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Post by JRinGeorgia on Mar 5, 2019 18:05:58 GMT -8
So I've been wondering about a big ass knife. Is it...
an ass knife that's really big,
or,
a knife that's really ass big?
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Post by tigger on Mar 5, 2019 19:54:46 GMT -8
...Yes
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Post by reuben on Mar 6, 2019 2:26:43 GMT -8
I'm going to say the latter, because the former really really scares me.
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Post by driftwoody on Mar 6, 2019 10:07:54 GMT -8
I strap it to my leg with a couple of pieces of rawhide. You strap what that way -- your euphemism?
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Post by driftwoody on Mar 6, 2019 10:09:24 GMT -8
I never saw a need for one of those because every ass I've encountered is already sliced down the middle (vertically).
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Post by ukpacker on Mar 10, 2019 3:32:42 GMT -8
In summer I carry a small lightweight knife with a locking blade . Used for opening food packets,cutting small stuff. No idea what I would use a Bowie type knife for and I am too weak to even carry something like that. I lost a knife on my last visit to the US . Tried to replace it in a hunting shop in the Bitteroot Valley Montana,all they had were huge knives for skinning bears and expensive ones that looked more like jewelry,almost none of which had a locking blade,vital for safety in a folding knife. I told the store assistant I just wanted a small utility knife with a locking blade and he just sneared at me.I suppose it's a culture thing. Now I am travelling on snow pulling a pulk so I carry a small folding saw just in case I need to make a shelter,and a small folding multi tool with pliers to remove the crampons on my snow shoes for flying.
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Post by bluefish on Mar 10, 2019 5:29:55 GMT -8
In summer I carry a small lightweight knife with a locking blade . Used for opening food packets,cutting small stuff. No idea what I would use a Bowie type knife for and I am too weak to even carry something like that. I lost a knife on my last visit to the US . Tried to replace it in a hunting shop in the Bitteroot Valley Montana,all they had were huge knives for skinning bears and expensive ones that looked more like jewelry,almost none of which had a locking blade,vital for safety in a folding knife. I told the store assistant I just wanted a small utility knife with a locking blade and he just sneared at me.I suppose it's a culture thing. Now I am travelling on snow pulling a pulk so I carry a small folding saw just in case I need to make a shelter,and a small folding multi tool with pliers to remove the crampons on my snow shoes for flying. Shopping for a backpacking knife in a hunting supply is like trying to buy a veggie burger in a slaughterhouse. Better off in a hardware store. Skinning out an elk with a small blade is akin to staking out your tent with toothpicks.
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Post by BigLoad on Mar 10, 2019 11:30:26 GMT -8
Shopping for a backpacking knife in a hunting supply is like trying to buy a veggie burger in a slaughterhouse. Better off in a hardware store. Skinning out an elk with a small blade is akin to staking out your tent with toothpicks. I think that's often true, but I sometimes meet hunters with interesting boutique or custom gear, including reasonably sized knives.
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Post by ukpacker on Mar 15, 2019 8:26:51 GMT -8
I wanted my saw and fixed blade this past week, but wasn't carrying them. Back to back overnighters with side trips to check out a bunch of waterfalls after last weekend's flooding, and made camp early enough to want a little fire one night. Nothing would burn. I split some ~1" stuff with my pocket knife to get at the center, and swear the paper thin shavings actually felt damp. Stuff I could normally light with a firesteel wouldn't burn over the direct flame of a lighter. I started over, made a Ziploc sandwich bag worth of fine shavings, dumped that onto a piece of paper towel to get it started, and the freaking paper towel wouldn't even stay lit. Didn't have a stove, and wasn't carrying a trioxane tab or mini Zipp firestarter like I used to, because I rarely doubt my ability to get a fire going. 'Course I had no real need for a fire, but humbling stuff, nonetheless. When it’s that wet, it’s not a saw you need, but some kind of sustaining fire starter—I carry (sometimes—not in the Sierra anymore) a “candle” made by pouring wax over wood shavings in each cup of an egg carton, with a bit of wick in it. If I needed to, I could burn the whole thing to get a fire going, but so far I’ve never needed more than half of one. Best part was it was pretty much all just waste I had around—candle ends and egg cartons and wood shavings were all by-products of other activities. I melt the wax in a double boiler made of an old pan and a tin can. Hand sanitizer makes a useful fire starter that many of us will be carrying.
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Post by texasbb on Mar 15, 2019 8:46:33 GMT -8
Hand sanitizer makes a useful fire starter that many of us will be carrying. Gotta love dual-use: starting fires and cultivating drug-resistant bacteria!
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Post by rebeccad on Mar 15, 2019 10:50:50 GMT -8
Hand sanitizer makes a useful fire starter that many of us will be carrying. Gotta love dual-use: starting fires and cultivating drug-resistant bacteria! Alcohol-based sanitizer without any biocides doesn’t do that; it may also not do much for sanitation if you aren’t getting your hands clean anyway. I’ve seen mixed reports on whether it’s worth it; hospitals continue to use it but that may be partly because it’s reassuring. Anyway, as fire starter I’ve found it’s only so-so. It’s usually about 50% water and other crap (you have to distill it some to use it as fuel in your alky stove). Still, it’s probably the one fire-starter thing I do carry every time, and I’d try it if I needed to.
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Post by outbac1 on Mar 15, 2019 11:15:24 GMT -8
You need about 70% ethyl or isopropyl alcohol. I just tried some. About what you would put on your hand, and it burned over two minutes. Those little alcohol wipes they use in hospitals. They burn well too. Though not for long. They do take a spark from a fero rod fairly well. Are cheap to buy so you can shove a few everywhere.
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Post by ukpacker on Mar 15, 2019 13:32:30 GMT -8
I have tried hand sanitizer as a priming paste in an MSR Whisperlight and it worked fine, safer than the usual method of priming if I need to light a liquid fuel stove in a tent porch.
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Post by texasbb on Mar 15, 2019 16:59:57 GMT -8
Gotta love dual-use: starting fires and cultivating drug-resistant bacteria! Alcohol-based sanitizer without any biocides doesn’t do that; ... Yeah, I was aware the alcohol goo is safer than the antibiotic type(s), but had to get my jab in. Hand sanitizer is one of my pet peeve products useful mainly for generating revenue on med company books and fear, doubt, guilt, liability, and dangerous unintended consequences among the public.
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Post by johntpenca on Mar 15, 2019 17:07:37 GMT -8
Hand sanitizer is one of my pet peeve products I wouldn't call hand sanitizer a pet peeve, but think it is over hyped.
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