Archive for December 2nd, 2008

For Gardeners – A New and Special Tool

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

How many times have you pruned trees or plants and run into the temptation to use your garden pruners to cut a random wire with? From trees stakes to tomato cages, there are abundant temptations to use your hand pruners for project help they are not designed for. In the end, we dull the blades or – worse – ruin them by taking on metal instead of wood. As well, we tend to use the tips of the pruners for rooting out objects, among a raft of other sins.

This Leatherman product carries some vital and most helpful tools along with it. It has a set of wire cutters in built into the shafts of the handle as well as:

  • Bypass pruners
  • Wire cutters
  • Weed remover
  • Grafting knife
  • Bark lifter
  • Phillips screwdriver
  • Saw
  • Flat screwdriver
  • Sprinkler tool
  • Bottle opener
  • Ruler

Any good gardener can tell you these are wonderful adjuncts to have in one tool. Once again, Leatherman has delivered a pretty amazing product and, what is as good, these tools are made as well as their stainless steel counterparts.

Leatherman products are amazingly useful and effective. Using the best stainless steel, ingenious design and rigorous tolerances, Leatherman makes the useful products that customers want, and backs them with a 25-year guarantee. I love this tool.

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The Leatherman Tool Array

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

There is almost literally no tool more prevalent among skilled tradesmen these days than the famous Leatherman Tools. Developed by a man named Tony Leatherman, who tired of constantly reaching into his tool case for all the various items needed for repairing things, he developed some incredible multi-tools – or “survival tools” as they are more often referred to.  Since then, Leatherman has become an internationally recognized company with hundreds of employees and a wide variety of durable, versatile, stylish products.

They are always amazingly well-designed and compact which is one of their best features. They are also crafted well enough to last, made from stainless steel and puittogether incredibly well. As a real tool-user myself, I so admire this product, I am literally never without a Leatherman tool. Time has borne out their utility, in spades.

The one pictured here is pretty inclusive. It does not leave much out. There are a stunning abundance of these fabulous items, however, often tailored to specific trades.

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