abandoning a knife

[Bigfattyt]

Funny... Did the same thing with a Busse Badger Attack TAC. The one who can pull it out will be Boss...

where's it at, lemmie at it. If I can't pull it out, I will just break the rock around it. I don't even care about being the Boss!

I found a hatchet embedded in a tree on my grandpa's property one day. It was not one of his tools. So I pulled it out of the tree, and took it to my grandpa's he sharpened it for me. Later the handle broke, I don't really know where it is right now. If I ever find it I will rehandle it.

leaving the knife spiked in a tree might sound fun, but it might ruin some one's day when they find it with a saw.

 

[Wilkenstein]

Why don't you just send them to me? That would be a REALLY cool way of getting rid of knives.

 

[pedicabdriver]

when my folders go beyond of it being worth it to have them fixed, i usually break off the blade and hammer it all the way into a tree and then toss the handle in the trash.

 

[Jeff Clark]

I pick up a lot of kitchen knives at garage sales and thrift shops to study. I must have picked up about 100 different brands. I sharpen them and experiment with them. Some I keep, some I donate to the local soup kitchen and some I discard. The ones that I discard are really crappy, but they are usually razor sharp at the time I go to discard them. I usually flatten the edge and point with a belt sander before I drop them in the trash. I don't want somebody in the trash cycle to get hurt.

I have improvised heavy spears that mount kitchen knives as spear heads. I have often thought it would be "expressive" to leave a knife rammed through a steel sheathed front door up to the handle. If it was done quickly with a single thump it would leave quite an impression when discovered. It's been a long time since I had that level of affection for anybody so I never got around to doing it.

 

[macgregor22]

lets see what have I found
when I was young I used to romp around the big back yard at my dads house, it was really a big field
I found a large machete buried in the dirt, it was all rusted and its handle was near gone
I took it to my dad and he sharpened it and put a new oak handle on it
I would run around the yard for hours with that thing

 

[Rich357]

when my folders go beyond of it being worth it to have them fixed, i usually break off the blade and hammer it all the way into a tree and then toss the handle in the trash.

Why do you put the blade in a tree?

 

[Bumppo]

My grandfather used to drive old knives into a tree, I am not sure why, but recall it concerned a superstition of some sort. They were driven into the same tree, which was/is growing on the home farm. Anybody know what that superstition might have been?

 

[Foilist]

My grandfather used to drive old knives into a tree, I am not sure why, but recall it concerned a superstition of some sort. They were driven into the same tree, which was/is growing on the home farm. Anybody know what that superstition might have been?

I've heard of one about hammering a nail into an apple tree to get it to produce more - maybe it's something like that?

 

[IUKE12]

I currently have two older knives I no longer use, on my roof, fully exposed to the elements. It is my intention to take them down after one year to see how they fair. They have been up there for 8 months now and getting pretty rusty. They would have otherwise been tossed out, so I decided to make them a science project of sorts

 

[heli-cal]

Bushman 5, I think its terrific that you leave trolls for others to find, just reading it made me smile and laugh, finding one would make the trip more memorable!

When I upgrade a Leatherman or Swisschamp I give my 'older' model to someone whom will benefit from it. A metal dectectorist got my Swisschamp and a festie got my pre-Supertool that way.

I guess the main reason for abandoning a knife is if its carried as a 'sterile' ditch tool, which explained the type found in an airport bin by someone I knew.

Regards,

 

[Confederate]

It reminds me of the fable of an old sailor who was working aboard ship and dropped his knife into the sea. Not being able to swim, he began to weep. The god Hermes came along disguised as a young man and asked what the problem was. When the old man replied he had dropped his knife into the sea, Hermes offered to get it for him. He stripped to the waist and jumped overboard, disappearing beneath the waves.

Minutes later, he appeared with a knife, but it wasn't the one the old man had dropped. It was very finely made and appeared exquisite in workmanship with a silver engraved hilt. The old man marveled, but admitted it wasn't his, so the god dived beneath the waves again and was gone even longer. The second time he surfaced he held an even more remarkable knife with an engraved blade and encrusted with precious gems and fine gold. Again, the sailor marveled, but said it was not the knife.

The third time when Hermes dived and surfaced, he held the knife the sailor had dropped. Already the leather grip had become undone and was waterlogged. But the sailor thanked the young man as he took the knife. It was at that moment that the god revealed his identity and told the sailor he was so impressed with his honesty that he gave the two precious knives to him as a reward.

Nice story, eh? Only it wasn't really a sailor...it was a woodsman. And it wasn't really a knife, but an ax. But since this is a knife forum, it wouldn't have been as good. Anyway, I think it was an Aesop's fable.