I had to laugh.. A traditional testimonial.

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As some of you know, I drive truck for a living. We have a driver that drives the truck in the early morning, and then I drive it at night...

Yesterday we got our new tires chains in for the truck. The chains come in very heavy, double layer burlap type material. MUCH stronger than normal burlap though..
So the other driver and I decided to fit and cut the chains before I left.

He says, " I'll cut the bags open and get them out".. He pulls out his Tacticool style knife and starts tryin to get the bags cut open. Only problem was with the magnum sized blade, plus I'm guessin maybe a little dull too, he was havin a heck of a time gettin the blade to even penetrate the bag.... I thought, well I'll let him try it for a minute. After almost breakin a sweat, he finally got the blade to penetrate one layer of the bag. Then he couldn't cut the material...

I couldn't stand it anymore. So I pulls out the trusty Case Mini Trapper, open her up and slice right through both layers of the bag. Gave her a little tug to get her started and opened it right up :D

When I looked up at him, the look on his face was priceless.
 
Thats pretty good. I'd much rather have a smokin' sharp knife than a cool looking knife, and often a good slipjoint or SAK will fit the bill.

 
Priceless, thanks for the chuckle. I like the "break a sweat part", timing is everything.
 
Great story. Many people discount the traditional knife due to it's looks. They are very capable knives, especially when kept sharp. Thanks for sharing.
 
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Very :cool: indeed!. I am wondering how long it'll be 'fore that ole boy asks 'bout that sweet cutt'n knife a your'n? :D :thumbup:

I recon most run-a-the-mill folks these days just don't know the value of a good hollow ground and razor sharp Case Mini-Trapper, is all!. ;) :thumbup:
 
Sweet. I love stories like that. I am sure his expression was priceless. I would be the ornery sucker that I am and give him a slipjoint and tell him, "I saw that you needed a good knife, so I got you this one." LOL

Thanks for sharing,

Bill
 
That is a great one, nicely done.

I'll share one of my own if you don't mind, real similar.
I work on giant printers, for printers billboards and the like. So I'm in fixing one of them and we're testing it, running some heavy vinyl material (about 45 mil if you know what this stuff is at all, I won't bore ya with it, it's heavy stuff). The operator finishes a proof and we have to cut it off to run it over to their color guys to ok it for production. He pulls out a razor knife, now it's gone through far too many meters of heavy billboard material, but it's still a razor blade in a handle.
He starts at his end of the machine and starts cutting (I use the term lightly, more like sawing), towards the center of this 16 foot wide roll of material. I step over to the center and pull out my days EDC, a Kutmaster medium stockman, sheepsfoot blade. I push it through the center before he gets there and just go zzziiiiiiiiiiiip, through to the end at an easy walking speed. Turn back around and just like you said, the look on his face was amusing to say the least! No big deal or anything but a fun little ending to my service visit.

Syn
 
Good story. As soon as you said truck driver and got into your story, I was thinking cheap Chinese knock-off, uber-tacticool knife. I've seen plenty of them at truck stops.

Good on you and your Case.
 
Good story Mike.I helped my brother in law with a gazebo once and the little knife on the right of the flashlight took care of every box and piece of strapping with ease.
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sunnyd said:
Very :cool: indeed!. I am wondering how long it'll be 'fore that ole boy asks 'bout that sweet cutt'n knife a your'n? :D :thumbup:

I recon most run-a-the-mill folks these days just don't know the value of a good hollow ground and razor sharp Case Mini-Trapper, is all!. ;) :thumbup:
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I was wondering how long it will be till he gets himself one.. His wife works in the office, so I might tell her it would be a great idea for a gift...

Guyon said:
Good story. As soon as you said truck driver and got into your story, I was thinking cheap Chinese knock-off, uber-tacticool knife. I've seen plenty of them at truck stops.

Good on you and your Case.
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Thats true... I didn't bother askin him what kind it was, but it was big and it was green. He's a great guy, he just needs a little edumacation about fine workin tools.

navihawk said:
Good story Mike.I helped my brother in law with a gazebo once and the little knife on the right of the flashlight took care of every box and piece of strapping with ease.
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Thats cool Steve. It's amazing what can be done with a properly sharpened small knife. Plus they look neat too. :thumbup:
 
I have things like that happen very often.

We use alot of clay birds at the club, with our 4 trap and skeet ranges, and sporting clays range open to the public on Wedsdays and Saturdays. Thats alot of machines to be reloaded and high and low houses stocked. A guy with an 18 wheeler comes a couple times a month with shipments of White Fliers, and the new members have to do work details on thier probationary first year.

It never fails, when I have some young guy who just joined and doing his work hours, we'll go to break down all the now empty clay bird boxes, some thick saber ground tactical comes out.

By many years of doing this, I've found out the best knife to do this job is a sodbuster or Opinel. Smething with a wide thin blade. A sharp soddie or Opy glides through the boxes like butter, with a soft whisper.

I'll watch the proby try to deal with the heavy cardboard for a while, then I'll hand him my Opinel and tell him to break down and stack, and I'll carry to the recycle dumpster. It never fails, after a while, they always ask why is this cheap knife outcutting thier 80 dollar whiz bang? Then I try to give them a knife edjucation on blade geometry. I've taken to keeping an Opinel or an older yellow handle soddie in the glove box of my Tacoma to lend out to the probys.

So far, a couple times now I've seen a proby that worked with me on the range maintance, show up a month or two later for some other project, and have a Opinel or sodbuster on him. I can only venture a guess that when somebody actually feels a big difference in thier own hand, it makes an impression
 
You make me want to get a sodbuster Jackknife.Didn't I see one in bacote wood around here a while ago?
 
navihawk said:
You make me want to get a sodbuster Jackknife.Didn't I see one in bacote wood around here a while ago?
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No, no, go for the soddie in stag. I saw one here sometimes back. I thought that was the classiest sodbuster. :thumbup:


A stag soddie, yeah.:D
 
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