The Scottish Mountain Heritage Collection
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Troll Tee Chocks
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Hermione Cooper
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Two Troll Tee Chocks on rope. 8 holes in each
aluminium alloy
7.5 x 5 x 5 cms 6 x 4 x 4 cms
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"TROLL 2" "TROLL 3"
silver
Troll
England
Rock climbers used all kinds of tricks to make anchors back in the good old days. Spikes of rock were handy to loop the rope over and trees were nice and safe. Pebbles or chockstones were often inserted in cracks and a sling threaded around them. Nuts - as in nuts and bolts - were popular in the 1950's and 60's giving rise to the generic terms for all forms of rock protection for decades to come i.e.'chocks' and 'nuts'
When commercial production of chocks and nuts began in the 1960's a variety of ideas were tried and tested and these Tee Chocks were one of the many to come on the market. Made by Troll, who had previously had some success with a similar thing called the Big-H, these chocks were designed to protect the wider cracks which the more common hexagons couldn't.
First produced in 1967 the early versions didn't have lightening holes whereas the two we have here in the collection do, dating them to 1968/69.
These two were kindly donated by John Temple.
Donated by John Temple
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Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007
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