EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

ChazzyP said:
So, I lightly touched up the chain on the CS2258 last evening and powered through the remaining 21-foot plus of oak bole this morning. The saw's been running great, never bogging down through the dense, fresh oak, and my new sharpening method has made a huge difference in its performance.

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Well over twenty years ago our younger sons, now in their mid-30's, threw one of the old ring chains from their rusted out swing play set up into the crotch of this tree. You can just see it in the third bolt from the right above and more clearly in the pic below, showing how much growth has occurred in that time.

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Despite being infested by the gall wasps that decimated the Cape's black oaks around ten years ago, the tree, though seriously deformed and damaged, was still internally healthy, the wood is incredibly dense, moist, and the larger bolts were all but impossible to lift from the ground. We used J's Frontier, rolled the logs up one of my ramps into the bed, then drove around the house and backed up as tight as we could to the splitter.

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More on topic, it was a Throwback Thursday as I went back to the Al Mar SERE 2000, continuing my appreciation of old school knives.

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Growing up in Wisconsin we cut a lot of oak off a cousins farm for our wood stove. we’d rent a hydraulic splitter every fall to spilt it. You definitely had your work cut out for you, no pun intended, and makes my little gardening I did yesterday look like child’s play :thumbsup:
 
I'd rather be fishing today, but I'm home pestering the contractor that is painting our house. Boy I'll be glad when this is done!
Got my Halfrich Rounder Jr. with me, as well as my Protech Malibu for F³ (Favorite Flipper Friday). I've been frantically flipping this baby since I got it, and it's reacting much better for me!
Have a great weekend!
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Growing up in Wisconsin we cut a lot of oak off a cousins farm for our wood stove. we’d rent a hydraulic splitter every fall to spilt it. You definitely had your work cut out for you, no pun intended, and makes my little gardening I did yesterday look like child’s play :thumbsup:
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I grew up down south and we used wood as the heat source. I never knew what a hydraulic splitter was. It was me and an 8# splitting maul. The only tree I hated see hit the ground was sweet gum. The grain twisted, turned and spiraled. Oak was fun to split to me. Did not matter what variation, it split great.
 
More splitting today. I've got everything I can do to get the larger bolts the few steps from the truck tailgate and onto the splitter--this oak is wicked dense and well saturated and seems way heavier than any other comparably-sized hardwood I've handled. Of course at my age I'm surely not getting any stronger either. :rolleyes:

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I split the Y-piece with the imbedded chain hanging out right down the center and exposed the links buried for some 20 or so years.

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As you see, I continued my recent carry of old school knives with my user D2 710. As it has been all week, the new AFCK 806-1101 was close at hand, though not carried while I worked. Despite the fact that it's a much longer overall knife, the blade lengths of the two are almost identical. Of course, as it's designated the Advanced Folding Combat Knife, having more handle real estate certainly makes sense. I'm always glad to have plenty to hang onto anyway, though I certainly don't anticipate engaging in any combat at this point. It's also interesting how similar the blade geometry between the two is, despite the 710's obvious recurve and the difference in deployment hardware.

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Can't resist posting one more shot of my sculpted G10, M390 beauty....

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