Actual "hard uses" for a knife

[HuntBomb]

Johnnygun, you should invest in a multi-tool.
Breaking my Endura would't break my wallet, but it'd break my heart.
That $100 in broken knives could buy you some decent tools/ tool box...or a good Victorinox multi-tool.

 

[Hadji Flip Me Over]

Knives cut things, and specific types of knives are meant to cut specific things. Anything more than that strikes me as kind of...dumb. If it's the only thing you have on you and the job absolutely must be done, then by all means, use the knife. Otherwise, grab another tool instead of risking damage to the knife or yourself.

 

[SkrufKnifer]

I used a OKC Specplus bowie as my edc for 10years as a landscaper and equipment mechanic. Actualy I used two One wore out after 5-6 years. It was used to dig holes, cut irigation lines, cut tree/cactus, pry what ever, cut every thing. Scrape gaskets, make holes in stuff-cans and things that needed holes in them.Made coutnless camp stuff,shelters, proseced countless game animals,The back of the blade makes a great light hammer. Opens beer bottles with ease!Great in the kitchen for Butchering large cuts of meet into smaller rations.LOL I used it a few weeks ago to make a 3 cushion couch fit into 3 garbage bags so I could throw it away in the trash can behind my apartment. Used it once to FUBAR a dick heads car. So I think total cost 120-130 bucks in a ten years span, Gets an A+ in my book

 

[Knife Crazied]

I cut packages open, paracord, and food. That's my hard use. You need a multitool. I carry one daily and if something comes up I have the proper or close to proper tool at hand. EDC always: folder, light, sak, multitool, wallet, watch, paracord bracelet. :thumbup:

 

[Planterz]

The OP and anyone who wants to abuse a knife like that should get a CRKT folding Razel and a Victorinox Pioneer. Cut, scrape, pry, drill holes, un/screw, and then pop the cap off a cold one when the day is done. About $60 for the pair. Why anyone would use a $300 to do things that will eventually end up with it breaking is beyond me. If you must use a knife to do things for which a knife is a poor choice, at least use a cheaper one. Or one more suited. Or best, a cheaper one more suited.

 

[coop1957]

I have 5 year old Salt 1 SE that I use pretty hard. I have a landscape business. Remove weeds, cut small branches, open all kinds of bags etc...

 

[spoonrobot]

Hard use for a knife?

9 times out of 10 it's something a screwdriver or prybar would be better suited to.

 

[Cynic2701]

Mostly, I tend to consider any task that the knife was never intended to accomplish to be 'Hard use'

This is perhaps the best, most reasonable, and useful definition of "hard use" that I've come across.

 

[Jonnygun]

Yeah, I have a Gerber multi tool, and a flashlight!

Don't get me wrong, I wasnt complaining about breaking the knives, just on how I could relate to some of the crazy testing crap I've read here and watched on YouTube. Specifically one YouTube video where this guy was breaking tips by prying into wood, and I thought I've done that. I was checking for rot in joists and hit a solid knot instead, snapped that tip like nothing.

I don't use hugely expensive folders at work but I don't like cheap crap either. I just bought a spyderco barong and superleaf to play with. I think that the superleaf is gonna be the bomb. 4mm flat ground leaf blade and a compression lock. It should rock. That barong looks awesome to.

Anybody else use your folders as a general purpose tool? Or do anything with them that might justify those "testing to failure" videos?

 

[Jonnygun]

The OP and anyone who wants to abuse a knife like that should get a CRKT folding Razel and a Victorinox Pioneer. Cut, scrape, pry, drill holes, un/screw, and then pop the cap off a cold one when the day is done. About $60 for the pair. Why anyone would use a $300 to do things that will eventually end up with it breaking is beyond me. If you must use a knife to do things for which a knife is a poor choice, at least use a cheaper one. Or one more suited. Or best, a cheaper one more suited.

I hear ya. On the other hand the only knife that I've actually broken were cheap ones. I had a BM940 that I used for years, every day, and it never broke. It got beat, but stayed perfectly serviceable.

 

[Jonnygun]

I used a OKC Specplus bowie as my edc for 10years as a landscaper and equipment mechanic. Actualy I used two One wore out after 5-6 years. It was used to dig holes, cut irigation lines, cut tree/cactus, pry what ever, cut every thing. Scrape gaskets, make holes in stuff-cans and things that needed holes in them.Made coutnless camp stuff,shelters, proseced countless game animals,The back of the blade makes a great light hammer. Opens beer bottles with ease!Great in the kitchen for Butchering large cuts of meet into smaller rations.LOL I used it a few weeks ago to make a 3 cushion couch fit into 3 garbage bags so I could throw it away in the trash can behind my apartment. Used it once to FUBAR a dick heads car. So I think total cost 120-130 bucks in a ten years span, Gets an A+ in my book

That's what I'm talking about!

 

[Maniacal Pete]

I often thin-slice stuffed green olives (cross cut, no less) with the large spearpoint on my SAK.
you have to be careful or it will hang up on the pimento.

 

[OHALLUM]

The hardest job I do with any of my knives is cutting something that I know will dull the blade. When I was just a lad (many many moons ago) I took my grandfather's hunting knife out to play with it. I tried to cut a hole in a neighbor's water tank for his cows. I just wanted a drink, and could not reach over into the tank. Long story short, I broke the tip of the knife and ruined the tank. After being severely punished (and deserving all of it and more) I was devastated that I ruined his knife. He was always taking me hunting and fishing with him. I felt I really let him down. I have to this day tried to be very careful with what I do with my, or others knives. If I don't have the proper tool with me, then I wait until I can fetch the right tool before using a knife for a task it was not designed to do. I do not have any expensive knives or safe queens, just good utility grade knives.

Omar

 

[Wet Noodle]

I cut some pretty rough stuff with my Gayle Bradley at times, but I just keep it for cuttin'. I usually have a tool bag with me so I'm not going to use my knife as a pry bar or screw driver.
After reading something from the Busse feller about how he wanted us to go try to break one of his knives (think it was something to this effect) I put my Tank Buster through hell - dug a lot of holes in rocky dirt, batoned wood that was ridiculously hard, pried a bunch of things that shouldn't have been pried with a knife, sledge hammered it into misc. stumps like a nail and many other stupid knife tests.
Now I know why they call it a Tank Buster.
I'd only do such stupid things with a Busse and have a reasonable expectation that it would survive.
All of my other knives are treated like knives.

 

[machine26]

Need some pics guys...

Hammer wooden pegs with bk4, not really that hard of use, but something anyway.

Making a boiling container with tops xcest. Alot of prying and gouging involved in this task.

Processing fatlighter with a randall 14. Richest stuff I've found, burns like naplam.

Lets see some pics.

 

[retzius]

I used my Fallkniven F1 yesterday to literally break down an entire garage of thick shipping cardboard boxes. I processed the entire load and hit a ton of those thick staples along the way. The F1 performed as it always does, flawlessly.

The F1 isnt much of a looker but for a no nonsense work blade its tough to beat. I stropped it back into shape afterwards and 10 minutes later its good as new, well minus all the "character" that the blade has

 

[butterflyknives]

Well I do battoning with my fixed blade knives and shavings with a folder. Other hard uses I guess is using a folder(cold steel paradox) to de bone chicken or any knife really chop food or wood(wood with fixed blades only) cut dry wall electrical cable, thick plastic, zip ties webing and all other sorts of hard fabic and plastics and thick wires( though that does dull my blade fast)

 

[r-winter]

i used my cold steel Recon One ( the new one in a clip point ) to get my 4x4 F150 Un - Stuck today by using it to dig out under the tires.
And to open a couple of oil jugs, as well as chip ice out from where the key to the shop was hidden under roughly 5 inches of solid ice.
After that it took the real beating... things like cutting sandwiches and my donut in half.
Cheers.



-Owen

 

[Mossyhorn]

I pried open a door with a Rat 1 folder. The tip broke off but, I still sees use on my work bench.

 

[hill1096]

This all sounds like a normal, average day to me. Not abuse or even hard use. I carry a Buck. Never breaks or even gets dull. I carry a Buck: I can do anything.