What your EDC cuts most often?

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Akwacko

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Livin' up here in Alaska I'm constantly hackin' up dead animals and fish to eat. Not to mention fending off those scary and hairy critters that keep charging and trying to maul me just out of plain meaness. Emergency shelters made with knives? Practically live in them year round. I could go on and on about all the rugged things my EDC does for me, but I simpily don't have the time. The reality is the number one thing I cut when I pull out my BM 705 is . . . . an apple. :p Helps keep me healthy, don't you know. :rolleyes:

I'm curious, what's the thing you use your EDC for most often?

Bruce
 
slicing up cardboard, cutting piping insulation, or cutting ceiling tiles...

If I had a nickle for every time the wife nagged me about my "$100 dollar box cutters", I could afford quite a few more knives :)
 
Cutting open boxes, cutting plastic sheeting, sticking the blade in wood to measure charing(I am a fire investigator), and opening mail. I also use to cut rope and insulation on electrical wiring.

Dan Huff
 
Plastic "blister packs", yo-yo strings, cardboard boxes, cedar saplings, and wire insulation.
 
What my EDC cuts most often.....ME

What I TRY to cut with it most often...food, mail, and quite honestly....the boxes my other knives are shipped in, and the lanyards that I put onto every knife I get:o


Nice to see another Alaskan participating here on the forums. There's four of us now (including myself) that I'm aware of.
 
Most often: envelopes, boxes, cigars, recalcitrant pistachios. Of course, much heavier tasks crop up from time to time, but the EDU (every day use) of my EDC is normally fairly tame.
 
As an architect - paper.

I am so ashamed...

;)

Anyway, every once in a while I get out into the "backwoods". I never take my EDC, though. It's all pretty and shiny. I prefer my "ugly" knives - real workhorses.

Dan
 
Pendesign,
It's okay that you most often cut paper. :( The world needs architects too. ;) Everyone can't be wild and dangerous Alaskan types such as myself and Runs With Scissors. :mad:

The extention cord for my IMAC barely reaches out to this old trappin' cabin of mine here in the wild, wooley, rootin' tootin' town of Anchorage. (shhh! Don't destroy the myth, Runs With Scissors)

Bruce
 
errrrrr....uhmmmmm yeah.....just this morning I had to use my Leatherman to kill a polar bear that was trying to eat up my sled team on the way to the trading post. All i wanted to do was trade a couple of furs for a gallon of milk.....*sigh*

and where did you find the wood for that cabin way the heck out here on the ice? I'm still stuck in an igloo!!

See ya' for the next State Event....will that be Fur Rondy, or the annual state gathering at the new Mc Donalds place?

:D
 
Boxes and those little elves that keep following me around :).
 
wacko and falls on scissors.... :)

I would love to have a chat sometime about life in Alaska. I grew up out west (but not that far west ;) ). I love being in the wide open.

I know I'll end up in Alaska someday. I was this close || to joining the BLM, jumping aboard a fishing boat, or just something, just to get out there. A girlfriend (now long gone) talked me out of it - "too dangerous", she said. Translation: "might not come back". Further translated: "might choose outdoors over her". (looking back now...yep, she was right!)

Anyway, I want to try it out for a while. Only problem is: I am an architect and architecture jobs ain't hot commodities in Alaska (what is anyway?). I've thought about teaching, but the 2 universities there have no architecture programs, just technical courses.
Dream life: teach school & fish all summer.

I'll probably wait until my kids are in the early teens anyway. I want them to fully appreciate it.

I've made friends with 5 Alaskans and they are all weirdos. So, I know I'd fit in just fine. :cool:

Drop a line sometime.

Dan
 
"Falls On Scissors" :D damn, that's the best I've heard yet!

Alaska is an awesome place to live, especially if you thrive in the outdoors. The people that don't do well up here are the ones that are obsessed with city life or come up here with a buncha emotional baggage or addictions. (they contribute to our high rate of suicide, domestic violence, alcoholism, etc)

But really, after about ten years here, it's hard to imagine life anywhere else.

Can't advise much on the job front here, although I can say that they're in DESPERATE need of teachers here. problem being I don't think they'd pay what yer worth.

a couple of links for ya'

http://www.adn.com (Anchorage Daily News)

and the best link: http://sled.alaska.edu/

Don't wanna get too long winded here on the forums, but feel free to drop an email to me at: freakluck@hotmail.com if I can help ya' in any way. One of the cool things about Alaska...there's room enough for everybody

:)

Take care and have a good 'un!
 
My EDC cuts mostly 50LB bags of salt and sodium carbonate. Also some breaking down of cardboard boxes. I can usually go through two weeks of the bags without sharpening, but that cardboard really puts a hurtin on em. Even my BG-42's.

Alex
 
Man you guys in Alaska have it rough I use my EDC to cut thatches fo our grass hut and hula skirts as well as making coconut bras. we gut the wild pigs and chop the wood for the Luaus I also have a big axe that I use to carve logs into Outrigger Canoes.:D

I actually use my EDC on the job everyday to cut wire,hose and boxes. also to open packages and cut packing straps.

Brandon
 
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