slippies and hard work

Making campfires in the forest. This is a mundane task for a knife but realy hard work for a folder because stress on the pivotarea. Cleening out a moose is harder for my body but less stressful for the knife. The first I have done with various slipjoints many times and the second only once with a trapper.

Bosse
 
Dressing a moose must be no joke. I once helped my landlord butcher three young deer for his restaurant (no we didn''t use slipjoints).
I don't think I've ever pushed my Case stockman beyond whittling, opening packages, and light duty tasks. I was just curious to see how far others have gone with theirs.
 
No its no joke.
But your reaktion was what I expected.
It seams to be a large work for somone dont used to hunting moose but its actually not that big deal for the knife. Its hard bodywork turning and taking out the belly but the knifecutting is just to zip the skin open and make some cutting inside. The thing is that its realy dirty and slippery and my favorit for this work is mora 2000 for the rubberhandle and the the good belly on the knife. A slipjoint is small, no lock etc and a little harder to use because of that but for the blade its more than enough with 7 cm cutting edge. The trick is just to know how to do. This is often true for works that need skills.

Campfires on the other hand would be something to reakt upon because this is stressfull for a folder and some people would thing this as a stupid thing to do with a slipjoint. But if it can take its time without to much bending in the wood its ok.

Bosse
 
Hi,

I've never done a moose with a slippie, but I've done a few deer. And it takes very little in the way of a knife to do that kind of work. As long as it's reasonably sharp.

Whittling is pretty hard on a slippie. The worst I've to a slippie is de-burring steel, aluminum, and plastics. Didn't have my Shaviv handy. I absolutely wreaked a number of cheap imported small lock-backs that way.

dalee
 
SAK to cut drywall when I had a leak behind the wall in an old house. Worked well, but did close on me and cut my finger up pretty good (my fault). Taped up the wound and kept cutting.
 
I am new to the traditional slippie world and so far I have used it to open boxes. The worse things so far have been cleaning battery terminals and carving a fork out of a mesquite brance to turn the meat when bbq'n. I forgot to take my tongs to the park, and whittled a branch and saved the day with my Case Cv Stockman.
 
I've partially dressed out my first and only turkey with my Robeson slim line Trapper, and used the same to fully dress out a couple of large TN jack rabbits. It makes dressing out a rabbit easy!
 
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I have field dressed or butchered game from quail to deer with my pocket knife. I have cut and scraped all sorts of things that you would find around a construction sight with one.
I have used my pocket knife to help build a fire but I have never tried to build a shelter with it. Plus all the regular everday stuff.
Jim
 
That's easy to spot. The limit is *SNAP* minus a little. ;)

I treat all my folders pretty much the same. They get used to do whatever I need to do, whether it is cutting a piece of twine, cutting out a damaged section of sheetrock or cutting shingles to length. I haven't folded one up on my finger in quite a few years now, so I'm probably due.
 
Have dressed game up to deer size, but it really is not a tough chore at all with a slipjoint. Only because my dad and uncle are great teachers ;). I guess the roughest stuff I have done was as a kid. Some of my knives from then were really abused especially the cheap ones.

This is the first knife ever given to me in the very early '60's. For some reason it made it and still gets carried and used.

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I was taught knife use and safety with slippies, so I've always pushed them as hard as a lockback and never had an issue. You just have to use a little common sense (I guess? please don't take that as an insult!) and not jerk it around. The only times I've ever come across something I couldn't cut the knife usually slipped out. I've never had one break.
 
The toughest job I have ever put my slipjoint into was separating frames and boxes in one of my bee hives. It was just 10 days ago in fact. It was getting dark, the temperature was dropping like a rock, the bees were being insane and I left my hive tool far, far away from my work. So I pulled out my ivory handled gunstock and got the job done. I cut plastic, wood, wax, honey, propolis and even a couple bees. What a chore!! I chipped paint, wax, tree sap and dried bee poop from what seemed like EVERYWHERE!!

Afterwards I felt a little guilty, but the knife didn't seem any worse for wear.

Keep Care,

Pappy
 
I think the hardest I ever used a pocket knife was my time in the army engineers. I punished a Buck Stockman on construction sites all over the place. Cutting surveying stakes, making field expiediant plum bobs out of wood, cutting banding off boxes with the sheepsfoot blade, banding off ammo boxes, cleaning fish and small game on weekends, cutting holes in drywall to install switches and wall plugs, cutting brush to camoflage foxholes, and a zillion other things. I even laid some carpet with it once. Dulled it up good, but that's what shapening stones are for.

I think by the simple design nature of a slip joint, they actually hold up better under harsh use than a lockblade. Most lockblades have to be pretty presise in manufacure, and don't respond well to sand, mud, or other dirt in the action. A slippy will sound a bit rough, but can be rinsed out at the next stream you come to, and it's okay again. It always works the same. As far as those Buck slip joints with the stainless steel pivot pin, man those things were built like Sherman tanks, and could take some hard use.

If I were going out in the boonies for a extended period of time, I'd rather have a slippy in my pocket than a lockblade.
 
My Queen Copperhead has really only opened packages and cardboard boxes. Nothing too unusual or difficult.
 
Yesterday, had a little tougher job come up, and I happened to have my Case medium stockman on me. There was a fecal fat mixture (poop, alcohol, stain, and a vinegar-like acid) dried onto the heating block(iron). All my coworkers looked to me, (after trying various other things to get it off) and said "hey, how 'bout your knife." I didn't want to do it with my prized knife, but figured that's what it's for. (I was also somewhat encouuraged after reading through the abuse ya'll put yours through). So I carefully scraped the stuff of with the sheepsfoot blade, and dulled the crap out of it. All in all, it was not particularly hard on the knife except for the edge. Which reminds me, I need to sterilize my blade.
Thanks all in being so gracious and making this newb's thread an interesting read:)
 
We were doing a cleanup on a HUD house several years ago. In the tall grass was a piece of wet carpet that had been covered up in the grass. The blades on commercial mowers are doing some major spinning with a lot of power. Sucked the carpet up and twisted it all in the spindles and blades before it killed the motor. It took 15 minutes and 2 knives to get it all out.
 
jackknife said:
I think the hardest I ever used a pocket knife was my time in the army engineers. I punished a Buck Stockman on construction sites all over the place. Cutting surveying stakes, making field expiediant plum bobs out of wood, cutting banding off boxes with the sheepsfoot blade, banding off ammo boxes, cleaning fish and small game on weekends, cutting holes in drywall to install switches and wall plugs, cutting brush to camoflage foxholes, and a zillion other things. I even laid some carpet with it once. Dulled it up good, but that's what shapening stones are for.

I think by the simple design nature of a slip joint, they actually hold up better under harsh use than a lockblade. Most lockblades have to be pretty presise in manufacure, and don't respond well to sand, mud, or other dirt in the action. A slippy will sound a bit rough, but can be rinsed out at the next stream you come to, and it's okay again. It always works the same. As far as those Buck slip joints with the stainless steel pivot pin, man those things were built like Sherman tanks, and could take some hard use.

If I were going out in the boonies for a extended period of time, I'd rather have a slippy in my pocket than a lockblade.
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Here's a question for you. does Buck still use stainless pins, and what about Case?
 
I have a Buck 301 and I believe it has stainless pins. Have a Case 3318 CV and I'm not sure. Possible, but just not sure. I like them both, but of the two, the Buck is definately more robust.
Bob
 
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