Tools for professionals or just toys???

I use my knife every day at work. Mostly to do small things like open boxes or cut rope and cardboard, though once it was used to cut the shirt of a fellow worker that was caught in a lathe.
For the most part though I carry my knives because I like them and feel better when I have one with me.
 
I use mine everyday....shappa...when i first looked at your post i thougt it said I am a Crook....for xxx years...it blew my mind, until my eyes focused properly!!!!!
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My first real job was in a plastics factory. We had a machine that ingested grain at one end and excreted plastic pipe at 42 feet per minute at the other end, 24 hours a day. When it screwed up and started excreting bad pipe (maybe ten to a hundred times per shift) you couldn't turn it off because it would take six hours to get it going again -- instead you had to cut the pipe, fast. We started with folders and then we all one by one switched to fixed blades to save that half-second delay opening a folder ... the pipe was 4" (10cm) in diameter so we favored long knives.

I was working night shift with five other guys and we'd get off work for the week at 8:00 Saturday morning and go to the only bar in town that was open at that hour to play some pool. The oldest of us, the foreman, was 25, and I was the youngest at 17. We were all pretty lean and muscular from throwing 60 pound (27kg) coils of plastic pipe around all night. Imagine the scene as six muscular young men in work clothes -- dirty, covered with black plastic dust like coal dust -- all wearing big knives on their belts -- come striding into the bar at 8:00 in the morning.... The regulars there all knew us but we used to scare the heck out of anybody who didn't....
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Later I worked in a mental hospital and we had one boy who kept tying shoelaces around his neck -- then just as he was losing consciousness he would change his mind and yell for help. Cutting it was hazardous because his neck would swell up around the lace so it was embedded in his neck, but untying it was impossible after his neck swelled up; at least untying it in time would certainly have been impossible.

-Cougar :{)
 
I work as a college professor. I use a knife to open mail, prepare my lunch, sharpen pencils, etc. On one occasion I used a Spyderco Endura to free myself and a bunch of students from a classroom in which we found ourselves trapped.

People who think they don't need to carry a knife, on the job or anywhere else, lack imagination.

David Rock

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Stop when you get to bone.
 
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