Do you carry a knife?

TreeDimensional · 22nd January 2008, 10:43 AM

Canada is just about as bad as Australia, except for the sling shot and the crossbow. Our government is kind or quirky, If you steal money they throw you in the crowbar hotel forever, if you kill someone you might get 20 years.
GO figure!

Therrin · 22nd January 2008, 01:33 PM

Wow newguy, you're so hardcore.

Whats with all of us who've been stabbed in the arm? Must be a treeworker thing.

TREE-SURFER · 22nd January 2008, 10:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arbdog

Tree Surfer.... Anybody in possesion of a knife will get knicked now, well thats what the sun said! ( and thats sort of a semi tits/newspaper to all who dont know it).

It's a bit more lapse over here, really, there is not enough stop and search by the police. A few months ago, I was just pulling up outside my house and seen a young feller I know, chasing another lad with a chefs knife. I stopped, confronted the lad and took the knife of him. Like I said, I knew the lad and the father is unknown, so I gave him a clip round the lug-hole for his efforts. His mother intervened when the lad called the cops on me and said I done the right thing. If the cops done their job properly and did more public policing, then the youths around here might not be so belligerent. He didn't realise what he had done. The lad now does work experience for me and is a changed person, not because he's doing work for me, but being guided in the right direction.

I could go on quite a bit about the laws over here, but, plainly speaking, the cops need to be doing a lot more than winging about how much they get paid and get out there and do their job.
They chose to do that job, "get on with it and stop being namby pamby."

Eric Frei · 23rd January 2008, 07:50 PM

Cops are on a good wicket here.

quercus · 24th January 2008, 09:23 AM

well these are my day to day carry knives... Some of my collection.

from left to right...

-every day carry
-high mugging risk or gang area carry (don't carry this very often though, since I live in a safe area and only when in big cities, metro's and at night) can't cut anything with that without destroying it or slashing it up, but showing it is enough to get someone on the run most of the time...
This one is designed for hand to hand combat.
-concealed carry when wearing tuxedo's or suits
-rescue knife for climbing (this knife is completely embedded in the front pocket of a handsaw holster on my climbing harness, right under Ekka's sink actually!!!)

every one of them is one hand opening and with a flick of the wrist, they open up at a speed compared to a stiletto...

Steve Tipton · 24th January 2008, 03:55 PM

Pretty lethal looking lineup.
I just carry a Victorinox Swiss Army job.

Tree Machine · 24th January 2008, 04:29 PM

I am a big fan of the Leatherman multi-tools. There's a knife in there, and you can just about take a chainsaw, or mountain bike, completely apart into their component pieces.

I like tools that multitask.

You know what I like even more than that? Sharpening. Bringing steel to a razor's edge is something I enjoy even more than putting eye terminations in ropes.

I got my Mother-in-law a two-sided diamond hone for Christmas, just so I could sharpen all her knives. I go at a knife blade until you can shave hair off your forearm, like where gravity about takes your knife through the tomato. I can't explain, I just love sharpening things. Scissors, Machete, it doesn't really matter. But especially the tree tools, pole pruners, hand pruners, chains. And woodworking tools, chisels, scrapers.

I love sharpening chipper blades.

But I beg your pardon, that was derailing the thread as we are indeed talking about knives.

If I have to use someone's dull knife for something that needs a sharp knife, there is pain, agony, blood pressure rises. Weird disorder.

Tree Machine · 24th January 2008, 04:40 PM

I never carry a knife in the tree, but always a Silky Saw. If I had an out-of-the-way, bombproof mount for a multi-tool on the back of my saddle,....

then that would be a potentially useful, rather light and unobtrusive saddle mod. If a Leatherman mount were incorporated into a saddle, you would always know where your leatherman is.

I began carrying a leatherman almost two decades. They've been on some wild adventures.

Leatherman has evolved into some really excellent lines of sharpware, including THIS YEAR hand Pruners. Please go check out their gear.

windthrown · 24th January 2008, 07:18 PM

Yah, I carry a Letherman in my truck all the time. As well as a Felco folding saw. Carry knives are usually Kershaws. I also have a Kershaw multi-blade skinning knife set, and well, lots of other knives.

Therrin · 24th January 2008, 09:48 PM

Windthrown, love my kershaw, it holds a razor edge very nicely.

TreeMachine, if you like sharpening that much, maybe you can figure out a way to put an edge on my daily-carry knife. It's flat on one side, and beveled on the other. Tanto tip, half straight, half serrated.

The first is the manufacturer's pic, the next 2 are actual pics of my knife. You can see the beveled edge in the first photo, and the flat side in the next photo.

Therrin · 24th January 2008, 09:49 PM

MMmmmm, almost forgot about mah baby...

Quercus.... if someone needed scaring around your streets, this is a good knife for it. It's a Gil Hibben "Dragon Slayer".

Sean Freeman · 24th January 2008, 10:00 PM

Thats one oversized letter opener!!

Tree Machine · 25th January 2008, 01:02 AM

Hey MICK DUNDEE, is THAT a knife?

arbdog · 25th January 2008, 09:24 PM

think you lot are hoody chavs really!

windthrown · 26th January 2008, 06:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ekka

Cops are on a good wicket here.

What does that mean in non-Aussy English? Or rather, Amurikan?

Sean Freeman · 26th January 2008, 06:51 PM

"Hoodys" are the cool street kids that wear hooded tracksuit type gear (at least I think thats right??? haven't lived there since 88' no such thing then just skinheads and hippies!)

arborcorp · 27th January 2008, 06:24 PM

I'm in NZ and I carry a knife, its an important tool, When I was out muscled once, I pulled it out as a defence option, and asked the guy to back down, he did, and I put the knife away and walked off unharmed.
However the police were informed of the incident and pressed charges on me, I stood up for my actions and discovered this.... If you think your body is in danger of being damaged, you are allowed to take what ever measure you deam neccasary to protect your body. and that is the bottom line. I got off my charge. They gave me my knife back, and I told them straight, I will continue to carry it, and if they think it is so wrong they can ban big companies from selling swiss army knifes as fathers day presents on TV.

Tree Machine · 28th January 2008, 02:24 AM

Wow, here in the U.S. they're trying to outlaw 5 and unders from bringing knives to Kindergarten class. It's voluntary, though, at the moment. LOL

newguy18 · 28th January 2008, 02:54 AM

and pistols for show and tell.

arbdog · 29th January 2008, 11:31 PM

Hoodies are what 90% of teenage population in the u.k wear to conceal themselfs. And with such a high rate of knife crime and its mainly them!

TREE-SURFER · 30th January 2008, 12:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Therrin

MMmmmm, almost forgot about mah baby...

Quercus.... if someone needed scaring around your streets, this is a good knife for it. It's a Gil Hibben "Dragon Slayer".

That's not a Knife.......

Now, that's a knife

newguy18 · 30th January 2008, 01:57 AM

wheres the kitchen sink?

TREE-SURFER · 30th January 2008, 05:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by newguy18

wheres the kitchen sink?

It's on Quercus' Saddle

DBS · 30th January 2008, 08:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arbdog

Hoodies are what 90% of teenage population in the u.k wear to conceal themselfs. And with such a high rate of knife crime and its mainly them!

Dont need hoodies here for kids to conceal!!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7507033854054960824&q=lots+of+guns+in+pants&total=39&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=4

-Daryl

TreeDimensional · 30th January 2008, 08:36 AM

Wow, DBS if that kid had a chainsaw in his jeans he would have been complete. We talk about PPE in the treecare game, I can't imagine what a kid at school would need for protection against the arsenal that that one was carrying around.

I'm glad i live where I can see ?m coming for 10 miles.

windthrown · 30th January 2008, 12:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TREE-SURFER

That's not a Knife.......

Now, that's a knife

I'd rep yah on that one if this was AS!!!!!

The 12 handed Swiss Army knife...

newguy18 · 30th January 2008, 02:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DBS

Dont need hoodies here for kids to conceal!!

Kid shows off why dress code is what it is at that school!

-Daryl

TREE-SURFER · 30th January 2008, 08:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DBS

Dont need hoodies here for kids to conceal!!

Kid shows off why dress code is what it is at that school!

-Daryl

You'd think someone would notice if a pump action was down a lads trousers.
He'd be dead anyway, too much thinking about which smoke wagon to pull out first.

Therrin · 30th January 2008, 10:27 PM

Unless he was in a high school setting with lots of people unfamiliar with firearms. In such a setting, a kid with that much gear down his trousers, and the ability to get on-campus could do some real damage. Fire till your mag is empty, reach down and grab some more, keep goin and goin...

They've got a really good argument for having shirts tucked in. I carred a S&W .38 snub nose for a couple years in my pocket. Ya couldn't have even noticed it was there. That and had one of those little .25 auto's... cept that they go like this "BANG JAM JAM JAM BANG JAM BANG JAM JAM JAM JAM BANG".... utterly worthless!

newguy18 · 31st January 2008, 01:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Therrin

Unless he was in a high school setting with lots of people unfamiliar with firearms. In such a setting, a kid with that much gear down his trousers, and the ability to get on-campus could do some real damage. Fire till your mag is empty, reach down and grab some more, keep goin and goin...

They've got a really good argument for having shirts tucked in. I carred a S&W .38 snub nose for a couple years in my pocket. Ya couldn't have even noticed it was there. That and had one of those little .25 auto's... cept that they go like this "BANG JAM JAM JAM BANG JAM BANG JAM JAM JAM JAM BANG".... utterly worthless!

I have a 1921 colt ya know.

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22nd January 2008, 10:43 AM	#61
TreeDimensional Mature Tree Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 426	Re: Do you carry a knife? Canada is just about as bad as Australia, except for the sling shot and the crossbow. Our government is kind or quirky, If you steal money they throw you in the crowbar hotel forever, if you kill someone you might get 20 years. GO figure!

22nd January 2008, 01:33 PM	#62
Therrin Former Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Bakersfield, Ca Posts: 2,512	Re: Do you carry a knife? Wow newguy, you're so hardcore. Whats with all of us who've been stabbed in the arm? Must be a treeworker thing.

23rd January 2008, 07:50 PM	#64
Eric Frei Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 12,820	Re: Do you carry a knife? Cops are on a good wicket here. __________________ Protect your rights to work - Join Australian Tree Association My businesses:- Qualified Brisbane Tree Lopping \| Stump Grinding Brisbane \| Brisbane - Gold Coast Consulting Arborist

24th January 2008, 09:23 AM	#65
quercus Mature tree Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: belgium Posts: 368	Re: Do you carry a knife? well these are my day to day carry knives... Some of my collection. from left to right... -every day carry -high mugging risk or gang area carry (don't carry this very often though, since I live in a safe area and only when in big cities, metro's and at night) can't cut anything with that without destroying it or slashing it up, but showing it is enough to get someone on the run most of the time... This one is designed for hand to hand combat. -concealed carry when wearing tuxedo's or suits -rescue knife for climbing (this knife is completely embedded in the front pocket of a handsaw holster on my climbing harness, right under Ekka's sink actually!!!) every one of them is one hand opening and with a flick of the wrist, they open up at a speed compared to a stiletto... Attached Thumbnails

24th January 2008, 03:55 PM	#66
Steve Tipton Over mature heritage tree Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Sydney Posts: 823	Re: Do you carry a knife? Pretty lethal looking lineup. I just carry a Victorinox Swiss Army job. __________________ Heightmaster

24th January 2008, 04:29 PM	#67
Tree Machine Over mature heritage tree Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 955	I am a big fan of the Leatherman multi-tools. There's a knife in there, and you can just about take a chainsaw, or mountain bike, completely apart into their component pieces. I like tools that multitask. You know what I like even more than that? Sharpening. Bringing steel to a razor's edge is something I enjoy even more than putting eye terminations in ropes. I got my Mother-in-law a two-sided diamond hone for Christmas, just so I could sharpen all her knives. I go at a knife blade until you can shave hair off your forearm, like where gravity about takes your knife through the tomato. I can't explain, I just love sharpening things. Scissors, Machete, it doesn't really matter. But especially the tree tools, pole pruners, hand pruners, chains. And woodworking tools, chisels, scrapers. I love sharpening chipper blades. But I beg your pardon, that was derailing the thread as we are indeed talking about knives. If I have to use someone's dull knife for something that needs a sharp knife, there is pain, agony, blood pressure rises. Weird disorder.

24th January 2008, 04:40 PM	#68
Tree Machine Over mature heritage tree Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 955	I never carry a knife in the tree, but always a Silky Saw. If I had an out-of-the-way, bombproof mount for a multi-tool on the back of my saddle,.... then that would be a potentially useful, rather light and unobtrusive saddle mod. If a Leatherman mount were incorporated into a saddle, you would always know where your leatherman is. I began carrying a leatherman almost two decades. They've been on some wild adventures. Leatherman has evolved into some really excellent lines of sharpware, including THIS YEAR hand Pruners. Please go check out their gear.

24th January 2008, 07:18 PM	#69
windthrown Former Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: In the Great Pacific Northwest Posts: 1,211	Re: Do you carry a knife? Yah, I carry a Letherman in my truck all the time. As well as a Felco folding saw. Carry knives are usually Kershaws. I also have a Kershaw multi-blade skinning knife set, and well, lots of other knives.

24th January 2008, 09:48 PM	#70
Therrin Former Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Bakersfield, Ca Posts: 2,512	Re: Do you carry a knife? Windthrown, love my kershaw, it holds a razor edge very nicely. TreeMachine, if you like sharpening that much, maybe you can figure out a way to put an edge on my daily-carry knife. It's flat on one side, and beveled on the other. Tanto tip, half straight, half serrated. The first is the manufacturer's pic, the next 2 are actual pics of my knife. You can see the beveled edge in the first photo, and the flat side in the next photo.

24th January 2008, 09:49 PM	#71
Therrin Former Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Bakersfield, Ca Posts: 2,512	Re: Do you carry a knife? MMmmmm, almost forgot about mah baby... Quercus.... if someone needed scaring around your streets, this is a good knife for it. It's a Gil Hibben "Dragon Slayer".

24th January 2008, 10:00 PM	#72
Sean Freeman Monument Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland Posts: 1,985	Re: Do you carry a knife? Thats one oversized letter opener!!

25th January 2008, 01:02 AM	#73
Tree Machine Over mature heritage tree Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 955	Hey MICK DUNDEE, is THAT a knife?

25th January 2008, 09:24 PM	#74
arbdog Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: england Posts: 108	Re: Do you carry a knife? think you lot are hoody chavs really!

26th January 2008, 06:51 PM	#76
Sean Freeman Monument Status Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland Posts: 1,985	Re: Do you carry a knife? "Hoodys" are the cool street kids that wear hooded tracksuit type gear (at least I think thats right??? haven't lived there since 88' no such thing then just skinheads and hippies!)

27th January 2008, 06:24 PM	#77
arborcorp Sappling Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: New Zealand Posts: 5	Re: Do you carry a knife? I'm in NZ and I carry a knife, its an important tool, When I was out muscled once, I pulled it out as a defence option, and asked the guy to back down, he did, and I put the knife away and walked off unharmed. However the police were informed of the incident and pressed charges on me, I stood up for my actions and discovered this.... If you think your body is in danger of being damaged, you are allowed to take what ever measure you deam neccasary to protect your body. and that is the bottom line. I got off my charge. They gave me my knife back, and I told them straight, I will continue to carry it, and if they think it is so wrong they can ban big companies from selling swiss army knifes as fathers day presents on TV.

28th January 2008, 02:24 AM	#78
Tree Machine Over mature heritage tree Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 955	Wow, here in the U.S. they're trying to outlaw 5 and unders from bringing knives to Kindergarten class. It's voluntary, though, at the moment. LOL

28th January 2008, 02:54 AM	#79
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 4,977	Re: Do you carry a knife? and pistols for show and tell. __________________ Have your say join us today. old schooler

29th January 2008, 11:31 PM	#80
arbdog Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: england Posts: 108	Re: Do you carry a knife? Hoodies are what 90% of teenage population in the u.k wear to conceal themselfs. And with such a high rate of knife crime and its mainly them!

30th January 2008, 01:57 AM	#82
newguy18 Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 4,977	Re: Do you carry a knife? wheres the kitchen sink? __________________ Have your say join us today. old schooler

30th January 2008, 08:36 AM	#85
TreeDimensional Mature Tree Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 426	Re: Do you carry a knife? Wow, DBS if that kid had a chainsaw in his jeans he would have been complete. We talk about PPE in the treecare game, I can't imagine what a kid at school would need for protection against the arsenal that that one was carrying around. I'm glad i live where I can see ?m coming for 10 miles.

30th January 2008, 10:27 PM	#89
Therrin Former Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Bakersfield, Ca Posts: 2,512	Re: Do you carry a knife? Unless he was in a high school setting with lots of people unfamiliar with firearms. In such a setting, a kid with that much gear down his trousers, and the ability to get on-campus could do some real damage. Fire till your mag is empty, reach down and grab some more, keep goin and goin... They've got a really good argument for having shirts tucked in. I carred a S&W .38 snub nose for a couple years in my pocket. Ya couldn't have even noticed it was there. That and had one of those little .25 auto's... cept that they go like this "BANG JAM JAM JAM BANG JAM BANG JAM JAM JAM JAM BANG".... utterly worthless!

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