Tips for padding ice tools?

I'd like to start taking my tools to the gym to use for pull-ups and such. Anyone have any tips for padding them so the gym will let me use them on their equipment? Foam and duct tape?

i doubt they'll allow that... ask the gym

or go for these dryicetools.com/

You can sling the hole on top of the shaft (I'm assuming you have one). I wouldn't want to wrap my pick and dry tool on a metal surface. Sounds like a bad idea, but I haven't tried it.

Some authorities may ask you to remove the pick all together. In that case, just bring the shaft.

Jonathan

Denny I'm not talking about the climbing gym, but thanks for the link. Never heard of those. 419 good idea. I think I'll just take off the picks and sling the hole, though I'm not sure how I would then attach to a pull up bar. Could maybe girth hitch with a long sling, but then the tools might hang a bit too low.

Depending on the diameter of the pull up bar a fifi-hook might work.

I just wrapped my Grivel X-Monsters with regular climbing white tape.I used about 1/4 roll on each. I use them over a pull-up bar for offset pull-ups. I left the ends of the picks bare for drytooling. Works great.

@Mike that sounds like the way to go if you have your own bar; nice tip. They will still prob frown upon pointy objects at the gym though. Gonna give SinRopas method a go sans picks.

Sinropa's pics LOOK good, but that setup sacrifices so much height that I'd be sitting on the floor to get started. Why not just hook the tools over the bar? They don't really gouge it up THAT much.

Pipe insulation and ducktape oughta work

I used 3/4 plywood and simply traced my quarks. Then I cut out the "handles" and then sanded them down and wrapped tape around them. Drilled a hole in the top and threaded webbing through them. This way I can do circuits at the gym and don't need to carry may actual tools to the gym (I train at a big facility and would hate to see my tools walk out the door while I'm elsewhere). It was cheap and works great for grip strength for ice.