Suggestions on a good cornice cutting setup please

**F#*k you cat** · 01-05-2008, 11:06 AM

I am asking the community to assist with recommendations for a decent cornice cutting setup for the Wasatch. What size of rope? (diameter) How long? spacing of the knots? any additional cutting spacers washers involved and where is their placement. Hand hold knots I assume are a loop on each side. Pics if you have them.

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**DropCliffsNotBombs** · 01-05-2008, 11:16 AM

My cornice saw is a 50 ft. section of 5mm perlon (climbing cordage) with overhand knots tied into it about every 1.5 ft. On the ends I have hand loops tied through small pieces of stiff tubing for grabbing onto.

I have used my cornice saw for lowering an injured skier in a rescue situation before. It never hurts to have a rope in the backcountry!

**Wiilbert** · 01-05-2008, 12:23 PM

g3 rutschblock cord?

**Amphibious1** · 01-05-2008, 03:10 PM

Rutschblock cord for cornices?

**axelkeitz** · 01-05-2008, 03:32 PM

yea what else would u use it for? ..............

**Core Shot** · 01-05-2008, 07:04 PM

Originally Posted by Amphibious1

Rutschblock cord for cornices?

No shit. Its only 18 feet long. For cutting rutschblocks.

Buy a longer cord and tie yer own damn knots.

One of the recent TGR vids (Anomaly??) had a great cornice cutting lesson from Sarge.

**pointedem** · 01-05-2008, 07:33 PM

rope with knots +1. Simple, cheap..

**bfree** · 01-05-2008, 08:28 PM

Originally Posted by Core Shot

One of the recent TGR vids (Anomaly??) had a great cornice cutting lesson from Sarge.

Lost and Found, I believe.

**BackcountryBomb** · 02-11-2009, 09:46 AM

Check out http://www.backcountrybomb.com, it's a snow cornice cutting tool that I specifically designed to use in the backcountry to cut through icy, dense big cornices, I think it's better than other methods - p-cord, snow saw. Plus you can cut a big cornice by yourself. Feel free to email me if you want to make your own, or you can buy one on my website for $30. info@backcountrybomb.com

**arild** · 02-11-2009, 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by BackcountryBomb

Check out http://www.backcountrybomb.com, it's a snow cornice cutting tool that I specifically designed to use in the backcountry to cut through icy, dense big cornices, I think it's better than other methods - p-cord, snow saw. Plus you can cut a big cornice by yourself. Feel free to email me if you want to make your own, or you can buy one on my website for $30. info@backcountrybomb.com

Jonging put aside, that looks like an innovative tool for cutting cornices.

**Core Shot** · 02-11-2009, 06:31 PM

Interesting.
How well does it work if you have a small linear cornice that is not easily lassoed?

**BackcountryBomb** · 02-22-2009, 12:33 PM

For the more linear (small or big) cornices, you can make a couple of slots in the cornice. This can be done with a ski, or as I prefer, a self arrest grip on the end of a variable length ski pole. Drop the wire through the slots and try to get the wire as low on the cornice as possible. Sometimes a quick yank of the tool will help set the cable into the cornice. Once you have cut the first section of cornice, it becomes much easier to then work in either direction, taking big portions of the cornice without having to cut the slots first. This is true if you are using the p-cord method as well.
Good luck
joe

**powdork** · 02-22-2009, 01:47 PM

i'd use whatever these guys are using. it seems pretty effective.

**Gage** · 03-02-2009, 07:23 PM

for the castle peak cornice we used a 5mm rope with knots tied into it. and it's about 60 ft long

**Meadow Skipper** · 03-04-2009, 09:04 PM

Originally Posted by BackcountryBomb

Check out http://www.backcountrybomb.com, it's a snow cornice cutting tool that I specifically designed to use in the backcountry to cut through icy, dense big cornices, I think it's better than other methods - p-cord, snow saw. Plus you can cut a big cornice by yourself. Feel free to email me if you want to make your own, or you can buy one on my website for $30. info@backcountrybomb.com

"Goodbye Snow Saw" ?!?!

VC · 03-04-2009, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by powdork

i'd use whatever these guys are using. it seems pretty effective.

Make sure to do it in a heavily traveled area too.

**moose pit** · 03-05-2009, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by BackcountryBomb

Check out http://www.backcountrybomb.com, it's a snow cornice cutting tool that I specifically designed to use in the backcountry to cut through icy, dense big cornices, I think it's better than other methods - p-cord, snow saw. Plus you can cut a big cornice by yourself. Feel free to email me if you want to make your own, or you can buy one on my website for $30. info@backcountrybomb.com

Pussy if it ain't gas powered why bother.

**XXX-er** · 03-05-2009, 10:58 PM

Thats a fucking pruning saw

what kind of a pickup driving/rancid budwieser swilling/PG good old boy prunes anything?

I got 2 words for ya ... feller buncher

earth 1st ,we will log the rest of the planets later ... but only if the canadian dollar drops low enough so the americans can afford our fibre & we can make money