SAK Hook

Re: Vasectomy: having had one, it is definitely NOT something you want to do yourself to yourself :-) It comes right next to DIY brain surgery.

Rich
 
I have heard of prissy cyclist using the hook to put their chair back on the gears as to not dirty their hands and also to carry reusable mesh grocery bags home from the store. $.02
 
I love the hook. It is not useless.

I use it for pulling up tent stakes.

Every year I go on a shitty two-week long camping trip. Not for fun, mind you. For the National Guard. We sleep in tents and pitch tents for other things.

The hook is an outstanding tent stake puller!

Try it. The hook alone makes a SAK indispensible in the field.
 
If you have ever ran coaxial cable through a roof and then down a wall, trying to get in just the right spot where you drilled a hole in the sheetrock, and you are in the attic fighting with a rogue squirrel and your son can't fish the cable through the hole with his fingers, that hook will allow you some purchase on the offending wire to get it through.

I also use it to hold the ink pen down and utilize the entire knife as a handle for writing/marking.

If you have ever dropped your keys down a storm drain, I think you could tie off some paracord to the keyring part, fully extend the hook past the 45 degree point, and lower the knife down and quite possibly snag the keys ala grappling hook style. This has not been tested in the field but after nearly dropping my keys down a storm drain, it is filed away for future reference.

Regards.
 
lwt210 said:
If you have ever ran coaxial cable through a roof and then down a wall, trying to get in just the right spot where you drilled a hole in the sheetrock, and you are in the attic fighting with a rogue squirrel and your son can't fish the cable through the hole with his fingers, that hook will allow you some purchase on the offending wire to get it through.

I also use it to hold the ink pen down and utilize the entire knife as a handle for writing/marking.

If you have ever dropped your keys down a storm drain, I think you could tie off some paracord to the keyring part, fully extend the hook past the 45 degree point, and lower the knife down and quite possibly snag the keys ala grappling hook style. This has not been tested in the field but after nearly dropping my keys down a storm drain, it is filed away for future reference.

Regards.
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Mcgiver would be proud
 
lwt210 said:
I also use it to hold the ink pen down and utilize the entire knife as a handle for writing/marking.
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What a good idea! I just tried it out, works great! In the 20 years I've had SAKs, I thought I knew my way around these things, but this use has never occurred to me. Many thanks for the input. I owe you one. :thumbup:
 
Turns out Rycen was right. Here it is straight from the horse's mouth (@ 08:40):


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Magnaminous_G said:
You guys obviously know nothing about SAKs. The hook tool is NOT for ziplining, and it is NOT for carrying grocery bags. It is for giving yourself a vasectomy in the field. The SAK was invented in the early 20th century and made for European soldiers in a time of war, Cholera, and possible social stigmatization and shunning for births out of wedlock. Additionally, men were generally doomed to pay for sired children for life. Field hospitals were unreliable and unsanitary, contraception was unheard of (the condom wasn't even invented yet), and soldiers' pay was too low to support a family in every country where they fought. So Swiss engineers designed the hook so soldiers could perform the simple surgery in the field.
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Nonsense! The condom dates back to the middle ages. When knights went off to war they had to wear chastity condoms. Barbed wire chain mail condoms, padlocked in place.

That’s why the phrase “Virgin Knight” was common back then.

The parcel hook was used to pick the lock.
 
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