Did you ever stop carrying a plier-based tool?

[parnass]

I have tried to do without a pliers tool.  However, I always return to carrying a pliers-centric multitool or a separate pliers and knife and something else.

I use a knife most frequently.  Tied for second place are scissors and a pliers.

The pliers are an extension of my fingers.   I use them for the normal fastener tightening and bending jobs, but also to grab hot items from the oven and pick up trash found in the yard which I don't want to touch with my fingers.  They also fit in tight places my fingers won't reach.

[Lynn LeFey]

but also to grab hot items from the oven and pick up trash found in the yard which I don't want to touch with my fingers.

I hope there is some serious cleaning between those two uses.

[ducttapetech]

but also to grab hot items from the oven and pick up trash found in the yard which I don't want to touch with my fingers.

I hope there is some serious cleaning between those two uses.

Heat from the oven should sanitize it.

[Lynn LeFey]

One certainly hopes.

[Gareth]

You mean casually wiping them on the leg of my trousers isn't an effective disinfectant?    

Time to get the hot soapy water out perhaps.

 

[Lynn LeFey]

Well, that's all you had to say. Wiping things on your trousers is shown to be 42% more effective than the '5 second rule' in sanitizing equipment.

[Gareth]

Phew, that's a relief.

[Mercury]

I too use my pliers for general grasping tasks.  I pulled a piping hot piece of melted sippy cup out of the dishwasher element today with my Blast's pliers.  I couldn't get my hand in there and even if I could it would've burnt me.  To be honest, I have actually been thinking of dropping the Blast out of my at home EDC, but things like this keep popping up so I guess it's here to stay.  Doesn't bother me, it's been there for years and I honestly don't think I could leave it out of the setup.  If I don't have my blast on me, you can bet something will happen that the blast would have taken care of easily.

[N_N_R]

but also to grab hot items from the oven and pick up trash found in the yard which I don't want to touch with my fingers.

I hope there is some serious cleaning between those two uses.

 

I'm new to the MT stuff and all I've carried so far was scissor-based. I've considered many times buying a plier-based MT, but always discouraged myself, thinking I don't really need it daily and it was too much money to spent on it. Now that I've started using my bike again, though, I'm again facing a dilemma...   Sometimes there are some parts there which I can't (un)do with my fingers, so I need sth stronger .. but still this wouldn't be daily use. If I could think of more daily routine jobs to do with pliers, perhaps I'd get one and won't leave it alone.. lol.

[Coert]

I have many times.  I cycle between the Leatherman Fuse and the Core.  My wife has the Juice S2 in her purse and sometimes lets me carry it.  I keep on going back so either one of my SAK's or just a single blade knife.  Much too often i get into this whole self-debate about which is better to have with you, a knife of an MT.  Who knows. 

[Mr. Whippy]

I have many times.  I cycle between the Leatherman Fuse and the Core.  My wife has the Juice S2 in her purse and sometimes lets me carry it.  I keep on going back so either one of my SAK's or just a single blade knife.  Much too often i get into this whole self-debate about which is better to have with you, a knife of an MT. Who knows.

We do.


We're MT.O

 

[Mercury]

We do know.  I would have to say if it came down to the wire and i was given a choice for EDC between a full sized multi and a knife roughly the same size and weight, i would always choose the MT.  Survival would be a different story because the environment outside urban areas has shockingly little in the way of phillips screws that need turning.


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[Steinar]

The single biggest problem for me with MTs is actually I hate using most of them as knives. Perhaps that's somewhat heretic here, but they're clumsy, have horrible ergonomics, etc. I'm a big fan of the Swiss, so for me it's a pretty big admission that as a knife, the Skeletool is the best multi I've tested. The asymmetric design make it less clumsy as a knife than other multitools I've handled. The tools where the blades are on the inside, at the opposite end of the pliers, like the original PST are IMHO the worst when used as knives. Therefore I really like to have some kind of knife in addition anyway when I carry a multitool, this has made me look extra when people present their bladeless mods.

[Mercury]

I have to agree, I am not a huge fan of using the knives on MT's that much.  I do use them for stripping wire and other rough tasks, but they stay in the tool most of the time.  I carry a folder now all the time, it's my main knife.

[Mr. Whippy]

The single biggest problem for me with MTs is actually I hate using most of them as knives. Perhaps that's somewhat heretic here, but they're clumsy, have horrible ergonomics, etc. I'm a big fan of the Swiss, so for me it's a pretty big admission that as a knife, the Skeletool is the best multi I've tested. The asymmetric design make it less clumsy as a knife than other multitools I've handled. The tools where the blades are on the inside, at the opposite end of the pliers, like the original PST are IMHO the worst when used as knives. Therefore I really like to have some kind of knife in addition anyway when I carry a multitool, this has made me look extra when people present their bladeless mods.

Completely agree. Because the sharp edge opens the way it does on PST (and Fuse, Blast, ST etc), the opposite handle is often in the way of cutting, or at least limiting cutting in tight spaces.  That was one of my biggest complaints about the PST.