>>2712609I 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
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>>2712642 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 fucked 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.
