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Surgical Shears vs river knives
Submitted by Mike Martin <imnostooge@yahoo.com> on 12/Mar/2010 in reply to A handy river knife posted by Parrotchick on 12/Mar/2010
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At the suggestion of someone on this board, I bought a cheap pair of surgical shears thinking I would attach them to my PFD instead of the sharp-tipped jackknife I had been carrying zipped in the pocket of my PFD.*
I'd heard shears were great, but decided to test them and found they would not cut through a 3/8" thick polypro line, and I suspect they wouldn't work on a grab loop either or throw rope either.
Perhaps I needed a better pair?
I now carry a blunt-tip, serrated bear claw knife attached to the lash tab on my PFD. It can do the job.
*I had decided I needed a better system after having received the river equivalent of a Nantucket Sleighride through Beech Run courtesy of a painter that wrapped around my ankle and towed me behind my boat during a swim. I discovered the jackknife was of little use because it took two hands to retrieve and open it. (I was able to free the rope without it.)
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