would you lend your knife in a survival situation?

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psy-ops

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taking into account the real extreme situations like you have become dependent on someone else and they don't have a knife so you lend them yours. or other obvious situations.


the situation is there are a group of people who don't especially know very well and you are the only one with only one knife.


Do you lend it? yes or no
 
NO! Since they don't know well and don't have a knife, they probably don't know how to use one. They would probably start banging the edge on a rock for sparks or put it on the end of a stick for a spear and lose it. Nope, would not lend my knife. Besides, I like cutting and chopping stuff, so I can use it for them:D

This is of course depending on me having full use of my body(being able to walk around and use my arms). If I can't, then I will have to have one of them put my knife in my mouth so I can use it:p
 
Not hard core survival situations but been on a few hard adventures with other people, loaned my knife and on each occasion had it returned significantly harmed. Don't loan it anymore - ever. But real survival may be different.
 
No more than I would lend my firearms if I was caught in the middle of a riot. And if that's not clear enough, "Not no, but Hell no."
 
Did that once...NEVER again !!! Instead, I go to the Salvation Army and buy kitchen knives to GIVE out then tell the reciever to learn more about survival and get a good one.
 
NO WAY...The last time I loaned out a knife the individual lost it. I am a slow learner the first time i did this the lock got screwed up.

I am more inclined to tell them to find the lid from a tin can or a piece of broken glass:D
 
awhile back I posted a thread on survival and morality, which went into the ethics of helping people. (which I totally beleive in) BUT I do not believe in giving away a valuable tool to some ignorant user which could make your situation even worse.
 
Way back in high school, during one of those covert beer bashes out in the woods, I loaned some a-hole kid my Swiss Army knife to open some bottles. He brought me back the knife and just said thanks. A day or two later, I opened up the main blade to cut something and it had been bent about 1/3 of the way down from the tip.

Years later, at a cookout, I brought along a small hatchet to use for cutting up firewood. A buddy of mine who was there asked to borrow it to cut down to size a long stick for sausage cooking. I said sure. He proceeded to set that stick across a good sized rock and wail on it with the hatchet. I swear, more sparks than wood chips were flying. "Whoa! Hold on there, Corky!" I said, taking back the hatchet. It wasn't a great hatchet and (thank God) not one of my knives. But it did really open my eyes – again – to just how clueless a lot of folks can be when it comes to edged tools.

Loan my knife in a survival situation? Don't bet your life on it, 'cause I'm not either.
 
No. I even put away my good kitchen knives when we have company over, due to the incredibly ignorant way most people handle them. One person filled the sink with hot soap and water (think bubble bath), dumped all the knives in, let them soak, then reached in and grabbed one, and was surprised that she got cut. :rolleyes:

I don't lend out my truck either, but this is the wrong forum for that.
 
Nope had to many knives ruined "loaning" them to someone. Everyone I ever loaned out ended up being used as a screwdriver, Something to jump over a starter solenoid or to cut welding cables!
 
My only EDC is a Wenger version of the classic( I like the scissors). This I would lend to someone. My carry knive changes from day to day. It is usually a AM Sere 2K or Spydie Wegner.
Bob
 
A difficult question for me to answer with just a yes or no.

I often have more than one knife or other tool for this purpose.
The circumstances are important to me. If I am at camp and other suitable tools are available then the person without the knife can use another tool other than my knife. If I am away from other equipment and my knife becomes an integral item for survival, I would first evaluate if I can do the task myself without lending out my knife and the very last option would be to actually hand over MY survival tool for someone else to use.
 
dart, just to guide you back on track,:)

taking into account the real extreme situations like you have become dependent on someone else and they don't have a knife so you lend them yours.or other obvious situations.


So there are no axes or chainsaws etc. and you have the only knife!
 
I am with swede79 on this one.... I wont let my wife use my good kitchen knives. :D Logan1 said it right, if they dont have a blade chances are mine will only cut them and then I would have to use MY first aid kit to sort that out...........NO WAY;)
 
Yes or NO,

Assuming that we are talking about no hope of immediate rescue or outside support.

NO!

I would not loan my knife, even if I had two. Why? If you loan the only knife that stands between you and survival, and it get lost, destroyed, damaged the group or portions of the group do not survive. The group survival thing is great, but individual and family survival is what I plan for, anything that may jeopardize that is out of the question. This may seem to be a cold assessment, but survival requires cold decisions.
If you possess the only knife, why give the survival tool you and yours depend on to others, whom ever you give the knife to may have already arrived a the conclusion that the possessor of the knife has best chance of survival, the rest have less of a chance.

Just my opinion
 
I have been asked to borrow my knife so many times that i came up with a simple solution. I carry a single erdged razor blade in my wallet. When people want to open a box or do some other mundane chore they get the razor.

The other day I broke my own rule and loaned a friend my Spyderco Endura to cut the cable ties off his suitcase zippers. On the first one he put the blade through my mother-in-laws handmade quilt hanging over the edge of the bed. OOPS. I still haven't told her. Mac
 
Yea, I have loaned knives to folks that I thought knew what a knife is for, only to find out their idea is a, screw driver, b, paint scraper, c, battery terminal cleaner w/ the terminals still connected or d, bottle cap opener. I quit the practice of loaning knives years ago, if folk need a knife, then need THEY TO BUY a knife.

My opinion
 
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