Amazing new invention for climbers.

After a long day's climbing, what you really want is a cold beer. This is an easy way of getting your hands (well, mouth, actually) on the good stuff inside that bottle. Of course, it's not really an "invention". Finding a new use for an existing product fails the requirement of "novelty" in intellectual property law. So it is clearly not patentable. It's just a cool new way to open a beer. But it terms of the "utility" requirement for a patent, this wins. As for the "non-obvious" thing, well they say necessity is the mother of invention. This convenient alternative use was discovered by a mate of mine by the name of Rosco after a bouldering session at Axis Extreme in Nelspruit. So I cannot take credit for it.
Just a silly spoof advertisement. One of those things you do while the camera's still on the tripod and you're waiting for another video to upload.
Of course, if I'm hoping to get any views from non-climbers, I'll have to include words like "death fall fatal accident huge injury broken bones suicide jump" and so on, because that's the only thing you morbid bastards are interested in. Those sort of videos should be banned, IMHO. Except I sometimes watch them as well, I supppose. We're a sick bunch, the human race. These hangers are affixed to the rock by means of "bolts", either chemical anchors or sleeve anchors, sometimes called expansion bolts. All instainless steel, of course. In the early days, people would bolt routes with normal steel bolts. Corrosion was a natural consequence, followed inevitably by death. Nowadays the gear is pretty much fail-safe, as long as it is properly installed. Bolting is an art as much as a science. I've been getting into it recently, mostly because I wanted a local climbing spot where I could go after work. The big grantie dome in Rocky Drift behind Bundu Lodge presented the perfect opportunity. Except that you can't really place trad gear on a sheer granite wall. So we now have a big Hilti battery-powered drill and silicon dust on everything we own. The royal we. Because it is a miserable, thankless task. If you want to find out how many friends you have, just suggest a weekend of bolting instead of climbing....
Funny thing, that.
101 ways to open a beer, anyone?

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[Termi2600]

I have no sound, is that a bolt hanger your using?! You need to learn how to open a bottle up with a karabina son :-)

[ROBwithaB]

@Termi2600

Yup. It's a hanger.

A 'biner, you say?

Footage, or it never happened. Let's see a video response.....

[bassfuryvi]

Absolutely brilliant...love to Roberta..

[ROBwithaB]

@bassfuryvi

Thanks.

We're not on speaking terms at the moment. She only recently discovered what "polygamy"means.

[ROBwithaB]

@cujomojo2007

One of our local climbers lost an arm in an accident.

Predictably, his nickname is "Bandit".

(I'm assuming that slot machines are referred to as "one-armed bandits" in most parts of the world. Otherwise that joke just doesn't work.)

This is the right-handed version. Left-handed people shouldn't be allowed to drink beer. They get all ..... sinister.

[CrazyDantw]

I usually just use my teeth to open my beer....

Well it worked the first time...

[ROBwithaB]

@jacob3800

Of eerder: "ja, albei".

[ROBwithaB]

@jacob3800

Yup.

[jacob3800]

@ROBwithaB Do you speak Afrikaans as well as English?

[CommanderShepard2000]

@ROBwithaB Do you live amongst the wilderness? If you do, do you like it?

[Donnatella624]

"Theyah we have a beeyah"...

[mrsocksman]

@yondaime500 cause if you're a drinker you'd know a bottle opener when you saw one

[yondaime500]

You should have said "if you're a drinker, you'll recognize this". Seriously, at first I thought it was an actual bottle opener. And I don't even drink alcohol (trust me, I don't).

[teb0atoz]

I am more of a trad climber, I carry a piton for an emergancey spoon, LOL

cheers



[mikobartek]

@ROBwithaB not cool as one-handed hand :)