Got a good story about your Multi-tool?

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jdailey4206966

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I love the Leatherman Wave, but would love to hear stories about experiences you had with your multi-tools, be it a Leatherman, Gerber, Sog, SAK, or any other make. Please do tell us if it saved your life or someone elses, camping, fishing, hunting, work, whatever it may be. I am doing this to not only tell about the quality of the tool, you can give a good story to go with it that may encourage others to buy the same tool. Thanks for sharing your story:)
 
About 3 weeks ago I was over at a friends house, and while I was there, we had noticed his house has got hot, because the fan motor on the AC unit outside went out. He had just moved there, and all his tools were still at his house. Luckily I had my wave on me, and it was the only tool that was used to remove the fan cover, fan blade and the motor. Went to town and bought a new motor and came back and put it in once again, using only the wave. Had it not been for the wave, he would have been in the heat for days probably until he got back to his old house to get his tools. Yes the home owners insurance gave him his money back. $115 for a new motor.
 
My wave once again saved the day, and also saved a life. I was sittin here in the house about 3 hours ago who I heard a loud yelping, like an injured dog. I knew mine was in the house, but I quick took of to the woods behind the house to see what was going on. I walked about 50 yards behind the house to find the neighbors miniature collie, named Molly, had got hung up in a briar patch, knowing her chasing deer or something. Anyhow, out quick came the wave and used the serrated blade to cut through the briars, but had to use the saw to cut through some of the thicker ones. After cutting and sawing for about 20 minutes, Molly was almost free, but I had to hold her to get the remaining bits off of her. I than opened the pliers and pulled 13 thorns out of her, which some were pretty deep, and 5 small ones from my arm, than she licked my hand and took off running back home. I believe had I not been home, and not had my wave with me, she would have probably tired herself out and dehydrated as hot as it is, or the coyotes would have gotten to her later tonight. Thanks to leatherman for a literal life saver of both people and animals!:thumbup:
 
About 15min after buying my Wave it helped my friend and I break into his truck. He had locked his keys in and a locksmith costs $65. Not lifesaving or anything but my first multitool sure came in handy quick!
 
Hi,

As a volunteer EMT/fireman I've used multi-tools to open doors, (to get to patients), remove toilets from the floor, (to remove patients), dis-arming airbags, (making a wreak safe to work in), to repairing ambulances and fire trucks on site, (what can go wrong, will go wrong).

I would never leave on a call without them. They are perhaps the most used rescue tool/lifesaver I carry sometimes.

I do have to admit though, for years I've carried nothing but cheap Chinese versions. Used 'em, abused 'em, and tossed 'em. But I've upgraded to a LM Kick and a Gerber Compact Sport. I've not had to reach for either on scene yet. But they will be tested one day.

dalee
 
Thorrg said:
About 15min after buying my Wave it helped my friend and I break into his truck. He had locked his keys in and a locksmith costs $65. Not lifesaving or anything but my first multitool sure came in handy quick!
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Shhhh, don't wanna give any bad ideas to the wrong people, lol:D I am glad it worked for ya. You use the big screwdriver blade? I am also looking at buying a pocket clip next week for it. Sweet little tool isn't it? Ready to test it out for real in the woods for deer season and use it for the hopeful field dress.:D
 
Well, it won me a woman.

Back in the day, I gave a woman friend a SAK for a birthday gift. She just loved it, carried it with her every day and used it often. Eight years later, we got married, probably because of the SAK, because I can think of no other good reason. She still has the same SAK. Every so often I offered to buy her a new one, maybe a different model, but she refuses, satisfied with the one she already posesses. My attitude, in re how many SAKs to own, is somewhat different. You gotta love those Vic products. :D
 
dalee100 said:
Hi,

As a volunteer EMT/fireman I've used multi-tools to open doors, (to get to patients), remove toilets from the floor, (to remove patients), dis-arming airbags, (making a wreak safe to work in), to repairing ambulances and fire trucks on site, (what can go wrong, will go wrong).

I would never leave on a call without them. They are perhaps the most used rescue tool/lifesaver I carry sometimes.

I do have to admit though, for years I've carried nothing but cheap Chinese versions. Used 'em, abused 'em, and tossed 'em. But I've upgraded to a LM Kick and a Gerber Compact Sport. I've not had to reach for either on scene yet. But they will be tested one day.

dalee
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I don't remember where it was, but I read in a review there was a volunteer firefighter on his way home when he noticed an overturned car out in a field. The wreck had just happened because the wheels were still turning. He called it in to 911, and he ran out to the car with his Leatherman Wave in hand and cut the seatbelt of the driver and passenger, who were both unconcious, and looked in back to find a 6 months old baby girl unconcious in her carseat in the back. He said he had a little room to work, but managed to use the saw to cut through the car seat, and free the baby girl from the wreckage, along with her mother and grandmother out of the already broken out side windows. He began doing procedures, like checking pulse and all that, and the mother and grandmother came too, but baby still unconcious. After 5 minutes of cpr, the baby girl began crying, just in time for the paramedics and fire dept to show up. This fireman credits having his Wave at all times on his side is what saved their lives. The women and baby were released from the hospital after a week in there. Upon hearing this, the fireman visited the mother and grandmother, and presented them both with waves and explained how that same tool saved thier lives, and he got the baby girl a new car seat and some toys. A truly heoric story.
 
When dropping one of the ladies i work with at home, she mentioned about wanting to get some trees taken out of her yard. I told her I would do it this weekend if there was a chainsaw around. When she showed me the trees she was talking about, I laughed. There were 10 little sapplings she wanted cut down. I told her give me a few minutes, and pulled the Wave out and opened the saw and went too town. All ten sapplings were cut at the base in less than 5 minutes. It also helped yesterday when her son was trying to mow and the mower kept flooding out. I made a few carb adjustments, which didnt help much, so i took the carb off, cleaned it using nothing but the Wave, and replaced it, making the adjustments, and now their mower works better than before.
 
:thumbup: Good job, jdailey4206966. It is always gratifying to learn how someone uses a multitool instead of just collecting them. The act of helping others is the noblest of uses.
 
The Wave once again saved the say! I had to work over yesterday in a completely different part of the plant, and we had to make boxes, and the boxes were held down by metal bands, and there wasnt a band cutter in sight......except for my Wave. It went through probably 10 different pairs of hands yesterday cutting these things. I have to quit doin that though, because one time I won't get it back.

Again today, it saved another animals life. We have an electric fence around our garden to keep the squirrels, but I heard a terrible noise about 5 am, not knowing what it was, I get dressed and look out the window too see a young deer wrapped up in our fence, so I quick run to the garage to kill the power to the fence, and I ran back in the house and grabbed my wave and ran back out to free the deer. It was barely moving when I got there, and I was afraid it was going to die from the shock, so I quick opened them up, and proceeded to use the wire cutters to free the young deer. after a few minutes of sitting there petting it, it slowly tried to get up, and I helped and and it slowly staggered towards a little in ground water fountain we had to drink. After that the deer looked up at me for a second, and made like a small snort and made a made dash for the woods. i just saw it out in the yard again about an hour ago getting a drink. Had it been another five minutes and I not woke up and grabbed the wave, I would have walked out later that morning to a sad sight. I am a deer hunter, but I don't believe in making or seeing an animal suffer like that.
 
Six of us, 4 men & 2 women, were driving to a game at Yankee Stadium from New Jersey. Somewhere on the approach to the George Washington Bridge toll booths, we hit something small in the road and it kicked up and put a hole the car's fuel tank. We didn't realize it until someone drove up next to us on the bridge and beeped and pointed to the rear of our car. We were leaving quite a stream of gas.

We pulled off the highway as soon as we could and found ourselves on Jerome Ave. in the Bronx with growing puddle of fuel under our car. No tools in the car (not mine) and no service stations open in this hood.

I pulled out my SAK (Tourist) and went to work. First, I had someone hold a finger over the dent that held the tiny (1/8") crack to save what gas was left while I cut a short (1") section of hose off the end of vacuum line from the engine. I slit the tubing lengthwise and opened it up to a flat peice and punched a hole in the center using the awl. Then I used the small screwdriver tip to remove one of the sheet metal screws from the car's interior trim. I threaded the screw, with its little cup washer, through the hole in the flat rubber peice and pushed the point of the screw into the crack in the tank and gently tightened until...the leaked stopped completely. Lucky

We made it to the game OK and I couldn't buy a beer all night.
 
I used the reamer on my SAK Soldier to dig up a large shard of glass that was buried in my local school's playground. I was there on Friday, early evening, with my 18-month-old son and my wife.

I was scanning the ground for such hazards (if you have a young child, you know what I mean) when, bingo, I first noticed the glass. At first I thought it was small--I could probably see, in the dirt, a horizontal piece that was maybe a bit bigger than a quarter.

I pulled out my Soldier, opened the reamer, and used it to find an edge to the glass. Edge found, I then used the reamer to carefully wedge under it. To my surprise, the more I wedged, the more glass came up out of the damp earth. With seconds, I was standing there holding a mis-shaped shard that was almost a foot long.

I pointed it out to my wife ("Look at this!") and then put it in a nearby garbage container (I know: not the best place to toss glass, but the garbage was pretty full, and I had to have my hands free to help manage my son).

Thanks to the Soldier, I didn't have to use either bare hands, or even the blade.
 
I was on vacation with my brother, uncle, and father.

We were at a liquor store :D, and my uncle, the wine connoisseur, found a real steal.

Except he didn't have a corkscrew.

But I did, on my SAK.
 
Me and my wave, saved me many trips to the truck while working, (for the local power utilty) gotten into houses with it, trimmed bushes, used it to arc across the solenoid on my T-Bird out in the boonies one day, all the good stuff.
But the one use that is most vivid is when my future ex wife assured me the power cord for the lamp I was working on was pulled out of the wall socket.
Big bang and flash.
It arced away about half of the wire cutter blades on the jaws.
My coworkers were highly amused. I work for the Hydro company after all. What's rule number one? Disconnect power supply?
 
norskkatana said:
Me and my wave, saved me many trips to the truck while working, (for the local power utilty) gotten into houses with it, trimmed bushes, used it to arc across the solenoid on my T-Bird out in the boonies one day, all the good stuff.
But the one use that is most vivid is when my future ex wife assured me the power cord for the lamp I was working on was pulled out of the wall socket.
Big bang and flash.
It arced away about half of the wire cutter blades on the jaws.
My coworkers were highly amused. I work for the Hydro company after all. What's rule number one? Disconnect power supply?
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You said "soon to be ex wife" lol, I can see why. How dare her destroy a good Wave like that! LMAO, just kidding, glad you made it alright too tell it, and I can't imagine what it felt like, since the Wave is a solid metal frame.
 
I have carried a Orginal Leatherman for about ten years or more I can't remember exactly what year that my mother gave it to me for a christmas gift. I retired it day before yesterday and replaced it with a SAK Super Tinker. I never saved any lifes with it but it has saved the day more times than I can remember.Im gouing to give the SAK a try and see how it works out, but if it doesn't I will pull the old girl out of retirement.
 
Jddailey..
That was the odd and lucky part. I was shocked by the flash bang but felt no tingle. I wasn't wearing gloves or my insulated boots so I assume the arcing of the material ate up most of the 120. Like lightning strikes the end results of a short can seem rather unlogical. There was a bit in the press a few days back where a Lightning strike victim figured the exit point was the nose ring he was wearing. Having seen the results at safety meetings of high voltage accidents this was lucky to the nth degree.
 
My company recently moved into a new building. The movers transported our things over the weekend. I decided to go into our new diggs on Labor Day to set up my computer so I would be able to conduct bussiness bright and early on 09/02/08. When I got to the lobby of our new building (with arm loads of stuff) I learned to my horror that the elevators had been shut down for the holiday. Yours truly had to lug a$$ and a$$ets up sixteen flights of stairs. I at least wanted my computer up and running. Upon reaching my landing i saw the door to my floor had a push button combination lock on the handle. It was the only stairwell door I saw with a lock on it. Long story short, the blades on the swiss spirit and the schrade 7ot I had with me were to thick to fit between the jab and the door. Luckily being the knife nut that I am I carry a Vic Executive on my keyring. I was able to get onto our floor and set up for the next day. I was so glad that I did not have to carry my things back down those stairs and three blocks down the street to the parking garage we use. The executive was a Christmas present from the wife.
 
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