savagesicslayer
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I decided to take a day trip on my 4 wheeler the other day to take some photos of a really nice stretch of coastline.
I haven't taken the trail before but my neighbour has many times and he told me that it was a nice easy trail.With this knowlage i decided to leave my TOPS Tracker home and opted instead to take my D2 extreme Ka-bar.In the eagle sheath I had a swiss army hiker and 6 feet of 550 pracord.
The trail was nice.I was flying along having a great time getting muddy and generally enjoying myself.After about an hour I came to a huge open field so I decided to open her up and really fly.However after about 50-60 yards i noticed water was spraying at me from the tires.Then I felt the bike start to bob and float some and I knew I was it trouble.So I cut hard and throttled up trying to get clear when I sunk.
The bike was stuck in 2 feet of peat and mud.The trail had taken me into the middle of an old peat bog that had overgrown with grass.My bike is pretty big (kawasaki KVF 300 4X4) so I got lucky that the mud didn't plug my exaust.I tried to push it out but it wouldn't even budge.I knew I had to get something under the tires so I took my D2 extreme and went to work.I cut about 5-6 trees about 2-3 inches around limbed them and juncked them into 1-2 foot legenths and packed them under the tires.I used the boughs to walk on because the 2 feet of mud was getting tiring.
Them a plan came to me.I opened my steath and pulled out the paracord and tied it to the throttle,wound it over the handle bars so I could throttle the bike while I pushed.the tires bit into the mini-logs I had placed under my tires and it slowly crawled out of the hole.I walk-drove my bike to solid ground and gave it a once over to make shure nothing was broken and I headed for home at top speed.the whole ordeal took almost 4 hours and I was exausted.
The D2 extreme performed extremly well as a light chopper.It hacked through the softwood trees and boughs easly considering it isn't supposed to be used as a machete.Having the eagle sheath also was a blessing because if I didn't have the pracord I would never have been able to get my bike free of the hole the way I did.
I'll post pics as soon as I can.
I haven't taken the trail before but my neighbour has many times and he told me that it was a nice easy trail.With this knowlage i decided to leave my TOPS Tracker home and opted instead to take my D2 extreme Ka-bar.In the eagle sheath I had a swiss army hiker and 6 feet of 550 pracord.
The trail was nice.I was flying along having a great time getting muddy and generally enjoying myself.After about an hour I came to a huge open field so I decided to open her up and really fly.However after about 50-60 yards i noticed water was spraying at me from the tires.Then I felt the bike start to bob and float some and I knew I was it trouble.So I cut hard and throttled up trying to get clear when I sunk.
The bike was stuck in 2 feet of peat and mud.The trail had taken me into the middle of an old peat bog that had overgrown with grass.My bike is pretty big (kawasaki KVF 300 4X4) so I got lucky that the mud didn't plug my exaust.I tried to push it out but it wouldn't even budge.I knew I had to get something under the tires so I took my D2 extreme and went to work.I cut about 5-6 trees about 2-3 inches around limbed them and juncked them into 1-2 foot legenths and packed them under the tires.I used the boughs to walk on because the 2 feet of mud was getting tiring.
Them a plan came to me.I opened my steath and pulled out the paracord and tied it to the throttle,wound it over the handle bars so I could throttle the bike while I pushed.the tires bit into the mini-logs I had placed under my tires and it slowly crawled out of the hole.I walk-drove my bike to solid ground and gave it a once over to make shure nothing was broken and I headed for home at top speed.the whole ordeal took almost 4 hours and I was exausted.
The D2 extreme performed extremly well as a light chopper.It hacked through the softwood trees and boughs easly considering it isn't supposed to be used as a machete.Having the eagle sheath also was a blessing because if I didn't have the pracord I would never have been able to get my bike free of the hole the way I did.
I'll post pics as soon as I can.
Don't know why you had to trouble the pore old Ka Bar when you had that Swiss Army Knife with you. I have read here that it will do anything that can be expected of a knife!
