
Petzl
Hammers
Piton Hammers
↑ 188: Petzl Bongo
- Made in France [2025].
- 330x140 mm.
- Weight: 690 g.
- Steel Shaft with Rubber Grip.
- Shaft: 29x17 mm. (Grip: 33x22 mm.)
- Fixed head with a horizontal carabiner hole for attaching a funkness.
- Hammer: 36(l)x25(w)x31(h) mm.
- Piton pick with a hook for piton removal and with 1 ventral teeth.
- Pick: 55(l)x27(h)x11(t) mm.
- A large, solid hammer. The pick isn't the best for piton removal, but tough pins need a funkness, and this hammer has a hole for attaching one.
Bolting Hammers
↑ 231: Petzl Tam Tam
- Made in France [ca. 2015].
- 265x95 mm.
- Weight: 550 g.
- Steel Shaft with Rubber Grip.
- Shaft: 18 mm. (Grip: 33x24 mm.)
- Fixed head with carabiner hole.
- Hammer: 30(l)x30(w)x31(h) mm.
- Hammer head.
- Piton pick with a hook for piton removal and with 1 ventral teeth.
- Pick: 33(l)x24(h)x9(t) mm.
- Wrist loop tied to ring around shaft.
- Archetypical standard hammer for Euro-speleological bolting.
- Handle equipped with a 13 mm socket to fit 8 mm bolt heads. In a pinch, this can also be used on 1/2 in. Freedon Unit bolt heads.
- While having a built-in wrench may seem handy, the restriction to a single size unrealistically assumes that every bolt in every situation will have the same size head. I've always preferred carrying the proper sized open-end wrench as the proper tool for the appropriately-sized bolts that I placed.
↑ 200: Petzl Tam Tam
- Made in France [2025].
- 265x95 mm.
- Weight: 540 g.
- Steel Shaft with Rubber Grip.
- Shaft: 18 mm. (Grip: 33x24 mm.)
- Fixed head with carabiner hole.
- Hammer: 30(l)x30(w)x31(h) mm.
- Hammer head.
- Piton pick with a hook for piton removal and with 1 ventral teeth.
- Pick: 33(l)x24(h)x9(t) mm.
- Wrist loop sewn around shaft.
- Archetypical standard hammer for Euro-speleological bolting.
- Handle equipped with a 13 mm socket to fit 8 mm bolt heads. In a pinch, this can also be used on 1/2 in. Freedon Unit bolt heads.
- While having a built-in wrench may seem handy, the restriction to a single size unrealistically assumes that every bolt in every situation will have the same size head. I've always preferred carrying the proper sized open-end wrench as the proper tool for the appropriately-sized bolts that I placed.
