Weird things you have done that involved a knife.

RedRockNv

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I was putting on my pants and I kicked the knife in my pocket with toes 3 and 4 from the big toe. It hurt like crazy and totally unexpected. I have carried a knife for nearly 60 years with out ever kicking my pocket knife in the pocket. What is your weird happening with a knife.
 
I rescued a raccoon cub from a fallen tree.

Nest of Cubs had been in tree (knew about them ahead of time), big storm knocked the tree down, a huge cottonwood. Upon walking back the next day to investigate the downed tree, I heard this squealing. I had to climb partway up in the tree, but I found a raccoon cub with his left paw stuck in the wood. There must have been a crack or gap in the wood, and when it fell, that gap closed, sealing two of his fingers inside and leaving him dangling on the inside of the tree. There was no way to pry the wood apart or remove it due to the location and the proximity of the little raccoon. There was no choice but amputate the fingers, so I used my Sebenza and did so.

Got the bleeding to stop, then took him to a wildlife rescue. My girlfriend at the time (now wife) and I called him Lefty.
 
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I opened my bathroom door with one. I went to turn the knob and it came off. Well, genius that I am, when I went to put it back on the little axle bit, I managed to push that through, so the other side fell on the floor. So, wincing, I pulled out my folder, stuck the blade in and turned. Worked great, but I had to do a fair amount of sharpening.
 
I've used a 1908 Indian cavalry saber to unlock a car door when I locked my keys inside (long reach through a cracked window to hit the unlock button!), scraped ice off my windshield with the frame of a CS Pocket Bushman, and chipped accumulated ice out of wheel wells with a barong machete.
 
blade man said:
......... but amputate the fingers, so I used my Sebenza and did so.

Got the bleeding to stop, then took him to a wildlife rescue. My girlfriend at the time (now wife) and I called him Lefty.
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I don't think I would be man enough to do that but I admire your efforts that probably saved his life.
 
Not exactly "weird" but definitely something most folks don't get to legally do. :D

As an EMT for over 26 years, on more than one occasion I have used one of my knives to punch holes in tires to stabilize a vehicle after it has been in a collision. I've usually used my Buck 110 which was on my duty belt, but would use one of my Kabar 125X 3/4 shorties, or a Western L46-5, if I had them on when I strapped on the gear belt when the call came in. When a vehicle is stopped on a slope, we'll punch the uphill side tires to improve the stability. Tow truck drivers don't like it when we do it, but we don't really care what they like, because WE don't like riding a tumbling car down a hillside when trying to extricate a patient.
 
Buck 303 medium stockmans make a great game spinner. When my daughter was little we went on vacation and brought along on of her games that used a spinner with numbers to move/advance in the game. Well of course the spinner was missing and the daughter was upset. The Mrs solution was to spend $15 at Walmart and buy a new game. I drew a circle on a piece of paper and divided it into 6 slices and used cracked ice/faux pearl 303 as the spinner with the little pen blade as the pointer. It worked great, in fact it spun too long if you spun it hard. Till this day when ever we play a game with a spinner I remember that vacation very fondly. Oh yeah, I still spin that 303 for stress relief.

If any of you folks have a Buck 303 and never tried it, give it a shot, it's very addictive. :)
 
Insipid Moniker said:
I opened my bathroom door with one. I went to turn the knob and it came off. Well, genius that I am, when I went to put it back on the little axle bit, I managed to push that through, so the other side fell on the floor. So, wincing, I pulled out my folder, stuck the blade in and turned. Worked great, but I had to do a fair amount of sharpening.
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Same happened to me in a public toilet stall. The knob on the sliding door latch came off just as I got it latched, fell to the floor and bounced out of reach. I didn't think twice about prying the latch back with the tip of my knife, rather than get on the floor and crawl out...
 
Recently I duck taped ( it was originally named duck tape due to its water resistance ) an old cheapo carving knife to a broom handle and used it to hack through some pigweed in the backyard.
I also at one point took an old " 10$ ultimate survival knife " and after I dulled the edge I stuck it in the ground and left it there to rust up so I could use it for Halloween.
 
Got drunk in a music venue (Cheap bar) went to use the men's & my belt buckle knife popped out and came close to giving me a "high" voice then bounced of my boot and landed in the urinal where I rescued it much to the guffaws of waiting patrons...Went home and doused my entire body with hydrogen peroxide & considered my life............
 
Used 4 knives as tent stakes, 2 cheap Maxam fixed blades, a CS Pocket Bushman and a stainless mora companion. They did the job for that night. No wood or branches around that could be used instead, believe it or not

Edit, found a pic of the MAXAM knife

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Kilt me a bear when I was only three. :p Well, not really, but I did cut the head off a rattlesnake which had decided my campsite was a good place to hang around (used my CS XL voyager tanto). :eek:
 
My collegue at work slaughtered 12 chickens (quite a common practice here in South Africa to process live animals for a party or a festival),and go on to skin a cow all with a Kershaw shuffle 1!,that i gave him for Christmas. I've ask him to take some photos the next time he did it again. The way he describe it " one cut, one head..."

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Just before typing this I disposed of our frameless above ground pool that we bought just for the summer, using my Spyderco Pacific Salt. It had outlived its usefulness and the wife said it had to go, so I decided to have some fun while doing it. I first used a throwing knife method, but even after about 5-6 good hits the water was just spouting out like a fountain. So I finally I got the nerve to walk up and give it a slice and I got the desired result. A lot more water than I imagined, I'm surprised it didn't wash the damn fence out, the water went all the way to the road :eek:

On a side note, the Pacific Salt works decent as a throwing knife with a backhanded throw :D
 
When my youngest child was born I whipped out the Les George VECP and cut the umbilical cord!!! The midwife in the hospital stood there holding the scissors and looked at me like I had a dick growing out of my forhead! Then her expression changed and she said "damn that thing is sharp!"
 
Riz! said:
When my youngest child was born I whipped out the Les George VECP and cut the umbilical cord!!! The midwife in the hospital stood there holding the scissors and looked at me like I had a dick growing out of my forhead! Then her expression changed and she said "damn that thing is sharp!"
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I hope to do the same someday with my umnumzaan.
 
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