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Post by randomnobody on Sept 17, 2018 15:32:32 GMT
Box cutters are fine until you break the blade or need more depth. An old fashioned flat sliding disposable box cutter the epitome of flatness ... I once watched a video of some fellow demonstrating the fallacy of "safety" box cutters. Specifically, the metal sleeve sliding models with maybe 1/4-1/2" exposed blade. In one test, he nearly severed a pork loin in one cut, about the size of a typical arm. I never carried those because they kept sliding open and stabbing my leg. I use an Easy Cut 2000 or something now. Decent utility knife, easy to use, but I feel like I don't get much use from each blade. That's also why I carry my "dirty" knife. A little cheap thing I don't mind getting dirty or scratched up so I use it on boxes etc all the time.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2018 16:33:40 GMT
The line stockers at my last distribution center were all issued cut resistant gloves and the "new" fangled box cutters with the combination blade guide/guards that allowed only cutting the tops off of cartons (circa 2004). Those were great tools in and of themselves. Often "horrified" by other knives I might have been seen with as part of the inventory teams, that was usually in the office at my desk and doing something like removing a staple from a stack of papers (staple removers a most often stolen office item, next to staplers). Cutting plastic pallet strapping and skinning pallet wrap sometimes easier with a sharp pair of snips. I did have someone grind me a custom skinning blade for just that purpose for removing pallet wrap without marring pallets of bare stacked books (L.B.&C publishing). That old Time Life Civil War series of books stacked with 300 per pallet (for instance). Lots of titles arrived sans cartons. I could easily write a dissertation on fulfillment centers, from invoicing to returns and remainders. Heavy equipment forklift training (dual blade wielding ) to loss prevention&safety depts. Management to serfs and "city workers", warehouses are a hoot. Construction work? Where to start. Automobile repair? General household and civil society? Gosh, that may be part of the variety of small blades that have evolved.. My first knife was a plastic claw&ball dagger I played with at 3 or four years of age and the first knife carried to school a two blade whittler at age 7 (parental approved and never brandished as a weapon). First time I stabbed someone, not really needing description but the feeling much like stabbing any piece of tense and dense muscle.
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Post by howler on Sept 17, 2018 18:57:36 GMT
The line stockers at my last distribution center were all issued cut resistant gloves and the "new" fangled box cutters with the combination blade guide/guards that allowed only cutting the tops off of cartons (circa 2004). Those were great tools in and of themselves. Often "horrified" by other knives I might have been seen with as part of the inventory teams, that was usually in the office at my desk and doing something like removing a staple from a stack of papers (staple removers a most often stolen office item, next to staplers). Cutting plastic pallet strapping and skinning pallet wrap sometimes easier with a sharp pair of snips. I did have someone grind me a custom skinning blade for just that purpose for removing pallet wrap without marring pallets of bare stacked books (L.B.&C publishing). That old Time Life Civil War series of books stacked with 300 per pallet (for instance). Lots of titles arrived sans cartons. I could easily write a dissertation on fulfillment centers, from invoicing to returns and remainders. Heavy equipment forklift training (dual blade wielding ) to loss prevention&safety depts. Management to serfs and "city workers", warehouses are a hoot. Construction work? Where to start. Automobile repair? General household and civil society? Gosh, that may be part of the variety of small blades that have evolved.. My first knife was a plastic claw&ball dagger I played with at 3 or four years of age and the first knife carried to school a two blade whittler at age 7 (parental approved and never brandished as a weapon). First time I stabbed someone, not really needing description but the feeling much like stabbing any piece of tense and dense muscle. That two blade whittler would probably get a kid the death penalty in todays insane no tolerance school system, what with suspension/expulsion for butter knives and miniature plastic toy weapons in the hands of MINIATURE toy soldiers.
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Post by randomnobody on Sept 17, 2018 19:55:54 GMT
I think I know the "new" cutters you mention, as my store's started using them, too. Garbage, in my experience, but better than those metal sleeve models by lightyears. As for pallets, many times I've walked in on someone just hacking away at the wrap with their old, dull box cutter blade and just wandered to the other side, gently touched the tip of my good knife to the plastic, and slid it down as the plastic fell away. Never a "thank you" from any of them. As for the plastic straps, years ago someone taught me a neat trick wherein they simply found where they were glued together and peeled that apart. I've also come across people struggling to split these with the same old, dull box cutters only to do exactly that on another one and walk away without a word. Still, I use my knife for staples, too. Also to pry hooks, pegs, clips, etc off shelves and/or pegboard, scrape old gunk (congealed detergent, old tape or glue, someone's old chewing gum) off one or another thing, and if ever I forgot my box cutter, well, I wasn't without means. I keep forgetting I have an old Gerber Artefact on my keyring, with a #11 hobby knife folded into it. Super handy little tool, but no self-defense weapon.
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Post by bluetrain on Sept 18, 2018 9:43:56 GMT
The Swiss Army was issuing pocket knives in 1900 but I don't think anybody else was. I used to have a U.S. Army issue pocket knife but I never saw one while I was in the army.
Combination tools have been around since before 1800, though nothing like the ones available now. I think they're very clever and I even have one. They're just the thing to have when you didn't bring what you should have. My son informs me that they're also just the thing to have in the army now but you have to buy your own. Mine stays in the car and I've used it once in 20 years. It's way too heavy to carry around all the time. I have seen the little ones but I don't have one. I guess the trick is to get one that has exactly what you expect to need now and then. I don't take anything to the woods that needs a screwdriver. If something I take really needs a tool, then I take that tool. I still look at the little combination tools when I'm in the store, though. But none of these things are good for fighting. I don't wear a watch or have a cell phone, either, but I manage.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Sept 18, 2018 14:45:54 GMT
I carry a Leatherman Micra, never needed a bigger knife, but I often use the little scissors. A few years I carried a Gerber Gator 154 but never used it and don't carry it any more. If I'd need a knife for self defense I think I'm f..d anyway what I carry.
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Post by RufusScorpius on Sept 19, 2018 0:23:19 GMT
The Swiss Army was issuing pocket knives in 1900 but I don't think anybody else was. I used to have a U.S. Army issue pocket knife but I never saw one while I was in the army. Combination tools have been around since before 1800, though nothing like the ones available now. I think they're very clever and I even have one. They're just the thing to have when you didn't bring what you should have. My son informs me that they're also just the thing to have in the army now but you have to buy your own. ....... Tell your son that his unit can purchase the Gerber multi-tool through GSA funds. It's money that they get every year to buy office supplies. the Gerber tool, and the Gerber off-road tool kit are in the catalogue. This is the time of year to buy them since the fiscal year ends at the end of September and ALL the money needs to be spent. I got all of my soldiers both a multi-tool and the off-road kit (which comes with a folding shovel, folding saw, mag light, and another multi-tool inside a carry case) with "leftover" money.
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Post by bluetrain on Sept 19, 2018 9:28:08 GMT
Oh, he got out of the army over ten years ago. I got out of the army 50 years ago last month.
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