Will it snap under my weight?

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I'm thinking you could fashion some type of emergency raft with a ripcord into a backpack. Then if you fall you can just slide down the hill safely into the water like in Temple of Doom. There, problem solved :thumbsup:


In all seriousness, before we can answer the question the OP should time himself doing a dead hang from a pull-up bar. This will not only tell his likelihood of supporting himself in the type of fall he is proposing, but it has in fact statistically been proven to predict lifespan in general.
 
No, the knife will not fail. Unfortunately, your hand strength will fail first, though, and the knife will be lost forever in the fall down a brushy, rock-studded slope. Since it is a CPM S35 VN steeled blade, the density of the knife will cause it to tumble uncontrollably down the slope, ending in a spectacular summersault into the river below.

You, on the other hand, will be saved by a puny shrub just above the river. Blessings!
 
Grappling hook in one hand, smatchet in the other. :cool: 👍

ferider said:
Speaking of which, what are the current COVID restrictions for xenomorphs up there ? How many are allowed to meet in the Rockies ? J/k
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sharpknives23 said:
If I was sliding down a hill, or an embankment of some sort, and I pulled this knife out and stabbed it into the ground, would it hold me without breaking? Or would I fall to my death? I weigh 300lbs, thank you
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You would have to figure the kinetic energy involved .

How fast is that 300# moving and how abrupt is this mass arrested in its plunge to doom ? :eek:

I think you should try it and have someone take a video . :rolleyes:
 
funny you should ask about this op. I slide down cliffs and hills all the time. i have even used that sog to stick in the cliff and stop myself. you'll be good until it hits a rock then you're screwed......

ya better have a buckmaster 184 with the spikes on it so you can toss on your way down and rappel yourself back up.
 
Try a ka bar it's probably one of the toughest knives out there but I don't really get how you'd go falling and needing to stick it into the ground
 
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They did this on "Mythbusters". The problem with real period sails (and not just stage props) is that they have what are called "reef bands", where there is an extra layer or layers of material through which line (rope) is inserted so that the amount slack in the sail can be increased or reduced (known as reefing). Either the knife is dull enough to go through the sail and reduce your speed but not sharp enough to go through the reef band (and the knife will twist out of your hand and you'll fall), or so sharp that it glides through both the sail and reef bands and you don't slow down at all.
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IIRC , "Hollywood Weapons " tested this also and I believe it sort of worked for them ?

But I don't think they used "real period sails " .
 
I’m with KenHash, no soil that you can stab your knife into will hold 300 lbs. You’re going down.

Tether yourself off to a nearby tree trunk or rock outcrop, with abrasion protection at any sharp spots.

Yo Mama, I know a guy who was installing standing seam metal roof in November when it started to snow lightly. He thought, I’ll just finish up these two pieces and get off here. When he started sliding, he ripped his framing hammer out of his belt and stuck the claws through the metal into the sheeting, thus avoiding a 3 story fall. He told me he was so lucky that his hammer was backwards in his loop, and that he doesn’t recall thinking about it, just doing it.

Every roof job we’ve worked on since, he ropes up.

Parker
 
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I’m with KenHash, no soil that you can stab your knife into will hold 300 lbs. You’re going down.

Tether yourself off to a nearby tree trunk or rock outcrop, with abrasion protection at any sharp spots.

Yo Mama, I know a guy who was installing standing seam metal roof in November when it started to snow lightly. He thought, I’ll just finish up these two pieces and get off here. When he started sliding, he ripped his framing hammer out of his belt and stuck the claws through the metal into the sheeting, thus avoiding a 3 story fall. He told me he was so lucky that his hammer was backwards in his loop, and that he doesn’t recall thinking about it, just doing it.

Every roof job we’ve worked on since, he ropes up.

Parker
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I had a similar experience on sawdust on an OSB sheeted roof. And I know other rough framers that mention something like that.

Every experienced carpenter I know that spends any time on a roof carries a hammer with straight claws.
 
It would depend on which direction the blade is facing. If the edge was facing towards you then yes the knife would survive, although I doubt it would help you at all in a fall. If the blade was held flat with the edge facing to the side, then provide the blade is completely stuck in something then it would probably snap if you had any momentum. I would advise you to never try this as you'd probably end up either stabbing yourself or breaking your neck. From personal experience falling down a black diamond slope at a ski resort, I can assure you that pulling out a sharp pointy object is about the last thing you want to do, unless you want to end up bleeding out on the way to the emergency room....
 
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