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I thought I'd relay a story about my battle rat I picked up over the summer.
The place I work has a staff of old professional carpenters who do alot of work with logs and log cabbins. As such they will often times need someone to go out in the woods and find the necessary trees. While it's not really part of my job, I will alwase volunteer for this duty as it let's me put my Battle Rat to good use.
This perticular trip was going to take most of the day, we had to find 70' of 3" inch red pine as well as assorted other sizes. We used a Stihl 44 for all of the bigger stuff and then went scavenging for the 3 inchers. We found a stand of the right size trees and my buddy wanted to use the Chainsaw to fell them, I handed him my Battle Rat and asked him to give it a shot. I had hit it up with a loaded strop earlier that day, so it was hair-splitting sharp. Three strokes to fell the first one, right down at the base. My friend couldn't believe it, he went to work on a few others before I cut in on the action. That rat would take out a 4" inch red pine in two well placed chops. Comments like "you could live in the woods with that knife", and "this thing is awsome" were offered.
After felling, limbing, and peeling all 70' of red pine the edge was still as sharp as when we'd started.
Keep up the good work SRKW
The place I work has a staff of old professional carpenters who do alot of work with logs and log cabbins. As such they will often times need someone to go out in the woods and find the necessary trees. While it's not really part of my job, I will alwase volunteer for this duty as it let's me put my Battle Rat to good use.
This perticular trip was going to take most of the day, we had to find 70' of 3" inch red pine as well as assorted other sizes. We used a Stihl 44 for all of the bigger stuff and then went scavenging for the 3 inchers. We found a stand of the right size trees and my buddy wanted to use the Chainsaw to fell them, I handed him my Battle Rat and asked him to give it a shot. I had hit it up with a loaded strop earlier that day, so it was hair-splitting sharp. Three strokes to fell the first one, right down at the base. My friend couldn't believe it, he went to work on a few others before I cut in on the action. That rat would take out a 4" inch red pine in two well placed chops. Comments like "you could live in the woods with that knife", and "this thing is awsome" were offered.
After felling, limbing, and peeling all 70' of red pine the edge was still as sharp as when we'd started.
Keep up the good work SRKW
