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How do they do in terms of bushcrafting, making structures (not chopping), making traps, food prep etc, fixing your vehicle.
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Multi-tools (LM, SAK) blades in wild? How do they fair?
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They're great because they are so versatile.
The file can become a fish scaler,
or a sharpener for other metal tools and items (other knives, fishing hooks, etc...),
or used to cut and shape any scrap metal that you might find.
The pliers are great for pealing the bark off of wood,
or retrieving something from the campfire without burning your hands,
or cracking nuts,
or bending and shaping metal to fashion it into a useful tool (like making fishing lures from an aluminum can or fish hooks from nails or barbed-wire),
Pulling porcupine quills out,
or for "frontier dentistry" (think of the movie Castaway).
The blades obviously can do anything any other small blade can do (carve, slice, skin, whittle, shape, puncture, etc...).
The flat screwdrivers can be used to pry open clams and mussels,
or scrape coconut from the inside of the shell....
Just about anything that might damage or severely dull your cutting blades.
The wood-saw can help fashion the triggers for traps which need to fit precisely,
saw wood to exact lengths for constructing a shelter or a litter or a trap or a tool,
saw down some thicker pieces of wood that would severely dull a cutting blade,
saw wood in tight spaces where there is no room to swing a large blade,
saw through frozen wood or frozen game,
saw through bones and other hard material (good for making tools out of animal bones or animal antlers, or for amputating a trapped limb
).
The scissors are great for tiny precise cutting:
trimming fingernails and toenails,
trimming facial hair,
removing hangnails,
cutting moleskin patches to prevent blisters,
trimming feathers for field expedient arrows,
removing the pincers and stingers of edible insects,
etc....
I'm not saying that a multi-tool can replace an axe or a machete, but they are undeniably handy and useful both in the bush and around the home.
The more you carry one the more reasons you will discover to use it.
The file can become a fish scaler,
or a sharpener for other metal tools and items (other knives, fishing hooks, etc...),
or used to cut and shape any scrap metal that you might find.
The pliers are great for pealing the bark off of wood,
or retrieving something from the campfire without burning your hands,
or cracking nuts,
or bending and shaping metal to fashion it into a useful tool (like making fishing lures from an aluminum can or fish hooks from nails or barbed-wire),
Pulling porcupine quills out,
or for "frontier dentistry" (think of the movie Castaway).
The blades obviously can do anything any other small blade can do (carve, slice, skin, whittle, shape, puncture, etc...).
The flat screwdrivers can be used to pry open clams and mussels,
or scrape coconut from the inside of the shell....
Just about anything that might damage or severely dull your cutting blades.
The wood-saw can help fashion the triggers for traps which need to fit precisely,
saw wood to exact lengths for constructing a shelter or a litter or a trap or a tool,
saw down some thicker pieces of wood that would severely dull a cutting blade,
saw wood in tight spaces where there is no room to swing a large blade,
saw through frozen wood or frozen game,
saw through bones and other hard material (good for making tools out of animal bones or animal antlers, or for amputating a trapped limb
).The scissors are great for tiny precise cutting:
trimming fingernails and toenails,
trimming facial hair,
removing hangnails,
cutting moleskin patches to prevent blisters,
trimming feathers for field expedient arrows,
removing the pincers and stingers of edible insects,
etc....
I'm not saying that a multi-tool can replace an axe or a machete, but they are undeniably handy and useful both in the bush and around the home.
The more you carry one the more reasons you will discover to use it.