Uses for hook on a SAK

[Fraxinus]

This video popped up in my "you might like" box today, it is quite interesting with some neat thinking behind them.
All about uses for possibly the least used attachment on any Swiss army knife. The parcel hook or tent peg puller.

[video=youtube_share;cN231NO5ij0]https://youtu.be/cN231NO5ij0[/video]

Just thought it worth sharing.

Rob.

 

[Tiley]

Excellent! Many thanks for posting. I'm amazed at how many different uses it has!

 

[Fraxinus]

Had a look at some of this guys other vids regarding Sak's, after getting on with some cad work I needed to do, and they are quite interesting too.
I am a long time user of both Victorinox and Wenger brand Sak's (the oldest was purchased some 32 years ago .....boy do I feel old now).
Rob.

 

[homesicksteve]

10/10 for effort & imagination.

Never again will I be stuck on a garage roof with my SAK Compact in pocket...

 

[johnnytheboy]

Suppose it would come in handy if you have no finger strength like this guy ����

 

[Janne]

Useless feature.

 

[Fraxinus]

Suppose it would come in handy if you have no finger strength like this guy ����

Like if you had MS or something?

Useless feature.

As is yet another of your comments

Rob.

 

[Stew]

Useless feature.

surely you mean not very useful. Useless would be no use at all.

 

[Janne]

How many of us have had a need for a hook like this? I guess nit many of us, or we would be able to buy these hooks in various suzes made by different manufacturers.
Hence my comment of useless.

To design a tool people have to invent a use for is a bit stupid.
I rather have a phillips bit there. Or a better toothpick, as I always lose the loose one within a week.

 

[Janne]

As is yet another of your comments

Rob.

All comments on all internet forums are just that!

 

[Fraxinus]

All comments on all internet forums are just that!

With 1,167 posts/comments on here you must be either really bored or just trolling for the heck of it.
Either way I could care less, if you have nothing positive or useful to say maybe you should unplug your keyboard.

with respect, Rob.

 

[John Fenna]

After watching that vid I find my suspicions confirmed.... the hook has no real function that could not be done better with another tool!

 

[Janne]

With 1,167 posts/comments on here you must be either really bored or just trolling for the heck of it.
Either way I could care less, if you have nothing positive or useful to say maybe you should unplug your keyboard.

with respect, Rob.

Not much respect from you, so do not write it.
I did say something useful, the hook is for me a total waste of space that could be utilised for something else.
Positive?
Negative criticism is usually far mire productive that a positive.

Yeah, I do have too much time on my hands.....agree to that.

 

[Janne]

After watching that vid I find my suspicions confirmed.... the hook has no real function that could not be done better with another tool!

I recall reading somewhere that a blunt hook could be used to clean out birds. I do not know how that works, as I always used my fingers.
Maybe someone here knows?

 

[Macaroon]

I'm of an age where my dexterity is not what it once was, compounded by a couple of bouts of surgery a couple of years back; I find a use for the hook on mine almost daily, I like to mess around with roots and cordage when I'm sat having a break in the woods and the hook is a very useful thing to have with me. When my hands have been very cold I've used it to loosen/adjust boot lacing and all sorts of tasks with small diameter dyneema and the like.

The big one, though, is a couple of times when I've needed to mess with wiring behind the dash of the van; impossible to get my fingers into the small and sharp spaces to grab a wire? reach for the hook!

 

[KenThis]

I like the hook, I used it as part of my pirate costume for Halloween...

seriously though I have used it before because my fat fingers arent always able to do what I want.

 

[ED-E]

It's useless until you find some use for it.. I used it multiple times.

Some years ago I used the hook (after sterilizing the knife) to drain a small but still painful infected sebaceous cyst at the ear canal of my travel companion (so it was difficult to reach). Then I flushed out the ear, used an antiseptic.. it healed up nicely.. more importantly the pain was gone almost immediately and we could continue together. Was kind of helpful with no hospital around and no specialized tool in our first aid kit.

After watching that vid I find my suspicions confirmed.... the hook has no real function that could not be done better with another tool!

You mean like every other tool as well? I mean seriously.. There are better tools for every single function a SAK offers. From blade to can opener but that's the beauty of it, isn't it? Being able to carry a multifunctional knife (multi-tool if you will) in your pocket.

 

[Tommyd345]

Iv used the hook for untying knots and getting stuff my fingers won't reach!
Once saw an old SAK ad where the bloke dropped his glasses down the toilet, and used the hook to get them out!!

 

[Tonyuk]

I use it for taking billys off the fire.

Tonyuk

 

[titanius anglesmith]

Hi everyone,
never used one(hook) have not got one. After seeing that vid i now want one.
Regards chris.