Yeller handles.

My sodbuster is black, but does a yellar handled Case trapper and peanut count? :D.
 
With 300+ knives, my yellowhandles are the only ones that I deem necessary. I can't explain it. It doesn't make sense, but the yellowhandles are the only knives I WILL NOT leave home without. My medium stockman and sodbuster jr both go with me most days. Occassionally I will substitute the soddie for something else, but that is due to what job we are doing that day.

This morning I had a problem arise. Monday and Tuesday we had a large grading and sod install. My medium stockman always rides in my right front pocket. This morning before I left I noticed that from 2 days in the dirt, that knife had lots of dirt/grit in it. It could be heard grinding just opening it up. I washed it out and laid it out to dry. Not thinking I had time to deal with it, I needed something to replace it. My sodbuster jr would be in my back pocket, but with seeding/fertilizing/lime to do today, I needed a knife with a good point in that pocket. I got my Schrade stockman down and put it in my pocket. 2 minutes later I didn't like how it felt in my pocket. Went back to my shelf. Yellowhandle peanut has point to handle what I need. Grab it, and can't feel it even in my pocket. Now my mind is starting to play games with me. I have got people at the shop already on the clock. Can't stand the thought of the medium stockman sitting on the drainboard all day. So I grab the knife and get my wife's hair dryer out. Get it dried and 3-in-1 oil it down. Give it a little TLC, and off to work I go happy as normal. A few people on the clock wasn't important enough to leave my medium stockman at home. Priorities have to be adjusted when a yellowhandle hangs in the balance.
 
Yella slippies are DANGEROUS!!!

My first slippy was a Yellow Delrin Moore Maker small Stockman, then a large one.
Then a Yellow delrin Case medium stockman

Then....And Then.....
Then...a Yellow delrin Moore Maker mini trapper , and a Schrade Walden small stockman

DANGEROUS!!!

Had you Guys posted this thread ages ago, perhaps I could have stopped then!!!
 
65hoss said:
With 300+ knives, my yellowhandles are the only ones that I deem necessary. I can't explain it. It doesn't make sense, but the yellowhandles are the only knives I WILL NOT leave home without. My medium stockman and sodbuster jr both go with me most days...snip
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Great story, 65hoss, many of us know just how you feel.

BTW, which of the medium stockman patterns do you carry? The yellow 3318?
 
I really like this pattern. It makes a nice back pocket knife. With my yellow soddie jr. in the left front pocket, and this one in the right rear, just call me mellow yellow...quite rightly. :)

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Blues said:
Great story, 65hoss, many of us know just how you feel.

BTW, which of the medium stockman patterns do you carry? The yellow 3318?
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Yea, the 3318 CV is my main baby. I have bought several of them so that my daughters will have them also as they grow up.
 
Thanks, 65. SMKW has 'em for $28.99 shipped at the moment. Might not be a bad way for some to get acquainted with the allure of yellow handled CV. ;)
 
I don't have one of these by Mister R. Cover Sr. and don't know anyone who does. Rumor is there is only one in whole universe. Maybe I just dreamed this picture, who knows? It is the Holy Grail I seek.

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Thomason said:
Maybe I just dreamed this picture, who knows? It is the Holy Grail I seek.
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Hey Rob, next time that one shows up in your dreams, why don't you dream that you were walking through a lemon grove in Belize, and one of the trees had four of those yeller Covers just ripe for picking. You picked `em and sent one to me, Elliott, and Mike, and then we started a jazz/blues quartet called the Meller Yeller Fellers...I mean as long as it's a dream...why not?? :)
 
I only have 1 yellow, and thats a case trapper, plan on getting me a few more, they do have real eye appeal, and as some else said if you drop it in the woods, its easier to spot. I hate losing knives.
 
When it's time for some serious cuttin', I prefer to go at it with a yeller sodbuster in each hand. :D

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Is that a subliminal message signifying ball/'busters? ;)
 
when i was a kid i thought the yeller handled knives were the more expensive ones. all this talk of yeller handles inspired me to put a case pen knife in my pocket for the last week, and i ordered a yeller peanut and sodbuster jr.
 
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