What do you carry on your hip?
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What do you carry on your hip?
So I am a multi tool enthusiast, I work in the bush like most people that read the bush forum. Wondering what tool or knife you gals and guys wear on your hip if any? List any other EDC (Every Day Carry) items you take to work with you.
It might help the green ones out there go to their first job with brand new clean gloves and a shiny new knife.
I carry either a Leatherman Wave or Surge. Also a lighter I have been thinking of a water resistant Zippo lately just makes since when I'm on floats half the time.
Anyone carry a SOG multi tool?
Anyway have a good season,
Collegeboy
It might help the green ones out there go to their first job with brand new clean gloves and a shiny new knife.
I carry either a Leatherman Wave or Surge. Also a lighter I have been thinking of a water resistant Zippo lately just makes since when I'm on floats half the time.
Anyone carry a SOG multi tool?
Anyway have a good season,
Collegeboy
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Re: What do you carry on your hip?
Even though this is not about "I like the PQ-99 much more than the SR-45." I think we still need pictures.
I don't have a decent multi tool. I have a few regular needle nose pliers. A few knives of no particular note either in toolboxes or in/near my tackle box in my wife's trailer.
I don't have a decent multi tool. I have a few regular needle nose pliers. A few knives of no particular note either in toolboxes or in/near my tackle box in my wife's trailer.
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you have the option of changing these tools out for screwdrivers and such.Pop n Fresh wrote:No Phillips head screw driver.
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That looks like the ultimate tool! Where do you get one? My current Leatherman is so....(sigh) limited. Doesn't even have the genuine Rocky Mountain left side Elk antler trim on it. I feel so ashamed whenever I take my tool out of my pants as a result.
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The leatherman tools mentioned seem ok.
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You can't swop out that straight blade for shaving. You need to look good for the Women. But that knife looks like it weights more then some of the Americans I take to camps.
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Re: What do you carry on your hip?
I've carried and used a Swisstool (http://www.swissarmy.com/ca/product/Swi ... Tool/53905) ever since my father gave me one when I headed out for my first flying gig.
Most of the time now it gets used to peel oranges!
If I had to buy one now, I'd look for something that had the capability of undoing common aeroplane - size bolts. (without using the pliers, which tend to chew the bolt edges up..)
Most of the time now it gets used to peel oranges!
If I had to buy one now, I'd look for something that had the capability of undoing common aeroplane - size bolts. (without using the pliers, which tend to chew the bolt edges up..)
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Re: What do you carry on your hip?
Definitely a lighter and a good quality medium size multi tool. I used one everyday working the dock last summer. A variety of screw heads would be a plus. I'll be spraying orange paint on mine this year. Makes it a little easier to spot if dropped in shallow water by the dock or dropped in the bush.
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Leatherman on my hip, swiss army knife in my pocket. I find the scissors and screw drivers are stronger on my swiss. My swiss has 2 blades, scissors, wood saw, awl and of course, bottle/can opener and cork screw, Don't forget the toothpick. I use this knife everyday!!
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Im an instructor and always have my leatherman wave and a lighter. Use that dam leatherman almost everyday.
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If you can specify the model of whatever you are carrying, you are a new gen college kid and not a bush pilot. Same applies if you use your cell phone as a flashlight.I carry either a Leatherman Wave or Surge. Also a lighter I have been thinking of a water resistant Zippo lately just makes since when I'm on floats half the time.
Buy a zippo? Not a chance. Only takes once to forget you have it when flying commercial. And if you are flying floats, what you need is a lighter that floats.
You will note that the poster who showed us the picture of the ultimate tool did not specify the model.
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Re: What do you carry on your hip?
My leatherman is fantastic except that
it only has a little #1 Philips, and it really
needs a #2 Philips for airplanes.
The rest of it is ok (tiny and large slots,
knife, scissors, needle nose pliers, etc).
Less common are 9/16, 11/32 and 5/16.
I really hate adjustable wrenches but sometimes
they are better than nothing. What I really
like are those "geared" box end wrenches that
act as ratchets. They come in regular length
and the stubby versions, which are really useful.
it only has a little #1 Philips, and it really
needs a #2 Philips for airplanes.
The rest of it is ok (tiny and large slots,
knife, scissors, needle nose pliers, etc).
IMHO common sizes include 3/8, 7/16, 1/2.capability of undoing common aeroplane - size bolts
Less common are 9/16, 11/32 and 5/16.
I really hate adjustable wrenches but sometimes
they are better than nothing. What I really
like are those "geared" box end wrenches that
act as ratchets. They come in regular length
and the stubby versions, which are really useful.
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All you need is a sharp knife, and a co-pilot, surely?
DId you hear the one about the jurisprudence fetishist? He got off on a technicality.
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Re: What do you carry on your hip?
Here's a picture of one of those little
gear wrenches:
A very experienced pilot - he's been dead for
years now - after a bad experience with an
engine control coming to pieces in flight, refused
to fly without some kind of pliers.
gear wrenches:
A very experienced pilot - he's been dead for
years now - after a bad experience with an
engine control coming to pieces in flight, refused
to fly without some kind of pliers.
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Re: What do you carry on your hip?
There's no issue flying commercially with a zippo. As tested several times in Canada, the US, Europe and Asia in its pouch, on a belt. Strange but true!trey kule wrote:I carry either a Leatherman Wave or Surge. Also a lighter I have been thinking of a water resistant Zippo lately just makes since when I'm on floats half the time.
Buy a zippo? Not a chance. Only takes once to forget you have it when flying commercial. And if you are flying floats, what you need is a lighter that floats.
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The same is not true about carrying zippo lighter fluid.
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Hold on there, Captain. You're not using your teeth to undo these bolts?North Shore wrote:If I had to buy one now, I'd look for something that had the capability of undoing common aeroplane - size bolts. (without using the pliers, which tend to chew the bolt edges up..)
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