What is the hardest use(or abuse) your Beckers have seen and survived?

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Seeing as Becker's knives are designed for all-purpose, I'd like to hear what type of use(or abuse) you've put your Becker knife through and it still survive? Personally, I've only had the opportunity to take my BK9 out about a half dozen times, but each time it's seen its share of chopping and splitting of wood.



So, what hard use has your blades seen and lived?
 
About the same as you buddy. Chopped, split wood, built a spruce shelter in cold winter temps with the Brute. Tried to kill the 2ND generation BK-2 in the woods to make a point....and failed, much to my happy surprise. Batonned and generally stabbed, chunked out old stumps. The Becker's that I own are like Ever Ready rabbits, they keep going...and going....
 
I dont use my beckers for anything wilder than batoning/prying wood, which i dont even consider as hard-use, more like regular-use.
 
The hardest test my BK2 has suffered, was some fatwood processing. I found a stump, broke off about 2' above ground level, and it was real loose in ground, so I pulled it up. I went about 3' deeper in the ground, so, I had a 5' long by 10" diameter piece of fatwood. I started at the top, batonning off pieces, but when I got them all off, I took by BK2 and a 2' long piece of Dogwood, about 3" in diameter and started on the rest.

I drove my BK2 in point first, by hitting the pommel, then, I would kick the handle, hit it with the baton, or step on it, putting dramatic lateral force on it. It got dirty, I got a 30lb pile of fatwood, but nothing went wrong with the knife. No bends, no breaks, nothing.

That's just one reason why its "The Knife" for me.

Moose
 
That's great.:)

I'm not one to abuse my knives(they are tools, after all), but I love knowing I can reply upon them for heavy use tasks if the need arises. :)
 
I've only had my BK9 for about a week, but just Christmas we had a massive tree get blown down by strong winds and I've used it to chop out lengths and split fire wood and kindling. I hope to find some fatwood today as me and my girls are heading for the hills!
 
Wasn't me, but I think someone here (Tuffthumbz maybe?) used his BK2 to pry open his car door to unlock it after getting the keys locked inside. That is pretty hardcore in my book.
 
PropThePolecat said:
I dont use my beckers for anything wilder than batoning/prying wood, which i dont even consider as hard-use, more like regular-use.
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DerekH said:
Wasn't me, but I think someone here (Tuffthumbz maybe?) used his BK2 to pry open his car door to unlock it after getting the keys locked inside. That is pretty hardcore in my book.
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that was a easy response........
 
lending them (with supervision) to non knife people and watching the antics.

i never lend good tools to people who don't know how to use them ;) that's abuse.
 
My BK9 stood tall over a 3 month camping trip in the Sierras a few years ago, I am ashamed but I batonned, first a little, then alot, finally I was doing it in full view of everyone in camp. It was traumatic.

It was also my 1998 only knife in the house, so it was a chef knife, prep knife, steak knife, etc...

Finally I butchered out a Hampshire Hog with it, quartered, hams, hocks, ribs, ears for the dogs and feet for my Dad who loves anything pickled, especially his liver.
 
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