The Farmer X proved itself the most valuable MT on the Scout camp out this weekend:With the regular mess kit can opener apparently MIA, the Farmer X's can opener opened a #10 can of baked beans for part of our dinner, as well as about half a dozen cans of pie filling for cobblers for dessert.The scissors trimmed up the ends of several pieces of paracord (as well as a few larger ropes) prior to burning the ends, so that they could then be used for teaching knots to some of the Scouts.
The Fieldmaster, when I was in Scouts, I felt was the best all-around camp and hiking knife. The Farmer X, the same package in a much sturdier frame. The standard Scout (mine's a '70s Ulster) can't handle Phillips and doesn't have a saw. Can opener is marginally worse than the SAKs--and Scout Stuff wants almost the same as a Fieldmaster for what is basically a $15 Marble's Camp Knife made to look like the old American-made Scouts. You can't saw wood with it (no saw), and scissors are absolutely the best for precision cutting jobs.
Had one of those annoying mustache curlers that wanted to hook in so the pioneerX took care of him!JR
This use needs a little CAUTION! Especially when the Mrs is extremely nervous! But she had a massive wad of earwax in her bad ear, so we used the peroxide trick a few times then also a remover bulb a few times but still didn’t work, and this thing was killing her all day, I wanted to attempt with tweezers but she just started to freak, so as she was laying I grabbed my sak, and used it’s tweezers, started working, then popped out the corkscrew, then she’s like uhh what are you going to do with that? Oh this nothing, lol, don’t worry, and I slid the pin out, I slowly worked some of the wax as she’s freaking then needed a break, and one last time I grabbed the tweezers and got a good amount out, well do more peroxide and syringe tomorrow, but she needs a break! Sak’s are very useful but not toys!JR
good job, hope she gets to feeling better!
Nice use! I had went to the doctor for that once. All of a sudden I couldn’t hear. They got it out and I couldn’t believe the size of the bugger! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Can you hear again? Because she hasn’t been able to hear for like over 3yrs, and I don’t think that wall of wax has ever been cleaned out.. I mean it’s waay in!JR
seems like she needs to see an ENT surgeon, at least once or twice ... to see what's going on.
Yes, but the doc used warm water and a sucker and a blower thingy. Sorry about Mrs. P’s hearing lossSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
That’s not what this guy did, he freaking used some tool I can’t even remember that’s how painful it was! I’ve used a special ear syringe with warm water on the Mrs, it shoots in like four diff directions, and doesn’t hurt, I’d like to take a 2inch drywall screw just thread it in and pull it out! Lol,, JR
...hope she feels better but there actually IS a soft screw type little item that cleans the ears.Dont remember the name or if it's legit.There's always the MD or the SAK corkscrew (sorry Mrs Mad Plumb)
Yeah we looked into that, cause the little guy doesn’t like qtips, @16 I still clean his ears, but I think her wax is too deep for it to reach with that, ive already got the face from the Mrs because of the corkscrew when I went to take the pin out, she’s all like “WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THAT?” I’m like oh the corkscrew, no no no, just the little pin.. lol.. I wish I had a camera for that look!JR
We really are derailing this thread... but I will mention this. If he never cleaned his ears at all, he should be just fine. Many people go though their whole life without ever cleaning inside the ear. One of the reasons that people get wax build-up at all is because of introducing things inside and causing irritation....creating a viscious cycle of irration and more wax. Many times typical bathing is enough to keep things nice and open, if not that - a warm, soaked, washcloth going no deeper than the fingertip will suffice. The wax isnt "wax" at all,and it melts in water. After all, the Q-tip box itself says not to stick it in the ear, doesn't it. In the case of hearing loss it is possible that the wax is close to the eardrum, and pushing it onto the eardrum, or worse - perforating the eardrum itself with a tool can result in permanent hearing loss. Wax that is really deep must be pulled... without as much as a micron of pushing deeper. Also lying still during the procedure is essential. Pain can occur when the front wall of the ear canal (the wall closer to the nose) it touched, and a nerve is stimulated. Its like hitting the funnybone of the face. Startling to be sure, but without lasting effects. I'm just worried that you all may be getting permanent damage by avoiding the ENT, after having a bad experience with one particular ENT surgeon. and I fear that any sort of cleaning at all for your young son may be more counterproductive. I don't mean to be preachy or give unsolicited advice, and I do apoloize for the intrusion, but hearing about your boy tugs at my heartstrings - I must point out that the young lad need not clean inside his ears at all. The body has a way of sorting itself out until we mess with it so much that it doesn't know what to do with itself ... https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/3-reasons-to-leave-earwax-alone-2017051711718And with that allow me to contribute to the intented purpose of the thread. Today I opened a pre-packaged muffin for breakfast. Not too glamourous, I know... but its one of the reasons I like the SAK... it doesn't raise too many eyebrows in the break room. That said, I did raise eyebrows the other day when my Pioneer X worked its way out of my pocket, and remained dangling from the suspension clip...
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