Yet another ice tool question

[Dru]

i would suggest you base your opinion of the respective weights on holding them in your hand rather than believing a catalogue description

[Dr_Crash]

Good point, sir Dru. Though my hands are not calibrated, but maybe Mr Nelson will chime in and tell us what his super precise scale says?

 

drC

[Dru]

it'll be more accurate if you weigh a pair of each and divide by two to estimate individual weights.

[Dr_Crash]

I was thinking of weighing 17 of them and dividing by 119/7, but your method might be simpler And of course you don't want to weigh them individually, you've got to hang yourself w/ and w/o the tool in hand and look at the difference.

 

drC - Just teasing

[rhyang]

My cheapo digital scale reads about 620g for the aztars (hammer and adze are both about the same) and about 750 for the quarks (both are hammers). Stock leashes; pick protectors; quarks have the griprests attached.

 

I figure the catalog weight for the aztars is without the leash, but am too lazy to remove them and check. The clipper leash seems to weigh about 50g. Maybe the catalog weight for the quarks is without griprest or the clipper screw-on post, too. hmm.

[syudla]

Still using the axar. But don't like the new picks, maybe its me but they just dont stick as well. Filed the bevel when I got 'em and they clean super well.

[rhyang]

Still using the axar. But don't like the new picks, maybe its me but they just dont stick as well.

 

Doug this is just Petzl-Charlet's way of saying "upgrade your tools and buy more stuff from us"

[syudla]

Still using the axar. But don't like the new picks, maybe its me but they just dont stick as well.

 

Doug this is just Petzl-Charlet's way of saying "upgrade your tools and buy more stuff from us"

 

Sheesh! Aint that the truth!!

[dbconlin]

Alpine climbing tools that dabble in waterfall ice:

 

BD Cobra

Grivel Alp Wing