Khuks saving lives....

CAVEDWELLER

CAVEDWELLER

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I just read the story about Dan using his khuk to get out of a wrecked Suburban from the Khukuri Faqs. Anyway it struck me as funny, not the car wreck, but the fact that I was thinking about keeping my BAS in my truck for such an unfortunate accident. A khuk would be and excellent glass breaker and can probably carefully hack through a roof to extract a victim, it'd be the Nepali Jaws of Life. I know laws very from state to state on the legalities of blade length, but what expirence have people had regarding law enforcecment and having a khuk in your car or on your person? Guess that means I need get another one for the car, one for the truck, one for the PWC, one for ..........??? I'm ate up with HIKV.
 
Be careful with that 13" Villager Duck, the durn thing's dangerous, cross between a big kerambit and a small bowie. By now you're figuring out why I carried a 12" AK on my belt, hidden by my DCU shirt, when I was being "casual" overseas. Would have been a nasty little surprise for someone should they have needed my "attention". ;)

Sarge
 
Sarge,
found best place to carry it, is under shirt,minus chak & Karda ,IWB behind left or right hip,either for reverse pull or standard draw,LH or RH, I work both ways! You have some private mail you"might " want to address!!:rolleyes:
THE SAINT!(peaceful as always):cool:
 
Sarge,
found best place to carry it, is under shirt,minus chak & Karda ,IWB behind left or right hip,either for reverse pull or standard draw,LH or RH, I work both ways! You have some private mail you"might " want to address!!:rolleyes:
THE SAINT!(peaceful as always):cool:
 
Wise & "Saintly" words. Mighty comforting to have one of those 'little fellers' when the nights are dark & stormy.
 
Somewhere I posted a story about a Search and Rescue team trying to get up a mountain to save a family in pretty bad trouble. Big tree across the logging road stopped the S&R team. One had an 18" AK as I recall, chopped the tree in two and 4WD pushed thru. Family saved.
 
I have a 5 lb. axe and crosscut saw behind the seat of my truck for trees across the road. Like UB says - the right tool for the right job. However, there isn't room for that kind of thing in most cars these days, and a big AK is going to be under the seat of mine whenever it travels where trees grow near the pavement.

For busting into vehicles, an AK seems like a perfect glass breaker/prybar. One thing to bear in mind when breaking glass is to put the tip on a lower corner of the glass and tap the butt until the glass segments. If you just stab the window you will likely get glass fragments all over the occupants, not to mention stabbing one of them in the process.

Spearing one's fellow motorists like that is probably the only way you can get in trouble with the law when carrying a khuk in the car IMHO.
 
I've used a chiruwa AK to clear a fallen tree from a roadway. It wasn't the best tool for the job, but it's what was handy at the time and did the job.
 
When my khuks first started arriving I didn't know any better and they were doing things that I truly thought that only an axe or a saw could do. Now that I have handled a few different ones, I know that the heavier khuks usually are the choppers. Untill I purchased some other khuks that first 15" AK and BAS did one heck of a lot of chopping. From that time on the only time I used the chainsaw is on very large trunks and I can get them cut very close to the ground after digging around them just a little bit. All that limbing with the khuks helps me keep the body active. Got to stay in some kind of shape so I can stay on the Bike. Any way I found that out of necessity some of the smaller khuks can do just about a mountain of work.:)
 
Used to have the khuk in the car, but frain the laha would melt on the summer months. So I replaced it in my truck with this:
paratechpryaxestandardandcutting12042002.jpg

Which I got from N2S's extensive colection.

They call it the pry-axe, I call it the 21st century viking boarding axe.

This site has em used fer cheep:
http://www.usedrescuetools.com/garage_sale.htm

Keith
 
Keith, that sort of looks like a mutated dental tool. Weird and serious at the same time.
 
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