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#53256 - 11/07/05 10:35 PM Re: am I missing Leatherman's point?
Farmer Offline
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Registered: 11/04/05
Posts: 125
Loc: Mid-Atlantic
I've gotten to where I don't like the Leatherman tools. Mostly flash. I switched to a Gerber and am very satisfied. I'm also looking at a SOG, but I'm not sure I want to put out the money. If I didn't have the Gerber, I'd buy the SOG. And I always have a SAK, if for no other reason than the toothpick!
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#53257 - 11/07/05 10:58 PM Re: am I missing Leatherman's point?
Anonymous
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Thanks ... I'd never herd of it before.


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#53258 - 11/07/05 11:07 PM Re: am I missing Leatherman's point?
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Quote:
I've gotten to where I don't like the Leatherman tools
I'm starting to feel the same. My old Wave is getting warn out, but I havent convinced myself that I really like the new wave or the charge yet. I have a couple of swiss tools that I find I'm carrying more and more, but the old Wave is still my first grab.

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#53259 - 11/07/05 11:23 PM Re: am I missing Leatherman's point?
pteron Offline
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Registered: 10/01/01
Posts: 59
Loc: UK
You don't care for wine - haven't you just ruled yourself out of the demographic for cork screw useage?


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#53260 - 11/08/05 02:01 AM Re: am I missing Leatherman's point?
philip Offline
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Registered: 09/19/05
Posts: 639
Loc: San Francisco Bay Area
Start planning now -- I'll see you there next year? Lots of folks from Japan, and several from Oz. Go back to
http://www.burningman.com/
and enter australia in the search box in the top right corner. :-)

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#53261 - 11/08/05 02:34 AM Re: am I missing Leatherman's point?
Susan Offline
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Registered: 01/21/04
Posts: 5163
Loc: W. WA
I couldn't see a use for the corkscrew either. Then I was in the desert one hot summer.

There was a young woman and two guys nearby in the primitive campground. There was something wrong with their car and they didn't have much to camp with. The guys had a blue tarp and about twenty feet of clothesline rope, and they couldn't figure out how to make a sun shade with them. There were two raggedy small tree/shrubs in their campsite, but too far apart to use the rope. The woman comes back and stands watching them, hands on her hips. She looks over at me and rolls her eyes. She marches up to them, picks up the rope and demands her brother's SAK. She pulls up the corkscrew, screws it into the trunk of the nearest shrub, ties one end of the rope to it, stretches it over to the car, and ties it to the inside of the car door. Then she mimes putting the tarp over the rope.

Corkscrew = anchor, when you haven't got an eyebolt handy.

Sue

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#53262 - 11/08/05 02:50 AM Re: am I missing Leatherman's point?
groo Offline
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Registered: 11/02/03
Posts: 740
Loc: Florida
Well, sure, I mean, yeah... you could do that way. But, you know, it's not how they were going to do it. The right way requires planning, prepartion, a schedule, parts list, preliminary design, maybe a prototype, then...



Edited by groo (11/08/05 03:16 AM)

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#53263 - 11/08/05 03:00 AM Re: am I missing Leatherman's point?
Anonymous
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You forgot the most important .... What colour?

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#53264 - 11/08/05 03:19 AM Re: am I missing Leatherman's point?
Anonymous
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If you see me, it wont be next year <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
But I maybe overthere the year after that <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

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#53265 - 11/08/05 03:20 AM Re: am I missing Leatherman's point?
groo Offline
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Registered: 11/02/03
Posts: 740
Loc: Florida
Good point. Color is important. I think we also oughta consider canvas albedo, time of day, lattitude, prevailing wind direction, relative humidity, terrain gradient, soil type, local topography, rope composition and condition, shrub / bush species, age and health (to determine suitablility as temporary anchor point), likely duration of stay, etc.

Civilians think this stuff is easy. Kids, do not try this at home. We're professionals.


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