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Front: Open for Rigging	Rear: Open for Rigging

Technical Details

I acquired this rack from Bru Randall in 2023.

This rack is 213 mm. tall, 56 mm. wide, 19 mm. thick, and weighs 419 g. The frame is made from 7.9 mm. stainless steel bent into a U, with an internal width of 28 mm. There are five tubular stainless steel brake bars, three fixed and two that open. The bars are each 19 mm. in diameter and 56 mm. long. Allowing 35 mm. for the rope leaves 48 mm. for spreading the bars.

There are no markings on this rack.

Comments

Bru acquired this rack while working in Australia in early 1987. He thought it might be homemade, but he wrote to Peter Downes and received the following reply:

The comments are still coming in but it would be worth your while contacting Aspiring Safety (https://www.aspiring.co.nz/) in NZ, I have bought a fair amount of gear from them in the past and they have been pretty helpful. Have a look at their rack on the web page and its very similar.

From Trevor Worthy:
This looks just like the brake bars I used to use in NZ the 1980s through to the end 1990s and were made by Lindsay Main of Aspiring Enterprises (I think) is the name in Christchurch. Nice and small and one only had to swap out a new bar every once in a while

From Pete Hobson (New Plymouth NZ):
My dad made the first ‘Super Rack’ in NZ and was the only manufacturer for several years. His has square aluminium bars like the original American model. The style in the photo is a copy of what started being produced when BWR and Lost World Adventures started up.

BWR = Black River Rafting at Waitomo NZ