Leatherman Hybrid Gardening Multitool with Nylon Sheath #830555
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Pruners that Work as Hard as You Do: The Hybrid Line from Leatherman Gone are the days of carrying quality bypass pruners and multiple tools and having to search for them one-by-one. With the new Hybrid pruner, gardeners have the stainless steel pruners they need with the most commonly used tools-of-the-trade right in one convenient location: on their belt loop. With quality carrying sheaths designed to accommodate… Product details and pricing info |
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- Leatherman Hybrid Gardening Multitool with Nylon Sheath #830555
Fast service. Tool works great . Already used it on some pesty branches that are from a neighbor's tree. Kept running into them when I mowed. No more!!! ((:>)) - 2008-07-11, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Great tool for the weekend-gardener
- I just got this the other day and I've already put it into action. The knife looks pretty pathetic in the images on Amazon, but in reality it's sharp and very effective. The pruning shears are also excellent with a very good spring. In short, this tool has the quality you'd expect from Leatherman.
I also want to praise Amazon's delivery. I bought the tool with the Super Saver delivery option and they turned up just three days later.
Only one downside - they came with the wrong instructions. I got the "Vista" instructions by mistake. Of course it's just a couple of clicks to download the right ones from the Leatherman site. - 2008-06-10, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- very handy for gardening and camping
- I had real reservations about buying this tool. After all, the most expensive pruner at the natons biggest retailer is only about $25. But, I have to say I'm pleased. The pruners work well. I use the saw often. The knife blade is handy for opening bags of sod, or whatever. I can see where the screwdriver bits would be handy in a pinch, but I use those three things almost every time. The weeder is the only one I don't have much use for. With the saw, I even leave the handle extended (like this ___---~~~) and it works very nicely. Probably not how you should use it but it seems to work excellently.
In fact, I even took it camping. It was great for little projects! Cutting medium sized sticks for firewood, whittling wood when practicing making a "figure 4" trap, etc.
So, I'm very happy with it.
However, unlike other leathermans, it is MUCH more prone to getting dirty (obviously). I had to buy a special screwdriver so I could clean it, one like this one B001A89VGA (search for that). Anyway, if you are careful you won't need it, but I tend to be sloppy sometimes. - 2008-06-09, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Not for the daily gardener
- I purchased this item recently...and returned it right away. While Leatherman offers excellent Multitools, this gardening tool is rather pathetic for anything other than extremely light use. I am an avid city gardener and purchased this product thinking I could have an all-in-one tool as I do my daily garden maintenance. However, none of the tools really measure up for any significant use. The pruners are average at best, much better bi-pass pruners can be had for less with much more comfortable handles (I concur with many of the other reviewers, the handles are terrible...not just uncomfortable, but not nearly strong enough for the job), the weeding tool is a joke! It's not long enough to pull weeds unless you practically bury the handle in the ground...and then you'd have dirt clogging up the mechanics of the tool. The saw is completely impractical, and the other tools are hardly worth mentioning. Again, I normally like Leatherman tools, my husband cannot be found without his multitool on his belt, but this simply is not up to the task of serious gardening. If all you do is EXTREMELY light work and you like gadgets, then by all means give it a whirl. However, if you are looking for useable tools in the garden, I suggest looking elsewhere.
- 2008-06-04, 14 of 14 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Blade is self destructing
- I am a landscaper. I use a lot of hand pruners. I thought it would be nice to have a small handy unit like this one. It has not been used for over 10 minutes total (used 3 different times) and that was just to trim some dead ends off of small shrubs. It was very sharp - impressive. The first time I used it, it was fine. The next time I used it, it seemed to catch a bit. The third time I could hardly get it to cut and had a difficult time getting it to fold up completely to put in sheath. The problem - the sharp blade appears to be biting into the anvil and the steel might be soft enough that it is causing nicks that then catch on the anvil. There are 2 spots on the blade where this has happened. If I had cut wire, dropped it, or misshandled it in some way it would be understandable, but this has not been the case. I have never ever had this happen to a hand pruner before. I do not know if it is a bad design because of the angle of the blade, imperfections in the anvil or too soft a steel in the blade ... but this is bad. Result - I am sending the tool in for warranty. My preferrence is for them to replace it. If the next one is OK then it was that particular tool that was BAD! This should not happen with a tool that costs as much as a Leatherman. This was my first Leatherman. If I have similar problems with the next one it will be my last. I am told it can take up to 3 weeks on the turn around. My spring season will be gone by then!
- 2008-05-21, 4 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
