What's the worst thing your knife has been used for?

cbrstar said:
Ever hand a knife to a co-worker and they grab it with their shirt over their hand as not to leave any fingerprints on it?...Or am I the only one that's worked with some sketchy weirdos?
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Should've told them in a calm and serious tone it's pointless to wipe their prints off it you already have their prints, blood, and other goodies to plant when the time comes...

But no your not alone, we found out a good chunk of our company served time at the same place, same cell block and time frame without knowing. Small company and I don't remember having a background check when I got hired.
 
Most of these are things knives are suited for, though yucky. Most abusive for me has been cutting braided wire of various sorts. Wrecks blades of all sorts. And I've done it so many times! :confused:

Zieg
 
Poop knife? Ok, I’m curious...

A long time ago a guy posted on here that he’d lost his Microtech. I think it was a socom. He had to replace a toilet and it was apparently a PITA job.

He took his frustration out on the offending porcelain throne with a sledgehammer and found his knife inside, covered with :poop:.
 
Stabbing and prying open coconuts with my umnumzaan. I chopped down some trees with my Busse knives and have used them to pry things.
 
Trust me, when I saw my uncle eating that sausage with that knife in his hand I just about sh!t.

For any who are curious, the knife was an OG SOG stingray.
 
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Jocephus1 said:
REALLY gross story....please skip my post if you get squeamish.



my wife borrowed one of my knives to take to work when she worked border patrol. (she's a county deputy now)

Turns out one of the women they apprehended at the border had shoved several small packages of cocaine up her hoo-ha.
Without going into too graphic of a detail, imagine this: unwashed, infected, and on the time of the month. My wife had to cut the packages open with my knife. I wasn't even there and it still makes me wanna throw up.


I threw my knife away.
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We had a gal at our county who had the nickname, "U-haul", due to her ability to bring so many items into the jail...

PS- I do the same job as your wife. :)
 
Keister bunnies!!!

My older brother, about 1973, broke about 1/4" of the tip off of an original fat-guard SOG bowie my dad brought home from Vietnam. And Dad just threw it away.....

Me? Other than the usual bags of cement( a Buck 110 needs a REALLY good cleaning after that, with LOTS of running water), it was probably when we found out that pack-rats had chewed a hole in the water line to the kitchen sink under the cabinets in our trailer, and the resulting water leak was caught by the plastic sheeting that kept the floor insulation in place. For a couple of weeks apparently. I crawled under, and the saggy plastic sheet needed to be cut away to drain the water, as well as to be able to strip the old wet insulation out. It was not a difficult job, except for being about 90 degrees out, until I got to the very last section, right under the kitchen. Found out the hard way that the whole family of pack-rats had drowned in there, because when I cut the water-filled bag the whole thing split and dumped what was left of them on my arm and chest, along with all that nasty stinking water. If you've ever smelled a dead mouse, multiply it by about 50 times! A dead cow in a pond is a very similar smell. I have a strong stomach, but that almost turned it for me...
 
Justjed, man that’s awful! The sog knife and the dead rats. I can only imagine the god awful smell of that mess.
 
AntDog said:
Trust me, when I saw my uncle eating that sausage with that knife in his hand I just about sh!t.

For any who are curious, the knife was an OG SOG stingray.
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Going back to the story about the dead cat, situations like that I put a trash bag over the animal and then work the bag under it so I ain’t touching it and if it pops, it pops in the bag. Gag
 
JC972 said:
Going back to the story about the dead cat, situations like that I put a trash bag over the animal and then work the bag under it so I ain’t touching it and if it pops, it pops in the bag. Gag
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I didn’t think that far ahead. My uncle Terry was hell on wheels - hardcore biker and was showing me the ropes. I didn’t want to come across as a puss, so I just got r dun. I’m surprised I even thought to poke it first at the time.
 
I regularly use my Swiss Army Cybertool to cut network cable. It was an employment gift from a previous job from which I parted ways a little less than cordially. I love to abuse that knife, but it just keeps going. I have had with me every day for 12 years and I have cut wire, made holes in drywall to run network cable through and any other manner of hard tasks I won't use my other knives for. I have sharpened it precisely once in all the time I have owned it. It still will cut through shielded Cat6e cable with very little effort, though the blade is rolled a bit near the pivot. Makes me want to get another one, but I don't think I'd treat it the same if I actually paid for it.
 
As a rancher, castrating calves is not a "worst" thing for us, its a normal thing. Its not only a normal thing but a great thing. As a cow calf outfit our product are the calves taken to the market. Steer calves bring a lot more money than either bull calves or heifers (.030 to .080 cents a pound as of Monday's sale) so having a lot of bull calves to cut and make into steers is a good thing.

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A little disinfectant to make it all better:

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This is a normal thing not just an economic deal. Beef that you eat, for the most part come from steers, (ya can have old bulls and cows in hamburger), any other cuts...steers. Nor is it particularly cruel. I can tell ya the calves object to the restraint more than they do to the castration or even the branding. Anyhoo its a normal deal for us.

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A worst deal? Doctoring a cow with lump jaw. We have a sticker plant here called foxtail. Its excellent feed at certain times of the year but at other times can be problematic. The sticker this plant produces is a very sharp arrow headed shape. It can get lodged down in a cows throat or in the back of the mouth and can fester. I'm talking a volleyball size lump sometimes. So to fix it ya cut a quarter coin size hole in the abscess and squeeze. If the lump is hard you are too late this can only be done when its soft. The stuff that comes out of here WILL make ya loose your lunch, even having done it many times.

Checking a lump and hoping its hard:

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It was. Been some years since we've had to do that. This ol Moore Maker trapper has been sharpened to toothpick over the years. Makes it the perfect doctorin' knife for said very yucky situations:

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I use Mora knives regularly in construction and renovation work ,and cut everything ,even hamner on them when cutting some cables,wire,hoses etc,they hold up well,theyre not zero ground but have slight secondary edge that i put on them,excellent performance overall.
 
Horsewright said:
As a rancher, castrating calves is not a "worst" thing for us, its a normal thing.

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I worked for a cattle operation as a teenager and really enjoyed the work. They banded most bull calves but sometimes we’d have to castrate them. Funny thing, I carried a yellow case trapper and always used it to cut them. I really like the wear on your Moore maker, you can tell it’s honest wear on a working knife. Really enjoyed your post buddy!
 
JC972 said:
I worked for a cattle operation as a teenager and really enjoyed the work. They banded most bull calves but sometimes we’d have to castrate them. Funny thing, I carried a yellow case trapper and always used it to cut them. I really like the wear on your Moore maker, you can tell it’s honest wear on a working knife. Really enjoyed your post buddy!
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Good deal. Thanks. We experimented with banding but went back to cutting. Done well, I think its easier on the calves. I even make a purpose driven "nutter" check this post I did on its development:

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/well-its-pointless.1508574/
 
Had to pry two 6" pipelines apart to make room for some x-ray film. The pry bar bent, so I got something better; my Buck CSAR-T Pro. I put a ridiculous amount of lateral force on the blade and pivot, but no play developed.
 
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