All About Pocket Knives

I follow a cast iron cooking forum and saw someone frying up dandelion flowers. So, today, on our walk, we got some flowers together. I used my knife in picking and prepping the flowers. Then; coated with a tempura batter and fried. Had tilapia, baked potato, salad and dandelions. They were pretty good...but you could probably tempura-fry strips of an old tennis shoe and they would be good.

Now that is one I have never heard of, Doc B, but I will have to try it.
I have had Dandelion leaves in a salad (a little bitter, but okay), and tea from Dandelion roots.
We once fries Squash blossoms and they were GREAT!

Not very productive today but dang relaxing!

Fuel line replacement weed trimmer.
Schrade Old Timer 12OT.
Great knife for small job's.

Removing a gasket from a boiler.

Ken, "boiler" is a bad word in my vocabulary!
When I first started working with the local school board maintenance department way back in 1974, my 1st job was helping a guy re-insulate an old diesel fired steam boiler used to heat an old high school building. I've scraped many a pump flange with what ever I was carrying back in the day, usually a Case trapper or an Old Timer. There were 8 old boilers that caused me to dislike cold weather. In the late 70's most of the old burners were changed to a duel fuel, natural gas/diesel system and life became more agreeable to some degree. Still had controls and condensate pumps leaking and we still scraped gaskets till all that mess was phased out and replaced with heat pumps.

Enough reminiscing Today I used my Queen #19 to open a new vacuum cleaner box. We have a built in vacuum system, seems like we could have bought another knife or a some ammo instead of a Bissell hoopty-doo.
Treefarmer

Took down a bird today using only a 43...

John

I used the massive spey on this Camillus trapper to shmear my english muffins last week. Didn't have any flesh to cut, so...

Used my trapper to cut the plastic from a case of Dr. Enuf.

Dr. Enuf. Had to look it up. You'd think being around since 1949 I would have heard about it.

Tsar Bomba wrote: ↑Fri Jun 05, 2020 1:41 am Took down a bird today using only a 43...

OMG love that knife!! Just an FYI I take trades


Took this pic yesterday just so I could post in this thread.

Still can't bring myself to use my pocket knife on my food.

But that's me.

Steve Warden wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 12:21 pm Dr. Enuf. Had to look it up. You'd think being around since 1949 I would have heard about it.

Me too, and it's almost as old as me and made in Tn. Who'd thunk it. My local DG supposedly has it in stock, I may have to try it although I swore off sody pops several years ago.

Dr. Enuf is a new one on me, too. I looked up the history but didn't notice the distribution range from Tennessee.

Back on track, I used my SOG Flash II to cut a 3/4" wild grape vine that attacked my mower this morning. I was mowing up under some heavy junk on the edge of a little road and the left front wheel caught the vine and I couldn't get loose from it. The more I backed up, the the more vine came out of the thicket until it got too heavy to pull. The mower is too heavy to lift one corner to free the wheel, so out came the SOG and in a few seconds we were mowing again. I should carry a pair of loppers on the mower for low hanging branches and to fend the occasional attack of a grape vine.
Treefarmer

Steve Warden wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 1:30 pm Still can't bring myself to use my pocket knife on my food.

But that's me.

What?!?! That's ludicrous. It's the number one way to build immunity to COVID XX

Steve Warden wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 1:30 pm Still can't bring myself to use my pocket knife on my food.

But that's me.

How come you won't use it for food? That's half the work load around here. Hope you get that straightened out.

treefarmer wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 8:54 pm Ken, "boiler" is a bad word in my vocabulary!
When I first started working with the local school board maintenance department way back in 1974, my 1st job was helping a guy re-insulate an old diesel fired steam boiler used to heat an old high school building. I've scraped many a pump flange with what ever I was carrying back in the day, usually a Case trapper or an Old Timer. There were 8 old boilers that caused me to dislike cold weather. In the late 70's most of the old burners were changed to a duel fuel, natural gas/diesel system and life became more agreeable to some degree. Still had controls and condensate pumps leaking and we still scraped gaskets till all that mess was phased out and replaced with heat pumps.

Enough reminiscing Today I used my Queen #19 to open a new vacuum cleaner box. We have a built in vacuum system, seems like we could have bought another knife or a some ammo instead of a Bissell hoopty-doo.
Treefarmer

And vaccuums keep getting cheaper and cheaper. We have old Dirt Devils--they are built like tanks. But, in less than 10 years, we've been through 5 others. From switches that stopped working, to even some that exploded after falling down 6 steps. My Shark is a pile of crap. Works really well, but is a little too plastic fantastic (and the latch on the bin wore out, and I'm having to use rubber bands; which often slip loose and dust everywhere). My Grandmother has a Bissell--which feels cheap and works cheap.

My folks bought a Filter Queen for close to $2000 (without even being adjusted for inflation!) back in the 1970s. Still works, just the hose is dry-rotted (and expensive, since it contains electrical contacts to run powered attachments; similar to my Shark), and it got retired because my Granddad was dumb enough to loan it out; and even dumber; it was used to suck ashes out of my great-Grandmother's coal stove. While the company ownership has changed (actually got sold to one of their salesmen/distributors); they still make basically the same vac, and thus parts. Looks like for about $100 in parts (filters, new hose with contacts for powered attachments, maybe power cord) and a little more for the accessories I want, I can have something that will beat everything on the market today; and make a Dyson look like a store brand POS.

Ivoryman wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 7:05 pm

Steve Warden wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 1:30 pm Still can't bring myself to use my pocket knife on my food.

But that's me.

How come you won't use it for food? That's half the work load around here. Hope you get that straightened out.

If all I cut with my knife was food, I wouldn't have a problem. But I cut other things that who knows who's hands have been all over it. I'm not a germaphobe, but I don't eat with dirty hands, either. Nope, not gonna sterilize my knife just so I can cut my food. I'll just grab a knife out of the kitchen drawer.
I also use 3-in-one oil for my knife lube. I did cut an apple once. 3-in-one tastes nasty.

Steve Warden wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 7:13 pm

Ivoryman wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 7:05 pm

Steve Warden wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 1:30 pm Still can't bring myself to use my pocket knife on my food.

But that's me.

How come you won't use it for food? That's half the work load around here. Hope you get that straightened out.

If all I cut with my knife was food, I wouldn't have a problem. But I cut other things that who knows who's hands have been all over it. I'm not a germaphobe, but I don't eat with dirty hands, either. Nope, not gonna sterilize my knife just so I can cut my food. I'll just grab a knife out of the kitchen drawer.
I also use 3-in-one oil for my knife lube. I did cut an apple once. 3-in-one tastes nasty.

Gun oil is part of the reason I don't --that stuff is nasty! But, it seems to work a lot better than mineral oil. And I tend to drop my knives and tools in the barn a lot. In other words, mud and manure. And besides, I have a block full of kitchen knives I've bought new and used over the years; that tend to be sharp unless someone else used them.

If I'm opening food packaging, fine. Doesn't even matter what it is (unless it's raw meat). But, food prep. Gotta be a fixed blade in a hard polymer sheath, since the whole thing can be sterilized.

Mineral oil tastes better. So does olive and baby oil. I used 3 in 1 decades ago, but didn't like the taste or the lingering smell. Break Free CLP is much better and doesn't linger like that as well.

Ivoryman wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 7:20 pm Mineral oil tastes better. So does olive and baby oil. I used 3 in 1 decades ago, but didn't like the taste or the lingering smell. Break Free CLP is much better and doesn't linger like that as well.

Now, see? I do like the smell of 3-in-one. Kinda like Hoppes No. 9 gun oil. I like it.

Baby oil is just mineral oil with perfume. I don't like the taste of perfume, either.

While I know some people do use olive oil as a blade lube, I don't. Being made from fruit it can spoil and go rancid. I won't risk it.

Let’s see, today my 301 cut the label off my new Tilly hat, sliced an apple, opened 6 bags of mulch, a bag of lawn food, fresh bag of dog food and I think that’s it. Pretty slow day but it will be back on the job site tomorrow so it will get plenty of exercise.

Steve, Steve! You need to get out among us civilized folks a bit more! Blue jean and bib overall legs are made for sterilizing pocket knife blades. That bit of information can be found in the Redneck guide book, I forgot what page. I've been tryin' to change Miss Joy's mind for goin' on 54 years, she still believes about like you. She always asks, "What did you cut with that knife?" I'll respond, "I wiped it on my britches leg." Life goes on....

All in jest my friend.
Treefarmer