Dono In my Bergen, apart from clothes, boots, waterproofs etc i carry a three inch drop point fixed blade knife a pair of Lucas electrical pliers (with wire cutter) a Stanley hatchet with steel shaft. 2 disposable lighters & 2 hexi blocks 50 foot of parachute chord compass, whistle, first aid kit inc' sutures dry fruit, oat bars, kendal mint cake 4 very large trash bags (waterproof for you and gear)
In England there are few places you are more than a hour from shelter/help but I like my comfort. iain From: f...@tribcsp.com To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Subject: [VFB] Re: Knife for the backpack... Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:48:24 -0600 I've carried a Swiss Champ for 30 years (yes, the same one- never lost). It's an inch wide with about evey tool I've ever needed -outside of mechanical work (or matches). I consider it indispensible when camping, hunting, and fishing, though I must say I have bigger and better tools for most of the knife functions. But if I'm ever lost or stranded, it's on my belt and will get me by. Good idea for a new thread- our survival gear. DonO ----- Original Message ----- From: Niclas Runarsson To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:58 AM Subject: [VFB] Knife for the backpack... I was tying at a hunting and fishing show this weekend and one of the ones having a booth there was Wenger... and I got a chance to see and feel their cruel pocket knife. Not 'functional'... but 'Guinness Book of Records functional'. 87 tools... 141 functions. Every tool they have ever put into a knife... in one single knife!!! (Having it in my hand I saw a 142:nd function. Without even exposing a single one of the tools, you can still use this beast as a weapon... it's that heavy.) I saw this on a picture a couple of weeks ago and the first thing I thought of when I saw it was Bear Grylls and his program on Discovery Channel, 'Man vs. Wild'. They drop him off in extreme places like deep djungles and deserts... and from there he is going to find his way to civilization. At the start of every adventure he says: "All I've got with me is a waterbottle, a flint and my knife". This knife would be something for him. Talk about "always packing more than necassary". Tools like 'shoe spike wrench'... 'cigar cutter'... 'club face cleaner'... 'laser pointer'... even a 'junior round blade' (that you simply CAN'T cut yourself from). The guy in the booth said that the intention was to make one(1) of these, but it turned out that people "just must have" these too (despite the price). Well, I for one, sure can think of both one and two things I would rather spend a spare $1200 on. LOL http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_17001.aspx http://www.wenger.ch/scripts/Modules/Products/listOne.aspx?idProducts=319&idn=166<BR _________________________________________________________________ Celebrate a decade of Messenger with free winks, emoticons, display pics, and more. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/157562755/direct/01/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
