Mini hammer for cleaning nuts?

Does anyone have their second carry a mini hammer (maybe like a 2oz size) to clean nuts with?  I'm imagining a mini cleaning setup I could give a newbie trad follower consisting of a shoulder length sling with a tethered nut tool and tethered small hammer, maybe with a shortened handle.  Rather than clip cleaned gear to their harness, they could clip it to the sling, speeding transitions (leading in blocks scenario)

It's a nut tool with a tap with a biner if needed.

#10 hex. Works like magic in conjunction with your nut tool. And hey, you might even place it!

How often have you needed a hammer for cleaning gear? 

K Weber wrote: It's a nut tool with a tap with a biner if needed.

^^ And if you need extra oomph consider a steel oval for the biner.  An actual Hammer seems way superfluous, no matter how small.  

Grigri, ATC, big stopper, #3, loose rock on route, or if you really want to carry a tool; 6" adjustable wrench so you can tighten bolts as well along the way.

There's a nut tool out there with a spring load slide hammer built into it. No idea how to get one though...

Its hard to tap shit out with these lightweight micro no hook biners. An old oval? Easy peasy.

Yes.
Forrest Mountaineering used to make a combined nut pick/light hammer (Bam Nut Tool) for just that reason.  My buddy used to free more stuck Friends with that thing to the point he would just give you the booty. (Edit: Yeah, he carried a second nutpick.)

rob bauer wrote:Forrest Mountaineering used to make a combined nut pick/light hammer (Chock Tocker?) for just that reason....

Ok, just curious.  If the nut pick and hammer are combined, what are you hammering with it?

been done...

However, having used this very tool in the past, you have to have a second nut tool to hammer on.
Usually not worth it, however, it was useful for tapping on everyday fixed pins to assess their pucker factor.

Sam Skovgaard wrote: Does anyone have their second carry a mini hammer (maybe like a 2oz size) to clean nuts with? 

Never seen anyone carry a dedicated hammer for nut removal.

I typically use the ‘heel’ of my hand on the end of the placed nut tool.   But sometimes that is too painful with smaller hands.

A big fat biner is usually the next choice. That and leaders usually get better with mileage at not placing / setting nuts that are hard to remove.

How hard are you setting your nuts??

Andy K talks about carrying a hammer around to booty stuck gear on basically all of his aid ascents, clean or not.

Muscrat wrote: #10 hex. Works like magic in conjunction with your nut tool. And hey, you might even place it!

I use a #9 because its also perfectly sized as a backup rappel device, and usable as bail gear

A small hammer can be nice but almost entirely unnecessary.  "If it went in, it can come out the same way." Using this consideration I have been able to remove any nut or protection device that some else got stuck.  

Exception:  If you place a chock/stopper in the cool shade, then the sun moves into position to hit the rock for several minutes causing it to expand, you won't be getting that piece out again until it cools off.

I have taken a small ball-peen hammer when aid climbing. 

csproul wrote: I have taken a small ball-peen hammer when aid climbing. 

I do this in clean routes. Small ball peen hammer with  a hole drilled through the handle for cord. 

Sam Skovgaard wrote: Does anyone have their second carry a mini hammer (maybe like a 2oz size) to clean nuts with?  I'm imagining a mini cleaning setup I could give a newbie trad follower consisting of a shoulder length sling with a tethered nut tool and tethered small hammer, maybe with a shortened handle.  Rather than clip cleaned gear to their harness, they could clip it to the sling, speeding transitions (leading in blocks scenario)

I wonder about the term "have your second" is this something you can dictate? or are you considering it as a requirement for people you climb with? Will you provide it?

kgray wrote: been done...

However, having used this very tool in the past, you have to have a second nut tool to hammer on.
Usually not worth it, however, it was useful for tapping on everyday fixed pins to assess their pucker factor.

It was made primarily for assessing fixed pins or setting a marginal nut, not for nut removal. 

I use the side of a big cam to tap on the bottom of the nut pick, if necessary.
Or the axle plate on a camalot.

beensandbagged wrote:

I wonder about the term "have your second" is this something you can dictate? or are you considering it as a requirement for people you climb with? Will you provide it?

Yeah, I sometimes trad climb with sport climbers who don't even own a nut tool (and, as you would expect, aren't very adept at cleaning gear).  In such a situation, I would just be able to hand them the hammer and nut tool pre-attached to a shoulder sling.  Basically it would be a pre assembled "cleaners rack."