![]() ![]() It's not my primary tool, but saves a trip back to the truck to grab a tool from the full kit there too often to count. Each box truck delivers about a dozen appliances a day.Įven my helper has bought a multi-tool cause he was bothering me for mine all the time. I deliver and install appliances for a major home improvement company, when I'm not driving the flatbed and delivering with the piggy-back. You're not getting anything moved without that baby! water connections to power cords, these are the only tools I need most of the time. ![]() From refrigerators to washers and dryers, stoves, etc. The Irwin "channel locks" with the push button adjustably and the Lenox screwdriver with six bits, 1/4, 5/16, and 3/8 nut drivers get dropped in my pocket when I get out of my truck without even thinking. Have carried a Bic wrapped in duct tape for as long as I can remember. I cut a lot of heavy cardboard at work, and I'm sure everyone here knows how fast that will dull a blade. Paracord bracelet I made is about 15' long.Īccu Sharp diamond stone has a coarse and fine side and works great. Small Olight pry bar on my truck key has several handy uses. High or low beam, no gimmicks and a pocket clip that doubles as hat brim clip. A medium sized, light weight tool with your common driver bits, a saw, file, awl, and bottle/can opener daily and the Kershaw Link or Rat 1. Who actually owns one of these and uses all the tools in them? You're talking about the largest, heaviest ones out there. Most that dropped/don't like multi-tools seem to have carried the Wave or 300. Only you can tell what you'll need in your pockets and yes, I could have carried a toolbox, but where does it end? A small toolbox? Will I need nutdrivers? Will I have to cut anything? Will I have to fix something? Will I be lugging this thing around and leaving it on a sidewalk while I climb 12 buck of scaffolding when all I needed to bring was a tape measure? Or will a multi-tool suffice? I still remember one boss who would have me go out with him to look at a job. Not that I'm ragging on a person's decision of not carrying a multi-tool, but for someone who does not need to pull one out several times a day, where having the correct tool is a better option, they serve their purpose. Or a SAK with blade and a saw and a few other fold out options. And a crappy one is better than nothing.īut yeah, if I need a pair of pliers channel locks would be great to have. Thus the Phillips bit and blade bit and knife and pliers and file and a myriad of choices that you probably will never need, or go out not expecting to need, but all of a sudden you do need it. The purpose, IMHO, of a multi-tool is to carry one tool. I think the key term used in the OP is "coupled with". So what do you think? Anybody else have tiny tools they edc? Or are you more of a multitool person? ![]() Heck, I even bought a couple extra pair of the cobras to use in the kitchen for nut cracking and crab legs, talk about easily adaptable! Not to rag on those that prefer a multitool, but I found this pairing, coupled with a SAK farmer and fixed blade offers more options and flexibility in my day to day life. This pair get used multiple times daily both at work, and around my budding homestead. Plus they don't take up as much space and they are way lighter to carry. These tools to everything I need them to do, and I have found them to actually be more versatile than a multitool. Now to the reason I don't carry a multitool. ![]() I wanted to love the pliers wrench, but it is just too small, the next size up would be optimal, but too big to put in a back pocket daily, so I gave them to the wife to use around the freeze dryer. Pictured there are the slipjoints that started it all, my knipex cobra pliers, my channellock micro dykes (both my edc now), and the knipex micro pliers wrench. But the knipex, boy the knipex are just amazing tools. The Cresent and channelock were the cheapest and I didn't take a shine to them at all so they were given away on the forum in mystery boxes. Crescent, channelock, knipex, and another that I forget. So then I scoured the internet and found about 4 different manufacturers tiny slip joint offering. I had to have these pliers! I carried them for a bit, but found them wanting in opening capacity. I bought the whole kit just for the pliers at an antique shop for $35. Then a couple of years ago I found something that changed my EDC forever.Ī tiny pair of vintage ignition pliers out of a motorcycle tool kit. So it languished on a pack for years (still is tbh) Years ago I wanted a Leatherman surge, my best friend had one and I thought it was the coolest thing in the world (they are pretty darn cool) the only issue is, I never really used it, it is heavy, bulky, jack of all trades master of none, etc. ![]()
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