This is the Klein D248-9ST — a 9-inch ironworker’s diagonal cutting pliers with a spring-return mechanism and a shear-type cutting action. The spring return opens the jaws back up automatically after each cut, which is what an ironworker needs when tying hundreds of rebar intersections in a shift. The shear-cut design slices the tie wire clean instead of crushing it, so the cut doesn’t fray.
It’s sized for rebar tie-wire work on concrete construction jobs, heavy-gauge wire cutting, and any production cutting where the hand needs to open the jaws without consciously prying them apart. The angled head gets into tight rebar cages, and the Klein plastic-dipped handles hold up to the repetitive squeeze cycles that wear out lesser pliers.
Klein Tools has been making hand tools for electricians and tradespeople since 1857, headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois. The Journeyman and Standard pliers lines — along with many of Klein’s cushion-grip screwdrivers — are forged and finished in the United States, and clearly marked as such, so you know exactly what you’re buying.
