UKC

Hi
Just notied from another thread that petzl call one of the crabs "William" with a srewgate, would it be called "bill" without?
https://www.petzl.com/en/Professional/Connectors/WILLIAM?l=GB#.V-knYSQfDqA

Is there other equipment around that has been given a persons name?
or does anyone else have names for their gear?
Cheers

In reply to astley007:

Abalakov threader.

In reply to astley007:

Whillans Harness
Joe Brown Hat
Bonatti Krab
Rab
POD
Lowe
JimJams

In reply to astley007:

My rope pulled one of the velcro shoe straps loose whilst on a route this Sunday and I called it 'Bastard'.

In reply to Fredt:
It was recently agreed on UKC that they are Bonaiti biners and are not connected to the great man Bonatti.

Although he could have been connected to one, say on his harness, what I mean is there is no association between the two names

In reply to astley007:

Leeper (pitons)
Chouinard (stoppers)

In reply to astley007:
RPs (brass micros)

In reply to astley007:


Dead man - was once a person......

Cow's Tail - the first part could apply to some person......

In reply to astley007:

Prussic

Brasher Boots

In reply to edunn:

all of my friends

In reply to SenzuBean:


Do remind us who RP was...

In reply to Pedro50:


Certainly

http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/the-guy-whose-nuts-revolutionized-clim...

In reply to Pedro50:

Yes but RP's were RP's...you never called them "Rowlands"

In reply to SenzuBean:

Thanks

I give you (Tony) Hiebler ascenders

In reply to Pedro50:

Roland Pauligk, Australian via East Germany. http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/the-guy-whose-nuts-revolutionized-clim...

In reply to astley007:


I agree and I didn't!

In reply to astley007:

Fifi hook

In reply to astley007:

The Andy Kirpatrick WII system?
http://andy-kirkpatrick.com/blog/view/signature_product

In reply to Ramblin dave:

The RAB almost anything.

In reply to Rob Davies:

wish Fifi had hooked me!!!!..lol

In reply to Pedro50:

I think that's another one like Bonatti/Bonaiti. His name was Toni Hiebeler - three 'e's; it seems likely that Salewa's 'Hiebler Steigklemme' was designed by somebody else.

Edit - I'm now slightly baffled about this. Despite the spelling difference Hermann Huber suggests that it was indeed Toni Hiebeler who invented his almost-eponymous clamp (the text below the picture of a Griff-Fiffi):

http://hermannhuber.de/fotos/griff-fiffi-zum-klettern-als-deko-schmiedearbe...

Huber was CEO of Salewa back in the 1980s and 1990s.

In reply to astley007:

A couple I climbed with had a pair of ropes, one blue, one pink. The ropes were called Ken and Barbie......

In reply to astley007:

Stitcht plate - Fred Stitcht I think, maybe Fritz

In reply to Ian Parsons:


Not according to Peter Gillman in Extreme Eiger, he says Tony Hiebler designed the Hiebler ascender after their first winter ascent. He could be wrong?

In reply to astley007:

thinking back
was it only Bonnington that got inside Whillans Box?
on that note I'll just step back into the shadows!!

In reply to nniff:


So if you've got one made by Petzl, it's a Fritzl?

In reply to Pedro50:
Just posted an edit.

It seems very odd that his name is spelt Hiebeler while that on the clamp is definitely Hiebler. I wonder whether it's simply one of those oft-confused names - like Davis/Davies, Clark/Clarke, Sedlmayr/Sedelmayr/Sedelmayer) - and the wrong version got put on the tooling; by the time anyone noticed it might have been simpler/cheaper to come to some agreement rather than bin it and start again. Unfortunately the current Salewa website doesn't seem to contain much accessible history.

In reply to astley007:

Denny Moorhouse Mountaineering

In reply to astley007:

Prusik knot

In reply to astley007:

Pat O'Gonia

In reply to Ian Parsons:

You're right I had missed the third e in the spelling. Gillman and Harrer both use the spelling Hiebeler, but I think we agree it is the same guy.

In reply to Trangia:


The Merrell Streep approach shoe

In reply to astley007:
PAs and EBs

Pierre Allain and Eduard Bourdineau


and wasn't La Sportiva an opera singer before she started on boots and shoes??

In reply to astley007:

could it be because it's pear shaped?

In reply to Ysgo:

Hugh Banner (HB) and Rab

In reply to Trangia:


Dr. Karl Prusik

In reply to nniff:

Sticht

In reply to Ghastly Rubberfeet:


RTFT

In reply to Pedro50:


I have RTFT.

I am not sure what you are getting at.

In reply to Ghastly Rubberfeet:

Sorry I thought you were suggesting something already mentioned higher up. Maybe you were merely correcting the spelling in which case it helps to quote the original to avoid ambiguity. Cheers

In reply to Ghastly Rubberfeet:

No you're right, Sticht it is - finger trouble. Not sure about how you spell Eduard/Edouard though, as in EB. I think Bourdineau is right though

In reply to Ghastly Rubberfeet:


Didn't he know how to spell his name?

In reply to nniff:




The Sticht plate was the first mechanical rope brake, named after its designer, Fritz Sticht.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belay_device

Mind you, even the BMC can't get it right...

Flat plate devices such as the Stitch plate, whilst giving a braking effect via friction, also give strong pinch effects when loaded and correctly operated.
https://www.thebmc.co.uk/belay-devices

;~))

In reply to Trangia:


Obviously not...
;~))

In reply to Trangia:

Obviously knot ???

In reply to astley007:

The Zdarsky sack.

In reply to Ghastly Rubberfeet:


Re-branding exercise, obvs...

In reply to Ghastly Rubberfeet:


Bit of an acid comment...

In reply to captain paranoia:


Did you miss the ;~))
??

In reply to Ghastly Rubberfeet:

Think you


Think you may have missed the 'acid' reference

In reply to Ron Rees Davies:

Seems so.

:~/

In reply to nniff:

Edouard Bourdonneau.

In reply to astley007:

I have a friend with two sets of bagpipes. He calls one "The Chicken" and the other "The Turkey".

In reply to Ian Parsons:

Pierre Alain

In reply to AlanLittle:


Is that a spelling correction of a previous post?

In reply to astley007:

Heinz Mariacher named his first revolutionary climbing shoe the Mariacher

In reply to Ghastly Rubberfeet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_cyanide

In reply to captain paranoia:


Of course!

Doh!

;~))

In reply to astley007:

The Petzl William is named after the pear, not the prince. The shape of the krab is a bit of a giveaway.

In reply to yesbutnobutyesbut:

so prince charles will never have crabs named after him?,, or any other piece of climbing gear?
Shame as an ascender could be called Charles?
A battle to the top a jeremy,
A big fall a David...however we moving of bits of gear now!!

DMM Rhino, presumably named after the Gladiator.

In reply to nniff:

Coincidentally, he was also a comedian - the source of the expression 'to have everyone in stitches'

In reply to astley007:

DMM Nutter - named after a bloke who sat next to Denny on the bus

In reply to astley007:

The haston alpinist. Still have mine from the late 70's although it never gets carried anywhere now.

In reply to astley007:

Not gear as such, but surely Ron Hill ought to get a mention in such a thread.

In reply to Chris Harris:

In that case so should Peter Storm

In reply to GrahamD:

you think Peter Storm was his real name?..if so how fantastic that his name and product came together beautifully!!