If you were going to be dropped off...

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jackknife said:
Lumping, I have to remember that one. Also good info on bus ticket price.

I don't know if I would consider it a nightmare, but I know it would be very uncomfortable and a bit of an ordeal to be away from my comfortable surroundings and family at this stage of my life. Not many crocks over 60 go wandering around the country trying to re-capture something. But of late I've been feeling a curious restlessness, like one more good adventure to tell the grandkids about. My friend Dan has been feeling it too and we've talked about it. Not really sure what it is, but it makes us feel kind of antsy.

Not even sure we'll really do it, but its something we're having fun bouncing back and forth.
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Lumping is a young man's job, JK. At the age of 35, I'd need a huge bottle of Motrin and three days on a bus reeking of Icy-Hot to recover from a day or two of lumping. Most of the guys I worked with back then were speed addicts--the two went together, quick money and an outlet for all the "energy" produced. I wasn't as fast as the tweakers, but count accuracy and reliability kept me in rent money and groceries until I could find more civilized work.

Obviously, I'm approaching this from a "get out quick" perspective, but let me schedule some vacation time from work and give me a credit card or two and some emergency cash (just in case), and this whole thing takes on another, much more palatable, flavor.

Andy
 
I'd carry one of my SAKs, the extra tools would come in handy for sure, plus its legal everywhere.

My second knife would be a compact fixed blade, I've accumulated customs inspired by old designs that are currently my favourite users, I'd probably carry my roach belly (4 inch 52100 blade, copper bolster and pins, walnut handle) or Kephart (4" O1 blade, convex ground, ironwood handle).
 
Medium Stockman and either my lost for two years in CO wilds and refound SAK Hunter or a Big folder for it's visual effect. (Or otherwise if necessary) If the second gets to be a fixed blade then a either a Buck 124 or Nighthawk , but kept out of site but handy.
 
I think that we are forgeting the time tested Barlow. A long and short blade in a stout package will do plenty good.
 
Thats a hard question. I think a SAK farmer and either a stockman or a buck 110 type.

The sak wood take care of most of the sawing, screwdrive work. And I think I'd lean toward the 110. If I'm hanging around in places like under bridges, hobo camps (if there is such a thing anymore) I'd want the 110 for protection.

This is some idea. Me and my cousin have talked about the same thing. He's good at masons work, I'm licensed electrician, we both know general constuction and can bust backs with the best of them. So probably try and get day jobs with some construction crew. We grew up hunting, fishing trapping so no problem living "in the rough". If we just would do it. Ah, dreams...........

Sam
 
JK, you pose a hard question. I would take My Case copperhead and my Case stockman. They should do anything I need of them. I would mainly use the stockman and keep the copperhead for bigger jobs and back up.


John
 
I'd take my Vic Farmer and Schrade LB7 Bearpaw. The Farmer would handle most cutting tasks and has a useful selection of tools. The LB7 would handle larger cutting tasks and double as a defensive weapon.

I have to saw that if I found myself in that scenario, life would not be good.
 
Durwood said:
I guess I'd take just about any two Tony Bose knives. I'd sell one and travel across the country in leisure and still have one left to brag about on the forum when I got home:D
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Dang, you took my smarty pants answer. I was going to say I'll take my SAK Hiker, and Abraham Lincoln's pearl handled six blade congress that's in the Smithsonian. I'd sell it for $50,000 and fly coast to coast first class.

Seriously, I guess I'd take the Hiker and Case CV large sodbuster. I'm not sure why, except that combo seems to cover all the bases, knife-wise. Three different blade lenths, two stainless and one carbon. Plus screwdrivers, wood saw, bottle and can openers, reamer, toothpick, tweezers, etc.
 
jackknife said:
Uses would include food prossesing, making rude shelter under overpasses with cardboard boxes, figure 4 deadfalls, what ever.

Consider this kind of a brain teaser.:D
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I don't think the brain benefits from this exercise at all.
 
Limited to folders, I'd take my Vic Fieldmaster and my Buck 110. If one traditional fixed blade is allowed, I'd take my HI Kumar Karda over the 110 because it's a little beefier.
 
I would say my Vic. Huntsman, because of the scissors and saw and My Buck 119 or Pilots survival knife.
 
Hmmm...

The one essential is my Vic Farmer. As for #2...

Remington Moose in carbon
Queen folding hunter in D2
Boker sodbuster in carbon
Queen Mountain Man, stag and carbon.

One of those 4 with the Farmer would be just enough.
 
I remember reading this last year... apparently that was before I stopped lurking here-

A 4" to 4-1/4" Moose, most likely my 1985 Remington, or for fear of loosing that one, a Case in CV.

And a Farmer.-or my custom variant;just the saw and can opener.

G.
 
Now that I've had a whole year to think about it ;), I would choose a scibeer-modded Vic Farmer with scissors, and a GEC locking Pioneer.
 
navihawk said:
A small boot knife.Probably with a clip or persian.Big enough for self defense and cooking.
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I had a stockman also in an earlier post. I'm changing to a scout. Digging through dumpsters, you never know if you come across a can or bottle that needed to be open. an awl would come in handy as would a screwdriver blade.
 
I think I would go with a one blade like a sodbuster or a mercator or my 125OT, and a scout pattern like the Wenger Si.
jackknife said:
Our only stumbling block was knives. We couldn't make up our minds on which knives to take. Dan, like me, is a knife knut and has a good accumulation. We decieded we had to have two, one as a back up.
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That is of course because we are knife nuts, as with everything else common sense and skill is more important than the kind of tool we choose.
I I was to be a light nut ( does that word exist?) I would spend hours thinking about what flashlight I should take on the trip. Not beeing one it is a no brainier for me to put the mini MagLite led on my belt or the TL-122 in my pack.
Thats why I'd say, just choose the knives you are most comfortable with.

Peter
 
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