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Bk3 questions, hey moose

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I'm interested in a bk3 for a buddy of mine on a swat team. I saw Mooses wrire up with the fire dept and car. Has the notch been redesigned? And did it assist in ripping the metal, like a can opener once a hole was started?

The breaking point was the notch but it looks like it took a lot to get to that point. Would the notch be a weak spot for prying a dwelling door where the depth of the door frame or jam is not past the notch?


Thanks it looks like a great tool that can do some real work.

P.s. Has anyone pried dwelling doors with theirs? How id it do?

Thanks again,:)
 
I've seen one break...when it was used to field dress a Dodge Omni I believe!!

I have used mine for a ton of things; especially when I was helping my grandparents remodel their home and put up new siding. I did a ton of prying and the 'weak spot' held up just fine. I really do not see it as an issue at all.

The BK3 is a beast; she can handle her own :thumbup:
 
I saw that video. I always though that seatbelt cutter groove was a bit deep but they did manage to pry the first door open with it.
 
i believe Ethan has an account of one breaking, with two very strong men prying open a cell door with it. they did get the door open too.

there was another one i can't recall...

and the omni of course.

nothing has been redesigned that i know of.

i've batoned the snot out of mine to split wood (my only batoning to speak of), and was keeping an eye on it to see if it would break, hasn't. still don't like it, have no use for the notch personally, would be happier without i think.
 
Personally I think it'd be nice if they offered one without the seatbelt cutter too, for the people who don't like it (like me)
Maybe a bk3-n (bk3-notchless)
 
I made some different renditions of it once.

Normal:

BK3_large.jpg


A notch that wasn't so deep. Perhaps a little to far to the end:

BK3Difnotch.png


No notch:

BK3a.png
 
I like the notchless one the best. If I need a seatbelt cutter, I have a Benchmade hook in my bag, I don't need to be swingin' around a footlong piece of steel, IMO
 
sar5 said:
I'm interested in a bk3 for a buddy of mine on a swat team. I saw Mooses wrire up with the fire dept and car. Has the notch been redesigned? And did it assist in ripping the metal, like a can opener once a hole was started?

The breaking point was the notch but it looks like it took a lot to get to that point. Would the notch be a weak spot for prying a dwelling door where the depth of the door frame or jam is not past the notch?


Thanks it looks like a great tool that can do some real work.

P.s. Has anyone pried dwelling doors with theirs? How id it do?

Thanks again,:)
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SWAT Teams were the guys that Ethan gathered info from when creating it. The notch is not a weak spot, the only reason ours broke, was that we were using it like a claw hammer to try to pry the Nader pin out of the car frame. It was completely unnecessary, and not a realistic test, we just done it to do it. It also took a 200lb firefighter's entire body weight to do it.

Can it pry dwelling doors open? Most definetly. The Nader Pin was bolted through to the frame of the car by 2 3/8" bolts, and that Omni, was all metal, no plastic. Wood doesn't stand much of a chance against it, and after the guys got them a few BK3, they been beating and prying on shit just about daily. Firemen, what can you do?

The notch has not been redesigned, and it was never used to rip metal on our car. We just "chopped" through it, which is what the tip design was intended to do.

Its a big ass, heavy wrecking bar, and breaking it under the most severe circumstances seems very unlikely. It took a helluva lot of GROSS ABUSE for us to break it, and even after that, we still done tons of work with it.

Moose
 
The notch isn't even a seatbelt cutter anyway, right? It's for paracord and etc cord, I thought.
 
BRL said:
The notch isn't even a seatbelt cutter anyway, right? It's for paracord and etc cord, I thought.
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Thats what Ethan says its for. Snagging and pulling cord

Moose
 
thatotherguy said:
Huh, I thought it was a seatbelt cutter, my bad.
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If you sharpen it, it can be. We put a toothy edge on one and tried it on some seatbelt material left over from the Omni, worked ok, but thete are much better options out there. Like a BK14. :D

Moose
 
From the pix I thought it was sharpened, huh. Like I said, if I need to cut a seatbelt I have a benchmade rescue hook in my bag, don't want to injure the victim.
 
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