Ouchie.

orca8589

orca8589

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Working in the garage yesterday, mounting shelves & brackets, and my Camillus Becker BK 7 was sitting about four feet above me. Lifted the edge of a shelf, and dropped the BK7. I had the presence of mind NOT to grab for it, but I didn't move my other hand out of the way. The square/lanyard hole butt got me on a knuckle.

Being the indestructible BeckerHead that I am, and drawing from the Powers of Invincibility we gain from owning & using our awesome Becker cutting tools, I laughed at the little tickle-tingle I got from it. I guess it felt neglected and wanted to play. So we went out and turned a cord of red oak into kindling.

























Actually, no, we didn't.

I'm a weenie. :( I shed a tear or two over this one . . . sniffle . . . This was almost as bad as installing our front door and closing it - with my right hand still holding the hinge side.

I'm very glad the butt got me, and not the point or edge.

I love your knives, Ethan, but they can be the finest "knuckle hammers" money can buy. :o

~Chris
 
Ouch.

Could you imagine using that end as a headache (death) maker? Or as a pain compliance tool?

Damn, that would suck.

Moose
 
moosez45 said:
Ouch.

Could you imagine using that end as a headache (death) maker? Or as a pain compliance tool?

Damn, that would suck.

Moose
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Yikes. That square butt hitting my head doesn't sound appealing at all. As far as "come-along" (pain compliance), I'd imagine the squared butt of a Becker could be nasty. Even after six years of hard use, the factory stamped edges on mine are still 'unfriendly', as my poor li'l knuckle shows.

I worked retail back in the early nineties, and we had a well-trained loss prevention guy who would catch & detain shoplifters about once or twice a week. If necessary, he could perform a very effective 'come-along' (pain compliance) technique, with just his thumb. He usually didn't even have a keychain with him while on duty, so no accusations could be made.

~Chris
 
Oh Lord, now I gotta watch the backend as well, I just learned a valuable lesson bout the sharp end when I didn't wrap the blade before paracording the 14........:(
 
spider991 said:
Oh Lord, now I gotta watch the backend as well, I just learned a valuable lesson bout the sharp end when I didn't wrap the blade before paracording the 14........:(
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Dammit man, we've been through this, tape the edge when you wrap. Lemme guess, it flew out when you were finishing it, didn't it?

Man, those things are dangerous. I love it. :D

Moose
 
people people people, safety first, first lesson is free :)
 
Working in the slaughterhouse with bloody hands for years I have developed a lightning fast reaction to dropped knives/tools.

Hands up by ears and at the same time jumping back 6in with feet spread a couple feet.

It takes some mental training to get over reflexively reaching for what you have dropped, the reason for "hands up".

I have seen guys impale their feet with boning knives three times and seen stitches and staples for 3 or 4 guys that tried to catch a knife that has slipped out of hand.
The funniest one was the female foreman of the I kid you not "Weiner room". She had a very sharp pointed boning knife and was cutting straps on the top case of a pallet and dropped her knife. I actually saw her move her foot in the path of the knife and the deer in headlights look on her face when she saw just the handle sticking out of the top of her foot. 200$ leather boots ruined, tetanus shot and tendon surgery with stitches. She severed the main tendon to her second toe on the bottom of her foot as it went right through her boot and insoles.
After she said "i did not want to break the tip on my new knife"
It was common knowledge that she was very friendly with the management as a worker and was not hard to figure out how she made foreman with the italian lech of a HR manager.Not hired for competence thats for sure.

We teased the hell out of her for years after that, doing exactly what your told not to do as management. Was pretty funny wheeling her to the freight elevator on her wheeled office chair to the nurse with that knife sticking out of her boot for all to see. We borrowed an inspectors camera before taking her up with him laughing so hard he had to sit down.

This reaction has saved a couple mashed toes from food cans tumbling out of the pantry as well.

Regards
 
thatotherguy said:
didja get the "oh sh*t I cut myself" adrenaline rush?
Main reason I play with knives, right there.
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Nope, it just hurt. If the main reason you play with knives is for that kind of thrill . . . you're getting oatmeal and a dull spoon for your meals from now on. :D

Besides, I've cut myself enough over the last few years that I was actually quite relieved that I didn't try to catch it this time. This would have been the third time this year that I'd have to explain to my wife, while she's bandaging me, why I'm bleeding again; once with a non-locking knife (which I still use) last winter, and another time with an a huge agave cactus (that died a violent, Becker-fueled death) this summer. I'm not trying for strike three.

~Chris
 
I don't handle knives for the adrenaline rush exclusively, it's just part of the game.
Usually I don't get hit with it until I figure out how bad it is. then the deeper the cut, the harder the rush.
Surgery for a broken elbow- that's friggin' hard right there. Having the pins taken out while still conscious (external access pins) was the most adrenaline I have felt in my life.
 
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