Vic Farmer

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22Hornet

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I was wondering about the saw on the Vic Farmer. Is it suitable as a bone saw, as in splitting the pelvic bone on a deer. How is the durability of the saw, how do you maintain and resharpen the saw. Any info would be appreciated. Thank You.

22Hornet
 
If it's anything like the saw on the OHT (which I am sure it is), it chews thru branches with no issues. I got a good friend that has been running a SAK Farmer for years and his saw still works great....it's his EDC and go to for small bushwork. I couldnt say how it does on bone.
 
Thanks for the response, I will see what develops, I'm thinking hard about getting one.
 
Bone saws are usually a finer tooth saw than the Victorinox saw. I think if you do use a farmer saw on deer bones, you're gonna mess it up pretty good.
Carl.
 
I've beaten my Farmer up to the point where not all the blades close properly. That was, to some degree, intentional...I was curious to see how much it would take. The abuse was also somewhat unavoidable. I was replacing our front porch, and it was often well-nigh impossible to switch between dedicated separate tools. I have found the saw does very well for cuts in awkward places. I've used it to cut aluminum, but not bone.

I guess my comment would be, buy one and try it. I've liked this model well enough to have several lying around in various strategic locations.
 
It's close to impossible to sharpen the individual saw teeth, due to the layout of the them. However, some folks have had good luck with using a stone to remove burs from the back side of the blade. Run both sides of the blade down a stone, as you would a strop, removing burs.
 
I use the saw on my Farmer for cutting small branches and it does that very well. After a few years of usage, I still don't need to sharpen it, but I use it for wood only.
 
I think bone is softer than aluminum. Maybe about the same as a hard wood like maple. You should have no problem with cutting deer bones.

Maybe what Carl meant by "you're going to mess it up" by cutting deer bones is literally the mess: blood and marrow between the teeth and in the joints of the knife.

As for sharpening it, I wouldn't worry. If it gets dull, send it to Victorinox, and I'll bet they'd sharpen it for free, since it is not a common tool that can sharpen that saw.

The Vic saws are VERY sharp. I closed one on my thumb one time, and had a bunch of little bleeding holes. Watch out that you don't get overzealous with the sawing, jam the tip on something, then accidentally close it up on yourself.
 
Ive used the saw of an OHT to saw through the ribs of a deer. It worked great and the saw is fine.
 
It's very easy to sharpen a Victorinox Saw Blade. Go to You Tube and type in "Sharpening the SAK Sawblade" and follow the directions of the guy that made the video. There are several such videos and tutorials at You Tube and other sites.
 
Thanks for all the response. I am thinking about getting one to cut branches for shooting lanes and building turkey blinds. Cutting a deer's pelvic bone is only a 3-5 inch cut in thin and pretty soft bone. Any additional input would be great!
 
If someone would for some odd reason have a deer pelvis bone laying around and send it to me I'll do a saw cut test on video with my farmer for you.

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If you really wanted to, you could split the pelvis with the knife blade also. There are a bunch of other great tutorials on Youtube about proper and fast field dressing methods. (there are more ways to skin that "cat" if you know what I mean) and one such method is simply take the blade, and carefully work it into the point of the pelvis at the center line...work it up and down slowly. Start a split, and just apply sudden downward pressure on the hind legs at the "knee's" and whammy...split pelvis.
I was impressed the first time I saw this method..and I was also forever less impressed with the pelvis being in the way of finishing the job.

I also don't think bone would be a problem at all for the saw on my farmer..

There is many sources for sharpening saws of different styles. I have even seen books written on the subject. Although I have never had to sharpen my Farmer (or any other VIC SAK ) saw..I KNOW it is possible to do. Just like any other saw out there.
 
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