strongest cheap folder (cheap knife you'd use to dig your way out of a train wreck)

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Looking at various folders for strength in terms of resistance to breakage during, say, a rescue operation where you have to get someone or yourself out of a collapsed building or train wreck.

Factors I can think of include blade thickness, size of the primary rivet, and liners and scales thickness and material.

I think most folders have small rivets. Resistance to torcing and prying is relatively poor.

Let's stick to the $50 or below range. Any candidates you can think of?

I'll nominate the BM Monochrome. The body is stainless steel. A framelock. And the rivet looks solid, very solid, and relatively large for a knife of this low price.
 
I'd use ANY knife at my disposal if it was able to get me out of a situation. I still value my life higher than a knife which is worth a few hundreds of euros. Or dollars, if you like.
 
A folder for $50 and under that is strong enough to dig/pry yourself out of a trainwreck? Sorry, but it just ain't gonna happen.
 
..up something from the wreckage(train wreck etc) or in some way get a twisted metal for a tool.An emergency crowbar or axe from the train's emergency gear is a lot better then any 3"-4" folder-whatever the price-that's on my person.;)
 
Cold Steel Ultimate Hunter. Thick stainless liners in that one somewhere between .060 and .065 thickness; as it is hard to tell accurately. It has a beefy pivot, and plenty of thickness in the AUS8A blade at 4mm wide along the spine with a pretty thick tip also. The lock is very very strong on this one also and the grip is second to none. In fact the grip is the best I've held in a folder. Just over $50 at newgraham.com

This is the most knife for the money I've bought in years. Truthfully. I was amazed and I'm not easily amazed anymore for a $50 purchase. For the money it has to be one of the best buys around. I think it is not only tougher but a better fit and finish than knives I've bought that are three times the price and to me after owning it I like it better than Cold Steel's other so called tough knives. (Voyager, Vaquero line) The steel liners give it the edge over just about anything else I've seen or held at this price point. I wish Cliff would review it because I think it would rock and roll.

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The CRKT M16-14M might work. I remember reading a post somewhere here in which it was put through hell by some German testers and was one of the few knives not to be destroyed (it was up against, Emerson, BM, Spyderco, and Buck I believe)
 
Ed Schempp hand forged titanium alloy prybar.

You did say "dig" your way out?

Not "cut" your way out?

sal
 
Sal Glesser said:
Ed Schempp hand forged titanium alloy prybar.

You did say "dig" your way out?

Not "cut" your way out?

sal
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Sal...That's a folder?, and can it be bought for $50 or under?.:confused:.
 
Smart-arse response:

A folding entrenching tool to dig. Sharpen it up and you also have a knife.
 
My CRKT M21 is pretty stout and I think I paid about $50 for it.

If I had to dig and stuff, probably the strongest CHEAP folder I have is a Gerber Magnum LST.
 
glockman99 said:
A folder for $50 and under that is strong enough to dig/pry yourself out of a trainwreck? Sorry, but it just ain't gonna happen.
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It already did......

BUCK/STRIDER 889 SBMF (black, TAN or OD handles)

This is THE strong folder of the $50 range.
 
The Buck 110 can be had for 20-30 bucks and is pretty beefy.

I've never used the KA-BAR Dozer or the Cold Steel Master Hunter, but I hear they are very solid for the money, too.
 
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