My Sway Back Jack helped save a man today!!!

Long time coming, been busy...

So, I sent those knives hoping if anything to get some pics (my daughter was so excited - wants to be a firefighter/teacher/writer/princess). And the pics are great. Then I'm told to expect a package. I'm thinking, sweet, a new t-shirt. Firefighter, my girl will be stoked. So, I open the package and pull out the shirt. Dope. Fits perfect. Then I hear this little voice, "Dadda, there's a box in here". I go over and see a Case box. Inside I find this.

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:eek: I have always been intrigued by the seahorse whittler and probably never would have gotten one. This knife is BEAUTIFUL. The pics don't do it justice. We were fishing as you can see. F&F are outstanding. I love the color. I was touched by the generosity, and I have been carrying this guy a lot. Thanks again, brother.
 
Nice!!!
I picked up my first Seahorse a couple weeks ago, I'm a sucker for wharncliffe blades. I love the bone on yours, that is totally sweet.
 
I don't own SBJ's or Gents ~~ they own me.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love that Wharncliffe Blade above all others and yes I do have
""FEW"" of each of them. { my 'FAV's are the Pearl Scales on these Knives as they just help show off the Knife.** }
 
Awesome story. That knife has great history now. Hold on to it forever....it might just be a life-saver once again!

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First, good on you for having a good knife, and for having the foresight to address which one would be better suited to the task.

Second, slap that firefighter in the head, he is full time and should have a good working one hand opener in his turn out gear. You can do this because you are a volunteer firefighter. Let me add that firefighters are good people and cut me out of my truck last year. No, I didn't get stuck after a trip to the buffet... ;).

Third, I would set this knife aside, or sterilize the heck outta it. Send it back to Case with an account of what happened, and ask them to take it apart and sterilize the heck out of it. You can't be too careful you know?

Again, good on you. YOU saved the day!
 
This is a year and a half old post, by the way. I'm pretty sure he cleaned up his knife by now. Still a good story, I missed it the first time around since it was before my time here. :)
 
DrPenguin said:
Man that is a wild story! I'll bet that poor guy was glad they got him down and tended to. Good feeling to be able to help out to I bet.

Came very, very close to getting cut up with a chain saw myself once. My dad, who was a pretty fair hand with a saw, was cutting down a tree close to the road at our place when I was maybe 16 or so. It was pretty cold and the tree was frozen up. When the tree was finally free instead of falling over the notch, which is where I was pushing it toward, it slid off the stump and started over on my dad who was still bent over from making the cut. It happened fast. I was pushing on it trying to keep it off my dad when he ducked out of the way. In the commotion he had the trigger on the saw pulled and it crawled right up my pants leg. Cut my pants in two all the way to the knee and I had blood squirting out onto the jeans.

We were both scared to look but all I got was a slice across the knee. You could see the patellar tendon laid out plain as day and it didn't even have a knick on it. A few stitches and I was good as new. Glad it wasn't worse not only for me but also for the guilt I knew my dad would have felt over it. I know those things are dangerous as hell. I watch myself around them.

Congrats on a good rescue. Hope they can put his injuries back together and he isn't scarred up too badly.

Will
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Weird stuff happens - which is why I will not start a chain saw without kevlar chaps on, a hard hat with face shield and ear muffs on, gloves and boots, and will not allow people not similarly clad anywhere near me.

I used to be sponsored by Stihl to do chainsaw carving. They gave me a brand new saw to use and in the first 3 min of use threw the chain (!) which slapped me on the leg. It cut the nylon but didn't get through the kevlar. I was doing everything right, but still would have been bleeding bad except for those chaps.

It amazes me that our world is so hyper about guns and knives and yet anyone can walk into Home Depot and buy a chain saw or a ladder. I am quite sure that far more people are injured, maimed and killed by ladders and chain saws than by knives and guns.
 
pwcb2005 said:
this is my first time starting a thread, so I apologize if it is too long or in the wrong spot. here is the story anyway. thanks in advance for reading!

i am a volunteer firefighter in my town and normally don't get to make the daytime calls due to my full time job. Today was different (and fortunate ) as it turned out! We were paged to help the local EMS crew with a man who had a severe wound from a chainsaw and he was still in the tree!

We arrived to see a guy tied to a tree top with a 3/8" cotton rope. he had climbed a 12 foot extension ladder and then used the rope to shimmy up the rest of the way until he got to a couple of branches to stand on. He then cut the top of the tree and the trunk evidently made the saw flip back and cut his lip nearly off and then it hit his shoulder, 1 1/4" from his neck. he was awake but bleeding profusely and could not get down.

here is where we come in, first we got a 24 foot ladder and climbed up and turned off the saw that was dangling from a rope attached to the man. then, we found a man working nearby with a skytrack and got him to raise one of the firefighters to go get the man. Just before the FF went up, the chief (who I was standing next to) told him to get his knife so that he could cut the rope. Now, the chief and this guy are our two full timers. the FF said that he did not have one. Neither did the Chief!! We looked around and out of 15 FF's no one had a knife!!!

Then they all looked at me. i was not in my bunker gear and that is where I have a modern one hand opening tactical knife. instead, I only had two knives on me (yes, I know...:rolleyes: ) One was a Case Trapper that I use for plumbing work and the other was my Chestnut Bone SBJ. I reached for both and realized that I had not sharpened the large trapper and that the SBJ was actually sharper. I told the guys I couldn't decide which to hand over because (1) The trapper is much bigger / stouter. but (2) the SBJ is sharper. They all looked at me as if I had two heads and I decided that sharpness would win out. Then the FF went up to the victim.

Once he got up there, I watched as he cut the ropes holding the man and the saw. I thought to myself " I am going to have to buy a new knife! it is too weak for that thick of a rope!" Suddenly the man was free and coming down. After touchdown, I went to get my knife. The first thing the FF said to me when he was down was " I couldn't open this with gloves on!!" I smiled and thought to myself, "yeah, but it cut that guy down and you couldn't have done that without it!!"

Then he told me to alcohol the knife because it was covered with blood from the blood on the rope. Needless to say, I did that as soon as I got some sanitizer. Any way, that is my story about my little SBJ and now it sits in my pocket all proud of itself for being the hero of the day! :D

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the knife is still flawless after that cutting job. It will be resharpened tonight!
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Though a necropost. . . Thanks for sharing a very cool story.

Really? Geez they didn't have even one knife?
 
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Great story. Thanks for bumping it up. A glaring reason why real men n women carry a quality pocket knife. It's quite simply a tool of daily life. Our grandparents knew this, let us not forget!

Great job by the OP for stepping up and saving the day by being prepared! This "knifeless" bunch would have been unimaginable in 1950.
 
arizonaranchman said:
Great story. Thanks for bumping it up. A glaring reason why real men n women carry a quality pocket knife. It's quite simply a tool of daily life. Our grandparents knew this, let us not forget!

Great job by the OP for stepping up and saving the day by being prepared! This "knifeless" bunch would have been unimaginable in 1950.
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it's much more fashionable to carry the latest smart phone around and look good using it than a simple pocket knife. :rolleyes:
i guess it has it's place, but being the simple guy i am, still have and like the ole' flip up phone + pocket knife.
 
Thanks for the kind words fellas. I sent the story in to Case and they have posted it on their website in the "My Favorite Case Knife" section. You can see it there. It is a little less wordy because I had to keep it to 500 words or less. Thanks again!

Paul
 
pwcb2005 said:
Thanks for the kind words fellas. I sent the story in to Case and they have posted it on their website in the "My Favorite Case Knife" section. You can see it there. It is a little less wordy because I had to keep it to 500 words or less. Thanks again!

Paul
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I just read that Paul. Pretty cool.
 
Nice story. That's incredible to me that our of ~15 volunteer firefighters in Arkansas, you were the only guy with a knife at all.
 
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