Thread: Leatherman tragedy

Great service eh
I have done this on a few occasions with the same result

Excellent

what is sad that due to hoons who have endangered our society by carrying weapons have made the nany state pass laws making it illegal to carry on your person pocket knives and bladed tools like leathermen.

On some construction resource project sites its illegal to carry them in car or tool box on site under site OSH rulings due to fear of cut injuries ruining the site injury safety record and hence the OSh manager bonus pool.

Had a set of SOG Power Pliers for many years, and had the pliers jaw break one day crimping some copper tube. (I'd abused them for years, cutting fencing wire, etc) SOG PowerLock

Returned them to the importer (Nioa Trading ??) for repair and asked for a bolt/screw pivot kit to be supplied at my expense, and a new pouch as the cordura one had worn through.
They were repaired, including the screw kit for nix, plus a spare set of pivot screws and a small nominal charge for a new leather genuine SOG pouch.

One day left them on the back of the Defender and drove off down the road....

Originally Posted by cartm58

what is sad that due to hoons who have endangered our society by carrying weapons have made the nany state pass laws making it illegal to carry on your person pocket knives and bladed tools like leathermen.

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It's perfectly legal for Tradespeople and farmers/farm workers, etc to carry bladed tools while going about their normal work in NSW.
About six months after the knife carrying legislation was first introduced into NSW, I was walking along a street in Penrith with the SOG hanging off the hip and two beat coppers just walked past and nodded, then about twenty metres up the road grabbed and frisked a young bloke and found a knife.

Everyone carries a knife on them in the bush, anyway. Just walk down the street of any country town and every second bloke is carrying.
Hell, as I sit here writing this I have a small 3" lockblade hanging off the belt of my shorts. I don't walk out the door without it.

we had a guy on a road camp i was working on once stroll off into the scrub to commune with nature and whilst he was squatting his brand new Leatherman fell out of his shorts pocket and into his errr.. deposit. He flicks it out of the crap with a stick, leaves it there and comes back into camp to fetch his waterbottle to wash it off with, trouble was he couldnt remember where he had been, its still out there somewhere.

Wow have to use mmy leatherman wave more as i was always worried about breaking it Now i won't worry so much

Originally Posted by cartm58

what is sad that due to hoons who have endangered our society by carrying weapons have made the nany state pass laws making it illegal to carry on your person pocket knives and bladed tools like leathermen.

On some construction resource project sites its illegal to carry them in car or tool box on site under site OSH rulings due to fear of cut injuries ruining the site injury safety record and hence the OSh manager bonus pool.

I am a carpet fitter and floor layer by trade so perfectly legal for me to carry a knife around

I prefer this one !!