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Let me start by saying that this is out of character for me. Usually I am a quiet person and don't post much, but I have been thinking about doing this for a while. I hope that it is in the right place and I do not want to start any kind of strider and sebenza war or anything. I'm not trying to say that strider is the best knife either. Just that it is a good knife and I do actually use it.
My neighbor has a farm(Cows, Chicken houses, hay, and he plants a lot of corn, tomatoes, cucumber,ect) and I work up there a lot. There are a lot of things to use a knife for on a farm. I have had this strider for about a year so I feel like I have used it enough to judge it fairly. Its has been used mainly to cut zipties, vinyl 2 inch irrigation pipe, drip irrigation pipe, tape, twin on hay bales and other places, wire, open packages, tops off of beats and onions, dig dirt out from under fingernails and many other things. It has worked well doing all of those things. I did thin out the edge a little bit, I found that the factory edge was a bit thicker than I like but it was usable. It is easy to open and close wearing gloves and you can get a grip on it easily. My hands are frequently covered it grease and dirt.
It is usually pretty dusty up there with all the dry dirt and plowing and stuff. One thing I have noticed is that any knife that i carry up there even if i don't use it and it stays clipped in my pocket the pivot always gets gritty. I dont know if it is just my imagination or what but for some reason the strider dose not seam to get as gritty.
Any way enough rambling here is a pic i took after i used it some today. I cut some plastic straps holding bundles of stakes together and capped off the end of some drip irrigation. When capping off drip irrigation you have to poke a hole in the row of plastic and dig down in the dirt (or in this case mud, it rained here) find the drip hose, pull it though the hole, cut a piece off the end then fold the end over and slip the piece back over it. So you have mud all over your hands and on the hose, that is why the knife looks so dirty.
The only thing that I can think of that might be a potential problem is the lock likes to stick some but a little graphite will cure that.
In conclusion I would like to add that while the strider is a great knife, and I know I will probably catch some flack for this, but honestly I carried a 20 dollar CRKT up to the farm for years because I did not want to mess up an expensive knife and it did every thing that iv done with the strider. Now don't get me wrong I think that the strider is a very nice knife and I love it, but in my opinion a 20 dollar knife will cut just as good. But we all knew that right?
Pleas excuse all spelling and grammatical errors. Thanks for looking,
Nathan
My neighbor has a farm(Cows, Chicken houses, hay, and he plants a lot of corn, tomatoes, cucumber,ect) and I work up there a lot. There are a lot of things to use a knife for on a farm. I have had this strider for about a year so I feel like I have used it enough to judge it fairly. Its has been used mainly to cut zipties, vinyl 2 inch irrigation pipe, drip irrigation pipe, tape, twin on hay bales and other places, wire, open packages, tops off of beats and onions, dig dirt out from under fingernails and many other things. It has worked well doing all of those things. I did thin out the edge a little bit, I found that the factory edge was a bit thicker than I like but it was usable. It is easy to open and close wearing gloves and you can get a grip on it easily. My hands are frequently covered it grease and dirt.
It is usually pretty dusty up there with all the dry dirt and plowing and stuff. One thing I have noticed is that any knife that i carry up there even if i don't use it and it stays clipped in my pocket the pivot always gets gritty. I dont know if it is just my imagination or what but for some reason the strider dose not seam to get as gritty.
Any way enough rambling here is a pic i took after i used it some today. I cut some plastic straps holding bundles of stakes together and capped off the end of some drip irrigation. When capping off drip irrigation you have to poke a hole in the row of plastic and dig down in the dirt (or in this case mud, it rained here) find the drip hose, pull it though the hole, cut a piece off the end then fold the end over and slip the piece back over it. So you have mud all over your hands and on the hose, that is why the knife looks so dirty.
The only thing that I can think of that might be a potential problem is the lock likes to stick some but a little graphite will cure that.
In conclusion I would like to add that while the strider is a great knife, and I know I will probably catch some flack for this, but honestly I carried a 20 dollar CRKT up to the farm for years because I did not want to mess up an expensive knife and it did every thing that iv done with the strider. Now don't get me wrong I think that the strider is a very nice knife and I love it, but in my opinion a 20 dollar knife will cut just as good. But we all knew that right?
Pleas excuse all spelling and grammatical errors. Thanks for looking,
Nathan
