Those words mean one thing to a fan of SAKs, and a totally different thing to us Jeep guys. Today, the twain met.So today I was struggling to reinstall the rear window in my soft top Jeep. I just couldn't get enough of a grip on the zipper pull to coax it into closing. Then I remembered The Hook! It worked!
Thanks guys! BR, I like your 8R stove avatar! I have an old 8R too. A Ukraine friend told me a copy of the 8R is popular where he lives. It is called the "Tourist." Their nickname for it is "Death of a tourist." A man jumps out of an airplane, pulls the ripcord and his chute doesn't open. He meets another guy hurtling up towards him, and yells "Hey, do you know anything about parachutes?" The other guy yells "No; do you know anything about Optimus stoves?"
Hi Wec,Fan of Swiss Army Knives here, fan of Jeeps here. And yes, good use of the Hook. But (and no offense here) I hiss at the hook....But even I have to admit, the growing uses for the hook never cease to amaze me. Nice one on ya!
I like the hook. It took me awhile to warm up to it, though. As firiki said, it is pure genius. But its genius is in its simplicity. It looks too simple to actually be useful. In fact, when I found out it was just a hook instead of some esoteric supertool that would just bowl me over once I learned the secret handshake to have such wisdom imparted to me, I felt kinda' let down. In fact I wanted to cut it off my knife! But then I gradually started to learn of the subtlety of The Hook. And I realized, it really is an esoteric supertool! I mean, it will pull with 200 lbs of force if you're up to it! And it's attached to a perfect T-handle. It's not like Karate, all in your face and jumping out at you everytime you look at it. It's Kung Fu. It's unassuming, innocuous, benign even. Until action is called for; then it gets the job done with such economy of motion that you don't see it coming until it's all over. And it doesn't give up its secrets easily, nor to the unworthy.
Quote from: WECSOG on November 27, 2018, 03:50:26 AMI like the hook. It took me awhile to warm up to it, though. As firiki said, it is pure genius. But its genius is in its simplicity. It looks too simple to actually be useful. In fact, when I found out it was just a hook instead of some esoteric supertool that would just bowl me over once I learned the secret handshake to have such wisdom imparted to me, I felt kinda' let down. In fact I wanted to cut it off my knife! But then I gradually started to learn of the subtlety of The Hook. And I realized, it really is an esoteric supertool! I mean, it will pull with 200 lbs of force if you're up to it! And it's attached to a perfect T-handle. It's not like Karate, all in your face and jumping out at you everytime you look at it. It's Kung Fu. It's unassuming, innocuous, benign even. Until action is called for; then it gets the job done with such economy of motion that you don't see it coming until it's all over. And it doesn't give up its secrets easily, nor to the unworthy. I love this!!
Ya know, part of the key to understanding the Hook is to consider another deceptively simple multi-tool: paracord. Like paracord, the Hook is far more useful than it would seem at a glance. And, paracord and the Hook go hand in hand as if they were made for each other. In fact, I think that whoever came up with the idea of the Hook was thinking about paracord. Once I understood that, I began to "get" the Hook.
Nice one VICMAN
yeah!
Quote from: WECSOG on November 28, 2018, 06:42:37 PMYa know, part of the key to understanding the Hook is to consider another deceptively simple multi-tool: paracord. Like paracord, the Hook is far more useful than it would seem at a glance. And, paracord and the Hook go hand in hand as if they were made for each other. In fact, I think that whoever came up with the idea of the Hook was thinking about paracord. Once I understood that, I began to "get" the Hook. Your mention of the hook and paracord reminded of this post I made on January 26, 2017: "I work part time at a restaurant and put away truck deliveries early in the morning. One day the delivery driver knocked on the back door to be let in and I asked him if he lost his key. He said he had just dropped the key ring down a steel grate by the curb outside. I could see the key ring about 3 feet below the grate. I told him I could get the keys. I opened the hook on my Super Tinker and made a loop in some paracord and cinched the cord around the Super Tinker and lowered it through the grate. It took about 2 minutes for me to finally get the hook to catch the keyring and pull it up out of the hole. The driver really appreciated it because he was dreading telling his supervisor he had dropped the keys down a grate."
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