Curious how many of you own one of these?

[AsahinaKimi]

Just wondered how many of you own one, and please
tell us stories about how it GOT you out of a Macgyver like situation!

[PaddyBlueEyes]

1. I own one of those....and even better..one of these......

I've used them for all kinds of stuff, from unlocking car doors to wiring a garage, and even cooking with the swiss army....

[kentauros]

20. Same here, though not that type of Leatherman.

My biggest complaint with Letherman is how the "handles" for the pliers dig into your palm and fingers. Is the one you have any better at preventing that?

I also have a pair of Slip-n-Snip scissors :D

[hibbing]

2. Me

Hi,
I actually bought one in Switzerland many many moons ago when they were not as readily available where I was from. At least that is what I convince myself like 30 years later. It was a sturdy thing and I liked the tweezers and toothpick it had with it!

Peace

[jobycom]

3. I have a multi-tooled contraption by a more generic manufacturer.

It has saved my life on a couple of occassions. Once I opened a coke bottle with it. I've used it to crack recalcitrant pistachios. I think I've even emancipated CDs from plastic-wrapped incarceration with it.

[hibbing]

5. now I want details

Hi,
I want details about how it saved your life! Or was the opening the Coke bottle and cracking pistachios how it did that?

Peace

[jobycom]

6. Having a Mexican Coke unopened is a life-threatening situation for me. nt

[Kat45]

4. Muy boyfriend in college gave me one for Christmas.

I carried it everywhere. And IIRC, I did use every tool on it at least once. I think I used the awl to punch a new hole in the strap of my sandal when it got too stretched out. I didn't know what happened to the knife, thought I had lost it, but I found it again quite recently, I was psyched. Of course these days, it would probably get confiscated as a dangerous weapon if you had it in your pocket when you walked into a lot of different places.

[bluesbassman]

7. I won mine in a floating craps game in Oakland. It saved my life,

and those of many others I might add, several years later when the plane I was traveling in had to ditch in the South Pacific. I used the awl to stitch together all of the flotation devices and fashioned them into pontoons to float the wings. Next I used it to construct a rudimentary lathe that I used to fabricate oars which we used to paddle the plane to Samoa. Pretty simple really.

[AsahinaKimi]

8. Wow .. That really happened?

That sounds definitely like something Macgyver might do!

[bluesbassman]

9. Everything except the craps game.

One should never shoot craps in Oakland. :)

[mcctatas]

10. One should never BE in Oakland

Hiya handsome :)

[bluesbassman]

12. Ain't that the truth. Although some parts are beautiful.

It's really sad, as the Oakland of the 30s to 50s was the Jewel of the East Bay. When the suburbs started springing up in the 60s, Oakland like a lot of other urban areas went downhill fast.

And Hiya right back Darlin'! :hi:

[Alameda]

16. Well I disagree with you here....everything was jewell like once

..........but Oakland has gone up and down....more up than down....for the last 20 years it's been on a upswing. There are some pretty devastated and neglected areas, but in general, it's greatly improved. I know....been watching it for over 60 years....and have relatives who have seen it for longer....seen the ups and downs....I remember how terribly funky the Bay was in the good old days.......and saw the old Victorian homes condemned and new cracker box apartment buildings put up....I saw slums created........and I have one of those knives....only used it a couple of times...due to all the laws regarding "concealed weapons" I have never carried one around, and at home I have all the tools I would need.

I still miss the F train....

[Alameda]

15. Excuse me????

What do you have against Oakland? It actually is a pretty cool place.

[Gormy Cuss]

39. Oh no! I was there the other day and even walked under the freeway.

Nothing happened, save for a good meal at Everett & Jones.

[PaddyBlueEyes]

11. one should never shoot

anything in Oakland.. :P

[bluesbassman]

13. Word!

:rofl:

[kentauros]

21. I just want to know how MacGyver can turn a wooden bowl on a rudimentary lathe

that isn't spinning and still get wood chips all over him! :o

:P

[kentauros]

23. I think you're confusing MacGyver with Galaxy Quest

;)

[denbot]

14. We keep one in the "camping bag".

I don't know if it directly saved our lives, but it does make things easier.

[Captain Hilts]

17. I do. nt

[canoeist52]

18. Of Course! Isn't that why God gave women the purse?

-to carry all this stuff...along with a match case, compass, tape measure etc.
Though it was interesting when I had jury duty. :)

[HopeHoops]

19. I own one with a USB thumb drive as one of the "blades".

Is that cool or what?

[bikebloke]

22. I've had mine for 32 years.

It's been all over the world with me. Though recently, in fear of losing it through airlines and pantomime security goons, I started carrying the other given to me in Switzerland about 20-some years ago.

They've come in handy for backpack and tent repairs to cutlery.

[noamnety]

24. I have this on my keyring

Admittedly I mostly use it for picking cement out from under my fingernails.

[Bertha Venation]

25. I don't, but I have always wanted one.

[dugaresa]

26. i have one, given to me by an old beau

[baldguy]

27. I was stranded on a South Pacific island. All I had were coconuts, seaweed & my Swiss Army Knife.

I built a raft, a fishing pole & net, a small cabin and an electric generator.

Could never quite get the TV working properly, though.

[AsahinaKimi]

31. wait wait wait ...

Were you with Mary Ann, Ginger, The Skipper, The Howells and Gilligan?

[OffWithTheirHeads]

28. Ever since I heard this W.C. Fields quote

"Reminds me of the time we were lost in the wilds of Afghanistan. Lost our corkscrew and were forced to subsist on food and water for several days".

I never, ever wanted to find myself in such dire straits so I have had one in my possession since the 70's. Not the same one mind you but the two things I consider absolutely essential are my Swiss Army Knife and my Ray-bans. I'd rather go naked than be without those two items.

[AsahinaKimi]

32. Yes but if you go naked

One can not imagine where you would keep your swiss army knife!! Not sure I want to know either.. :rofl:

[OffWithTheirHeads]

34. Well, I would hunt and kill one or more of Gods furry creatures

using the spear I made out of the sapling I cut down with said knife. I would then skin said creatures and make clothes using the awl contained on said knife to help sew. While making said clothing, I would start a fire with the magnifying glass to cook the remains of the creatures. When they were ready to eat, I would use the corkscrew to open a nice bottle of Chateau Lafitte and drink it from the Coconut shell I had fashioned into a wine glass. I would do all of this, secure in the knowledge that My eyes were being protected from harmful UV rays by my Ray-Ban Wayfarers.

So there!

[AsahinaKimi]

35. okay so you would sew pockets

Into the clothes to hold your knife or would you put the knife on a self made rope to hang around your neck?

[OffWithTheirHeads]

37. Pockets. The Ralph Lauren do it yourself, animal hide fashion

patterns book says pockets and who am I to argue with Ralph? Though, a simple sinew lanyard would be much easier.

[TrogL]

29. I've got two. Waved one at a bad guy and he ran away

He came to the window of the car screaming and ranting, obviously insane or just bugfuck upset about something or other. He may have been upset because I drove past him while he was crossing against a red light.

Wasn't intending on using it - if things got out of hand there's a baseball bat in the back seat. I like baseball.

[AsahinaKimi]

33. You would get out of your car and

offer to play baseball with him? How sweet!! :rofl:

[Deep13]

30. I have seven.

That includes two key-chain sizes and the one a got from my father when he died. I bought the first one in 1985 when I was in high school. It and a pair of pliers let me fix a leaking radiator hose once.

[Forkboy]

36. God no. That's actually handy, and I can't be owning anything like that.

I'd just end up using the corkscrew to scrape the screen in my bowl clean.

[jmowreader]

38. Endorsed by Green Berets!

I went to a week-long class taught by Green Berets. Someone asked the instructors what the best knife was. We all expected them to name one of those huge knives that hangs down your leg, but the captain in charge of the team said, "We all have Swiss Army knives. Best thing to have." (This was before the Leatherman tool really got popular, though; today they've probably all got those.)

[AsahinaKimi]

42. See ? Even the Green Berets can

Learn something from Macgyver!

[Skittles]

40. I HAVE ONE

got me one to attach to my purse because I got fed up with looking for scissors to open packages (usually foodstuff; I have to remember to detach the damn thing every time I fly though :D

[WinkyDink]

41. I own one, but have only ever used the corkscrew. :-)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

43. I have one. And a good story:

Years ago -- about 1976, I think -- I was traveling through Montana with my then-husband and a friend in the friend's VW Rabbit. Somewhere out in the middle of nowhere (east of Missoula, I think) the car quit. We fiddled around for awhile, finally took off the distributor cap and determined that the points were burned out. Since I was the only one with a credit card, I hitchhiked to the closest town (was picked up by a guy on a motorcycle), found a garage occupied by a crusty old mechanic and his three-legged dog, purchased a set of points, got a ride back to the car on the back of the motorcycle, and we replaced the points and gapped them with the only tool we had, a Swiss Army knife.

[AsahinaKimi]

44. some where..

Richard Dean Anderson is smiling!