Quite the day...

Funniest post I've read in ages!!!!
I could just feel the sinking feeling in my stomach!!

At least you got a great pic, and a few handy tools out if it!!!
 
"I just stared, not wanting to believe what I had just seen."

Bwahha ha ha ha ha! I can imagine your facial expression
 
Ratbert said:
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.

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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?
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Great story, and good to know how to rescue!
BTW, you may be happy there was no bunch of rats (or weasels or racoon , just choose) in the terrier, yelling at you stealing their new knife! :rolleyes::p
 
Very resourceful and showed grit :D Lucky you had a hardware place with the right kind of gear too:thumbsup:

I wonder if something similar has happened to my CASE/BOSE Pruner...It's been missing now for over TWO WEEKS :eek: I fear I lost it on a bike trip, vanished :( I was boasting in the thread that I like to carry and use these knives, well there's a cost. Send positive vibes everybody :D
 
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Great pic, great story, glad you got the knife back.
Thanks for putting a smile on my face while reading it.
 
Real life events produce better stories than the imagination can ever come up with. What a great description of how it all unfolded. Thanks for sharing.
 
You have the beginning of a great piece of fiction here. See, the magnet latches on to the knife, but it comes loose and falls further in. So, you go home to get a shovel, but there are too many rocks and roots. So then you rent a backhoe... :D

So many possibilities -- you could become the next Pat McManus. ;)
 
Ratbert Ratbert that is a great narrative of your adventure in the park. What a day! I'm glad your perseverance paid off, in more ways than one. Gonna have to put you right up there with Carl as a writer/story teller. Thanks for sharing with us. I too was reading it to my wife this morning. :)
Will Power Will Power , man I sure hope you find that pruner! :eek: Keep us posted Will.
 
Ratbert said:
As surreal as the whole episode was, pulling up a different knife should not have been unexpected! Thanks for the laugh, @Norcaldude :)

Believe me, while all of this was going on, the last thing on my mind was telling the story on BF. As I was typing it out, I thought, “This sounds an awful lot like a r8shell r8shell April 1st thread! But in her version, a dazed and addled snake would have slithered out with the knife balanced perfectly on its noggin.
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:D Don't you know it takes me a whole year to come up with those stories? Now I have to start all over! :p After you got your knife back, did you put the magnet back down the hole, just in case there's anything else interesting down there? I wouldn't be able to resist.

Anyway, I'm glad you recovered the knife. I'm going to pick up one of those magnet things next time I'm at the hardware store. It sounds like a handy tool to have in the car. :cool::thumbsup:
 
Ratbert Ratbert , I'm glad it turned out well! A well told tale!
Will Power said:
Very resourceful and showed grit :D Lucky you had a hardware place with the right kind of gear too:thumbsup:

I wonder if something similar has happened to my CASE/BOSE Pruner...It's been missing now for over TWO WEEKS :eek: I fear I lost it on a bike trip, vanished :( I was boasting in the thread that I like to carry and use these knives, well there's a cost. Send positive vibes everybody :D
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Oh man! That Pruner was just gorgeous! I hope it turns up soon.
 
Beautiful picture and a great story with a happy ending. That'll be a nice chapter in the life history of that knife, down the road.

I recently picked up a new 25-ft. tape measure with a magnetic tip on the end of the tape, for easy one-handed measuring between steel studs or whatever. Surprisingly STRONG magnet too. It occurred to me after looking it over, it could one day be very useful in a situation like yours, in retrieving something dropped and some distance out of arm's reach. After reading your story, I tested it by lifting my 6375 Case stockman using the magnet; even shook it a little bit, to see how it holds (pretty well). It could work... :)
 
Ace Rimmer said:
You have the beginning of a great piece of fiction here. See, the magnet latches on to the knife, but it comes loose and falls further in. So, you go home to get a shovel, but there are too many rocks and roots. So then you rent a backhoe... :D

So many possibilities -- you could become the next Pat McManus. ;)
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Wasn’t there a Stephen King book about a guy persistent in digging up something he found in his yard? It turned out to be an alien spaceship and it warped his personality and destroyed his life.
Some things are better left alone, but I sure wanted my knife back!
 
Bigfattyt said:
At least you got a great pic, and a few handy tools out if it!!!
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r8shell said:
Anyway, I'm glad you recovered the knife. I'm going to pick up one of those magnet things next time I'm at the hardware store. It sounds like a handy tool to have in the car. :cool::thumbsup:
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gotgoat said:
magnets are wonderful helpers
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Obsessed with Edges said:
I recently picked up a new 25-ft. tape measure with a magnetic tip on the end of the tape, for easy one-handed measuring between steel studs or whatever. Surprisingly STRONG magnet too. It occurred to me after looking it over, it could one day be very useful in a situation like yours, in retrieving something dropped and some distance out of arm's reach. After reading your story, I tested it by lifting my 6375 Case stockman using the magnet; even shook it a little bit, to see how it holds (pretty well). It could work... :)
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My new EDC...

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Ratbert Ratbert it could’ve been much worse, you could have been taking a picture on the side of a boat on a big body of watero_O
 
Wow! What an adventure, and well-told! :eek::thumbsup::thumbsup::p

Ratbert said:
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As I was typing it out, I thought, “This sounds an awful lot like a r8shell r8shell April 1st thread! But in her version, a dazed and addled snake would have slithered out with the knife balanced perfectly on its noggin.
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Gotta admit, my first reaction was, "No way!" I guess I'm getting quite skeptical in my old age in these times of r8shell r8shell , Photoshop, staged YouTube videos, and "fake news". :rolleyes:

Norcaldude said:
Would have been great if you pulled up a knife but it wasn't the knife you lost :p

There's probably two or three more down there.
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Will Power said:
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I wonder if something similar has happened to my CASE/BOSE Pruner...It's been missing now for over TWO WEEKS :eek: I fear I lost it on a bike trip, vanished :( I was boasting in the thread that I like to carry and use these knives, well there's a cost. Send positive vibes everybody :D
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Wouldn't that be some story if there were a world-wide network of "wormholes" that transported all lost knives to a central repository?? :D:p Ratbert Ratbert , maybe if you had checked a little more, you'd have pulled up Will's knife! ;) (@Jack Black posted a video in the Lounge about a river full of knives. I wonder if it's related; I haven't watched the video yet.)

Ratbert said:
My new EDC...

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I originally read your post last night, and I was hoping you'd eventually post a pic of your new tools; thanks!! :D:thumbsup::thumbsup::cool:

- GT
 
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Now where's that snake?...WHHHOOOAAA..
 
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