Funny thing, I never got interested in Swiss Army knives until I was retired from the police force, I always was turned off by the red scales and a bunch of blades that almost never got used, when I retired from LE I went back to work in construction running heavy equipment, I was working for a landscaping co. operating a backhoe.
One of our customers was a family owned apple orchard, on this occasion they were culling old trees that were no longer producing quality fruit, my job was to dig out the old stumps and dig new holes for the new trees they were planting, unknowingly I put the stabilizer down on an irrigation pipe that was just inches below ground and broke the pipe which was made of black HD PVC.
One of the owners sons drove by and I flagged him down and told him what had happened, he smiled and said it happened all the time, he actually had a roll of the pipe in the back of his pick up truck along with a box of hose clamps, in no time flat he dug up the broken pipe, he kept his tool kit in a belt pouch, he pulled it out, opened up a saw blade and cut out the broken section of pipe, cut a piece off the roll and grabbed a couple of couplings and 2 hose clamps, he made the connection, then folded up the saw blade and opened the screw driver blade and tightened up the hose clamp screws and put his Swiss Army knife away and left.
That was the day I gained a lot of respect for that knife, since that day I've always had one around, my latest one is the SAK Farmer model, it lives in my day pack and has come in handy quite a few times.
