It's not only a matter of whether they can handle higher force. It also means for repetitive tasks that you are fatiguing your hands less. I've had days of doing a lot of wire runs where I would have LOVED to have only been applying about half as much force to cut the wire... EACH time I cut.My experience with both the Powerlock and Crosscut are very positive. The covers on the Powerlock really do cut down on the handles biting into the palms, but add one more annoying step when trying to access the fold-away tools.
I had a SOG PL jaw break on me once while I was attempting to bend a piece of metal.
Oh, for a surge with REAL pliers
Quote from: tosh on October 20, 2013, 10:16:06 AMOh, for a surge with REAL pliers I'm pretty sure there was a tread on here a while back that covered this exact topic. IIRC the consensus seemed to be that multitools are the "jack of all trades, but master of none", and that it would cost too much to make plier heads that were a lot stronger (drop forged etc), so that while we enthusiasts might be willing to pay more the general public (ie the volume buyers) would not. And we can't even agree within the MTo family about what style of plier heads are best (blunt, semi-blunt, semi-needle nose, full needle nose, replaceable cutters or not, compound leverage or not, full shears etc )