SAK Stories (or tall tales)

yobbos1

yobbos1

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How about telling your favourite Swiss Army Knife stories. You know like how you saved aschool bus full of children with your SAK classic or dispatched a rabid wolverine with the tweezers of your Spartan. C'mon now the wilder the better.
 
I opened 36 cans a few weeks ago with the can opener on my Tinker SAK.
It was fun but without it we couldn't had cooked supper for the 50 people.
 
Two years ago I made the whole saw-work for my new 100qm store feature with the saw of the Victorinox Rucksack :D
 
I just finished building a recording studio and my SAK Rucksack did a surprising amount of the sawing and the screwdriver worked pretty hard too...
 
One of my Recruits has a scale super-glued on. It got knocked off when I used the flathead as a chisel to get a piece of threaded PVC pipe out of a fitting it had broken off in on an air line at work. I was beating on it (gently;)) with a 48oz. hammer.
Most of my SAKs' uses have been pretty mundane, so that's about as wild as it gets for me, unless turning screws, and peeling apples or pears is out of the ordinary.
I'm going to have one with a saw soon, though:D
 
This is a story about how I got a unique SAK...

I was part of a team that designed a high-tech, leading edge communications product. The product was based on a very new chipset from an up-and-comming vendor. As a reward for being the first to market with a product that featured their chipset, the chipset vendor gave everyone on the development team an SAK with their logo on it.
 
Well, I've carried an SAK eveyday for well over 20 years but don't have any exciting stories. There is a picture, however, in the June 02 Outside magazine Features T of C page that shows a guy with what looks like a Spartan or Tinker doing oral surgery on himself. It looks as though he is shoving the awl into a gum or prying a tooth out. Or just posing for the camera.
 
I have a camper. The most abuse I've ever really put it through is to use the saw blade to cut the branches of an apple tree. The saw blade worked well but OMG that was some long and tedious work. It was the only saw blade I had at the time.
Sorry...not the most exciting SAK story...but it's the only one I have..
 
It didn't happen to me, but does anyone remember back when the Loma Prieta Earthquake hit CA in 89'? Wasn't there a story about a guy who was trapped under some concrete when Cypress Overpass near Oakland collapsed, and he used his SAK to saw off his leg to free himself.
Now that's a SAK story!!!:eek: :barf:
 
Not my story, but I seem to remember hearing about a Doctor performing a tracheaotomy (sp?) on an airline flight. Don't recall if the patient survived.
 
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