Peanut saves the day again.

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ElCuchillo

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Well, you all have heard of my exploits with my Peanut, like me using it to skin an alligator. Well, today my little "Pocket Katana" came through once again. We recieved a call that there was a crocodile tangled up in the netting of it's enclosure. We put a camo netting there to keep the big 13 foot salt water crocodile from seeing these smaller ones and breaking through to eat them. Well, we arrive and indeed the netting is full. A Nile crocodile had gone behind it and tried to plow through it to get back out. It's snout was all tangled up. One of our guys whipped out his Tacticool, tanto tipped, black teflon sun resistant, partially serrated, military issue, five inch, soldier killing, rambo-eat-your-heart-out knife, flicks the blade out effortlessly (but in plain sight for all to see) and goes to work on "rescuing" the croc. He's trying to cut the netting, and doing an ok job, but his knife keeps binding and getting stuck. The serrations keep getting in the way, even though we are "lucky this knife has serrations on it". Try as he might, the nylon cord keeps stopping his knife from cutting. The croc is getting stressed, and with every death roll, it gets more and more tangled. I take out my BoneStag, SS, Two handed opening, tiny, inconspicuous, old man's knife, open it, and go to work. Two minutes later, I have made quick work of the nylon netting, cut around the croc, make an opening, and the croc pops out. Without exaggerating, I literally took my knife out, cut the netting, release the croc, he goes in the water, and the Peanut is back in my pocket before my co-worker can untangle his knife from the mess he's made. LOL. His comments?
"Whatever, dude, your knife has this stupid little straight edge on it, of COURSE it can cut good. If my knife hadn't kept getting stuck, it would have cut the s*#t out of this netting. You got lucky."
He seemed to be missing the point. A knife is SUPPOSED to cut well, and if it doesn't, then it didn't perform it's task. Chalk one up for the little knife that could.
Just goes to show, you don't NEED a big, bad knife to get a big job done. And traditional knives STILL have their place.
I love my Peanut. It kicks butt.
 
your knife has this stupid little straight edge on it, of COURSE it can cut good.
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That's hilarious!

Great story el Doggy Guru! My Red Bone CV Peanut remains in my pocket every day!
 
Great story.

All this Gator skinnin' Peanut talk on here lately made me go and buy another for my collection. :)
 
That's a great story. Is that the bone stag peanut I gave you back in February, or the one you lost and then found again?

If that's the one I sent you, then I'm as happy as a monkey in a banana farm to hear how it gets used, and if it's the one you lost and found, then I'm as happy as a monkey in a banana farm to hear how it gets used. :thumbup: :) :) :thumbup:
 
It's not the size of the tool, but the skill of the craftsman, as a lady was once heard to say. :D
 
fewpop said:
That's a great story. Is that the bone stag peanut I gave you back in February, or the one you lost and then found again?

If that's the one I sent you, then I'm as happy as a monkey in a banana farm to hear how it gets used, and if it's the one you lost and found, then I'm as happy as a monkey in a banana farm to hear how it gets used. :thumbup: :) :) :thumbup:
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It's the very one you gave me, fewpop. My lost and then found Peanut got tapped a little too hard trying to take a wobble off the blade. The one you gave me has been my EDC since then. It's the one that skinned a gator a few months back, and also the one used today. I need to write down a daily log of the things I use it for everyday. I get LOTS of mileage out of it. Thanx a bazillion, FP. I love this thing.
 
ElCuchillo said:
"Whatever, dude, your knife has this stupid little straight edge on it, of COURSE it can cut good. If my knife hadn't kept getting stuck, it would have cut the s*#t out of this netting. You got lucky."
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:D :D :D :D
 
ElCuchillo said:
Well, you all have heard of my exploits with my Peanut, like me using it to skin an alligator. Well, today my little "Pocket Katana" came through once again. We recieved a call that there was a crocodile tangled up in the netting of it's enclosure. We put a camo netting there to keep the big 13 foot salt water crocodile from seeing these smaller ones and breaking through to eat them. Well, we arrive and indeed the netting is full. A Nile crocodile had gone behind it and tried to plow through it to get back out. It's snout was all tangled up. One of our guys whipped out his Tacticool, tanto tipped, black teflon sun resistant, partially serrated, military issue, five inch, soldier killing, rambo-eat-your-heart-out knife, flicks the blade out effortlessly (but in plain sight for all to see) and goes to work on "rescuing" the croc. He's trying to cut the netting, and doing an ok job, but his knife keeps binding and getting stuck. The serrations keep getting in the way, even though we are "lucky this knife has serrations on it". Try as he might, the nylon cord keeps stopping his knife from cutting. The croc is getting stressed, and with every death roll, it gets more and more tangled. I take out my BoneStag, SS, Two handed opening, tiny, inconspicuous, old man's knife, open it, and go to work. Two minutes later, I have made quick work of the nylon netting, cut around the croc, make an opening, and the croc pops out. Without exaggerating, I literally took my knife out, cut the netting, release the croc, he goes in the water, and the Peanut is back in my pocket before my co-worker can untangle his knife from the mess he's made. LOL. His comments?
"Whatever, dude, your knife has this stupid little straight edge on it, of COURSE it can cut good. If my knife hadn't kept getting stuck, it would have cut the s*#t out of this netting. You got lucky."
He seemed to be missing the point. A knife is SUPPOSED to cut well, and if it doesn't, then it didn't perform it's task. Chalk one up for the little knife that could.
Just goes to show, you don't NEED a big, bad knife to get a big job done. And traditional knives STILL have their place.
I love my Peanut. It kicks butt.
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I think you and my father would get along famously. His work EDC (construction) is a little Case Tiny Toothpick. It's all he's ever needed, and it cuts well enough for him.
 
You have some wonderful stories to tell, but would you mind posting some pictures please??.
 
Loved it! It's a classic David and Goliath story and that's always a crowd pleaser. Thanks for taking the time to share it.

I gotta wonder if your coworker understands how goofy that must have sounded coming out of his mouth? :rolleyes: :D
 
sunnyd said:
You have some wonderful stories to tell, but would you mind posting some pictures please??.
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You are right, sunnyd. I DO need to start putting up pictures of my adventures. I also wish I'd see pictures of people's knives to go with their stories (**HINT HINT, WINK WINK Jackknife ;) ). Problem is, I don't have my camera on me when I'm at work doing what us reptile trainer/wranglers do everyday. I DO however have a camera on my phone, which usually IS on me. Hmmmmm.
 
LOL! Maybe if the other "dude" would have a clue to what a piece of cutlery is supposed to do, like cut cleanly and efficiently then maybe he wouldn't have to be making lame, jerkish, responses. :D
 
I've done some reflection on this post durring the day (what can I say, I'm a little slow and I have to think about things for a while) and Ihave some comments on it.

The tactical wielding young man who complained that his knife would cut the nylon netting if it did not get tangled up is a typical product of his environment. Look around us at what the young people are bombarded with for input these days. He has most likely not had a responsible adult in his life teach him anything worthwhile as a point of reference. He may very well have a couple of yuppy parrents who are more concerned with their self absorbed quest for materialisim and working at thier jobs to afford the SUV and MacMansion in the 'burbs. And just where does a young man interested in knives turn to when he has no dad, grandad, uncle, scoutmaster, to turn to?

Why the knife magazines of course. Blade, Tactical knives, and other such rags whose sole interest is getting the advertisers to invest in thier particular rag. Look at the modern knife magazine, 90% advertising of the zooy styled concrete commando mall ninja knife of the month. Be it weird blade shapes with bogus features such as controling blood spray, or serations that have no use on anything but a bread knife. He actually does not know any better because he has not been shown a different path. He's just a sign of our times. Fantacy rules over reality.

Starting with Spyderco back in the '80's, serations have been touted as the best thing that happened to knives since flint. The truth is, they have very little function in the real world if you just take the time to sharpen your knife well. Almost all of the features of the modern ninjakiller knife are fantacy. Tanto points? More hype to stimulate sales with armchair fantacys of wicked fights with the bad guys.

Today we live in a mostly civilized urban/suburban environment where a person could concievably get through the workday with nothing more than a small pen knife. On rare occasions we may camp out in remote wilderness or go in harms way if the call to war is sounded. BUT; even if we have to go "there", look at what our grandads and great grandads used in dark times. Or anytime in history for that matter. Before the advent of reliable firearms, the edged weapon was of prime importance. What did a thousand years of refinement give us in knives and swords? I don't see many rapiers, Katanas, falchions, gladius's or spatha's, or bowie knives or Elizabethen daggers with anything but a strait sharp edge. In an age where ones life would hang on your skill with a blade as well as the quality of said blade, I'd think they would have used any gimmick that worked to give them an added chance of survival on the battlefield or wilderness exploration. Heck, the mountain men went into uncharted wilderness and they preffered what was in essence a large strait butcher knife in addition to their single shot muzzle loading rifles.

Perhaps this young man just needs a little lesson in history to bring him around? It could well be his attitude is reflective of his embarresment of the failure of his knife to preform in the real world, in spite of what he's read in those knife magazines that should be torn into strips and placed beside the toilet. He may well have felt put down and confused at the failure of his super touted knife magazine special. Embarresed people can say stupid things in their flustered state.

Perhaps he's more worthy of pity than scorn, and if possable, kindly shown the truth.

I guess we live in an age where sensationalism wins out over facts. What was it the guy said in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence" ?

"When legend becomes fact, print the legend."

And yet we wonder why the truth gets forgoten.
 
You know, it's interesting Jackknife. I've been trying to bring people around at work to our side of the coin. Not that I have anything against tacticools. If it works for ya, have at it. IF it works. However, I've been on a mission to show these young whipper snappers the value of a good old fashioned slipjoint, not by my words, but by my actions. Gone are the days when I'd get strange looks when pulling out my tiny Peanut to cut food, rope, boxes, etc. No more chuckles when I go to use the pen blade, like when I skinned the gator. As a matter of fact, I have handed out seven of my slipjoints, per request, to my coworkers. Some have completely gotten rid of their tacticals in exchange for a slippie. Soddies, trappers, pen knives, SAKs, stockman, all these have been introduced into the lives of my coworkers, and all who have them are completely satisfied. And not only the guys. The first person I gave a knife to was a female. She was always asking me to borrow my knife for something, so I gave her my Buck wood handled stockman. I know, I know, China made. Hey, it was a start!! It took off from there. "Hey Johnny, do you have any MORE knives lying around?" "Hey, Johnny, you wouldn't be throwing that knife away any time soon, would ya?" "Wow, I really like that knife. I really, REALLY like that knife...... wink wink."
I feel like my actions have made a big impact. I didn;t go in and brag about what my knives could do, or how I felt theirs were inferior. I just went to work, got the job done with my reliable little "pocket Katana", and everyone took notice. Does this particular coworker need an attitude adjustment? Who knows. He might have already gotten one. Sure he acted all self righteous at first. He was trying to save face. We'll see what happens in the next few days.
 
Don’t be too hard on the magazines; they do have to sell to continue. At some point a man has to start learning from his experiences. I happen to be one of those guys who didn’t have anyone to teach me about sharp pointy things or much of any outdoors related things. My Dad died when I was 13 and the only knife I ever saw my Grandpa use was one of those electric carving serrated things, no scout leader, and an uncle that knows less than Gramps. My Mom’s brothers were good outdoorsmen but I didn’t see them much, a holiday now and then. I’ve learned what works for me and I’m still learning. It’s one of the great things about being a knife nut there is always something new to figure out.
 
Yep, as EC pointed out, showing rather than telling. I popped out my little peanut today and quickly slice the hinge on a Styrofoam food container, turning it into two trays for us to put our breakfast tacos on. The fellow I work with, a former Marine who has seem me use my slippies for a number of tasks, looked over and said, "I really need to get myself one of those (a pocket knife) and start carrying it."

I guess I need to rummage through my blades and select one for him.
 
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