Knife Safety

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some do's and do not's for knife safety

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hi so we're marsh man south doors today we're going to be discussing some of the do's and don'ts as far as knife safety goes in this video we're going to be demonstrating some of the dolts please do not duplicate them at home alright so one of the first things like to demonstrate is if somebody is working with something you know they're making tent pegs or tent stakes or whatever and they need to fool with the stick to clear from debris or whatever I don't even like demonstrating this because it's just the pet peeve of mine setting a knife down on the ground so the fire needs tended to or the waters point over or what have you they'll get up do what they got to do and they've left their knife on the ground then a TD kicks in and they're doing all kinds of other stuff and there's a oh wait that's my knife maybe got kicked whatever it's not there anymore whether that's all were they thought they'd you left it I cannot tell you how many nights I've been in in the woods because of this situation so may put your knife down on the ground this does two things in my opinion one is the safety hazard there's an exposed blade somewhere on the ground and two it's a great way to lose your knife so there's only two places that your knife should be either in your hand or in your sheath ok so there's one more thing that people do a lot of times when they're working with a knife and they have to fitch it with something or what have you is and I got a really really sharp knife demonstrate this guy's I've seen people you know fooling with something making something cutting on wood and then they need to fiddle with it and then they'll quick lead stick the knife and the creases their leg i almost go bananas every time I've seen this and I've seen this more than once and then they'll pick the knife back up and start cutting again that is crazy what

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what so it's very simple don't cut towards yourself if you don't want something cut off don't put it in front of the blade so whatever you're doing no matter what keep your fingers and your arms and your neck away from the blade just be in behind it nothing's going to happen right Murphy's Law is definitely a play here it can't happen it will happen so make it so it can't happen alright so one of the last things I wanted to talk about is if you get a group of two or more bushcrafter survivalists whatever you want to call us together there's always going to be the oh wow look at that knife I haven't seen that knife can I see that or hey you mind if I borrow your knife real quick or whatever and i have seen knives hand it's people in some of the absolute most craziest ways including blade first that's just nuts to me but i wanted to show you guys the proper way to pass the knife off somebody i got my son connor here to demonstrate that and again we have an incredibly sharp blade for this so be careful right so one of the first things you want to do is pretend like you are grasping the knife and a full word grip and you're going to cut something and just very simply flip the back of the spine of that blade back to the back of your hand and then when I hand it to somebody I want audible confirmation that they have control of the knife he said got it and then I'm going to give them audible confirmation that I'm letting go the knife so I say God thank you whatever the Boy Scouts I believe say thank you and now he's going to hand a knife back to me got it see very simple okay so some of the safest techniques to use when you're cutting wood or whatever is any technique where the blade moves as little as possible so one of my favorites is using a reverse grip so if this is a forward grip this will be a reverse grip and then just using my chest and my hips as the actual part that moves to pull debris material from whatever you're working with so what I do is I pull that in as close to my chest as I can the blade is away from me and then now what's going to what's going to happen here is the blade is not moving my hips and me expanding my chest is what is pulling wood from the surface of this just like that the blade is not moving very much at all ok so moving from the reverse grip we're gonna do I can't remember what it's called I think it's a brace knee but locking your wrist into your knee laid side out as usual and just bringing the material into the blade and what's moving here is the material not the knife alright so another technique that I see it's very useful for making a very straight break in a branch but a lot of times I see people using their thumb directly over the blade and you know that's fine I have seen a lot of people do that i actually prefer to kind of move to the side and you don't absolutely don't want to pull this oh but what the technique is we're rolling the branch you don't want to roll that away from your finger you want to roll it into your finger just so you don't have any slippage going on there and what this does if we rotate that several times around we're creating an area where we're going to get a very nice smooth break in that branch so that technique gives us very nice smooth break right where we want it to be but in my opinion there's a little bit of a safer way to do that and it's what I call rabbit juice alright so rabbit shoes are real simple and there's nothing that's in front of the blade there's nothing that's going to slip up and cut my thumb open or anything like that and this doesn't give you that crystal crisp line that that rolling the blade does but this is definitely safer in my opinion now just going around and just chewing on that just a little bit just like that and then I'll flip the stick over and again take those Rabbit chews off the other side just like that and depending on how thick the stick is I'll go around maybe once or twice and then that's going to give us that same pretty clean break right there and then all you have to do is just clean that up around is that as clean as that no you know but I could fix that that's the big deal and in my opinion it's just going to save me from cutting the hell out of my thumb alright guys so in closing in this video you see my feeble attempt at comedy but safety is no laughing matter we work with incredibly sharp knives and tools out of the field and the number one thing that you don't run is to ruin a good time by having to be hiked out of the bush with a severed artery in your leg or something like that and I've actually seen some really really incredible cuts out in the field and we're not talking about fingers or anything like that i'm talking about legs and arms case in point there was a guy that needed hiked out about four and a half miles because he suck an accent to his thigh about four and a half hours after we got him to edina medical we found out that he missed his artery in his leg by less than hitch so him thinking that into his leg if he'd have been an inch over having to be hiked out for four and a half miles that is spells disaster for that man and without the right tourniquets in and knowledge might not have made it so nice safety of blade safety is number one in my book if you come to any of my classes I'm a very big stickler for knife safety I don't yell and scream at people but I will I will kind of put you out like hey man can you please not do that so my name is William Myers from Venice outdoors thanks for subscribing liking my video really helps me out a lot I appreciate all the comments you guys leave thanks for your support we'll see out the woods talking about fingers and stuff like that we're talking about legs things like that things that people need pumped out of the bush for several miles yes call hump Megan it's called humping it forgotten you didn't get what their dango what the cool kids are saying my dad was a Vietnam vet and we go camping we go for long hike he's like man we've been humping all day what the hell you talking about you get a few papers