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    Jeremy Cleaveland
    BPL Member

    @jeremy11

    Locale: Exploring San Juan talus

    For backcountry climbing, the nut tool is really nice for a lot more than removing rock pro. What have you used yours for?

    treading rappel slings around really big rocks
    cleaning dirt and vegetation out of cracks before placing pro
    reaching items without getting up (me
    being lazy ;-)
    can opener (with a big hex or rock)
    back scratcher
    trenching around the pyramid tent in a Wind River deluge… don't worry, I fixed up the ground before leaving.
    cooking/eating utensil
    opening up vacuum seal bags

    Other possibilities I haven't used
    bear killing
    pulling out stubborn tent stakes
    toilet trowel
    emergency ice axe (yikes!)
    prodding slow hiking partners
    hacking chunks of wood out of a rotten log for fire building
    thimble for sewing gear repairs
    straight edge for orienteering
    drawing pictures in the dirt

    What else can you think of?

    #1403917
    David Olsen
    Spectator

    @oware

    Locale: Steptoe Butte

    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.

    #1403928
    Jeremy Cleaveland
    BPL Member

    @jeremy11

    Locale: Exploring San Juan talus

    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.

    #1404792
    Steve Nutting
    Member

    @sjnutting

    Locale: Southwest Colorado

    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…)

    #1408265
    Jeremy Cleaveland
    BPL Member

    @jeremy11

    Locale: Exploring San Juan talus

    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…

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