜

[@SendStory]

Yea, I keep joking that it's like a skateboard for the climbing wall. I actually used it to butt the wall against the backdoor this winter to make it more accessible and get less snow blown against it, and in the spring I'll move it back. I have a bunch of footage I'm trying to chew through, definitely a bit of a backlog. I assume you have a ton. Build videos take way more work than I think people imagine.

[@RealWorldClimbing]

@@SendStory yes, I just finished editing wall #4 and we have since moved and I have built wall #5 🤣

[@Lobibolo]

Maybe you mentionned this in another video but I'm new here so I'd like to ask, where did you get the knowledge (and tools) to know how to build all this stuff? It's really impressive to me as I know really nothing about DIY

[@SendStory]

Honestly, a lot of it was from osmosis. My father is quite handy and I saw him using tools and building things a lot as a child and had some access (safely) growing up. He would also work on projects with me for things I wanted to build. I remember quite vividly working on a push go-cart and a quarter pipe skateboard ramp with him as a pretty young kid. I also always had this desire to know how things work, so over time I have spent a lot of time watching build videos, documentaries, tutorials, etc. Just like with most things, when you understand some key basic building blocks, the rest is a lot easier from there. Similarly, tools kind of go the same way. A few things I have borrowed from my father, but a lot of it has been found used, on sale, and donated/saved from being thrown out. So it's been a very slow accumulation of items over decades, and the tools are really only as good as the operator (and I have a long way to go at that). So just starting out with the basics can take you pretty far, it's the effort that is the bigger investment. Wood is a pretty forgiving medium and I've spent some good years making things out of it. Hopefully that kind of answers your question, I really appreciate it, I honestly haven't really spent a lot of time thinking about that.

[@Lobibolo]

@@SendStory Thank you so much for your elaborate reply, that was an interesting read!

[@shadeteermt]

But what did the neighbours say??

[@SendStory]

So far, one was impressed, one hasn't commented/doesn't seem to use their backyard, and one was very curious about what it was and seemed to think it was neat, (but not sure if the inquiry was honest or just nosey, haha). It would be sweet if my neighbours all suddenly decided to become climbers so I could build a bigger wall without complaint. One can dream, right?