abandoning a knife

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I had this thought in response to my own post in another thread, which was

"hammer it into a tree and leave it there"

has anyone here ever left a knife permanently affixed to a tree or stump or something of the like?

or just something really cool you've done to get rid of a knife (melt it with an oxy torch?)
 
no, not really cool. though hiking somewhere and leaving it stuck (and I mean STUCK) in a tree for hundreds of subsequent hikers would be.
 
Hello

Bookworm..

Maybe a Really stupid Question..

But...

Why would you ??

ttyle

Eric
O/ST
 
I stuck my sword in a rock once, the one who can pull it out will be king...:p:D:p
 
I was hunting in West Texas with my brother and we stopped to eat lunch. He left a leatherman on a rock where we ate. We realized it later, but we could not find the exact spot where we stopped and ate (28,000 acre ranch!).

To this day we joke about the racoon who probably uses it to get into trouble...

M.
 
Jos said:
I stuck my sword in a rock once, the one who can pull it out will be king...:p:D:p
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Funny... Did the same thing with a Busse Badger Attack TAC. The one who can pull it out will be Boss...


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;) :D:D
 
I guess it would be like super gluing a twoonie onto your front step, people will want to take it... But It is kinda a waste of a knife.

Nice Batac Pic BTW.
 
If I'm not selling it and it's strong enough to get batoned deep into a tree... I'm either giving it to a friend or keeping it.
 
all good responses, I just kinda had that thought, since people like to post pics of their knives stuck into trees and such, I was curious as to whether or not any had found their final resting place there.
 
leave my tools in the woods for others to find?

um...no... :confused:

no.

about the only thing i leave in the woods for kicks and giggles is those little troll figures from the 80's. I leave em poking out of holes in stumps, suspended in trees, on top of rocks and fallen logs and on those big fungi things that stick out of trees. Its great fun, people hike along and are suddenly like WTF? then they smile and laugh.

:D
 
Tools are often lost and then found many years later by someone walking through the woods .Found a nice ax head that way. If it's put into a tree the tree will grow around it .The saw mill here has found many things that way. Sometimes they look for things with a metal detector .If not it will be found when it hits the saw blade !! This can be very dangerous as it can shatter the blade. Here they found a 12" mill file completely embedded in the tree. Another time a 1" dia bolt and nut which they found with a chain saw !
 
I recently found a knife that was left in the woods (probably by accident). I was kind of annoyed by the fact because my boys, ages 2 and 4, were playing in the area with two other boys the same ages and they probably would have found it and hurt themselves if I hadn't found it first. Please don't leave a potentially dangerous item for just anyone to find. And even if they couldn't remove it from the tree, they could hurt themselves trying.
 
Lurker said:
I recently found a knife that was left in the woods (probably by accident). I was kind of annoyed by the fact because my boys, ages 2 and 4, were playing in the area with two other boys the same ages and they probably would have found it and hurt themselves if I hadn't found it first. Please don't leave a potentially dangerous item for just anyone to find. And even if they couldn't remove it from the tree, they could hurt themselves trying.
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My thoughts exactly
 
My Dad always told this story of how he "found" his favorite hunting knife.

He was hunting in Colorado and as he was heading up the mountain, he met a hunter coming down the mountain with no gear. Apparently the hunter had killed a deer the day before (late), gutted it and hung it in a tree as he did not think he could get it out that night. He was unfamiliar with the area, so he stuck his knife in the tree so he would see it shining as he came up the draw the next day. Well, it snowed overnight and the guy could not even get close to finding the area as everything looked different. When the guy met my dad, he said his camp was packed up and ready to leave so he had to go. He described where he left the deer and since my dad hunted the area regularly, he said he was sure he knew where it was. He offered to mail the guy the knife, but the guy told him to keep the knife and the deer if he found it.

Well, my dad found the spot. The knife was still stuck in the tree, but a bear had pulled the deer down and ruined it. At least he got a good knife!

It was a Case folder. I still have it stashed in a box of my Dad's stuff from when he passed away a couple of years ago.
 
i got rid of a folder today...it was a cheap knife and was falling apart...figured it was dangerous to use so i chucked it in the garbage...
nice pic jaxx
 
My old long gone beagle once carried a bloody, stag handled Case fixed blade home. It was during deer season and some hunter obviously had gutted a deer and left it behind. I still have it and think about my dog every time I look at it.
 
great story TX907

Machaira said:
-//- To this day we joke about the racoon who probably uses it to get into trouble...

M.
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LOL :thumbup::D good one. ninja raccoon

if you ever have a SAK to get rid of. dissassemble it and you can use the screwdriver/bottleopener/philipsdriver as a hanger on your keychain or knife lanyard.
 
When we were teens, my best friend broke about an inch off the blade of the Schrade liner lock trapper he had. He stuck it in a tree at the spot where we used to hang out. Every so often we'd check to see if it was still there. For all I know it still is there today, but probably several feet higher off the ground!
 
mete said:
Tools are often lost and then found many years later by someone walking through the woods .Found a nice ax head that way. If it's put into a tree the tree will grow around it .The saw mill here has found many things that way. Sometimes they look for things with a metal detector .If not it will be found when it hits the saw blade !! This can be very dangerous as it can shatter the blade. Here they found a 12" mill file completely embedded in the tree. Another time a 1" dia bolt and nut which they found with a chain saw !
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Eco activist types will actually drive ceramic spikes into trees. Whether you use a ceramic spike or a knife it can be a real hazard to loggers and mill workers. It's a bad idea any way you slice it.
 
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