Revolution Climbing, Inc. Homeboy Combo - 2008 BCS

UV from the sun might fade the colors but the plastic should be fine. If your dealing with lots of moisture however you might have issues with the bolts and screws rusting on you over time. This can be fixed by using stainless steel hardware or just replacing bolts and nuts as they rust. My tip would be to make sure you get stainless steel t-nuts because depending on access behind your wall those can be a pain to replace.

That would really depend on how much precipitation it will get and how you plan to winter the wall. No the hardware is not stainless, but it is coated. You should be ok outside as long as you clean it up for the winter or cover it.

You are going to sweat your balls off. Cool idea (I am from Iowa and I would do it), but you are going to be climbing in an oven. Don't try to smear, your shoes will melt!

I see the need, sounds like a fun project! Would you be able to make a sport route, set up clip in anchors along the silo then lead climb? Best of luck

i am just putting one up for now...its a surprise for a friend that got me into rock climbing....i live in nebraska and the nearest climbing gym is 2 and a half hours away.

What a great place to build an indoor rock wall. My best advice - check with your local indoor climbing gym they’re a wealth of knowledge and would certainly have a distributor name for you or on the cheaper side you maybe you could set up a fixed bolt with some slings and carabiners similar to top roping outside. How many routes are you planning to have?

Yeah, half are wood screws (which are great in plywood) and half are t-nuts, which you have to pound in from the back before you put the plywood up. They're not cross-compatible, so you might have to spread the t-nuts out a bit more than you planned and make up the difference in screw-ons.

Oops its 4ft x 30ft

Honestly i think that is enough holds. It all depends on the problems you are making and the feature of the wall. Is this vertical 20 feet? because a typical indoor route going that high has maybe 15-20 holds, with feet, (the gyms i have worked at have had 35ft walls and typically a route had 20-25 holds) in which case this would be enough. But you also want a variety of holds. If this is 20 horizontal, than you will want a few more, but more different types/sizes than just more quantity. I have worked for a few indoor gyms (East and Mountains) and climbed in 100s of competitions, to make a good boulder problem takes maybe 10-15 holds and just takes creativity and imagination...also calls for comfort. Do what comes naturally, learn to set and climb and then branch out. There is a good book from REI on Indoor Route Setting, you should get it. Oh and 1 hold per sq. ft. is good, if you can use it all, but i am assuming that you won't use most of the bottom and top corners or most of the top foot and bottom foot of the wall, so depending on orientation, that saves you some sq. ft.

First of all, you're going to need more holds than this for 140 square feet of wall. A good estimate is one hold per square foot at least, and this only has 96. And second, no one really has a structured system for setting up routes, so you're unlikely to find any tips on that. Being a good routesetter just takes practice. You have to set holds in positions and sequences that you think will be fun, and you'll learn pretty quickly what is and isn't.

they will not get moldy at all ofer the winter or rain showers

They'll hold up great, just make sure you put them facing into the sun so they can dry out. Don't want them to get moldy or anything.

ok thanks
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It looks like 48 of the 96 holds are screw on... so that'll be 48 t-nuts