We did strangest thing you've sharpened, how about strangest thing you've cut?

Matt Shade

Matt Shade

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Then again, maybe I don't want to know ;)
I use my knives for all kinds of stuff but I definitely had a first this week.
We had a foal born. A girl that keeps her horse in our barn got to watch it happen, but by the time I got there it was pretty much done. Normally the foal comes out and then the placenta (the bag like thing of fluid the foal is in inside the mare) follows. This time they had come out at the same time, and the foal was still wrapped up except for his head.
He was trying to get up and the mother was trying to lick it off of him, but he was down where the water broke and shivering pretty bad. So I figured I'd better help out.
Went in and rolled up my sleeves and started trying to untangle the little guy. It just wasn't working out, and I ended up soaked in the stuff. Let me tell ya, I smelled dead sexy :barf: So being a knife nut, I had to give in to the old stand by and out came the pocket knife. I bunched the stuff up across his back, sliced it in two and was able to lift him right out.Dried him off with a towel and handed him over to momma, he's doing great now.
My great sense of timing came into play too. It just so happened that the knife in rotation that day was one that I made. O1 fully fileworked (vine pattern) blade, and fileworked liners (all the way around). By the time I got around to cleaning it later that day the blade was starting to rust, and boy was it a bear to get all the crud out of it :grumpy: Finally got it cleaned up though, and it was definitely worth the hassle for the trouble it saved me.
 
Today i scratched some paint off of a mid 80's chevy van... not that wierd, but not something ya do everyday ;)
 
I second that, really think you need to give us some more information
 
Butchering rattlesnakes and cutting *^#**## illegal nets wrapped around my boat motor prop and shaft. You get wrapped up with one of those nylon nets on the Mississippi River, you better have a decent knife along!
 
The plastic side of a Honda Civic bumper. My wife got T-boned at an intersection and the fender was pushed up against the wheel well and blocking the wheel from turning. I had to get the car out of the intersection to trade insurance information, so I asked the cop on the scene if he minded if I came back with a knife to do the job. He told me to go ahead. Came back with a Livsay Air Assualt from my truck and carved away the offending plastic. The Mountie was impressed.
 
So far I'd say the thong is in the lead, at least as far as wanting to hear "THE REST OF THE STORY" ;)

Salted dried jellyfish brings up some questions too.

Trim my finger nails with a knife all the time, even with my long arms I'm not willing to try the toes...thats what beltsanders are for:D
 
strangest thing I sharpen on a daily basis.....radioactive tungsten electrodes without a respirator :eek:
 
It's for Tungsten Inert Gas. (TIG) Welding. You have a tungsten "rod" about ten inches long and 1/8 of an inch in diameter.
Electricity passes through the tungsten and into the work peice to be welded as you feed filler metal in with your other hand. When you accidentally "stick" your electrode to the work piece or to the filler metal it needs to be resharpened on a grinding wheel. To a very sharp point. The rods we are currently using contain low levels of thallium. and breathing the grinding dust makes you fell really good. (Just kidding).


It is how the Patriot Missles are welded among other things.
 
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