PrintSeptember 17, 2009
The All Purpose Tool
A few years ago I saw a television news broadcast in which a man repairing a dump truck, with the bed in the raised "dumping" position, would have been crushed by the descending bed but for his Leatherman Tool. Somehow, his paraphernalia had become entangled under the bed and the hydraulic lowering mechanism failed. With only a moment to spare, he reached in his pocket, pulled out his heavy duty Leatherman Tool and managed to jam it between the descending bed and the truck chassis. Incredibly the Leatherman was so tough, the steel so true, that it stopped the dump bed in its tracks, allowing the worker to free himself. If you go on the Leatherman Tool Tales website, you will find "funny, touching, practical and unique" stories sent in by Leatherman users about how their Tool saved the day. The uses to which a Leatherman Tool has been put, and can be put, are limited only by one's inventiveness. The same can now be said about an...(Read Full Article)
