What's your beater?

dylan_d

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When a cinder block or a piece a rebar needs to be cut in half, or you feel like carving your name in the pavement, what knife do you reach for? For me, it's my SOG mini autoclip.
 
Originally posted by dylan_d
For me, it's my SOG mini autoclip.
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I have several SOG autoclips. I clip one on if I'm going somewhere where I think I have a good chance of getting the thing taken away from me. They're cheap enough to abuse, for sure, but not tough enough in the handle area. But I actually love the model and, somehow, keep buying them in different colors and shapes.

I have a few CRKT knives for that, especially a big steel-handled tanto M16 that I don't care much about and one of the larger Summit Series knives and a couple of the old Commander Series knives.
 
I reach for my Greco Griffen if we are talking about a task that really shouldn't be executed with a knife
 
I grab my SRKW Battle Rat or my HI BAS Khukuri when there is a tree that shouldn't be where it is! :eek: :D
 
My REKAT Hobbit Fang...Although I really wouldn't call it a "beater", it IS my "use around the house knife".
 
I use my CRKT M-18 at work every day to do all sorts of tasks that could be considered abuse- cutting gasket material on steel, cutting wire, light prying. I have to say although I don't consider this knife one of my favorites, it has held up really well.
 
Originally posted by TheBadGuy
I reach for my Greco Griffen if we are talking about a task that really shouldn't be executed with a knife
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Same here, great solid knife, love it :D
 
My CS Bolo machete. Very sturdy, good handle ergonomics.

When it comes to smaller cutting chores, my CRKT Neck PECK.
 
Cold Steel Twistmaster, it's like having a folding machete, and the Carbon V steel takes a wickedly sharp edge.

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Originally posted by anthony cheeseboro
When I was younger, I would have been tempted to say my right hand,
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I was going to go there, but wasn't feeling clever enough at the time to phrase it just right.

Good "JOB"! ;) He-he.:D
 
I would have to go with my ol' Buck 110. ;) Takes a beating and sharpens back up to a wicked sharp edge in no time.
 
For those bigger 'down and dirty' jobs nothing gets the job done like my $8 CS Panga Machette.

Invaluable camping tool and probably the cheapest item of all my equipment.
 
an 18.5" WWII. At 28oz. and 7/16" at the bolster I can chop through branches the size of my leg and could probably pry open a car door (at least the way they make cars now). On a day to day basis my little Tinker sees more use, though.

Frank
 
My main beater is the knife I carry to work, a Camillus EDC. My at home bater is the Buck/Strider tanto. Both are geat knives, and have handled everything I have thrown at them.
 
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