Have any of you ever had your favorite knife mutilated by something?

beeinak said:
What a horrible way to go!
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Sure seems like it to me.

I had a friend who worked at a feed lot who got ground up in a… “poop auger”, for lack of a better term. It was a machine with two giant auger bits turning into each other that ground up manure. He got up there to dislodge something and slipped.😞

You go lanyarding yourself to knives around a wood chipper, you get what you get. IMO it’s about even with wearing a tie working with a drill press.
 
MolokaiRider said:
That is the inherent potential danger of using a clipped folding knife.

I've had mine snag countless times, to the point of getting it yanked out of my pocket without me knowing.

Just comes with the territory I guess.
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You reduce the risk by wearing your shirt untucked. But yeah, in factories/laboratories/anything with machinery, I’m not taking any chances.

I’ve probably scratched a couple of walls with muh clips. 😨
 
Hedonizmdan said:
It finally happened to me, it's happened to most of my coworkers. Even the owner has had his knife mangled by one our chippers. Today was my turn I guess 🙄. I should count myself as lucky, being in treework for 12 years and having my favorite knives make it home safe day after day. But not today. I was going about my work day as per usual. And noticed my folder was not in my pocket. Immediately began scanning the ground for my knife. I just happened to be about 5 feet away from the wood chipper. I had just fed some brush into it, before I noticed my knife missing. So I ran over to reverse the feed wheels, too late as I was running I heard my knife getting completely obliterated. Shut the chipper down and started looking for the remnants of my folder. There wasn't much left, at least that I could find anyway. So anyone else have a knife completely destroyed, feel free to share and post pics.

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That sucks to hear man, sorry. At least no one was injured? Knife through the woodchipper sounds scary honestly. Can those machines possibly chuck pieces of metal in the air?
 
AntDog said:
Sure seems like it to me.

I had a friend who worked at a feed lot who got ground up in a… “poop auger”, for lack of a better term. It was a machine with two giant auger bits turning into each other that ground up manure. He got up there to dislodge something and slipped.😞

You go lanyarding yourself to knives around a wood chipper, you get what you get. IMO it’s about even with wearing a tie working with a drill press.
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Holy hell that is terrible.
 
Damn Bro!!!! Imagine if you used a Whisper chipper aka chuck & duck.....Sorry to hear it......30 year of tree work for me. Part time once.I was.I. the Teamsters.union here in NYC.....At least it wasn't a Sebenza🤔, right.....
I lost a new Silver bracelet to a disc chipper.....Just stupid.... I knew better but you know youth, Nah won't get me.😉........
 
Not a knife, a 6" steel rule. I was a machinist, I was flicking shavings away from a slab mill when oops! A three inch rule and a bunch of little bits.
In machining you are lucky if your cock ups don't take a finger. Somehow I still have all of mine.
 
Mutilated?

Well yes and no,

Back in the 1980s, I worked as a drilling fluids Specialist ("Mud Man") in the middle East, booth in the desert and offshore. At that time, THE knife to have in your belt pouch was a Buck 110. I used my knife every day to open 100 pound sacks of chemicals to be dumped into the vats of drilling mud. These were multi layered sacks made from paper, plastic and fiber. full of harsh chemicals.

Nearly each month, I wore out a new Buck 110 to the point tat the bade was severely recurved and the handle pitted, soiled and corrode.

Mutilated . . .maybe not. But heavy use abused . . .defiantly.
 
If I may carry on about working in heavy industry again, wearing anything that can get caught in machinery is a no go. Having said that, lanyards are ok if they are ones that unclip when a pulling force is applied.
 
^^^

Tangent, but related:

In the same time frame as my post above, OSHA had the oil industry in their sights . . .IRS too it turns out.

OSHA wanted 12-foot-high shields on the rotating parts of the drill rig at the rig floor . . . .for various operational reasons, this cannot work. They also had difficulty with putting a man up in the derrick to work n the "diving board" while running pipe too.

Not related: Later on, the IRS wanted to treat the food served to the workers and their sleping quaters as taxcable income . . .as though living on an offshore rig was like living for free on a cruise ship!
 
DocJD said:
Sorry for off topic , but don't confuse LD50 levels in healthy subjects with toxicity for every subject . This can vary greatly . :eek:
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Even overestimating the amount of chocolate in 4 chocolate chip cookies, the calculator on that site says no treatment necessary.

Unless it is a bar of dark chocolate, it is hard for a dog to consume enough cookies, etc to cause illness. Still, we should keep chocolate, grapes, onions, away from them.
 
When I was very young, we had a dog that ate close to a quarter pound of milk chocolate with no ill effects. Today, I don’t let ours eat a single chocolate chip. Same with grapes, onions, and garlic.

Edited for clarity.
 
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norcalAF said:
Don't forget xylitol, apparently it wrecks kidneys with the quickness
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Oh, right! Very deadly to dogs. Keep your sugar free gum and mints away from them as well.

Edit: Apologies for further thread drift.
 
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AntDog said:
Sure seems like it to me.

I had a friend who worked at a feed lot who got ground up in a… “poop auger”, for lack of a better term. It was a machine with two giant auger bits turning into each other that ground up manure. He got up there to dislodge something and slipped.😞

You go lanyarding yourself to knives around a wood chipper, you get what you get. IMO it’s about even with wearing a tie working with a drill press.
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Maybe be smart about what kind of lanyard. Like with the keyring versions I used that keyring is going to pull apart before that tiny retractable chain could hoist me off the ground much less over an edge into anything.
 
SharpBits said:
Reading is fundamental!
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It sure is.

Would’ve probably been a lot more effective to post the explanation along with the initial blunt statement.

Your post I quoted instantly pegged my “oh-shit-ometer”.
 
AntDog said:
It sure is.

Would’ve probably been a lot more effective to post the explanation along with the initial blunt statement.

Your post I quoted instantly pegged my “oh-shit-ometer”.
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No harm! It is a very valid concern and I should have amended my original post. I add a comment now.

It's truly a horrible way to go.
 
Never lost a knife to machinery, although I once backed over a little serrated Spyderco I had dropped in the driveway (it was fine), and I've donated a few to the river gods. The greatest danger to knives is idiots who ask to borrow yours so I don't do that.
 
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