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07/28/10, 12:09 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: NE Oklahoma
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Knife carry on the farm?
I know that everyone thas a knife, has an opinon what is the best, but what seems to work best for you? I have carried a yellow handle Schrade for about 25 years. Has been a good one. I carry a belt knife about everyday when I am at home. I pretty well use it about everyday also. I was cutting okra today with it. I carried an Old Timer for years, that is until my tractor seat ate it while brushoging. I don't expect to ever find it. It was a small short blade and worked well for me. After loosing it I was lost without one. I looked around for a small Case belt knife and did not find one to my liking, but I did find a knife that I really like. I have not been a fan of Buck, because most of their knives are bigger than I like. I purchased a Buck Packlite skinner the black and the stainless. They are thin and out of the way and easy to carry. If you are needing a good belt knife that is like I described, check one out on ebay. What do you carry and how does it work for you? By the way Puma is my favorite knife (old ones). I have some put away, too expensive to carry day to day and loose like my other one.
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07/28/10, 12:25 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Korea---but from Missouri
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1) Victorinox Swiss Tool (multitool)--I have the blued one. This is the full size multitool (they also make a small one called the spirit). The blued one has no sissors and a good quality non-serrated blade, a serrated blade, saw, and rasp/file amoungs the other tool. ALL tools open from the outside vs from the inside like on some of the leathermans. Also, all tools lock.
2) Spyderco lockblade--one of the pricers ones VG10 stainless made in Seki City Japan. Well worth the money--keeps an edge for nearly forever as long as it is not abused.
Too a much lesser extent
3) Several small sheath knives made by Bark River and Tool company--quality knives.
4) Leatherman crunch when I can't find myh Swiss Tool.
I like quality knives and tools; Buck is junk and is normally made from soft 440 stainless (you can get OK to good knives made with 440 but it is all in the blade design, heat treatment, and attention to detail and Buck ain't that).
Note that the first two is what I carry everyday; back home, on "the farm", in combat, in the office.
Last edited by silverbackMP; 07/28/10 at 12:28 AM.
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07/28/10, 01:21 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Maine
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Like many of us, I have several knives I use for different purposes. The one that is always in my pockes is a Victorinox Swiss Army knive. The Tinker model. I've had it forever and the only time it's not in my pocket is when I'm going someplace I can't carry it. It gets used for something every day.
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07/28/10, 04:59 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
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knife
Schrade Sharp Finger is a nice small knife. I believe they are made overseas now, so quality may not be up to standards for everyday use.
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07/28/10, 06:12 AM
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A couple times, I've had a nice pocketknife, but I always seemed to end up misplacing the darned thing!
So I switched over to box knives, which are cheap and easily replaceable, and seem to stick around forever. Go figure!
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07/28/10, 06:44 AM
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I always carry a Leatherman. I have a couple and they ride in secure Amish made belt holsters modeled after one I had made a few decades back. I don;t know how anyone can get along without a Leatherman on the farm.
I also carry a pocket folder. Currently it's a small Case. I had a Buck stockman that got lost. I still have my original Buck Stockman from 1972, the lost one was a recent one- made in China. I think my next stockman will be an American made Buck or Case.
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07/28/10, 07:01 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: SW Mo.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bret4207
I always carry a Leatherman. I don't know how anyone can get along without a Leatherman on the farm.
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I'm with Bret on the Leatherman. It is always on my belt whether I'm in the field or in church.
But, like Willowgal, I usually also carry a replaceable blade box(?) knife. Love having a REALLY SHARP small blade.
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07/28/10, 07:22 AM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Indiana
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My little everyday knife is a Case Sodbuster jr. Nice little servicabe knife.
I started carrying a cheap S&W Talon knife with serrated blade. Best thing I ever found for cutting baler twine r other lines. Everybody has a favorite.
Aww, and, DSW & I each have a Kabar, in the BoB's behind the seat in our trucks.
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07/28/10, 07:38 AM
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Leatherman Crunch
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07/28/10, 07:46 AM
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I have a Leatherman, but forget to have it on me half the time. 
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07/28/10, 09:09 AM
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a cheapie lockback or a little 3 blade jack knife.
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07/28/10, 10:48 AM
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A friend of mine sells knives from this company, I have a two bladed folding knife for belt carry. I'm impressed with it.
http://www.mooremaker.com/
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07/28/10, 10:59 AM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Ouachitas, AR
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Quote:
Originally Posted by willow_girl
A couple times, I've had a nice pocketknife, but I always seemed to end up misplacing the darned thing!
So I switched over to box knives, which are cheap and easily replaceable, and seem to stick around forever. Go figure!
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Me too, I think there must be knives buried all over this farm!
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07/28/10, 11:25 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: IN
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benchmade knifes are the best i carried one in iraq and still carry it just about every where. the stay sharp and indesturctable.
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07/28/10, 12:20 PM
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Location: NE Oklahoma
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Whiterock, where is the knives made you mentioned? There, in Texas or just stamped Moore Makers? Thanks!
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07/28/10, 12:25 PM
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Ouch! Pinch you.
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Join Date: May 2010
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Spyderco folding knife, small smooth blade. Buck knife. Can't beat that Buck knife. Used to use it to score bread when I first started baking many, MANY years ago - when I flipped it open for use it scared the stuff out of the country club ladies coming to the counter for their artisan breads  . Guy who taught me to bake loved it.
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07/28/10, 12:30 PM
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Like schools we have a "zero tolerance policy towards knives" on our homestead/farm - everyone's required to carry a knife. You will likely need it many times a day. We carry the flip-close razor knives. We also have old kitchen knives stuck into fence posts around the place which are handy to grab for when you want something bigger.
Cheers
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Sugar Mountain Farm
Pastured Pigs, Sheep & Kids
in the mountains of Vermont
Read about our on-farm butcher shop project:
http://SugarMtnFarm.com/butchershop
http://SugarMtnFarm.com/csa
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07/28/10, 12:43 PM
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Location: Idaho
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I just use a cheap drywall knife. I lose knives too often, and the drywall knives with the long blades that can be broken off are afforable and easy to sharpen. 
I do have a much nicer, heavier knife for butchering and heavy work.
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07/28/10, 01:01 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: South Carolina
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If I have my pants on, I have my "Old Timer" 3 blade folding pocket knife. My father gave it to me when I was 10. I am now 57 and have lost several other knives but I still have that "Old Timer". Will one day give it to my son, but not sure what I will do for a knife then. Guess I'll just have to give it to him on my death bed.LOL
I use "box cutter" knives a lot around the farm. Always keep one in the tool box.
Hank
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