Reason 764 to always carry a knife

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ubuwalker31

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While shoveling out of the snow storm that left about 18 inches of snow in our area in NJ, the plow was so kind as to have left a giant 7 inch thick and 3 foot wide solid piece of ice right out in front of our driveway.

Couldn't lift it and the snow shovel wouldn't even penetrate this monster, so I whipped out my trusty Kershaw Blur in S30V and used it as an ice pick, hammerfisting / ground n' pounding at this behemoth iceberg in the way of my car. Took care of it in 2 minutes flat.

The snow / ice got trapped and compacted inbetween the locking mechanism, so I had to warm it up with my hands to close it, which is an interesting observation for anyone else wanting to try this trick.

Also wondering if my neighbors think I am a complete psycho now.
 
doing that with a folder gives me the creeps... i don't care what kind of lock it is.

glad you got 'dug out' though.
 
LOL, sounds like something I would have done. My neighbors know me so they wouldn't have been surprised at all.
 
I have an ice scraper for that. The right tool for the job.

You do not need a very sharp blade to portion out the packed snow left by a plow. Why dull your EDC.
 
I'm also struck by the (slight) irony here, in using a knife as an icepick. In some slightly 'shady' circles, it'd be the other way around.
 
I'm going to add reason #765 - I was snowblowing a path to my 2 heatpumps in the back yard, and one of the dogs rubber frisbees wrapped itself around one of my snowblowers blades / paddles.

I couldn't pull it out - so I had to cut it out.

Not as manly as chopping ice - but yet another reason to have a knife on you.
 
Everytime the ice builds up in the ice machine I take the glass breaker to it. Always does the trick.
 
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