Hook uses

I believe over in Europe, packages are wrapped with string to help keep them together and the hook was designed so that you could put the string it it and use your SAK as a handle so the string wouldn't put a cramp in your hand.
I'm sure UnknownVT knows ;)
 
Look at the picture below. The drawings explain all kinds of uses of the Victorinox tools, including the hook.

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powells85 said:
I believe over in Europe, packages are wrapped with string to help keep them together and the hook was designed so that you could put the string it it and use your SAK as a handle so the string wouldn't put a cramp in your hand.
I'm sure UnknownVT knows ;)
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This was the main reason for the hook "thingie" (parcel hook). Doesn't anyone else remember when butchers wrapped meat in paper and tied it with string??? Apparently this is still a common practice in Europe.

Paul
 
U can also use the hook to pull your shoestring tight, on ice skates, boots etc.
 
loki88 said:
U can also use the hook to pull your shoestring tight, on ice skates, boots etc.
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that's what I would suggest. i do that all the time with my kid's skates. Works great.

J
 
I have had a Champ EDC (a gift from my dad around 1996-7?) on which I only recently discovered the pin (hidden at the base of the corkscrew). The hook was a mystery for awhile. It is good for lacing as loki88 says.
 
I remember when I was a kid my parents would tie up their newspapers with string and then we'd carry them out to the car to take them to be recycled. I wish I had that hook back then, my hands always hurt. :)
 
Sonny Burnett said:
Look at the picture below. The drawings explain all kinds of uses of the Victorinox tools, including the hook.
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It looks like you can use the metal file (20) to rob change from vending machines.
 
You could use the hook to move a hot pot from a fire if the pot had a wire handle.

You could tie the knife to a long stick and use it to retrieve things stuck in a tree.

You could get two SAKs and some wire and make a nice garrote.

You could wrap your fishing line around the hook and pull in a big fish without cutting your hand.

You could pull electrical wire through a hole in your drywall (turn the power off first).

Just use your imagination.

Allen.
 
Great picture, BTW. I have used the hook to carry baled hay at my parents' ranch. On an aside, i was at the post office recently, and they made an old couple remove the brown paper and string from a apackage that was to be mailed. So, it is not applicable in the US Mail anymore.
 
Thirteenth Star said:
Would the hook be useful to arm a crossbow?
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I thought crossbows all came with a lever that would arm it but if that broke for some reason it might work pretty good depending on the amount of force it takes to load it.... if it was one of those really powerful crossbows it would probably be really hard to load it with the hook but then again it would probably still be better than trying to do it with your hands.
 
Whoohoo!
Picked my wife up at the airport. She was returning from Hawai'i and had purchased a box of pineapples. 6 of them in a box tied up with plastic cording. Damn thing weighed about 25#. With several pieces to lug I stacked what I could, and started to grab that string... my brain said 'carrying hook, moron.' and presto! Out comes my handy SAK Champ to the rescue! Carried that crate about 200 yards to the car with moderate comfort.
I was so proud and fresh pineapples are freakin' awesome! :D
 
Would someone mind posting that "useage" picture from above again? It appears to be gone from the site it was on before.

Thanks, :)
David
 
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