What was your strangest knife use?

hank_rearden

hank_rearden

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vague question i know. but a knife is a tool for war and peace so it should find unusual applications in both.

when i was working as a geologist in the mines, i noticed miners always had small, often home-made knives dangling from their belts. locally they called it 'pisat' which is a shortening of "fresh-cut," meaning to cut a fresh exposure on the end of a dynamite fuse for better ignition.

so i got into the habit myself whenever i went underground. i brought a sturdy stainless steel letter opener with a decent edge and point and a landyard hole. let's discuss the lanyard: my experience told me that a busy pair of hands will have best access to a knife by dangling it from one's strong wrist by a lanyard loop around six inches in diameter. when doing underground mapping, i have to juggle the following tools with just two hands:

aluminum folder with tracing paper and mylar for mapping and notes
a box of pencils and colored pens
tape measure
geologist pick
brunton compas
protractor/teledyne post
10x B&L hand lens
a knife for picking rocks (hardness test) and also to keep the pencils sharp (put in 10-cm geologic features on a 1:200 scale map.)

all done at 90 degrees F with dripping water and one's acid battery lamp as the only light source.
 
I use my knives to lock the display cases at my work. The locks are the kind that you turn the key and push in to lock. My co workers always leave them unturned and unpushed. I just stick the end of the blade in the lock to turn it, then I push it closed.
 
Had surgery a week ago... used my Endura to scrape the dermabond off my wounds. Just little scars now.
 
When I bought my first shovelhead back in 78 it wasn't that well made. AMF owned HD at the time. Electronics sucked and my ignition went after a few years. So I used my Buck knife to start my bike. There was a little solenoid under the battery box and I could jumper two leads with the blade. Sometimes though on ocassion I would kind of get it stuck if I didn't hit it just right. keepem sharp
 
I used to dig at the roots of my mango trees for root rot and cut of the diseased roots with my endura before I sold my farm.
 
I once had to use the machette as a paddle in the canoe when my good paddle floated away some distance after being distracted while landing a big pike.
 
I'm a salesman, and i once used my BK11 to pry open a competitor's car door after she locked her keys in it. We got the door pried just enough so she could hit the unlock button with a stick. It was 95 degrees out, and her brand new boss was glaring at us the whole time.

On a side note, I've also used the pliers on a Leatherman to pluck stray ear hairs while driving down the interstate on my way in to the office for sales meetings.
 
Used my Busse SFNOLE to chop through the skull of a huge dead bull elk I found deep in the back country and relieve him of his splendid rack.photo-8.jpg
 
After cutting myself with a cheap safety razor, I used my Mt troodon to shave my legs arms and body for our conference swim meet this weekend in Kentucky.
 
scraped ice off my brothers car window with the back of my delica. he had an ice scraper but kept forgetting to put it in the car.
 
When in the Military, After spending a few weeks in the jungle with out showers or bathing we used the M-7 Bayonet to scrape the sweat and dirt off our bodys didn't stink any less but we felt cleaner. LOL reminds me of the old joke about the new deoderent
It dosent stop the smell but nobody can tell whare its comming from.:eek::D
 
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