1001 Uses of the Nut Tool

24. Makeshift Splint.

25. Bail Gear: Run rope through the clip, hang the hook end on the bolt, rapp off, give it a shake once you hit the deck and catch it.

A wanton partner for abusive hexes inclined to pounding?

I confess, I rather like the anatomically correct(er) version. Picturing the double takes when that's spotted hanging off my harness. My sense of humor has a predatory streak, apparently. ;-)

Edit to add: 26? Agh! 27?

Best, OLH

i Locked a key in the trunk of a rental car in Mexico (right at the lip of the trunk by the rear window)... used a nut tool to fish it out

28:  aluminum tube opener when the fire starter gel inside is all dried up.

29: flathead screwdriver.

30. Used it to get my girlfriend's ring out of the toilet.

Hooked the lid off of my water meter last week.

The wind stole some laminated topos and dropped them down a wide crack on a boulder in a lake.  I wiggled down the crack as far as I could to where the topos were floating, then held my nut tool by its leash to fish them out of the crack toward open water, where my partner could grab them.

33. cat hole shovel

They make wonderful route-development tools to pry loose flakes, and clean cracks and pockets of whatever they may be hiding.

j sittler wrote: 15. aid climbing hook

It was too unstable for me. Would be willing to try it again; I might have more luck.

35. Disintegrating hammer.

I actually use this PVC piccolo made by Cleaveland Mountaineering as a nut tool. Doubles as a belay signal in the key of D, a hash pipe, a tube chock (despite the mfr’s warning of 0 kn). Hook a couple burly paper clips over the E natural hole as a double cam trigger hook.

So 36. Audio lure for impressionable children lost in the wood

I must confess, the sound quality probably won’t pass the rigid scrutiny of the MP community, so I’ll spare you the video. Off belay is an ascending D7 arpeggio, climb on is the riff for Crazy Train in G minor.

Keep them coming with the pictures and numbered lists! If we hit 1001, Stokedgote Media LLC (DBA Sender’s Game Podcast) will publish a pop-up kids book on Café press and give credit to all contributors (Not verbatim, of course, because REI owns everything that you say here).

Maybe the anatomically correct tool won’t make it into the kids book...

37: bikepacking tire lever

39: nut scratcher

41: guitar pick
42: nose pick

43. Toenail cleaner

44. Bone for your crag dog.
45. Propeller for your crag drone.
46. Pacifier for your crag baby.