What did you use your SAK for today?

Pr3inar said:
Went to the beach with the kids today, we were meeting an old friend of mine and his 2 yo daughter. He had a UV tent for her to take her midday nap in.

One of the poles was a tiny bit longer than the other, and naturally that one broke when he mixed them up and tried to force it into the shorter ones place..
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I had an emergency blacket in my bag, so I said «no problem, we could just set up a shelter to provide som shade», and since I have been carrying my SAK explorer and a LM charge everyday this holiday, we would have the tools we needed.

But naturally, this one day we actually needed a SAK to really save the day was the day I just went in my swim shorts, and the SAK was in my other shorts, which was at home..

Had to search the whole beach for something, and found some wire from a disposable grill. Whould have been nice to have a LM to cut and twist it into hooks,but nooo….jammed it between the bord of the table, kinda sorta worked.
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Here it would have been nice to either have a knife to sharpen some pegs, or actually use the Explorer’s hook, which would have been perfect here. But no:
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Used the backpack and a bucket of sand for the other two corners, since cutting down some poles to lift it was out of question…
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Bottom line: don’t leave the house without a SAK. They make things a lot easier.
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All the booshcrafting and batoning aside - multitool can save regular campers a** much more likely than a survival knife.
Lovely scenery too!
 
A.L. said:
All the booshcrafting and batoning aside - multitool can save regular campers a** much more likely than a survival knife.
Lovely scenery too!
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Everythime I come home from a camping trip where I have brought a big fixed blade, maybe a smaller one and a SAK + hatchet (just because I like knives), I always come to the conclusion that the SAK would have been enough. But not as fun.
 
Used the flathead screwdriver on my Wenger S101 to twist an allen socket that latches the lock on a doorbar at work. Also used the corkscrew to fish a zip tie through the back of a media panel to secure a service loop.
Used the scissors on my S557 to trim the twisted pairs flat on CAT5E cabling for crimping ethernet cable ends going into a splice (the Wenger serrated scissors are amazing for trimming twisted pairs in ethernet cables). Used the main blade to open some router boxes.
Used the tweezers to remove some splinters from my hands after crawling around in an attic running cable.
 
Wirelessjunkie said:
Used the flathead screwdriver on my Wenger S101 to twist an allen socket that latches the lock on a doorbar at work. Also used the corkscrew to fish a zip tie through the back of a media panel to secure a service loop.
Used the scissors on my S557 to trim the twisted pairs flat on CAT5E cabling for crimping ethernet cable ends going into a splice (the Wenger serrated scissors are amazing for trimming twisted pairs in ethernet cables). Used the main blade to open some router boxes.
Used the tweezers to remove some splinters from my hands after crawling around in an attic running cable.
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That’s some proper SAK usage there!
 
Nothing exotic, but used the 74mm Ambassador to tighten up a screw on a microphone stand on the church stage Sunday morning averting a "major catastrophe", according to the music minister....
On my way to ACE Hardware after work today and buy him his own Classic.... (shakes head walking away..)
 
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