Question- Fixed Blade or Folding Knife?
 

Straight up question, not a test:

When you guys are in the field, do you prefer a fixed blade sheath knife or folding knife for your primary edged tool?

Both in the field, a fixed blade on my LBE and a folder in my pocket.

Both, and usually three or four of them.

TR

Bill:

Can't carry much in a Cobra, but I had a fixed blade on my survival harness behind my seat, my 45 positioned in front of my nuts. Also carried a dayglo orange switchblade (Army issued with a sharpened hook on one end to cut through risers).

Terry

edited to add

And a Car15 behind my seat, the Cobra being only 36 inches wide there wasn't much room for long guns.

TS and TR:

So you don't consider any of them "primary"? :munchin

+1 - me too plus a Leatherman

Mr. Bill,
Are you starting to hear an echo from an earlier conversation ?!?!?!

Fixed Blade on your gear, which makes the accessability of a "pocket knife" unaccessable, but a good folder to have if you need to dump your gear and also for use when you're not "saddled up", as in around the camp or while working on your gear !! I really wish Leatherman would put an S30V blade in his tools !!!

Later
Martin

Depends on what the task is.

Primary for chopping down a tree is not the same as the primary for removing splinters.

What is your primary communications device?

TR

I have asked for the S-30V blade in the New Wave, Tim said that he would make me one.

Still waiting, though. Maybe several people should ask?

TR

E-mail

For voice commo?

TR

Telephone.

Land line or cellular?

So the primary commo means depends on what you are trying to do with it?

Kind of like blades.

I will say this. You can make a big knife do small tasks a lot easier than you can make a little knife do big work.

If I could only take one, it would be a Leatherman or a big knife like the TR.

I usually have a Reeve Large Sebenza or the Harsey Tactical Folder and a Leatherman Wave or a Swiss Champ on me.

In the woods, I add an intermediate size knife on my second line, like a Yarborough knife or a Al Mar SERE Fixed Blade.

On my ruck, I will have either a machete, a camp axe, or a Harsey TR, and an E-Tool.

Can you really call one a "primary edged tool"?

TR

In the field, cellular. On post, land line. :rolleyes: