I love my Leatherman tool.............

I have a Leatherman Fuse and just love it. It saves oodles of time around the farm for simple stuff like cutting wires, twisted a cable, cutting twine, and tightening screws on various things in and out of the house. I keep it on my person at all times, scarcely a moment goes by I don't have it in my pocket. I need to send it in and have the small screwdriver fixed; I cracked the tip off while working on a cream separator.

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I'm an environmentalist, left wing, Ron Paul loving Prius driver with a farm. If you have a problem with that, kindly go take a leap.

Only problem I have with mine is the design lets it pinch your hand sometimes if the pliers slip off something. There's another good brand that doesn't do this I found when my BIL showed his to me...

But yeah a good multi tool is pretty handy.. I rate em by the quality of the built in file, the hardness of the steel in the file is easy to grade on what it'll cut, and what it won't. Some cheap ones won't cut metal much tougher than lead..

I never carried a pocket knife, like some guys do, so when I got a Leatherman as a ift, I wasn't impressed.
Now, I'm on my third leatherman and I don't go anywhere without it. I can't recall a single day, that I didn't use it on something.

I lost the first one, bought a second. I misused the pliers and broke it. I tried to use half of the plier as a lever to pull out a stuck cotter key. Snapped off the plier. They sent me a new one. Then I found the original. So I have a spare.

With Christmas coming up, they make great gifts for the un-knowing. If you don't have one, good time to make your Christmas gift needs known.

On my way to Iraq, I made a killing selling cheap, no-name multi-tools for $5 each.

The buyers always had the same story, "Dang! I just lost my $70 Leatherman getting up from the Port-o-potty."

The tool itself is heavy and our nylon web belts were a bit slick, so they tended to slide down and pull the loose end of the belt off your pants loop when you got up and turned...

I had bought the cheap knives from a chinese exporter online for $1.25 each in lots of 50. They weren't the best knife-tools, but they weren't bad either. They each came with a sturdy nylon sheath with loops to wear on your belt vertically or horizontally. Knife, pliers, bottle/canopener, file, punch, flat and cross screwdrivers.

One guy bought 20 of them off me as gifts and impact awards for his squad.

I was issued a really nice Leatherman with wire-cutter atachments. I never took it near a port-o-potty!

I can only imagine the sewage treatment center in Kuwait where they flush out the machine that sucks out the port-o-potties each week....

When I was a kid, the best multi-tool was a Victorinox. We were inseparable until my mid 20s when I landed in an artillery unit where everyone had Leathermans. My pretty red multi-tool didn't have pliers and suddenly wasn't all that useful anymore. Eventually I got one and immediately forgot all about Swiss Army knives.

This summer right before a camping trip I couldn't find it, so I ran out in a panic to replace it. I got a Gerber because I wanted to see how the other half lived. Eventually I found where it was hiding and gave the Gerber to DW. She keeps it in her glove box, mainly to make me happy.

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The garden's getting bigger this year. Again.

This thread made me buy a Leatherman on line at Amazon

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I keep a swiss army knife in my pocket always.. The leatherman when I'm out working on stuff.

Congrats on getting a friend that'll be 'with you' always and never let you down!

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Seneca
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming

Careful Texican, while it may always be your friend there are some things it can't do. Yer still gonna need that roll of duct tape.

I have had a Leatherman Charge since 2006. I asked for it as my big Christmas gift that year. My poor husband always has 'splainin' to do at the water cooler around December 27th or so, when he's asked what he got his wife for Christmas. I ask for homesteader-survival things, or goat stuff, not jewelry, etc... I always keep it in my purse/ fanny pack because I don't wear belted pants, and it makes my "mom jeans" creep down if I stick it in my pocket. It goes everywhere with me. I LOVE being the girl in a crowd that has a tool when a man asks "Anyone got a pocketknife on 'em?" I've saved a cat with a soupcan stuck over it's head that I found suffocating in 10 degree weather, all the way to helping an elderly gentleman in a WalMart parking lot at midnight, whose car needed a screwdriver to start. He asked my husband if he by chance had a screwdriver...but it was the wife who had ~the tool~.... heh heh. Last Monday, I went to visit a little boy in an inner city hospital and thought I might have to go thru a metal detector, so I left my LM in the SUV. Boy, did I feel nekked...purse felt too light.

I wanted my DH to have a multitool, and I was aiming for a LM. Money was just too tight that month, and he has other tools close at hand in his truck, so I bought him a $30.00 Gerber multitool. *(plus he misplaces stuff often). It's not as nice as my LM...but then DH isn't as attached to his as I am to mine either, so... FTR, I do drool over Gerber's multi gear poll up kit (machete's on steroids)...

Funny way I think story: My "June Cleaver" MIL was sitting at the opposite end of the church pew. She bent forward to get my attention and asked if I had a can opened?" "Yep...two actually!" I answered, as I reached down for my LM....(I also carry a P-51 army issue). She looked confused as I handed it to her (and I was wondering why she needed a can opener right before worship services???) She shook her head, and laughed as she said "NOoooo, I bought one at a pampered chef party - it was just handed over to me and I want to know if you want it?

-scrt crk

Since 1984 there are very few days that I haven't carried a Leatherman on my belt. My latest is the Wave. They aren't perfect (and I don't care for the owners politics) but for me they are closer than any other brand I have looked at.

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin~

Good choice!!

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I'm an environmentalist, left wing, Ron Paul loving Prius driver with a farm. If you have a problem with that, kindly go take a leap.