What is the "toughest" thing you have done with a folder?

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tomcrx

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I always see the debate about "what is the toughest folder" threads. As the debate rages no one really says what tough is.

So what is the hardest use you have put to your folder and did it survive?
 
The zombie knife fights I have been in have been pretty brutal. I've been working a Busse knife thrower so I can kill them from a longer distance. And yes, we will meet at Wal-mart
 
Shaving arm hair, removing those annoying safeties off Bic lighters, punching holes in beer cans for shotgunning
 
Last year a friend shot an elk. I went to help him carry the thing out, but he'd not been able to finish caping it. He'd bragged about his $10 2 knife kit that he bought. He used both of them to gut the elk, but toward the end, they were too dull to do anything else.

I didn't bother bringing my Vangard and Olson knife (both skinners) 'cause I figured he was done. But when I got there he asked me if I had a knife. I had my BM 940 in my back pocket. So I used that to cape it and cut the head off. Going thru the neck bone (spinal cord) was pretty tough.

Got lots of gunk in it, so I boiled it to loosen the fat and meat. I'd done that the year before when I used an Apparition to help another guy on his deer. It really got gunked up.
 
Baton split some 20" seasoned red oak pieces from about 4X4 down to kindling sized pieces with my Byrd Cara Cara. Still shaved btw.
 
I used a vic hiker to cut through the plastic cover over the timing belt on my old toyota camry. I managed to avoid losing a finger. I have had a great deal of respect for the strength of swiss army knives ever since. I used the saw on that same vic hiker to cut the plastic lid off of a large plastic paint bucket.
 
I HAD an emerson cqc 7. This might sound like a joke but it is not. I wanted to see just how tough it was.

So I stabbed it through a hollow steel wall stud. Took a few tries before I got it all the way through.

Did not bend or break the tip. And it was still super sharp. GOGO Tanto point. I sold it though because normally I have no need to stab through metal. Chisel grinds cut too funky for me.
 
Cut that annoying plastic wrap off a tin of Altoids ( Spearmint).
Then...
Slit 3 sides (N, S & E) of that alloy-steel clamshell plastic packaging which incarcerates most commercial items now days, to liberate this:
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=98267

(Thread Hijack warning...)
Was the 'knife' worth $5 ? Possibly, I kinda liked the style, but I wouldn't bet my life on it. Maybe I'll reserve it for cutting that annoying plastic wrap off tins of Altoids ( Spearmint).
 
I used a grippy to split a pork shank of a well braised osobucco to get to the prized marrow. I battoned the piss out of that knife with another pork shank.
 
Weekend yard work with my Buck-Strider 889 (coyote brown handle).
Everything from chopping through branches, to actually digging with the blade, cutting string/wire/strapping, prying and digging teflon tape out of pipe threads, light hammering with the side of the blade and much more.
Not bad for 420HC steel and it does keep an edge rather well. Sometimes I just use an old kitchen steel to touch up the edge and it's good to go...
 
A few years ago I had accidently locked my keys in my car. It was nighttime in the middle of winter and my girlfriend and I was cold. At that time I lived in a bad part of town. The only thing I could do was to take out my CRKT M16 04 and pry my car door open far enough to try and slip a coathanger into it and unlock the door. It took a while because of the angle of my car door and the fact that the door locks are straight posts instead of having a top on them. Well after about a half an hour we got the door unlocked and went inside the house. The only damage to the knife was a few scratches. Plus from now on I carry two sets of keys.
 
I have used the Buck 110 to do about everything that I would attempt with a fixed blade.
 
scrapped sum excess sealer off a concrete vault at the graveyard so it wouldnt show at the service with a sog twitch II didnt break but it sure needs a sharpener
 
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