Toughest Cutting Chore

Another cutting chore that is hard on my knives is trimming plastic and fabric used in landscaping, including around gravel. Some of the fabric that I've taken up is like a felt blanket but it's been buried for 20 years.
 
The toughest test of a folder I've found was as a commercial fisherman on the north end of Kalgin Island in Cook Inlet. To repair the 1" lines tied to stakes on the outsides sets at a -5 tide before the tide comes in is a fast and furious chore. The 1"sand embeded ropes sometimes have to be cut off the rusty stakes and done quickly and replaced with new rope because of the incoming tide. My 5"fixed blade with 440C was only good for about 4 cuts through the sandy ropes and then I had to go to my Spyderco Rescue. This knife cut 2 times as many ropes twice as fast. The rescue cut all the sandy ropes required and in time. There were several chips out of the serrations but resharpened fine. Sand embeded poly rope is a tough test for a blade when there is no time to resharpen.

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Ray Carr
 
The worst thing I ever got involved in with a knife was skinning a tough old boar beaver.I didn't know what I was doing in the first place,and whatever knife I was using (probably a stone knife,considering how long ago it was)was scant help.Never again!

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"To grow older is inevitable.To grow UP is optional"


 
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