What big-knife job have you handled with a peanut?

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What big-knife jobs have you handled with a peanut-style folding knife? By "big-knife job," I mean the kind of cutting task that most people would think called for a bigger knife than a peanut?
 
I have vivisected a sweet tuber, but thats about it.

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Chopped up a pile of vegetables for a stew with just a peanut. Even though the blades are so small, they're enough to go through most long, thin vegetables with ease. Those russets required a little more finesse though.
 
Swedge said:
What big-knife jobs have you handled with a peanut-style folding knife? By "big-knife job," I mean the kind of cutting task that most people would think called for a bigger knife than a peanut?
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Well, I got my nickname of Peanut by dressing out then starting the process of butchering a PA blackbear. That was in PA.
Here in Iraq I've done up ~6 dozen fish (mostly carp) none under 20lbs, the average was 35, 1 was 62lbs, 2 dogs, 2 donkeys, 1 lamb, 5 or 6 goats, & 1 cow.
Yep, I drive everyone nuts since I clean it up then do anything else that needs done (including eat).
That big enough for ya?;)
 
I've read on here people using Peanuts to cut up ribs, field dress deer, skin alligators, cut through sheet rock.... all sorts of things. I guess if your careful, you can do just about anything with one. Just gotta use a different method.
 
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jpvjr said:
Well, I got my nickname of Peanut by dressing out then starting the process of butchering a PA blackbear. That was in PA.
Here in Iraq I've done up ~6 dozen fish (mostly carp) none under 20lbs, the average was 35, 1 was 62lbs, 2 dogs, 2 donkeys, 1 lamb, 5 or 6 goats, & 1 cow.
Yep, I drive everyone nuts since I clean it up then do anything else that needs done (including eat).
That big enough for ya?;)
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That's pretty cool dude. But what's the donkey and dogs for?
 
Jpvjr, What part of Pa do you come from? Sorry guys I know this is off topic but its always good to hear from a fellow knifeguy.
I'm from Bloomsburg & belong to a knife club headquartered in Lewisburg.
I have used a peanut to strip lots of cable to make up leads for welders.
Come to think of it the old navy pipefitter who helped teach me the plumbing
trade carried a craftsman peanut exclusively. He used that knife for everything.
Included some peanut info to put things back on track.
 
pa knifeguy said:
Jpvjr, What part of Pa do you come from? Sorry guys I know this is off topic but its always good to hear from a fellow knifeguy.
I'm from Bloomsburg & belong to a knife club headquartered in Lewisburg.
I have used a peanut to strip lots of cable to make up leads for welders.
Come to think of it the old navy pipefitter who helped teach me the plumbing
trade carried a craftsman peanut exclusively. He used that knife for everything.
Included some peanut info to put things back on track.
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I'm from Woodward, live in Belleville.
 
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kidwholaughs said:
That's pretty cool dude. But what's the donkey and dogs for?
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1 donkey we hit with an MRAP. The farmer asked if we could at least skin it for him to sell the hide. The 2nd was sort of to teach folks here how to do it (I don't know where we got him). The terps were fascinatedby watching it being done, never seen it done before.
The 2 dogs were done up for an IA Colonel, he wanted to watch so got his guys to shoot 2 dogs to bring to me/us.
 
jiggybaw said:
Cmon dude.Film it and post it on Youtube PLEASE.
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I'm cheap I only have a disposable camera. I tried to get 1 girl here to take a photo of me with a fish, as soon as that blade went in she puked.
The scary part is she's a medic.:eek:
 
I chopped down a tree 4 1/2"-5" diameter with my crk shadow III. Its the smallest fixed blade they make and it has a 4" blade. It took me almost an hour. We needed a small stump to put a deer salt lick on. Well, after all that, it would not stay on anyways and lept falling off. But at the time, I was SOOO wishing for my tanto I or shadow I. But hey, now I know it can do it......right ??
 
Using my SS harvest orange peanut, I broke down all the boxes for recycling from my new office. That's boxes from a desk and file cabinet, book case, computer monitor and other misc. boxes. The peanut handled the job great. I had my serrated Endura in my pocket just in case, but never bothered taking it out.
 
jpvjr said:
I'm cheap I only have a disposable camera. I tried to get 1 girl here to take a photo of me with a fish, as soon as that blade went in she puked.
The scary part is she's a medic.:eek:
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OK 1st don't get hurt anymore.
2nd if you do and she's on duty, canI have the rest of your knives?:o
 
I usually keep a yellow sodbuster in the glove box of the Tacoma, but one day it got brought into the house for a sharpening, and left there. Of course I went out to the gun club to do some maintanence, including reloading the trap and skeet ranges and the sporting clays range. This left me with a pile of heavy duty boxes all the White Flier clay birds came in, that needed to be broken down to fit in the cardboard recycle dumpster. I ended up using my yellow peanut for the breaking down. A lot of cutting on dirty clay dusted cardboard.

It did just fine.

Peanut; the little knife that can.
 
jpvjr said:
I'm cheap I only have a disposable camera. I tried to get 1 girl here to take a photo of me with a fish, as soon as that blade went in she puked.
The scary part is she's a medic.:eek:
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She'll probably be okay as long as no fish get shot.:D
 
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