LONGware Bolt Hangers
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- original style LONGware hanger
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- This stamp is on the inside of the bend just above the carabiner hole
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- The LONGware stamp was made before the final bend was put in the hanger
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- Hangers with a large bolt hole for 3/8 inch studs
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- LONGware hanger with a carabiner clipped
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- Original style LONGware hanger with a carabiner clipped
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- this version has been spotted in mid 1960s catalogs
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- The LONGware stamps seem to have been added before the hole were drilled or the bends were made
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- two styles with 1/4 inch bolt holes
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- this version has been spotted in mid 1960s catalogs
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- this version has been spotted in mid 1960s catalogs
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- comparison in size with two Leeper hangers and a quarter inch button head
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- LONGware strap style hangers
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- comparison of the bends on LONGware strap style hangers
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- A group of hangers
LONGware Bolt Hangers! Vertical Archaeology has received many inquiries regarding LONGware hanger production and dating. Shown here are three unique designs manufactured by Dick Long in the 1950s and 60s. It’s difficult to date a lot of these items exactly but consensus view dates the thinnest strap style hangers as the earliest with examples being spotted in mid to late 1950s catalogs. Recollections of them being placed on climbs in the early 50s are unconfirmed but seem very credible. Some of the earliest hangers appear to have been sold without the LONGware logo stamped anywhere on the piece. The two later styles are variations on the same basic theme with only a slight difference in the location and angle of the final bend put in the hanger. Our examples came fitted for 1/4 inch and 3/8 inch rivets or bolts.
Dick Long was an early Yosemite pioneer who climbed with many of the greats of American climbing and made forays into, what was for the time, very extreme terrain including the first ascent of the East Buttress of El Capitan in 1953.