What did you use your SAK for today?

Treated myself to a new Leupold scope for Christmas. The model I bought comes with an extended throw lever on the power adjustment. I don’t care for that since this is a hunting rifle and I don’t like weird levers sticking out. Fortunately it can be removed and had a three protective cap it can be replaced with. Outdoorsman gave me a little help getting it done.

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I went outside to my deck at the rear of the condo tonight and found a volunteer tree had grown so big that it was making it difficult to use about a third of the deck. The last time I thought about the tree, it was small enough to remove with loppers, but . . . I forgot about it and got lazy. I had my Vic Ranger hanging from my neck lanyard as usual and decided to go to work on it. I started with some smaller limbs (less than 1/2" in diameter) to remove some of the obstruction of the deck. Then I decided to keep going and removed all of the larger branches from the trunk as well as the "top" of the trunk. It took some time and effort, but the results were impressive for such a tiny saw. The remaining part of the tree is about two and a half inches across and I can't get to the base of it because it's growing between a thick bush and the deck itself and it got dark. I'll go at it again in the near future with my folding pruning saw that I keep in my "bushcraft kit," which has about a ten inch blade that cuts on the pull stroke like a Silky.

I've never tackled a job that big with a 91mm SAK saw. I never underestimated its capabilities as many do, but I was still impressed by how well it worked on branches that were well over an inch and a half in diameter. Of course, it was all green, living wood, so not very tough to cut.
 
Knocking open another tin of beetroot.
Cant have a hamburger with out it!🍔
Nylon Huntsman on the job.:thumbsup:
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I used the fish scaler to measure some screws and to pick a few screws up off the floor. Supposedly some of the old fish scalers had magnetic tips, which would be handy for retrieving tiny screws, but putting a small magnet on the end of the fish scaler also works. There are various places to store small magnets in a SAK.

I wonder if you could use a magnetizer to permanently magnetize the tip of the fish scaler or if it would wear off after a while. Has anyone tried it?
 
Rsmith_77 said:
I'm actually impressed that saw cut thru PVC like that
Chalk that up to lessons learned
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Oh for sure. People would use the saw on the old Lumberjack model for cutting pvc pipe as well. According to sakwiki, that same model was also called the Plumber. It's now back again as the Walker.

I think that's also why the Cybertool L has a wood saw. It's for plastic. Has to be. It makes no sense to have a wood saw on a Cybertool unless that's what it's for.

When I customized my own cybertool, all I did was add the metal saw/file to a Cybertool M. I didn't see the need for a wood saw. I still don't. Not for my purposes.
 
Guy McVer said:
I used the fish scaler to measure some screws and to pick a few screws up off the floor. Supposedly some of the old fish scalers had magnetic tips, which would be handy for retrieving tiny screws, but putting a small magnet on the end of the fish scaler also works. There are various places to store small magnets in a SAK.

I wonder if you could use a magnetizer to permanently magnetize the tip of the fish scaler or if it would wear off after a while. Has anyone tried it?
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Hey mate I'm a collector of 80's SAK's and the early 80's models with fish scalers have magnetic tips from the factory. I don't know why they stopped. I'm just letting you know what I know. 👍🏻
 
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