Bad/tough things to cut

Cobra281

Cobra281

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Here's a vote for Electric Rope Fencing. 3/8 nylon rope, braided with metal strands to carry a charge. I usually use a utility knife and just trash a new blade.

But this weekend a bunch of new, young, horses decided to destroy an old gate between paddocks and I had to tie it back up before they got out. I couldn't leave the field or they'd be long gone and hard to find. The only thing right there was the Elec. Rope Fencing. Cut some out of the main fence and tied off top and bottom of both ends of and old bent, broken piece of sh!t gate. (no easy task when you're by yourself a couple of young colts are trying to "help")

The only knife I had on me, was my new RAT 1 ... it gave it's best. Did the job, but it's not a happy camper :grumpy: (LOL) Nothing a good shapening session
won't cure.
 
We use the electric fencing stuff in 2 inch woven ribbon form. I hate it when I have to cut it.
Another bad one is having to cut some rockwool thermal insulation padding. You can just feel it doing exactly the opposite of what you try to do when applying a rock (well, stone) to your knife when you try to sharpen it.
And zip-ties or tie-rips or whatever you call em that are very tightly attached to steel parts and you yust know you are going to push your edge into the metal behind the cable-tie or whatever you call it.
And geomatting that is already in place in a sandy/pebbly soil. Or plastic bags filled with sand.
 
I cut the top off two plastic 2L bottles this weekend with my S30V Spyderco Military and it took the gray stones on my Sharpmaker to get the edge back into shape. This week I'm going to reprofile and microbevel the Mili to see if I can touch it up faster in the future after a day of medium use.
 
I cut one of those nylon scouring pads....once:rolleyes:

I made one cut, this(not surprisingly) dulled the edge and left a load of fine scratches.
 
Jimbo75 said:
I cut one of those nylon scouring pads....once:rolleyes:

I made one cut, this(not surprisingly) dulled the edge and left a load of fine scratches.
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Ah yes, those harmless looking Scotch-Brite scouring pads that scratch the holy **** out of whatever they touch. :D I've never cut one with a knife, but worked at a place where we cut them into smaller pieces using scissors. Needless to say, they could render scissors nearly useless in a very short amount of time.
 
Double walled corrugated cardboard with loads of packing tape.
Velcro with adhesive. The adhesive makes a gummy mess everywhere.
 
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