Most demanding Knife use.

G

gdwtvb

Joined
Jan 14, 2006
Messages
405
There's another thread asking what's the last thing you used a knife for and what knife and I started thinking.

Whats the most demanding or unusual thing you've used a knife for lately??

Oh yeah and what knife too?

I'll start I used a decorated small Sebenza to cut and dig up a bunch of bamboo from a vacant lot to replant in my yard. (bamboo has thick roots that branch laterally)

How 'bout you?

GDWTVB:D
 
I used a Ranger RD-7 top help cut and pry apart a kids' wooden fort. Nailed 2x4s and 2x6s. Hit some nails with the edge -- not too much damage.
 
Most demanding...hmm..let me think... Last weekend I used my Byrd Robin to cut some threads on two ball gowns from two gorgeous women, who went to a huge event this night with me. It was by no means difficult or demanding, but imagine I would have cut more than I was supposed to cut...:D That would have been a world of hurt!!
 
I generally don't use a knife for something that requires a prybar or hammer. About the most challenging thing I've done recently with a folder is vivisect a twin mattress with a Spydie D'Allara.
 
I used a Busse Natural Outlaw Ergo to pry the wooden ladder apart on an old tree stand I ran across while hunting. Plywood platform was rotten and I didn't want anyone to fall through it as I almost did. (Unfortunately, I had left my wrecking bar out of my hunting gear.:()
 
Used a Spyderco Navigator to dig up masonite around a screw that was stuck in there after the head broke off.
 
Trying to clear out a small bamboo thicket in my backyard. After it was all cut down the stumps left always grow back, we couldn't figure out how to kill them so it was time to experiment :p Tried a bunch of things, one of which was using my CGFBM to try and split the stumps in half. It worked on a few but some of the really thick ones didn't budge, and I even got some flex out of the blade. Finally got the idea to dig under the growth and just pull the whole thing out, which actually worked.
 
I often use a cold steel srk to climb cliffs. The knife is shoved into the dirt along with rocks and other such objects.
 
The post by powernoodle reminded me. I had an old futon mattress that was so lumpy I literally thought I might be getting arthritis until it occurred to me that I slept on it several falling asleep watching TV.

I replaced it and decided I should cut up the old one before putting it in the dumpster for the apts. where I live. I cut it into several pieces w/ my Fehrman Final Judgement in CPM 3V. I was suprised at how easily the knife zipped through the futon. It was pretty thick and I had figured it would be a struggle.
 
The most demanding thing i ever used a knife for was battoning wood with my kabar. but recently it was cutting the Philmont brand out of my old destroyed boots.
 
I recently chopped down a 6" diameter (dead) tree with a CS Recon Scout.

All the logs on the ground were soaking .. well, actually they were just covered in ice. Had to have something to start a fire with.
 
Custom by Justin (Ranger Knives); upper left...

LargeCollection.jpg


Justin hooked me up with a hard-use knife for my last tour in Iraq. Sliced several burlap sandbags (with sand) when taking down several adhoc fighting positions; used to dig and cut up several hundred meters of WF-16 commo-wire; used to demolish a few wooden structures.

Not your typical bushcraft or skinning blade:D

ROCK6
 
Kershaw JYDII Composite blade: Cut 4 sheets of drywall with it to fit around multiple windows and odd areas that needed reshaping. Then cut up and removed a vinyl floor. Then pried loose some moulding and trim. Held up like a trooper.
 
I used my Benchmade Griptilian to break down a lot of cardboard boxes (took about an hour) and cut rope when I cleaned out my neighbor's garage. A few passes on a Smith's combo diamond sharpener later that evening got the edge back to what it was before.
 
Just remembered, folder wise I've once batonned a BM 710 on some left over pallet scrap to make shims for electrical outlet installation in a brick wall. 8th floor, no premade shims to speak of, and my only tools a clawhammer, my 710 which was always with me. Since I didn't particularly feel like walking down 8 floors and back up just to tell my boss I didn't have shim material I figured I'd work with what was on hand. It worked really well, and thankfully the wood was very easy to split, it still left a couple dings on the spine. That same knife has also stripped lots of copper wire, cut fiberglass AC duct, popped off of shipping containers, and numerous cuts through wet, dirt soaked rope. Also one time at a college activity someone forgot the can opener and there were 4 cans of food we needed opened for some cooking demonstration. Had to use the mini-socom for that one since they were in a hurry and no one knew where to get a can opener.
 
Haven't cut anything really unusual recently. A couple of years ago I was at a factory and had to cut about 30 feet of heavy canvas. Had no sissors. I was carrying a BM Ascent in ATS-34 as an EDC. Cut it neat and clean with no tearing.
 
Mentioned this a while back I think -

Was on a nonstop drive from LA to Denver, It's 3am and my friend is driving about 75 - a retread from a semi truck appears in the Utah (just before green river) highway. Instead of swerving, he drags his honda civic right over the tread, and we hear a scraping noise under the car after the bump. So he pulls over and the 1/3" thick plastic undercarriage in front of the car is pulled down and skidding against the road... No cell service, no time to waste - I pull out a manix and cut/saw an 8 inch piece off the bottom, road trip ensues.

And literally, just an hour before, my friend says "hey why do you carry such a big knife to open snacks and shit?"

DC
 
Oh yeah that reminds me too. I was at work when a co-worker frantically waved me down, practically screaming at me. He had gotten a bunch of twine wrapped around the wheels of the electric pallet jack that he was driving. He knew I would have a sharp knife. His company issued box-cutter was not cutting it. I had a zdp William Henry on me that made short work of the twine.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top