Pocket knife saved his life

one more reason why to keep your knifes screaming sharp! ya never know when you gotta cut off your own body parts. I remember watching the 127 hour movie and seeing how dull his knife was. I wonder if it was that bad in real life...


remember people, when using a tourniquet, release pressure every 10 mins to allow for some blood flow to the muscles in the area so you don't loose the entire limb.


I wonder how heavy that guys truck was. Most steel toed boots only are rated to withstand about 2500lbs (75lb sq/in).
 
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I just finished reading the same story on Fox News before I came on BF a few minutes ago...in fact I was going to post a thread about this.

My first thought was that I hope he had a sharp knife. I'm sure noboby can imagine the pain he must indured.

If I remember the trailer weighed 60 tons. He was driving a semi so it had to be big.
 
Dang. A good reason to always watch your toes around heavy stuff too. I think I'd probably wait a little longer than half an hour before deciding to cut my toes off. Loggers are REAL men.
 
clockman said:
I just finished reading the same story on Fox News before I came on BF a few minutes ago...in fact I was going to post a thread about this.

My first thought was that I hope he had a sharp knife. I'm sure noboby can imagine the pain he must indured.

If I remember the trailer weighed 60 tons. He was driving a semi so it had to be big.
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According to the story it was six(6) tons. Heavy either way!:eek:
 
lava_lamp said:
In before someone asks what brand of knife.......
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Here's a picture of it from the MSNBC story. It looks like the spay blade of a trapper. Specifically it looks like an Old Timer with delrin scales.

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Good on him to be proactive enough to save his own life and to be prepared with a pocket knife...

but on that link it said that he started cutting 30 min after he got trapped!??!

I would have waited just a bit longer..
 
I give props to this guy for having the courage and strength to cut a body part off to save himself, but I have to ask why wasn't he wearing steel toed boots to go logging?
 
res1cue said:
Good on him to be proactive enough to save his own life and to be prepared with a pocket knife...

but on that link it said that he started cutting 30 min after he got trapped!??!

I would have waited just a bit longer..
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Meh. His toes were goners anyways. I would have waited a while longer too, though.
 
yablanowitz said:
Six tons of trailer? What difference would steel toed boots make?
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well its not like 6 tons were only on one section of the guys foot like an upsidedown pyramid. Perhaps it was just the cab part of the truck and not on the rear. idk
 
Always a lot of fun to second guess while sipping a cool beverage in front of a computer screen.

But personally, I think he did the right thing. Having seen a lot of badly injured people in my construction job, if he had waited and actually gone into shock, he may not have had the strength or sense to do it later.

I have to say, that knife surely made the task a lot harder. Looks like a typical butterknife edge.

To me, the man is a stud.

Robert
 
midnight flyer said:
Always a lot of fun to second guess while sipping a cool beverage in front of a computer screen.

But personally, I think he did the right thing. Having seen a lot of badly injured people in my construction job, if he had waited and actually gone into shock, he may not have had the strength or sense to do it later.

I have to say, that knife surely made the task a lot harder. Looks like a typical butterknife edge.

To me, the man is a stud.

Robert
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true, The guy in 127 hours was dehydrated (and if you have ever been, you know how energy draining it is!) and starving and it was lucky he ran into people which helped him out of that situation in the end. After the first hour I would have been thinking of cutting my arm off already.

I got an old timer knife like the one he has and although its sharp, its not my sharpest (still a bit confused at why I can't get a good edge on it, perhaps its the HT) and the lenght doesn't help any either!


BTW: I'm not sure why people still call it a spey edge as a better blade to have while castrating an animal is a #12 blade which is a hookbill (espeically if you gotta neuter an stallion standing...).
 
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