>is completely overpriced

Why would you do any of those while going out, except for the fish ones?

I actually carry a complete hex key set due to years of cussing up and down after getting out to a good shooting spot in the woods only to find out that I can't adjust the sights or some other component of a new gun. Might weigh 2 ounces or something.

I go outside all the time, never felt the need to cut fences or re-string my guitar. Or bring it, for that matter.

not the guy you were replying to but i find you edc guys always want to avoid discussing what you actually do with them and just say
>omg sooo useful.

you could be right but it's weak evidence and unpersuasive.

I find people who bring pliers to the woods to cut their nails to be obnoxious larpers who will also most likely insist on batoning wood with their knife so I don't associate with them.

You sound fat.

>not even denying it

No smart people keep their (full sized) tools at home where they're needed and don't bring unnecessary gadgets they have no use for on their trips.

I actually do carry a tool on my trips, one that I have a use for. The question was what do you do with pliers and screwdrivers in the woods.

Screwdriver is maybe the only thing that one can't find use for in the woods (unless you need it to maintain your firearm) but pliers otherwise are very practical.
For example:
>pick up a hot thing from fire (use it as pot gripper)
>open the latch of the wood burning stove in the hot tent
>remove a spike from a wound
>when combined with wire, you can repair a broken backpack with it
>remove a hook from the mouth of a fish
>with pliers you can also push the needle trough thicker material when sewing something
>maintaining your stove
>torturing the fricker who stole your snickers bars
It really tells more about you than the tools if you find the tools useless.

So once you can't find counterarguments, you'll just pretend that you don't care? Curious.

And now we're quickly approaching the schizo zone.
Makes sense considering we're talking with the homeless.

You're like the first person ITT who has given some convincing use cases.
I don't do most of these so for me tweezers are enough, and I'm not against multitools if you have a use for them, it's fun watching larpers take offense when you ask them what they actually do with their EDC gimmicks.

Have you ever built, repaired, or modified anything in your entire life?

I have a workshop in my backpack. Some of my greatest inventions were things I improvised in the field.

Because it should be self evident to anyone who has experience living outdoors. There are millions of problems to solve and millions of strategies to improve. All of these involve mastering the materials in your environment using tools. I have created crossbows based on the designs used by the Hmong/Montagnard people and improved the trigger mechanism. I have created fishing poles and reels. I have created tomahawks with perfect weight and balance by cutting and shaping the dimensions of existing models. I've created wood stoves from coffee and paint cans. Lathes and saw horses and stable work benches that can accept C clamps. Emergency pinhole glasses that can correct myopia. Mortars for grinding nuts and herbs. Fleshing racks and small smokehouses. Camp furniture of all kinds. I have created thousands of things completely in the woods using only my hands and the things I can carry on my back. If you don't value abilities like this then your psychology is completely alien to me and I don't know why you bother going outside at all. Using tools and making them extensions of your body is just a fundamental part of being a human to me.

>when you have a workshop at home?

I don't have a home. I have lived in automobiles for years.

>It's like neither of you can come up with one real world scenario where carrying a multitool actually proved helpful
I'm not either of those guys but I can cite a few times where a screwdriver or pliers has been or would have been handy
>glasses screw falls out
>adjusting brakes on bike
>pulling something small out of a space I can't reach into
and this is not out, but doing a simple repair at a girl's house, because (shockingly to me) most girls do not own or know how to operate a screwdriver, and this impresses them

I understand the value of bringing tools when you're fishing/hunting/etc. and have equipment you can repair, or if you're near your car and don't care about weight, but the only things that are related to general outdoor activities in

Cutting fences, adjusting optics, holding things closer to the fire, twisting wires, opening trailcams, tightening nuts and bolts, replacing batteries, pulling hooks out of fish mouths, grabbing fish mouths, cutting line, changing guitar strings

and

Screwdriver is maybe the only thing that one can't find use for in the woods (unless you need it to maintain your firearm) but pliers otherwise are very practical.
For example:
>pick up a hot thing from fire (use it as pot gripper)
>open the latch of the wood burning stove in the hot tent
>remove a spike from a wound
>when combined with wire, you can repair a broken backpack with it
>remove a hook from the mouth of a fish
>with pliers you can also push the needle trough thicker material when sewing something
>maintaining your stove
>torturing the fricker who stole your snickers bars
It really tells more about you than the tools if you find the tools useless.

are pretty niche.

You don't need a full on surge to hold something over a fire; at most you need a stick with a notch in it. You don't need to cut fences unless you're repairing them, there's an animal stuck, or you're going through cyclone fencing for urbex - just hold the wire above and below, and yes you can do that for barbed wire. If you've got a guitar with you then you've probably got a vehicle nearby anyway. I've never fricked a pack up to the point where it couldn't be repaired with a sewing kit and fabric patches. I use a Trangia and I'm not sure how a multitool is meant to maintain it, or frankly how anyone could actually break it in the first place without throwing their pack off a cliff. Pushing a needle through fabric can be done with anything metallic or even a rock or a stick. I've got much lighter and more precise medical tweezers for taking things out of wounds.

There are legitimate uses for a multitool, but a full sized leatherman surge is not a general bit of kit you should nearly always bring. Not like a light, a first aid kit, matches, a knife/smaller multitool, and all the usual stuff.

You file metal with a pocket knifes nail file? At that point just have a file or better yet keep an angle grinder in your vehicle.

damn your fingernails must be crazy long
are you close to beating the guinness record yet?

How do you bite your toenails?

How do you NOT bite your toenails?

Let me guess, breathing through your nose is also an alien and ridiculous concept to you...

I have never given a single thought to this subject. Biting my nails does not cause me any problem. It is clearly the natural way to control nail growth.

Not knowing how to chew your nails strikes me as being a disability

I have no trouble chewing my big toenail. That's my favorite one.

A nail file would be a really comical feature to have on a multi tool. Why not have a miniature bottle of hair gel on it too?

My fingernails have never been long enough to break in my entire life. I have no idea what that feels like.