Oh yes....Somebody HAS to try this with a BK2! Who has the b@lls??

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I was scrolling through my Faceboook news feed and a picture caught my eye. Its a new series of knives...not sure how I know the person, I forget. Anyway, when I saw it I thought "This looks like a job for the BK2!"

I'm pretty sure Moose has pounded his into a tree and stood on it, and if it can handle that, it can handle this...but this has a bit more flavor to it....

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Awesome. Kinda looks like a BK2.... lol



No way in hell the bk2 cant take that...
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I hope that's being facetious.... We've all seen the BK2 chop through cinder blocks and lawnmowers... There's no doubt in my mind that the BK2 could handle that... It's just getting the pic. This pic has a safety harness tied to it, so there's really no danger...
 
You can type balls, i dont think anyone would be offended....and yeah the 2 could totally handle that.
 
Looks like a slack line to me. Whoever would think about doing that is freakin' nuts.
Also, why not use the perfectly good tree that he stuck the knife into?
 
i can hear what my rock climbing instructor would say.. not sure if he's still alive.. been awhile. only person i knew who got struck my lightening twice.
 
OMG, what a terrible idea!
Funny picture, tho.

Now if he'd tempered the blade back another 15 Rc points in the campfire FIRST, then maybe we'd be getting somewhere. :D
 
cbwoods67 said:
Looks like a slack line to me. Whoever would think about doing that is freakin' nuts.
Also, why not use the perfectly good tree that he stuck the knife into?
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Good point. I think the white-with-red-marker rope is doing just that, and the knife is holding about a foot of slack for some reason. Maybe like someone said -- for knife porn.
You wouldn't catch me on the other end of that thing.

Also begs the question: once you're done, how do you get the knife out of the tree?
 
I can see the headline now: "Beckerhead With Balls Bigger Than His Brains Dies In Horrific Red Splatter: BK-2 Suffers a Small Coating Chip"

:D
 
I don't know all that much about climbing... But what about the Bk2 do you think would fail this test? You think it's not strong enough to support 200+ lbs? I don't think that would even phase it.

I'm just curious to know what you think will fail. Knife comes out of the tree? Knife snaps? Something else?
 
I need like 6 BK14s to pound into the trees when I setup camp and need to put up my tarp. That would work great actually.....or I could just tie the cord to the tree....not as much fun though.
 
wow, how stupid.

deliberate damage to a tree in a probably reservation area. a crime.

it's bad enough i see y'all posting pictures of knives stabbed into living trees, park benches, and other people's property ;)

but it's also just plain unsafe, and unnecessary.

first one that tries it, post it! i need to ban someone ;)
 
Uncle Malice said:
I don't know all that much about climbing... But what about the Bk2 do you think would fail this test? You think it's not strong enough to support 200+ lbs? I don't think that would even phase it.

I'm just curious to know what you think will fail. Knife comes out of the tree? Knife snaps? Something else?
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Climbing gear has to support not merely static weight, but DYNAMIC force. It's about kinetic energy, not just holding something up.
It's one thing to hold a bowling ball. It's quite another to catch one.

There are a number of other not-greats in there. Generally you want your 'pro'(tection) looped around the widest point of the support with the least amount of leverage against it. If you ran the ROPE through the tang, the sharpish contours of the knife will wreak havok on that climbing line , making it weaker in unexpected places the next time, assuming it survives this climb.
Perhaps the choice of the 'biner is a 'good' one here?

The knife could flex the tree open while flexing itself, resulting in slippage. Nobody likes slippage.

Also, knives are relatively brittle tools, by design. The cross-sectional area of the blade where it meets the tree trunk is like .375sq" if you're lucky, but it's not round! Weird cross-sectional stresses on a hardened tool, where as climbing gear is designed for toughness.

And how do you get it out? If you can get it out, it wasn't safe to climb on in the first place.
Now if this clever joker had run the rope around the backside of the tree and down things would be better. Better yet, two opposing knives, canted slightly towards the edge of the cliff with two 'biners and runners going around the back side of the tree in opposite directions, allowing a balancing of forces on the downhill side while pulling the knives deeper into the trunk... but then why not just sling the tree?
 
That looks like a pic from a Polish Mountaineering School brochure..

Or a marketing photo for a knife company from Ohio.:D
 
You just gave me a ******* heart attack!!! Any fool dumb enough to do that should be in a mental institute.
 
Uncle Malice said:
I don't know all that much about climbing... But what about the Bk2 do you think would fail this test? You think it's not strong enough to support 200+ lbs? I don't think that would even phase it.

I'm just curious to know what you think will fail. Knife comes out of the tree*? Knife snaps? Something else?
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*tree not made by Ka-Bar... :D
 
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