Does Anyone Not Carry A Knife

[Ratbag]

That does it..... I'm only bringing my own kit to the next meet up......

A fiver says you don't

Rat

 

[bushwacker bob]

I have a knife on me at work because it's unsafe not too and I carry one while bushcrafting as it's the done thing and I'd get laughed at if I didn't have one


Cheers,

Bam.

Not if you had you secateurs with you.

 

[JURA]

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Where I walk there is alot of gorse so I don't need to make feather sticks for fire. I use dry standing wood which snaps, I am quite dextrous with secateurs and can remove the smoky bark with them. I can also make digging sticks /with secateurs. I mainly gather and eat wild plants and fungi, if i bring a meat food with me it is kabanossi which just breaks off. Which is why I use secateurs not knife, I also gather willow withies and I can use those to make frame for tarp shelter. Obviously when camping I bring a bread knife and butter knife, but I recon I do away with those with a little thought.

I think most bushcrafters carry knives because they came to bushcraft through fishing and hunting. Where knives are the tool of choice. You cant gut a fish with an axe or secateurs. I came here through different road and feel comfier with a different tool. One day someone will turn up at bushmoot with scythe because that's what they feel comfy with.

WOW.. A kindered spirit.. Could not have put my thoughts so well.. I guess this is what i was driving at in my original question. Other peoples diversity of background and experience shaping their choice of tool. Cool....

 

[gunnix]

Just been on google exploring this thread and came across an american called thomas Elpel who seems to specialise in going off without any kit ! inc a knife. Anybody know any more about him.. im intrigued.

Yea I read many of his articles and got his book "Participating in nature".
He says he usually carries a SAK with saw, knife and scissors. The same as I carry

He's really cool in how he uses very basic cheap kit and often doesn't even take a blanket with him. Making a fire trench of his body length, then covering it with earth and sleeping on it. I think that's the coolest idea. The sandals made of old tires are very nice idea too.

 

[BorderReiver]

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Where I walk there is alot of gorse so I don't need to make feather sticks for fire. I use dry standing wood which snaps, I am quite dextrous with secateurs and can remove the smoky bark with them. I can also make digging sticks /with secateurs. I mainly gather and eat wild plants and fungi, if i bring a meat food with me it is kabanossi which just breaks off. Which is why I use secateurs not knife, I also gather willow withies and I can use those to make frame for tarp shelter. Obviously when camping I bring a bread knife and butter knife, but I recon I do away with those with a little thought.

I think most bushcrafters carry knives because they came to bushcraft through fishing and hunting. Where knives are the tool of choice. You cant gut a fish with an axe or secateurs. I came here through different road and feel comfier with a different tool. One day someone will turn up at bushmoot with scythe because that's what they feel comfy with.

Never tried it but I bet you could if you had to.

 

[lukeuk2]

i dont carry a knife on me at all times only when i go camping.

 

[Goose]

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One day someone will turn up at bushmoot with scythe because that's what they feel comfy with.

Whats the betting that someone posts pictures of their damascus scythe that they have been too embarrassed to show before!

 

[Agile]

Not unless I'm camping - even then I wait until I get there until I attach it to my belt.

 

[demographic]

Whats the betting that someone posts pictures of their damascus scythe that they have been too embarrassed to show before!

No doubt the pic will be taken in a woodland setting and not on the computer desk where they usually keep it

Is there a member called DEATH anyway?

 

[John Fenna]

I always have at least one blade of some sort on me - except when I am in an airoplane!
They are so usefull in everyday life that I feel naked without one, be it a tiny one like that found on my key fod micro multi tool or my belt knife. My constant companion is the good old Leatherman Wave (given to me by Tim Leatherman himself many years ago) which has had so much use that the serrated blade and file have had to be replaced.
I pity those who only see knives as weapons - in my eyes they are just the worlds most versatile tools.
John

 

[Minotaur]

I dont carry a knife for the vast majority of my daily-life.

It dosent fit in with my current way of life; being a IT Technician at a secondary school I dont think my employers would appreciate me having my frosts mora on my belt. However even in this job I have found the need for a blade again and again, tried out having my multi-tool on my belt but it just got in the way at times, I've got a new belt now, might try it again.

A good knife; being one of the most useful tool's I have come across, I wish I did have more of a oppertunity in my daily-life to carry a blade on my person, just for the shear convenience and readiness, but at the same time it appears knifes are becoming more and more "socially-unacceptable" thanks to a whole load of dimwits who carry blades for all the wrong reasons.

I think you need the schools permission to carry on site.

I carry a little pen knife, a cheap sak rip off from woolworths, all the time. I add to it with a leatherman charge xti, a lot of the time, for example if i am going to be opening pc's or things like that. I would not carry this in public/public, unless i have a good reason.

 

[Goliath]

90% of the time I have a knive on me, in daily life mostly one of my SAK's or Leatherman.

Only don't have one when I go to a concert or club or something like that (they don't appreciate that kind of stuff there, although I'd be the last person to use a knive for the wrong reasons).

Like my SAK the best for daily use

Oh by the way, I'm a student in Amsterdam and always have a knive with me there too.

It's legal to have a knive with you (as long as it isn't a lockable knive in urban areas and the blade cannot be longer than an x amount of cm), altho I don't know for sure at school.