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Some of you have read the thread about me dyeing the covers of my GEC Boy’s Knife. So, I have it in my pocket and am taking a little hike through a wooded area of one of our city parks. I see a mossy, rotten log and think it makes a good background for a knife photo-opp.
Do you see the hole in the ground at the bottom left corner of the pic? (Just NE of the whitish-looking strand of root) No, I didn’t either.
That hole is about 1 & 1/2 inches in diameter and goes down about two feet, where it angles off at 45 degrees and continues into the bowels of the earth. Ask me how I know this...
You can purchase a flexible cable with an LED light and spring assisted claw, along with another tool that consists of a magnet at the end of a 40” flexible rod for around $20 at Home Depot. Ask me how I know this...
It would take a sweating, stressed-out, 60 year old man on his knees in the woods approximately 20 minutes to retrieve such a knife from said hole, once he purchased the correct tools. Ask me how I know this...
After I took the picture with my cell phone, I reached for the knife and it slid off the log and bounced at just the right angle for it to disappear into the hole, bolster up. I just stared, not wanting to believe what I had just seen.
I reached my fingers in...nothing. Hoping that my knife hadn’t bonked a po’d snake in the head, I used a stick about 2 feet long and thought I felt the bottom, but some dirt gave way and then the stick wasn’t touching anything anymore.
I had nothing in my Jeep that I could use, so a quick trip to the hardware store for some items that looked promising and I was in business. I had to be careful not to dislodge the knife and have it drop even further. Eventually it was the magnet on the flexible rod, fully extended, that attached to the tang of the blade. I couldn’t see it or hear it, but I felt the weight as I pulled it back up, praying it didn’t become dislodged and fall off, to be gone forever.
I have lost knives before, but I have never had one be swallowed up by the ground in the blink of an eye like this! Now that I have it back, I can’t decide if it’s a good-luck knife or a bad-luck knife?
Do you see the hole in the ground at the bottom left corner of the pic? (Just NE of the whitish-looking strand of root) No, I didn’t either.
That hole is about 1 & 1/2 inches in diameter and goes down about two feet, where it angles off at 45 degrees and continues into the bowels of the earth. Ask me how I know this...
You can purchase a flexible cable with an LED light and spring assisted claw, along with another tool that consists of a magnet at the end of a 40” flexible rod for around $20 at Home Depot. Ask me how I know this...
It would take a sweating, stressed-out, 60 year old man on his knees in the woods approximately 20 minutes to retrieve such a knife from said hole, once he purchased the correct tools. Ask me how I know this...
After I took the picture with my cell phone, I reached for the knife and it slid off the log and bounced at just the right angle for it to disappear into the hole, bolster up. I just stared, not wanting to believe what I had just seen.
I reached my fingers in...nothing. Hoping that my knife hadn’t bonked a po’d snake in the head, I used a stick about 2 feet long and thought I felt the bottom, but some dirt gave way and then the stick wasn’t touching anything anymore.
I had nothing in my Jeep that I could use, so a quick trip to the hardware store for some items that looked promising and I was in business. I had to be careful not to dislodge the knife and have it drop even further. Eventually it was the magnet on the flexible rod, fully extended, that attached to the tang of the blade. I couldn’t see it or hear it, but I felt the weight as I pulled it back up, praying it didn’t become dislodged and fall off, to be gone forever.
I have lost knives before, but I have never had one be swallowed up by the ground in the blink of an eye like this! Now that I have it back, I can’t decide if it’s a good-luck knife or a bad-luck knife?
