Screws & Nails

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maxkimber

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I have noticed that some folks carry a couple screws and nails in the tins/kits and I just can't seem to figure out why. I could see if you carried 4 or 6 of the same type of nail or screw to aid in the construction of anything; but the screw and nails pictured in some kits look like odds and ends found lying about?

Just curious and wondering if I should add a couple screws/nails to my ever growing kit(s). My question is WHY???

Thanks,
Max
 
MK,

I do. I keep a couple nails and eye hooks in a small tube. I stole the idea from Don Rearic.
 
I like to carry a few dry wall screws. With the multi tool i can always screw something togher. Used it a few times to tie a rop to a tree. Its a great way to keep the rope from sliding. Im sure if you actualy had it there would be a few uses for it. Im working on trying to make an adopter for the multi tool to use a small drill. Can be used to make snares and lots of other things. If you are stuck somewhere for a couple of days im sure you would figure out something that would make life easier.

Sasha
 
Sasha - you reminded me that I forgot to add drill bits in my original query. I have seen drill bits in some kits, I don't understand why. Sure if you drop a stone on your toe or get a finger crushed you can drill through your nail and relieve the pressure (done that before:eek:), but I'm not carrying a cordless drill in my pack - I am just being facetious:D, but am really curious, as if I find a good reason I will add one or two bits into my kit!!
 
I carry some nails as repair items, and as items that could be used to improvise in lots of different ways. I carry some eyelets because they are handy if you are short on rope.
 
All the little little odds and ends in my kit are for improvising and a couple nails could be handy for all kinds of things. You could make a spear for small game, a dead fall trap with a spike, or just nail a couple boards together. A few 16d nails through the end of a stick would make a nasty little improvised weapon or hunting tool. Small nails could be turned into fish hooks.

Tape, wire, and several kinds of line are other improvising tools. This stuff doesn't cost much, but could be priceless when you need it.
 
A deck screw and a multitool are useful for opening a wine bottle, if you don't happen to have a SAK with the appropriate implement.;)
 
I haven't been able to figure out what I'd do with screws or nails that I couldn't do with the rope, wire, duct tape, and fish hooks that I carry anyway.
 
CSG said:
I haven't been able to figure out what I'd do with screws or nails that I couldn't do with the rope, wire, duct tape, and fish hooks that I carry anyway.
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That's the purpose of this thread - to try and figure it out!!!:confused:
 
I used the drill bits to help me make some traps. Make a hole in a stick to run a wire as an example. Repaired a frame on a pack once. Yes i do carry sometimes steel wire, lots of uses for about 2ft of it. I like to carry two sizes 1\8 and 3\16. You dont need a dril but if you grab it and turn is slow by hand you can dril anything slow. I guess its has to do with trying to make things in the evening to stay busy lol. Thats a great idea to carry the eyelet screw.

Sasha
 
CSG said:
Gosh, sorry to respond, maxkimber...
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CSG - Sorry if I offended you somehow?? I am merely agreeing with you, that is the reason I raised the question - I used the 'confused' smiley as to say I am confused too. No ill-will intended. Please, can't we all get along:):)
 
nail or screw into a tree, tie some paracord to string a tarp. No need to go around the tree. Even to go into a small crack in a rock ledge for the same purpose
 
Frog spear tips, deadfall spike, improvised bigger fishook (Tie a line around middle, bait and when the fish takes it a quick jerk lodges it), among other things said.
 
Handymen/people always like to have nails and screws around. You can use them for so much and make things easier. Hanging things, holding things, securing things, you can bend them and make other things, hook, a poke or point, even a carver.

Some things are nice to have when you need them and as small as they are and for the weight, they are way worth it for me to carry them.
 
CUTS LIKE A KRIS said:
Frog spear tips, deadfall spike, improvised bigger fishook (Tie a line around middle, bait and when the fish takes it a quick jerk lodges it), among other things said.
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Kris,

If you wound the line around the screw a little bit, when you jerked it, you wouldn't just be setting the hook, but screwing it into the fish. :D

-- FLIX
 
mneedham said:
MK,

I do. I keep a couple nails and eye hooks in a small tube. I stole the idea from Don Rearic.
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People are actually reading stuff, listening and applying! Great! I see more people are going after the Douk-Douks as well now.

More articles are coming. :)
 
I carry a couple in a fishing kit that has one of those frog tridents in it, that way I can attach it quickly to a stick.
 
I carry assorted screw eyes on a little carbiner in my belt pouch PSK for attaching cordage to cracks in rocks. Sometimes there isn't a place to tie off to but a screw eye screwed into a crack works just fine. Sometimes I will pound a piece of wood into a crack, snap it off and screw into that. The screw eyes can be turned in with any short stick. It makes rigging a poncho as a tarp roof over a natural rock shelter much easier at times. Mac
 
Posted by Sasha
Im working on trying to make an adopter for the multi tool to use a small drill.
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I carry a Leatherman Surge, and a Leatherman bit extension with it. The bit extension accepts hex bit screwdrivers.

There are dedicated power screwdrivers with a hex socket instead of a drill motor’s chuck. You can get drill bits which are seated in a hex bit, to let you use power screwdriver to drill holes. I’ve got no use for these things as construction tools. Small high speed bits break, and regular drill bits are cheaper to replace. But for this purpose—the hex bits won’t fit into the screwdriver socket on the Surge. But they will fit into the 3” bit extension. If you have a Surge, or a Charge, get a bit extension and some of these drill bits in the size of your choice.

Actually drilling with the Surge would be tedious. But it would be tedious no matter what arrangement you came up with. After all, that's where we get the word boring.

I think I’ll add some of those bits to my own kits.
 
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