Did your Traditional knife get a workout today? -Part II

[Modoc ED]

Sliced open a box of snacks.

 

[euroken]

I was awake and out of the house when it went off. My daughter called in a panic about it and I rushed home. It looked like a malfunction because the beeps and lights were more or less random, but I didn’t know if the battery might have drained from having gone off properly earlier when I wasn’t home.

I checked that the water heater was drafting properly (it was), and the furnace will shut itself off if there is a backdraft I think, but for peace of mind I offered to stay up and go to the hardware store when it opened at 6.

Luckily my daughter used her google-fu to determine that our local 24-hour pharmacy had CO detectors, so I got one there (for just $10 more than the hardware store price - not bad!).

The unit had a sealed non-replaceable “10 year” lithium battery

J Just Tom.

Hope the detector hasn’t been sitting on the shelf for 9 1/2 years

Our smoke detector goes off every time my daughter takes a hot shower and leaves the door cracked open to let the steam clear up.

My wife or I usually stand under it with a towel to fan the steam away lol.

 

[JohnDF]

 

[screened porch]

I remember my dad telling me probably 45 years ago to avoid using my pocket knife to cut cardboard, because it would make it dull.

Your dad and my shop teacher.

 

[Just Tom.]

Since my neighbor cut down all his trees for some reason, I now have plenty of sun for a small garden. My daughter and I dug it yesterday. This afternoon, the Opinel sliced through plastic mesh and anti-weed fabric with almost no resistance.

Hopefully the deer and squirrels take pity on me and don’t eat absolutely everything.

 

[Just Tom.]

More gardening today. I cut a bunch of sticks into pegs to hold down the anti-weed fabric before covering it in mulch, cut a few small tree roots, cut the plastic wrap off the roll of fencing, and some other stuff. It’s a terrible knife but I don’t mind getting dirt and grit all in it, and I can just wash it in the sink when I am done.

 

[r8shell]

 

[dantzk8]

Dan.

 

[screened porch]

I did a little impromptu weeding with the awl. I'll be better prepared tomorrow.
[thumb stud]
Greensleeves did some pizza work recently. I'll be better prepared for the church meeting tonight.

Farmhouse trapper unpacked my new multi-function crutch today. The stick/stool might go back. I don't like the way the seat flexes.

 

[screened porch]

The stick/stool went back. It was also too short to reach the ground as a stick, and as a seat it was a pretty small and distant target for somebody who bought it because of dizzy spells.
I used the wharnie on a dumpster load of cardboard and the clip on apple tree suckers. Quite the Renaissance guy.

 

[Just Tom.]

Harvested herbs from the garden:

 

[Prester John]

Used this sucker to cut some ties on a new waterhose. Also cut some orange peel for an old fashioned.

 

[Will Power]

“Broke down” a cardboard box with my latest acquisition today - something which seems to be a popular activity around here but which I rarely do, for a variety of reasons:

• I don’t often buy things that come in big boxes.
• I have a huge recycling bin, so I can usually just mash boxes flat with my foot and jam them in.
• I remember my dad telling me probably 45 years ago to avoid using my pocket knife to cut cardboard, because it would make it dull.

Sometimes I wonder if I wouldn’t have done better in life if I had listened to what my mother always used to say instead.

When I have to 'break down boxes' I want to use a Modern with a lock, beater work for ugly tools But stomping usually does the trick

The paradox is that cardboard does dull carbon knives in particular, fast but a small piece of it is a EXCELLENT strop to get it back in shape, fast.

 

[Will Power]

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Used this sucker to cut some ties on a new waterhose. Also cut some orange peel for an old fashioned.

At first I thought you were using it on the dog to search for tics....

Old Fashioned eh? I feel that knife would be just as good as a Lime slicer for G&T or even for spearing olives for a Dry Martini....Summer Days

 

[screened porch]

The raging Queen did a little surgery for me today. That wild cherry I cleared out turned out to be thornapple.

 

[Just Tom.]

Cut the bands on a bundle of 2x2s at the hardware store, opened a package of luggage straps and some boxes of screws, sharpened a pencil, cleaned up some ugly saw cuts - a very handy little helper today:

 

[Just Tom.]

Punched a bunch of starter holes in the corrugated plastic sheets I lined the inside of my awning with, and trimmed bits off the plastic as needed.

Not the prettiest effort, but no amount of paint was going to make the corroded sheet metal look good, and I am not ready to build a whole new porch just yet. A little paint over the screws and on the remaining exposed portions of the awning should help distract from the shoddy workmanship.

I made the roof racks Friday night. Used a drawknife, plane, and some chisels, but alas could find no need for my pocket knife.

Edit to add:
The awning is 8x16 feet, so this was no small task. It also bowed out 3” or so in the middle which made getting everything to line up a nightmare

 

[Just Tom.]

A little light work in the garden this afternoon. Made a tomato stake and cut strips from an old shirt to tie tomatoes up with.

The eggplant is prettier, so that’s where I took the glamour shot.

 

[untytled]

My neighbor dropped off her English wheat muffin bread for us to try. We buttered it up and topped it with jam. Great combo

 

[WValtakis]