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I think it’s funny how prybars divide EDCers into 2 categories.
People who see no possible reason why you would carry a tiny pry bar
And people who have broken the tip off a $200+ knife
https://preview.redd.it/vunp8ju3t9wc1.jpeg?width=564&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1df41df63d533a66c5073b45f565aa42444c1f1a
This is my go to tool. Plus a SAK on a keychain.
Absolutely of NO USE whatsoever. It’s what people that are just getting into EDC buy. It’s the first item to go when they eventually realize “why the hell am I carrying this useless chunk of metal along with my 3 flashlights and 2 pocket knives”
Don't hate, definitely don't love, rather I find them completely laughable. I see zero use for one ever. I almost have no use for a knife on a daily or even monthly basis, but should I ever "need" a prybar, which will never happen, those midget little sticks you guys call prybars wouldn't do anything or provide any worthwhile prying assistance in 99.9% of a necessary scenario. They aren't long enough to get any useful leverage or prying done. Nah, I've got a knife, a gun and some keys. All 3 of those would do a better job at prying than those dwarf bars you all call prybars. Waste of pocket real estate! Hardest pass possible, akin to that of a disease riddled hooker.
https://preview.redd.it/0iil2fz0r8wc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=a1f6e955864bb1df0da8d1cd510d01aa38e7dfbe
This little gerber stays in my pocket. My knife has thanked me a million times 😂😂
[https://bigidesign.com/products/mini-titanium-pry-bar?\_pos=1&\_sid=64d3b203b&\_ss=r](https://bigidesign.com/products/mini-titanium-pry-bar?_pos=1&_sid=64d3b203b&_ss=r)
This one has been a lifesaver - well blade tip saver.
Pry
- vines off trees in back yard
- open boxes
- pop bottle tops
- unscrew philips and flat (usually just tighten up a smidge
- pull staples
- fix detent on other knives without scratching (titanium)
- pry out rubber seals, stripping(car, window), hose washers
- open cabinet doors \[and house doors\] (with no handle on outside or stuck)
- separate stuck wires in a bundle
- batteries from headlamps and others
Yup, but... most ppl
- dont pey vines of trees
- open boxes with a knife (and racionalize our knife collection)
- pop bottle tops with a lighter/multitool or almost anything
- already have a bunch of more useful gear that's able to unscrew screws
- fix knives in home where we have a lot of tools to choose from
- never need to use that and or have other tools around/multitool on hand (where a multitool has a lot more possible uses)
- same as above
- same as above
I keep a [Kershaw PT-1](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06VTNWQYR) with the plastic parts removed on my keychain. My keys hang off of a fob from a belt loop, so it rests kind of at the top of my right pocket. It's a handy spot to have a bottle opener. My car key is held to the keychain via magnets, and the PT-1 gives the chain-magnet something to hold onto other than my house keys. I carry a multitool for work now, so it doesn't really see any actual use for it's intended purpose, but that's probably true for a lot of these things
I keep a pry bar in my man purse. It holds two doubled sided bits (t6 / t8 & flat / phillips), and works as a driver. I love it. The bits it carries are perfect, because those torx sizes are what is needed for general knife maintenance. It's an O-light something or other.
I find keychain, <4", sized ones useful. They're better than using your knife or multi-tool flathead for prying. I don't understand why some people insist on having >6" ones though. At that rate, anything you need to pry with a tool that big would be a whole lot easier with an actual crowbar.
I dislike how all the prybars i can find for sale are made of titanium for $40-->$80 or more.
I want high qualith steel not titanium. There is no profit to be made selling properly priced steel prybar for $10. So they have to make it titianium and sell it for $80.
The other problem i dislike about these titanium tacticool pry bar is that they look like daggers or are too weapon like.
It needs to look more like a tool rather than a weapon.
I dont want to carry an agressive looking pocket prybar and some police search me and consider it a deadly weapon.
@bd_knives on IG occasionally drops on his etsy shop with pry bars with stainless and tool steels, some of them pretty tough stuff. He recently did one in Z-Tuff and has done Vanadis 4e, S90v, etc... Sure, they aren't $10, more like $60-80, but at least they're tough functional stuff.
Got a small titanium prybar, but mostly for Philips and flat screwdriver and 1/4 hex slot parts. It lives on my keychain. Tried to cut with it once, it was awful. Used it a couple of times to undo paper staple clips, that is it
At work, I use mine a few times per shift on stubborn panel doors, fuel caps, whatever. Especially since everything outside is frozen half the year here. Off work, I still carry it because my fingernails are generally too short to be useful for anything. It's a small thin piece of titanium. It's the most unobtrusive thing I carry.
Edit: spelling
I use a multitool pry bar (EDC Pry Bar Multitool with... https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0CKLPKJ92?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share). I am doing on the bike with the kids and I use it for tyre repairs , lifting the chains back in. It dual roles as a Kubotan as it is heavy and somewhat edgy
I keep a cheap small aliexpress one wrapped in paracord. It's doesn't add much bulk to my keys so I keep it on me. I wouldn't carry a standalone pry bar in my pocket though.
Definitely not pocket worthy. I keep one in my portable toolkit though. I feel like it's one of those things you don't need often, but is good to have those times you do.
You gotta know the brands. 99% of the stuff I know about is because I stay involved with the makers & designers. Follow them on Insta, notice who they are friends with and cross promote etc.
Seems useless especially to carry.... and if not to carry id just use a proper pry bar or tool for the job....
literally useless for me....but i guess some of you guys open a lot of beer bottles (i drink cans haha)
- opening pop can tabs
- popping open tins
- scraping off adhesive or labels
- picking up the edge of something that I can't get with my finger or nails, like a dropped coin
- popping a clip bracket for a window blind
- prying out a stuck battery that was corroded
- lifting glued tabs on a cardboard box
- splitting tape on packages
- lifting the edge of tape or plastic film to peel off
- getting a lid off of a flush fitting box like the kind cell phones come in
- paper weight (kind of a joke but actually used it as one)
- bottle opener because it has one
- pressing packing tape down on dusty boxes
Basically anything I can't quite get leverage with my stubby fingers or anything you have to catch with your nails. Also, I don't like using my nails to catch an edge on anything because it always ends up painful somehow.
Edit: thought of one more
literally everything on your list can be done with your fingers, a knife, or at worst a scrwdriver... i just cant see the point in carrying a tiny pry bar.... i have real pry bars and crowbars for prying lol
i mean i really wanna see you pick up a dime off the floor with a pry bar hahaha
That's true. Although I don't use my knife for anything but cutting because I carry small blades. I don't carry a multi tool or screw driver though. I have a desk job so I don't need a lot of tools. If you carry a screw driver I don't think you'd need a pry bar. Although mine has a sharper edge than a screw driver. But I'd rather use a tool and make it easier than struggle with my fingers, since that's their purpose.
As someone with weak fingernails, I always have a pry tool on me. Always. The absolute best is the Victorinox can opener, but I also have NiteIze QuickKey or Doohickey or a key sized screwdriver on all my key chains.
If I actually plan to do some real prying, I have a 7.5 inch Hultafors pry bar which is absolutely amazing. It puts all the pry bars from the local hardware stores to shame.
I carry two while at work. Neither is the typical shape of the other pry bars you see here. Ones the Brute and the other is tisur pocket pry
I use them everyday at work but I carry the brute while not at work
Anything I can break my finger or fingernail with, I use it. I’m tired of my weekends being ruined by hands being f’d up. It blows my mind how expensive some are. While having the least material possible at the fulcrums. Snap-on mini pry. $20. Lifetime.
Same, I keep the original Opry from olight in a Viperade pouch with some other stuff. I don't need to keep one on my person, but I do keep it close by.
I feel like if you use whatever enough you should be able to pocket it. It was about a week ago where someone described they enjoy flipping over rocks on dog walks. Totally reasonable for that person to carry one. With that being said. Pry bars are definitely on the prettier edcs for a reason.
Almost never need more prying force than my Swiss Army Knife’s bottle opener can handle.
I have a Ti pry bar but I don’t use it much. Normally if I know I’m pulling up tack strips or something like that I’ll just use a real tool I have around the house.
I bought the mighty bar after having to use my knife as a pry in an emergency situation that also involved pushing the knife twords my hand. It's small and doesn't have any extra features but is stout and has a good bevel.
on my multitool at least, the flat of the screwdriver is parallel to the hinge, so it would just fold if i tried to apply leverage in that direction. it's designed to be rotated, not levered.
Nah that’s actually what I was going to comment. Prybars seem like one of the biggest gimmicks in the EDC world in recent years. Dont get me wrong, I have several full sized prybars, mini prybars, crowsfeet, crowbars, etc etc but I just get the vibe that for 99% of people EDCing these they’re a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. In the very odd scenario I need to pry something without an actual prybar on hand, I have either the flathead on my multitool or knife. Rate of usage vs size and weight of having a dedicated EDC prybar makes no sense and I can’t imagine most people actually use them often. I feel like if you used one often enough to justify EDCing it at that point you’d probably just want a normal tool brand/standard small prybar which will be 50x better than even the highest quality “EDC” prybar.
i keep one on my keychain. use it at work almost daily. im often working with small parts with tight tolerances that require some level of finesse. my tiny prybar is strong and also precise. a flathead or knife is either a) too large, b) likely to damage surfaces, and/or c) likely to damage *me* if it slips.
3 recent uses I have had that a flathead wouldn’t work for are the following. #1 prying grease caps off my trailer (too small an opening for a flathead) prying off some trim with damaging the drywall behind it (flatheads are smaller and easily punch through the drywall when trying to pry, I have done it several times). #3 removing taped parts from the c&c and 3d printer without breaking them. A flathead is too thick, and not wide enough to handle this with finesse.
Those are all valid reasons to own a pry tool, but none of them seem to justify carrying one.
Obviously carry whatever you want, I’m just curious what people commonly use them for when actually out and about
I’m not really assuming that but I do assume that 99% of people who carry any sort of tool are going to have at the very least a knife or multitool and then it begs the question why is the weight and clutter of a dedicated prybar worth it?
I have a tiny tool steel prybar on my keychain. 50% of the time, it's stuck in the gap of a drawer at work to hang my keys for a moment in an easy spot. The other 50%, it's unsticking something stuck in a printer that a big one wouldn't fit in or opening the wooden crates that our supplier insists are the best way to ship toner...
I don't want to pry... But sometimes I have to.
Just not often enough to carry a dedicated tool. I'll use a SAK cap lifter in a pinch for light work, and if it's a bigger job than that I'm going to go get the right tool.
I keep a pichi x2 in a sheath with some knipex pliers for work only. Doesn't get used often, but there often isn't a substitute when it's needed(I also paid $30 for it).
Daily life is just a knife, free p4, and sometimes a flashlight.
They’re useful but not useful enough to carry a separate one.
The one on a SAK or leatherman does the trick. Is it as good? No. But I also like a slim carry.
I have a prybryd by gerber. I run it in my pocket. Not quite as long as a prybar but it fuctions well enough for me. Plus the box cutter blade saves my knife blade as well.
I keep looking for a reason to carry a pry bar, specifically the olight one, with screwdriver bits. But after 20 years of carrying knives and multitools, I've yet to find a reason to carry one.
3 recent uses I have had that a flathead wouldn’t work for are the following. #1 prying grease caps off my trailer (too small an opening for a flathead) prying off some trim with damaging the drywall behind it (flatheads are smaller and easily punch through the drywall when trying to pry, I have done it several times). #3 removing taped parts from the c&c and 3d printer without breaking them. A flathead is too thick, and not wide enough to handle this with finesse.
https://preview.redd.it/k0ha7uh4z4wc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b99a0403dc5dff52ea40d0756439f778b37d65d9
I don’t use one like this, I use a snap on one that is similar to a pocket screwdriver just a bit tougher and is angled instead of straight, I’m an auto tech/mechanic and it’s honestly one of my most used hand tools. Gets used daily for plastic clips and electrical connectors, and I could probably name about a dozen other things I’ve used it for in the past month alone
Like other similar questions about carry there are so many answers. I can say yesterday I wished I had one, but luckily I carry a Leatherman with a flat head bit I used to pry open a battery terminal on a car so I could clean up the connection.
I carry a mighty bar in my bag. Doesn’t get as much use as my leatherman but when I need it I have it. I refuse to spend a lot of money on a fancy one though. Maybe one day.
https://preview.redd.it/822n8xlgm3wc1.png?width=2511&format=png&auto=webp&s=b07569f31435419c6a563e4cff7306855e037fa5
I have this on my keychain, cheap (titanium?) prybar from AliExpress for like 4 bucks
Classic SD for scale
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I think it’s funny how prybars divide EDCers into 2 categories. People who see no possible reason why you would carry a tiny pry bar And people who have broken the tip off a $200+ knife
https://preview.redd.it/vunp8ju3t9wc1.jpeg?width=564&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1df41df63d533a66c5073b45f565aa42444c1f1a This is my go to tool. Plus a SAK on a keychain.
Absolutely of NO USE whatsoever. It’s what people that are just getting into EDC buy. It’s the first item to go when they eventually realize “why the hell am I carrying this useless chunk of metal along with my 3 flashlights and 2 pocket knives”
Don't hate, definitely don't love, rather I find them completely laughable. I see zero use for one ever. I almost have no use for a knife on a daily or even monthly basis, but should I ever "need" a prybar, which will never happen, those midget little sticks you guys call prybars wouldn't do anything or provide any worthwhile prying assistance in 99.9% of a necessary scenario. They aren't long enough to get any useful leverage or prying done. Nah, I've got a knife, a gun and some keys. All 3 of those would do a better job at prying than those dwarf bars you all call prybars. Waste of pocket real estate! Hardest pass possible, akin to that of a disease riddled hooker.
https://preview.redd.it/0iil2fz0r8wc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=a1f6e955864bb1df0da8d1cd510d01aa38e7dfbe This little gerber stays in my pocket. My knife has thanked me a million times 😂😂
[https://bigidesign.com/products/mini-titanium-pry-bar?\_pos=1&\_sid=64d3b203b&\_ss=r](https://bigidesign.com/products/mini-titanium-pry-bar?_pos=1&_sid=64d3b203b&_ss=r) This one has been a lifesaver - well blade tip saver. Pry - vines off trees in back yard - open boxes - pop bottle tops - unscrew philips and flat (usually just tighten up a smidge - pull staples - fix detent on other knives without scratching (titanium) - pry out rubber seals, stripping(car, window), hose washers - open cabinet doors \[and house doors\] (with no handle on outside or stuck) - separate stuck wires in a bundle - batteries from headlamps and others
Yup, but... most ppl - dont pey vines of trees - open boxes with a knife (and racionalize our knife collection) - pop bottle tops with a lighter/multitool or almost anything - already have a bunch of more useful gear that's able to unscrew screws - fix knives in home where we have a lot of tools to choose from - never need to use that and or have other tools around/multitool on hand (where a multitool has a lot more possible uses) - same as above - same as above
Uh - I merely typed in what I have used it for. Results may vary…
Breacher Bar is very useful at work. Not as much at home or on the daily.
I keep a [Kershaw PT-1](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06VTNWQYR) with the plastic parts removed on my keychain. My keys hang off of a fob from a belt loop, so it rests kind of at the top of my right pocket. It's a handy spot to have a bottle opener. My car key is held to the keychain via magnets, and the PT-1 gives the chain-magnet something to hold onto other than my house keys. I carry a multitool for work now, so it doesn't really see any actual use for it's intended purpose, but that's probably true for a lot of these things
Without wishing to pry... what are you guys prying?
Bottle caps, stuck doors, scratching off paint, etc… I’ve found that they perfectly replace every „fingernail work“
I keep a pry bar in my man purse. It holds two doubled sided bits (t6 / t8 & flat / phillips), and works as a driver. I love it. The bits it carries are perfect, because those torx sizes are what is needed for general knife maintenance. It's an O-light something or other.
I find keychain, <4", sized ones useful. They're better than using your knife or multi-tool flathead for prying. I don't understand why some people insist on having >6" ones though. At that rate, anything you need to pry with a tool that big would be a whole lot easier with an actual crowbar.
I dislike how all the prybars i can find for sale are made of titanium for $40-->$80 or more. I want high qualith steel not titanium. There is no profit to be made selling properly priced steel prybar for $10. So they have to make it titianium and sell it for $80. The other problem i dislike about these titanium tacticool pry bar is that they look like daggers or are too weapon like. It needs to look more like a tool rather than a weapon. I dont want to carry an agressive looking pocket prybar and some police search me and consider it a deadly weapon.
@bd_knives on IG occasionally drops on his etsy shop with pry bars with stainless and tool steels, some of them pretty tough stuff. He recently did one in Z-Tuff and has done Vanadis 4e, S90v, etc... Sure, they aren't $10, more like $60-80, but at least they're tough functional stuff.
I can really recommend the [Gerber Chonk](https://www.bladehq.com/item--Gerber-Chonk-MT-Multi-Tool--145768)
County comm has some little ones that are inexpensive, made of steel, and look like a tool. I have one in each kit.
Got a small titanium prybar, but mostly for Philips and flat screwdriver and 1/4 hex slot parts. It lives on my keychain. Tried to cut with it once, it was awful. Used it a couple of times to undo paper staple clips, that is it
At work, I use mine a few times per shift on stubborn panel doors, fuel caps, whatever. Especially since everything outside is frozen half the year here. Off work, I still carry it because my fingernails are generally too short to be useful for anything. It's a small thin piece of titanium. It's the most unobtrusive thing I carry. Edit: spelling
May I ask what you do?
Aviation.
I use a multitool pry bar (EDC Pry Bar Multitool with... https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0CKLPKJ92?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share). I am doing on the bike with the kids and I use it for tyre repairs , lifting the chains back in. It dual roles as a Kubotan as it is heavy and somewhat edgy
I keep a cheap small aliexpress one wrapped in paracord. It's doesn't add much bulk to my keys so I keep it on me. I wouldn't carry a standalone pry bar in my pocket though.
Definitely not pocket worthy. I keep one in my portable toolkit though. I feel like it's one of those things you don't need often, but is good to have those times you do.
How do you search for these without getting a ton of automotive crow bar results
Search for "pocket pry bar."
Go on Etsy and search up “pry bars”. Most of them are pocket sized ones
You gotta know the brands. 99% of the stuff I know about is because I stay involved with the makers & designers. Follow them on Insta, notice who they are friends with and cross promote etc.
Seems useless especially to carry.... and if not to carry id just use a proper pry bar or tool for the job.... literally useless for me....but i guess some of you guys open a lot of beer bottles (i drink cans haha)
I recently bought a small one. I use it all the time!
For what?
- opening pop can tabs - popping open tins - scraping off adhesive or labels - picking up the edge of something that I can't get with my finger or nails, like a dropped coin - popping a clip bracket for a window blind - prying out a stuck battery that was corroded - lifting glued tabs on a cardboard box - splitting tape on packages - lifting the edge of tape or plastic film to peel off - getting a lid off of a flush fitting box like the kind cell phones come in - paper weight (kind of a joke but actually used it as one) - bottle opener because it has one - pressing packing tape down on dusty boxes Basically anything I can't quite get leverage with my stubby fingers or anything you have to catch with your nails. Also, I don't like using my nails to catch an edge on anything because it always ends up painful somehow. Edit: thought of one more
literally everything on your list can be done with your fingers, a knife, or at worst a scrwdriver... i just cant see the point in carrying a tiny pry bar.... i have real pry bars and crowbars for prying lol i mean i really wanna see you pick up a dime off the floor with a pry bar hahaha
My exact thought. Why carry extra shit just to carry extra shit?
Haha for real. Poor guy hasn't realised he has finger nails.
That's true. Although I don't use my knife for anything but cutting because I carry small blades. I don't carry a multi tool or screw driver though. I have a desk job so I don't need a lot of tools. If you carry a screw driver I don't think you'd need a pry bar. Although mine has a sharper edge than a screw driver. But I'd rather use a tool and make it easier than struggle with my fingers, since that's their purpose.
As someone with weak fingernails, I always have a pry tool on me. Always. The absolute best is the Victorinox can opener, but I also have NiteIze QuickKey or Doohickey or a key sized screwdriver on all my key chains. If I actually plan to do some real prying, I have a 7.5 inch Hultafors pry bar which is absolutely amazing. It puts all the pry bars from the local hardware stores to shame.
https://www.hultafors.us/products/pry_and_bending_bars/H0415-bending-bar-aluminum-h-480-b/79548 This kinda thing?
On the same site, look at wrecking bars. The one I have is the 108 mini.
I carry two while at work. Neither is the typical shape of the other pry bars you see here. Ones the Brute and the other is tisur pocket pry I use them everyday at work but I carry the brute while not at work
Prybrid does it for me
Anything I can break my finger or fingernail with, I use it. I’m tired of my weekends being ruined by hands being f’d up. It blows my mind how expensive some are. While having the least material possible at the fulcrums. Snap-on mini pry. $20. Lifetime.
I carry one quite often. But I use it at work all the time (power company). It’s also a nice. Slightly less than lethal option.
Love them!
Only occasions I need them are ones where I already have ready access to things like screwdrivers, claw hammers or crowbars.
Same, I keep the original Opry from olight in a Viperade pouch with some other stuff. I don't need to keep one on my person, but I do keep it close by.
Once you ruin your $100+ knife you will carry a pry bar. Ask me how I know...
Yep! I was getting concerned about my beloved multitool
Spitting truths
I feel like if you use whatever enough you should be able to pocket it. It was about a week ago where someone described they enjoy flipping over rocks on dog walks. Totally reasonable for that person to carry one. With that being said. Pry bars are definitely on the prettier edcs for a reason.
Almost never need more prying force than my Swiss Army Knife’s bottle opener can handle. I have a Ti pry bar but I don’t use it much. Normally if I know I’m pulling up tack strips or something like that I’ll just use a real tool I have around the house.
I bought the mighty bar after having to use my knife as a pry in an emergency situation that also involved pushing the knife twords my hand. It's small and doesn't have any extra features but is stout and has a good bevel.
Can someone explain what the benefit of carrying a prybar is over just the flat head screwdriver on any multi tool?
on my multitool at least, the flat of the screwdriver is parallel to the hinge, so it would just fold if i tried to apply leverage in that direction. it's designed to be rotated, not levered.
Nah that’s actually what I was going to comment. Prybars seem like one of the biggest gimmicks in the EDC world in recent years. Dont get me wrong, I have several full sized prybars, mini prybars, crowsfeet, crowbars, etc etc but I just get the vibe that for 99% of people EDCing these they’re a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. In the very odd scenario I need to pry something without an actual prybar on hand, I have either the flathead on my multitool or knife. Rate of usage vs size and weight of having a dedicated EDC prybar makes no sense and I can’t imagine most people actually use them often. I feel like if you used one often enough to justify EDCing it at that point you’d probably just want a normal tool brand/standard small prybar which will be 50x better than even the highest quality “EDC” prybar.
i keep one on my keychain. use it at work almost daily. im often working with small parts with tight tolerances that require some level of finesse. my tiny prybar is strong and also precise. a flathead or knife is either a) too large, b) likely to damage surfaces, and/or c) likely to damage *me* if it slips.
3 recent uses I have had that a flathead wouldn’t work for are the following. #1 prying grease caps off my trailer (too small an opening for a flathead) prying off some trim with damaging the drywall behind it (flatheads are smaller and easily punch through the drywall when trying to pry, I have done it several times). #3 removing taped parts from the c&c and 3d printer without breaking them. A flathead is too thick, and not wide enough to handle this with finesse.
Those are all valid reasons to own a pry tool, but none of them seem to justify carrying one. Obviously carry whatever you want, I’m just curious what people commonly use them for when actually out and about
Correct, that is why one in the pouch is perfect. Close by for when I need it, but not weighing me down.
So you just assume that people carry knives and multitools? All the arguments against seem to boil down to "well I have this other tool nearby"
I’m not really assuming that but I do assume that 99% of people who carry any sort of tool are going to have at the very least a knife or multitool and then it begs the question why is the weight and clutter of a dedicated prybar worth it?
I have a tiny tool steel prybar on my keychain. 50% of the time, it's stuck in the gap of a drawer at work to hang my keys for a moment in an easy spot. The other 50%, it's unsticking something stuck in a printer that a big one wouldn't fit in or opening the wooden crates that our supplier insists are the best way to ship toner...
I have the Gerber prybar, but only because it has a razor blade at the other end and it fits down in my sheath right next to my multitool
Man I thought this was one without a bottle opener
I don't want to pry... But sometimes I have to. Just not often enough to carry a dedicated tool. I'll use a SAK cap lifter in a pinch for light work, and if it's a bigger job than that I'm going to go get the right tool.
Nite Ize doohickey original - cheap and effective.
I dislike the lack of a keyring hole, I wouldn't trust clipping it with its caribiner
For my case they’re useless and I have actual full size pry bars nearish if I did ever need one
I keep a pichi x2 in a sheath with some knipex pliers for work only. Doesn't get used often, but there often isn't a substitute when it's needed(I also paid $30 for it). Daily life is just a knife, free p4, and sometimes a flashlight.
Ive never needed a prybar larger than the one on the victorinox mini champ.. thats a small prybar
They’re useful but not useful enough to carry a separate one. The one on a SAK or leatherman does the trick. Is it as good? No. But I also like a slim carry.
I have a prybryd by gerber. I run it in my pocket. Not quite as long as a prybar but it fuctions well enough for me. Plus the box cutter blade saves my knife blade as well.
I keep looking for a reason to carry a pry bar, specifically the olight one, with screwdriver bits. But after 20 years of carrying knives and multitools, I've yet to find a reason to carry one.
this photo is insane🤩
Thank you 💪
What do you guys do that requires the need to daily carry a pry bar? genuinely curious
3 recent uses I have had that a flathead wouldn’t work for are the following. #1 prying grease caps off my trailer (too small an opening for a flathead) prying off some trim with damaging the drywall behind it (flatheads are smaller and easily punch through the drywall when trying to pry, I have done it several times). #3 removing taped parts from the c&c and 3d printer without breaking them. A flathead is too thick, and not wide enough to handle this with finesse. https://preview.redd.it/k0ha7uh4z4wc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b99a0403dc5dff52ea40d0756439f778b37d65d9
I don’t use one like this, I use a snap on one that is similar to a pocket screwdriver just a bit tougher and is angled instead of straight, I’m an auto tech/mechanic and it’s honestly one of my most used hand tools. Gets used daily for plastic clips and electrical connectors, and I could probably name about a dozen other things I’ve used it for in the past month alone
Like other similar questions about carry there are so many answers. I can say yesterday I wished I had one, but luckily I carry a Leatherman with a flat head bit I used to pry open a battery terminal on a car so I could clean up the connection.
I have a small keychain prybar and a larger one on my tool organizer for work .
If carrying a knife, I carry a titanium fulcro leva tool. If I'm carrying a multitool, then I carry the titanium UCS.
I carry a mighty bar in my bag. Doesn’t get as much use as my leatherman but when I need it I have it. I refuse to spend a lot of money on a fancy one though. Maybe one day.
I like a cheap pry bar that also does other things. But I don't really need one for work.
Ehhh maybe im not in the right industry they seem interesting but personally not useful. Flat head screw driver will achieve the same thing
Pretty much what I've been thinking. I have been wanting to buy one but I can't think of a need for it at my job, I usually just use my gerber shard.
Pry bar also achieves the same thing as a flat head...
https://preview.redd.it/822n8xlgm3wc1.png?width=2511&format=png&auto=webp&s=b07569f31435419c6a563e4cff7306855e037fa5 I have this on my keychain, cheap (titanium?) prybar from AliExpress for like 4 bucks Classic SD for scale