What knife are you carrying everyday right now?

Tubby’s Canteen said:
Do you guys make any haylage or all dry hay? I find haylage plastic the worst thing on a knife edge short of gravel.
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We don't do haylage, use poly-pipe though, similar material & it is rough on a knife blade.

We bale (dry hay) about 300 - 400 round per year, and another 200 square ..... I can attest to hay string being rough on a knife blade. Had my baler giving me issues where it wasn't cutting only 1 side. Dam nuisance, had to get down after every bale to cut the line! Last time I ever got caught with not having any extra blades to replace with. Was on the last 1/3 of a hay field & l was sawing by the last bale! :oops: Keep a dam stone in the tool box on the tractor now too.:rolleyes:
 
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Xpraetor said:
We bale about 300 - 400 per year, and another 200 square ..... I can attest to hay string being rough on a knife blade. Had my baler giving me issues where it wasn't cutting 1 side. Dam nuisance, had to get down after every bale to cut the line! Last time I ever got caught with not having any extra blades to replace with. Was on the last 1/3 of a hay field & l was sawing by the last bale! :oops: Keep a dam stone in the tool box on the tractor now too.:rolleyes:
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Baler twine is a rough but I was talking about haylage plastic , it’s white wrapping plastic so that you can bale hay still partially wet and basically make silage only in 4x4 round bales, may be another regional thing we have trouble getting 4-5 days in a row to dry hay here do to climate and fog.

Knotter knives can be a pain my international square baler was like that thankfully when we switched to a 124 Massey it had good knives. Round baler cut good too although in case anyone ever considered it I can assure you a 835 newholland will not bale a car tire…
 
Tubby’s Canteen said:
Baler twine is a rough but I was talking about haylage plastic , it’s white wrapping plastic so that you can bale hay still partially wet and basically make silage only in 4x4 round bales, may be another regional thing we have trouble getting 4-5 days in a row to dry hay here do to climate and fog.
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I'm familiar with it.
I had to edit my reply for spelling & part of what I typed didn't save ....

We don't do haylage , we use poly-pipe which is a similar material & it is hard on a knife too, we keep a carpenters utility knife on the roller for cutting it, for that very reason.
 
Xpraetor said:
I'm familiar with it.
I had to edit my reply for spelling & part of what I typed didn't save ....

We don't do haylage , we use poly-pipe which is a similar material & it is hard on a knife too, we keep a carpenters utility knife on the roller for cutting it, for that very reason.
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That’s like a net wrap?
 
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Back on the subject of knives anyone want to take a guess what these were used for ? Hint they were mostly used by women on the east coast.
 
Tubby’s Canteen said:
That’s like a net wrap?
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Naw, it's flexible "plastic pipe" or tubing to move water from a ground well to water row crops or in our case we use it to irrigate hay fields , I'll try to find a picture & post
 
Tubby’s Canteen said:
Do you guys make any haylage or all dry hay? I find haylage plastic the worst thing on a knife edge short of gravel.
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There’s a lot of haylage done around here but we dry bale with natural twine and leave it on.
By buddies use net wrap for dry and also haylage. They keep a utility knife with them.
 
Xpraetor said:
Splitting reeds for, making baskets? wicker?
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Nope but that was a good guess I’ll pm u the answer so it can go a while longer
 
Nope oyster knives have round blades
 
Tubby’s Canteen said:
I’m surprised how few carry a fixed blade , I never overly cared for folding knives myself although I did carry a large folding trapper for a time until unfortunately dropping it overboard cutting trawl. Perhaps my opinion is skew though as I mostly spend time in places where a fixed blade is not out of place. Living rurally and around commercial fisherman ag workers and loggers no one bats an eye if you pull a fixed blade from your boot, I’d hazard a guess probably in more urban centres it would be frowned upon.
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I like fixed blade knives myself and always carry two when hunting. The problem is they tend to attract unwanted attention in urban or even suburban settings. I do carry a fixed blade, double edged, neck knife when I can't carry a CCW handgun (like when I visit Canada or Belize.) Fortunately as a retired peace officer I'm okay to carry in most places in the US.
 
I carry this crkt for about the last 19 years. Got it on some Internet closeout site and it's been fabulously handy.
Currently covered in packing tape residue courtesy of my wife. :rolleyes:

The cold steel folder was circa 1992 and has seen the world in my flight suit, wetsuit, and other garb back in my navy days. The issued folder was in my flight gear.
But the plastic clip broke on the cold steel and they were retired to the center drawer of the reloading bench after that.

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