My Spyderco Story (long)

[Blue Sky]

Back at the factory, I got lots of practice pulling my knife. I had to pull my Endura from my pocket, cut the tie in an underhanded pulling motion, and put it back in my pocket on every truck, provided the tie had not broken before getting to me (~10% of the time). At full production, we ran 560 trucks a night. If you averaged out the whole year with bad nights, etc., it was probably around 480-500 trucks per night. I worked 4 days a week (actually 4 on 1 off, 4 on 5 off) and had 2 years in when I quit the factory to join my beloved Corps. I had ONE Endura!!!!!!!! You can all do the math for yourselves.

I love math. Let's see, 480 trucks over an 8-hour shift. That means you would have cut 60 zip ties per hour, or one every minute for 8 straight hours. Does that sound about right?

 

[WilliamWallace]

yes, the line rate was 1 truck every 56 seconds. then we had breaks and lunch taken out of the day, too. at times, we were doing 10.5 hour shifts, rather than 8s. those were fun days!

thinking back, i only had my Spydie for about a year of the 2 i worked there...