What did you do to/with your Becker today?

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KingMC said:
I got handed a bunch of really old painted cardboard (from a VBS event as far as I'm aware) as part of a clean-up/demo job at my church, only blade I had on me was the BK20 that was in the trunk of my car from my last camping trip.

This blade is really getting a lot of work from me and is still going strong on the factory edge.

Ignore the weird camera angle, this picture was originally taken as a joke poking fun at a certain style of posting knife pictures.

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I've seen the posts you mention.
 
I made some snare support pegs. With your keen observational skills BeeKay, you may notice that the most of the wood is a variety of Australian eucalyptus. The landowner has just cut some eucalyptus trees to use for firewood, and his hope is that they will 'coppice' and grow again from the stumps. The pegs with the yellow underbark were cut from spiky barberry. Yes, that is a bit of rust on one of the scale bolts. No, it does not bother me even slightly. I will clean it all up and get some oil on it eventually.

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I have been using the same piece of paracord all summer. I guess it is almost time for a new piece. I have always wondered how long a single piece would last in a survival situation and I sort of lost count but I think I started at least two dozen fires with this piece of cord before she gave up on me last night. I got the fire going anyway and will probably keep using this cord as an experiment to see how long it will hold up like this. After that I may repeat this and actually notch my bow to keep count of how many fires I have started before the cord gives up.

Anyway, I built the whole kit with El Machax.

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Had a bit of storm yesterday morning (90MPH winds, with gusts exceeding 100).
My son (with a BK) trimmed the occasional small branches while I bucked limbs and cut trunks with the chainsaw.

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Good thing that tree just missed the building. It's really striking though, whenever there's a storm and you drive around afterwards, 80% of downed trees are birch. Those trees gotta be really unstable for some reason. Horizontal and thin roots, I suppose?
 
Didn't do anything with it yet, but I did just agree to buy a BK11 San mai, sight unseen which might bite be in the tuchus...

The owner said it has some scratches and is used but the factory edge is still intact, so I am hoping it hasn't seen that much use...
 
I got my 4th 15 in the mail Friday. It's still in the box, unlike the other 3, which are strapped to my go bag, my fishing pack and my custom one in my EDC bag. I'm pretty sure I'll find a useful home for it....
 
Fisk it, custom scales and put it to use in the kitchen.
Bringing it down to .020 or so would leave enough meat for accidental hits on bone, but still leave it plenty "slicey".

My 5 was brought down to .025ish and it is fine on 1" limbs with Much less effort required.
 
Galeocerdoshark said:
Good thing that tree just missed the building. It's really striking though, whenever there's a storm and you drive around afterwards, 80% of downed trees are birch. Those trees gotta be really unstable for some reason. Horizontal and thin roots, I suppose?
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Could be, however this storm took no prisoners (the tree's fall was actually broken by the house. No branches were harmed by the fall. Until the chainsaw started running.) It may also have to do with the ground being saturated with plenty of heavy rains during the previous week.

Birch, poplar, pine, 100-year-old maples, all either uprooted or snapped in half like toothpicks. Even telephone poles were broken by the force of the wind. So far, the broken pole tally is over 200. We're among the 7,000 homes without power since last Thursday at 3:31AM.
The picture below is a barn that was lifted off it's foundation.
It was a weird morning, for sure.

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Ahhhh, the joys of country living!!!!!!..... We have had a bunch of weather in E Tenn this year as well..... Never a good sign when you have to cut your way into your property..... I hope you sustained a minimal amount of structure damage and that everybody is safe and sound....... That barn pic is amazing...... E
 
What's really sad is they'll demolish that barn and rebuild it with this crap modern wood. If it were me...I'd find a reclaimer and let them dismantle it and buy the wood. It's awful to think of that vintage wood from probably ancient trees ending up in a landfill or ash pile
 
Ethan Becker said:
Ahhhh, the joys of country living!!!!!!..... We have had a bunch of weather in E Tenn this year as well..... Never a good sign when you have to cut your way into your property..... I hope you sustained a minimal amount of structure damage and that everybody is safe and sound....... That barn pic is amazing...... E
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Thanks for the positive thoughts.
Nothing made it to the interior, but I'll probably have some roofing and gutter repairs to do. Three 60-footers landed on the motorhome and I have about 15 or so more that I'll have to clear out. Me and mine are safe and sound (save for an LCL problem from grappling with the trees). The storm was at 3:30AM, which seems to have saved a lot of people from injury. Unfortunately, two campers (39 and 13 y.o.) were killed by a falling tree north of us in the Boundary Waters area.
Very tragic.

We were in Elizabethton TN a few weeks ago staying with friends, and some heavy storm clouds rolled over the hills and threatened, but never "delivered" what they were supposed to.
We were happy for that. I heard they can be rather violent in that valley when they want to be.

Well, back to work. I have enough to keep me busy for a while!
 
Nothing major-
- cut the tips off several caulking tubes, cut a few hay bale binders and harvested 3 figs w/ an 11,
- opened the shipping box and product box of my new Red Dragon (400, 000 BTUs- woo hoo:D) with a 9, because something like a 400k RED DRAGON deserved something with more moxie than the 11.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
Nothing major-
- cut the tips off several caulking tubes, cut a few hay bale binders and harvested 3 figs w/ an 11,
- opened the shipping box and product box of my new Red Dragon (400, 000 BTUs- woo hoo:D) with a 9, because something like a 400k RED DRAGON deserved something with more moxie than the 11.
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Where did you order the Red Dragon from?
 
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