Wanna see how well banning knives works!?!?

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I just HAD to share this! So I'm a union millwright, and I'm working for this contractor that I've worked for numerous times in the past, and they're official policy is that pocket knives are not allowed on the job, it has to be a retractable utility knife, but the rule has never been enforced. So the other night, there's was a bundle of bolts that was wrapped up with duct tape that we needed to get apart. Our superintendent tries to pull the tape apart, but he can't it's too sticky. He tries the knife on his leatherman with the chipped worn out blade, literally sawing at the tape..... No dice on that either. Rather than stand by and watch him fillet himself with a dull worn out blade, I pull out my Manix 2, and hand it to him to cut the tape with. Well!..... U woulda thought that I tried handing him a live rattlesnake! He went on and on about how it's against company policy, and if the wrong person sees it I could be fired, and all the grievous injuries that he's seen over the years from pocket knives...... I just shrug and put the knife back in my pocket. Next thing I know, he takes the bundle of bolts, and actually starts to BITE at the tape trying to break it!!! I stood there in disbelief!!!! Well it took les than a minute for him to drop the bundle and grab his mouth. Yup!!! Chipped a tooth! Omg it was all I could do not to ask him how exactly that the workplace knife ban kept him safe! Don't get me wrong, he's a great guy and a great boss, and I did feel bad for him, but this is an example of what happens when sheeple don't think for themselves.
 
I had the most smug grin while reading that. Thanks for sharing. Good taste in EDC too :thumbup:
 
Great story! I'm an electrician at a paper mill and there are two knives approved by the safety department we are allowed to use. This is the fixed blade - http://www.kleintools.com/catalog/cable-splicers-knives/cable-splicers-knife It's a design I have carried since I was an apprentice because it does the job well. The other model recently approved is an accident waiting to happen in my opinion. It's one of these that are designed to be "flipped" open. I've seen a couple get thrown when someone was trying to open one but not anyone cut........yet. https://www.milwaukeetool.com/hand-tools/utility-knives/48-22-1985
 
Stupid people always treat a knife as a weapon only. Makes no sense. The knife is the greatest tool of all. Everyone should carry one. Great story. Buy him a knife for christmas, but make it a small one.
 
You know what cracks me up worse than anything!? It's that we routinely throughout the course of out work day, use aecetylene torches, rig and fly 80 ton loads overhead, use a HYtorc hydraulic wrench that could remove a limb without flinching, but we can't be trusted to use a folding pocket knife?? Can anyone tell me the sense in that?? SMH........
 
Constant Gardener said:
Stupid people always treat a knife as a weapon only. Makes no sense. The knife is the greatest tool of all. Everyone should carry one. Great story. Buy him a knife for christmas, but make it a small one.
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After what I seen him do with that tape, I don't think he should be allowed to own a spoon let alone a knife! Lmao!
 
They ban pocket knives, because they're afraid someone will stab a coworker if an argument starts. Which makes no sense at all when, you have hammers and other tools around.
 
jill jackson said:
They ban pocket knives, because they're afraid someone will stab a coworker if an argument starts. Which makes no sense at all when, you have hammers and other tools around.
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Your right! Believe me, if an argument turns physical on a job site, guys tend to grab a lot bigger and nastier stuff than SAK! Lmao! I think it has more to do with insurance liability reasons really. All of a sudden they just want us to use these absolutely worthless retractable razor knives
 
Urban redneck said:
You know what cracks me up worse than anything!? It's that we routinely throughout the course of out work day, use aecetylene torches, rig and fly 80 ton loads overhead, use a HYtorc hydraulic wrench that could remove a limb without flinching, but we can't be trusted to use a folding pocket knife?? Can anyone tell me the sense in that?? SMH........
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Because someone with a gas station liner lock knife had it close on them and almost cut off a finger. Or a blade broke and harpooned someone's hand. I guarantee it.

So now - in total over-reaction - no knives allowed.

It would be hard to mandate only Axis lock or only Triad lock knives for example.

Non knife people shop at the gas station when they need a knife.
 
My workplace has a policy in place that says only "buck type" knives are allowed to be worn on an outer belt. Can someone please explain to me what a "buck type" knife is?

I skirt the policy by wearing whatever I want strapped to an inner belt. Meets the policy. In reality pretty much any knife is a "buck type" knife because buck has created many models in many variations as to make the policy worthless. I don't point that out though. I just wear what I want on an inner belt and don't make it obvious unless I'm using it during which most people recognize its utility.
 
Kwon Kwang said:
I had the most smug grin while reading that. Thanks for sharing. Good taste in EDC too :thumbup:
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I smiled Huge also. I used to work construction...I've had a bobcat smash through a block wall i was removing electrical from. And they think knives are dangerous?!?!?!?!
 
Bite open the tape man is the supervisor? Wow......
 
How is the blade on a Leatherman different from a regular pocket knife?

I understand some of this rather ridiculous bans from a legal perspective (maybe the company needs to do it for insurance purposes or perhaps just to cover their behind in certain cases), but for the life of me I can't fathom why people who're actually working with hand tools would agree. Sometimes, these rules are due to somebody doing something really dumb in the past, for instance I worked at a couple of places where football (soccer) shirts were not allowed because some idiots (highly educated idiots with university degrees, mind you) would get into fist fights. At a range I go to, they had to enforce a limit of loading and shooting rifles just one cartridge at a time because of some Rambo wannabes that sprayed everything but their target with bullets.
 
Haha -ssshounds like your sshupervisshor needssh to reconsshider hissh pocket knife polissshcy.

[video=youtube_share;M-ezQtqJ_-I]http://youtu.be/M-ezQtqJ_-I[/video]
 
Clearly, in some way
Knifephobia in our time is the work of collective
"autosuggestion".
Who but the media (through controlled directives or otherwise)
creates heighten public hysteria via continued sensational reporting...
To amplify the concerns of negative blade related incidences
Which has been occuring ever since the first prototype knife was adopted by early man
It is unfortunate that the knife is a two edge sword
Having had the dubious role of asserting unrestrained self-serving expressions
For longest time in human society - for centuries, might i add.
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A ban it seems, is only as good as the individual who complies.
And logic would precede all actions eventually.
Unfortunately, some folks it appears, would rather continue to bite nails...
 
I do understand why some organizations might want to limit the ability for anyone to bring something potentially dangerous onto company property but the truth of the matter is that if someone has the intent of hurting another people or themselves there is nothing that they can't turn into a weapon. Same goes for guns. Taking guns away doesn't make people less violent.
 
I'm a union insulator, but no longer in the field. We use knives all day long and our tool pouches usually contain 2-3 maybe even 4 different knives for different materials and uses. I've never seen anyone pull a knife in an altercation.

That policy is ridiculous it's construction you need a knife.
 
So who's gonna have the balls to suggest "mouth safety" as the topic for the next safety meeting?
 
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