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

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.

The best!!



http://www.wired.com/design/2013/10/you ... rmy-knife/

No Phillips head screw driver.

Pop n Fresh wrote:No Phillips head screw driver.

you have the option of changing these tools out for screwdrivers and such.

So you could choose a different frequency tuning fork? Not bad.

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.

The leatherman tools mentioned seem ok.

Does that swiss tool FLOAT ?

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.

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..)

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.

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!!

Im an instructor and always have my leatherman wave and a lighter. Use that dam leatherman almost everyday.

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.

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.
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.

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).

capability of undoing common aeroplane - size bolts

IMHO common sizes include 3/8, 7/16, 1/2.
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.

All you need is a sharp knife, and a co-pilot, surely?

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.

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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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!

The same is not true about carrying zippo lighter fluid.

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..)

Hold on there, Captain. You're not using your teeth to undo these bolts?
What happened to true grit bushpilotery?

Keep meaning to pick up a pair of these, for "just in case":

http://www.princessauto.com/pal/Wrenche ... /8363277.p

On the hip - Leatherman Core - Sad that it is discontinued, but it has served me well for almost 10 years with an annual bath in ACF 50. I sharpened the pliers into a point for making holes in things, or picking up little things.



In the headset bag clipped to my seat is a SOG Fielder and two open end wrenches.

Gerber multitool

don't know what model it is but I've had it on my hip for about 15 years. its sheath is starting to wear through in a couple spots. broke off the flat head screwdriver above the bottle opener but still got one smaller and one bigger. can flick it open for needle nose pliers use without thinking and getting a blade out is easy with one hand. blind its either a straight blade or the serated rope cutter. both are real sharp

My old Chief Pilot used to always carry a little vise-grip with him. Once after landing the Otter, He reached down and pulled it off the water rudder. He'd flown back 150 miles with it holding the cable to the rudder. Nice...

Locking pliers make a good adjustable wrench also. Vise-grip brand were significantly better that most others about fifteen years ago when I last bought a couple of pairs, they sleep in my tool box since I got married.