LEATHERMAN CORE- a drillers thoughts and a leatherman virgin

[dingosrun]

hi guys
my names paul or dingo
i live in western australia
and work as a driller one of the toughest job out there
my thoughts  on the leatherman core
this is my first leatherman  (all my other multitools are the crappy cheap ones)
this is my first thougths of a leatherman
so be gentle with me ;D

ive been wanting a leatherman for about 10 years but always thought they were very pricey for what they are

 
so i was looking on ebay for a good multitool
and was thinking about getting one
 so went to bid on the leatherman core but got outbid at the last 5 seconds (dam e-snipe)
but i was thinking maybe i shouldn't get one posted as i dont know how australia post will handle the multitool maybe they wont let it thru
so i bit the bullet and went and bought one from my local camping shop
i was looking at them all , but the core kept getting my eye
so i beat the guy down $20 and got it for $170 instead of $190 and all a tax write off as i use it for work.
i paid $110 cash and put $60 on credit card so the missus dont relise how pricey they are and kill me for buying it 
it also came with the leather sheath

well i was driving to work (which takes 2 hours to drive too)
and i couldnt help  hold it and feel it and boy i tell you it weights a lot.
i was thinking how the hell am i going to carry this thing on my hip all day at this weight
i couldnt wait to get to work and have a look at all the bits
when i got to work i got all the knives and the other gear out of it and boy are those knives sharp
and im most impressed with the whole tool
i love it
well i couldnt wait to get to work with it
so up i got at the usal time to go to work which is 5:00 am
straped her to my hip with just an atlas strap as i didnt have a belt
but after about 2 hours it had broken my belt loops with the weight
but it was raining so theres no drilling today
so we went to the hardware as a needed a new belt for my CORE as the core was now just in my pocket
so got a realy good leather one just to compliment my leatherman
so we hang around camp wondering what to do
so a few of our chairs need fixing around camp so we got some glue and went to work on them i said to my offsider we need a srewdriver but then i remembered i had my CORE so she helped put the srew out and back in again
the screwdriver was great
also we needed a knive to cut the top off the glue but i had that covered with the CORE and she just sliced straight thru it with out a problem
so  we moved onto some bigger chairs and the had some dowel sticking out so out came the CORE again with the saw this time and she just ripped thru the wood
im loving this tool
as far as i can see this CORE and me are going to do heaps
i love it
the tool it self is very weighty but in my field which is mining most things have to be ready for the job and built tough
so hopefully we can give her a run on the drill rig and she how she goes
but for my money im always buying a leatherman from now on
and it also looks like a got a new hobby collecting these tools
thanks def
i will get some photos uploaded as soon as i get home
hope i didnt bore you too much and i hoped you enjoy my little review

[Grant Lamontagne]

Hell no!  We are always glad to hear the ramblings of a new convert!

I know sometimes a quality tool can seem pricey when plunking down the cash, but think about it as not only a business expense, but also a time saving device.  How long would it have taken you to decide what tool you needed, then gone to get them?  Even if you had to cross the room to your toolbox every time you needed a different tool, the Core probably saved you a significant amount of time.  Then add that much time up over the next 25 years that you are guaranteed to have it.  I think it will more than pay for itself in the long run.

Of course if you start collecting them like I do then you'll likely spend more money than time with any of them.  To break even I have to work about twenty hours a day, every day for the next 140 years!

Def

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

cool review mate, thanks for taking the time out to write it for us

don,t assume it,ll be your last multi though ;D

[J-sews]

Yeh, thanks for the write-up! Looking forward to seeing the photographs too. 

[I'm Still Bison]

Great write-up...you should forward it to Leatherman.More testimony to show invaluable a multi tool is when you don't have a tool box close to hand.

[dingosrun]

thanks guys will get the photoe by the weekend as im on a public computer and i work away for the week
my roster here is
monday to friday -then home on weekends
then after the third week i get 9 days off
so i only work 15 days in a month
woohoo
im loving my leatherman
i was up on the roof before and needed to pull a nail out
so out came the CORE to do the job
loving it

[AJ]

Hello and welcome to the madness......

Once you get a good multitool you will never look back at them cheap ones.

I will also be looking forward to see the photos.

Enjoy the leatherman.

[Anthony]

Glad to hear you like it, after a week you'll feel naked without the Core. 


I like that idea of writing it off on your taxes :grin:

[Grant Lamontagne]

Why do you think I started a Multitool site?

Def

[J-sews]

Whoa! I'll bet at least a couple of guys here are relating to that avatar dingosrun!

[Grant Lamontagne]

He's an outdoor flyer.  Totally different animal to the rest of us!

Def

[dingosrun]

thanks def
what you trying to say lol ;D

[Grant Lamontagne]

You are a pro... we are amateurs!

And don't argue- I have seen you fly!

Def

[dingosrun]

thats all right then lol ;D

[Grant Lamontagne]

Heck, you don't even crash in your avatar!

Mine only flies high so it can hit the ground that much harder!  So far I have broken two blades on the lower main rotor and snapped one of the blades clean off on the tail rotor.

I'm sure you have some good crash stories hidden away somewhere, but considering this one weighs less than an ounce, and is only flown indoors, well I am pretty impressed that it still works at all!

Def

[dingosrun]

i havent crashed my t-rex yet which is the big one
but i almost took my head off with the white one it was pretty close to hitting me i was flying in the shed at work and was flying with the idle up switch on which runs the blades at a constant speed of 3200 rpm and it came straight at my head and missed by a few centermeters and hit the cage behind me
also i have drop the army heli from about 50 meters out of the sky
i was flying it outside and was getting heaps of speed up but did a turn and down she came 50 meters down hit the ground and only broke the tail boom and the flybar
which i had both of these at home so it was a 5 minute job to fix it and she was off and going again
and today no crash but i asked my offsider to lay on the floor and i would land on his chest and almost hit him in the face i was trying not to laugh
but we landed on the chest with no injury
i have some videos to upload when i get home of me pasting the heli thru the roof beams

[Grant Lamontagne]

If you want a good laugh, watch this one:



It seems pretty boring, but watch it all the way to the end.  I like to think of this as "The Helicopter Darwin Award Winner."

Def

[dingosrun]

yer that a good video
but always be careful with any rc heli
heres a link to a kid that was killed by a rc heli and also there has been a guy who got killed by his own heli
http://www.runryder.com/helicopter/t169336p1/

[Grant Lamontagne]

Good point, but I would say there are very few things that one couldn't kill themselves with easily enough these days.  The tiny indoor heli I fly is pretty safe.  It's for ages 12 and up and has a ring around the outside of the blades so when I break them (there's no if on that one!) they don't cause any damage to anything else.  I suppose it's still possible, and if there's a way to do it, I'll probably find it, but yeah, much like firearms, big dogs, powerful automobiles etc, you have two kinds of folks that use them.  The kind that know how or are smart enough to deal with them and the kind that suddenly find themselves in the afterlife saying "Man that was wicked cool!"

Def

[dingosrun]

how did we get from leatherman review to helis and big dogs
lol
the crazy world of forums