The Nut Tool (for climbers)

Peanut butter spreader

filed one edge as a dull knife for emergency sling cutting.
(takes a bit of work to cut, but you don't want it cutting
things at the wrong time)

Piece of pro (super long dong). Pound in with rock or hex.

a couple more I just remembered, but haven't had to use

emergency aid climbing hook
short stick clip for reachy aid

and….
a TOP SECRET TIP that I just discovered – I came across a pink tricam on a II 5.7 that was WAY back in the crack like it was placed bad and had fallen in. So, I zip-tied two nut tools together, pulled the tricam sling out to where I could just barely clip it, than wiggled it around at the end of the double nut tool's reach until it fell lower and then out it came. Presto!!
I was using my homemade ultraNOTlight nut tool that weights about 3 oz but is really burly (made from a bike cone wrench for a one piece crank I never used) and about 1.5-2 inches longer than normal nut tools.

Jeremy failed to mention that the zip-tie trick was using my ultralight (for a nut tool, that is) titanium tool on the other end. Couldn't have done it without that one, huh?

– Cleaning snow out of your crampons
– Tent stake
– Opening the box of new gear
– Digging a hole to get water out of a seep-spring
– Petting the cat
– Skinning the cat
– Opening locked doors
– Stirring the pasta sauce (or anything that's in the pot)
– Wasting too much time trying to get some old pro out of a crack
– Shorting your solenoid on the car starter
– Hitting the starter (using Jeremy's heavy one)
– Keeping a 2-year-old (or 23 year old) occupied

(no, I haven't used one for all these, yet…)

so, the 2004 Accidents in North American Mountaineering has an entry where a climber on Denali's West Buttress had some dental problems so they performed surgery with a nut tool and something else I don't remember. I'm still lost as to why they had a nut tool on the West Buttress… except for all the cool alternate uses…