Say, that would be handy in placing nuts and bolts, and such fine work, wouldn't it?
The reason for this is that there are now permanently placed bolts and pins to use for rigging.
The story enshrined the belief that has developed in recent years that people who place bolts are villains who have no place on British soil.
The monstrous irony is that as long as he doesn't place bolts nobody will bother accusing him of environmental vandalism.
Then they placed bolts for the structure itself, matching the holes in the metal sills to the bolts as they set them in the wet concrete.
Climbers with fewer scruples than those prepared to weight the issues, will place bolts on 'easier' climbs, and we'll be on an escalator that's hard to stop.
He and others of the period stood on small edges and undulations, hammered with Rawl Drive drills to place quarter-inch bolts where necessary.
A common method of placing bolts is to hand drill them using a hammer and a self-drilling bolt, using bolts adapted from the construction industry.
Often these types of climbing involve multiple drilled holes in which to place temporary bolts and rivets, but in recent years an emphasis on clean techniques has grown.
Today, the charge of vandalism in climbing is more often a disagreement about the appropriateness of drilling and placing permanent bolts and other anchors.
