My buddy John and I went boondocking today, trails optional. I managed to get tangled up in some fence wire and get it wrapped around both sprocket and rotor side of the rear wheel. A few snips and tugs and all was well. It would have been a real trial to get it out, without my trusty dykes. The woods in this area are full of old fence lines, from when they were pasture and not woods. It's been a few years since my last tangle with wire in the woods and I always get tempted to leave the dykes out of my tool kit, but they will stay. We found some excellent riding to add to the list, so a good day.
Believe it or not we are no longer allowed to refer to the diagonal cutters as dykes anymore its not politically correct. the correct US Gov and Gov contractor name is Side Cutters. What happens if some obscure group claims themselves as Side Cutters? Side Cutterseople who lean to the left...when flatulating. PS I always have my Leatherman tool for both plier and dykes duty.....hey wait a minute the lead singer of Judas Priest is a Leatherman..........
Wire is no joke. I personally witnessed a single strand of concertina wire bring an M1A1 Abrams to a halt after it wrapped about 50 yards of it up in the drive sprocket. Couldn't be cut out with dykes on that one. Torch and a lot of cussing. I was pulling guard and was wondering where our wire was getting pulled before I saw the spark show. (Desert Storm in Southern Iraq)
Okay bum bag.... our fanny and your fanny are on opposite sides! People divided by a common language, have to love it!
We have freedom of speech here ... freedom of about everything ... A little scary (but great) to be honest with you ... Lost my wire cutters but I plan on getting another set to cut ziptie ends if nothing else ...
Hmm...ok... A thread about dykes, fags, bums, fannies and leathermen... I'm glad this place is high class and mature
I'm so naive.... I thought this thread would be full of "wire" stories, not double entendres! Pretty funny though and high class for sure!
The beauty of this place is that we joke with absolutly no malice or other bad intent. And yea I forgot about the Aussie meaning of fanny, very cute.
Great thread. the title alone would be a real attention grabber in the UK. I had to do a double take and I'm not sure I need to know what boondocking is
"Boondocks" is term meaning out in the middle of nowhere or the back country far from civilization. To go boondocking simply means to go out into the boondocks. "Boonies" is the short term. "We were way out in the boonies", etc.
I participated in an enduro this past weekend and I had to bushwack around an impossible section, I ended up picking up an 8' piece of barb wire. The barb stuck in a knob then wrapped around both sides of the hub until I came to an abrupt stop. I took me about 20 minutes to unwrap it. During that 20 minutes I thought about this thread, how much I wish I had some dykes and WTF was barb wire doing in the middle of nowhere. When I got to the next check, the check worker said "you can go as fast as you want and you wont burn the next check", hahaha.....real funny.
dyke's take up too much room, are too heavy and usually pretty ugly and mostly used by beginners. if i have to carry one (a dyke, never multiples), i'll delegate that chore to another. and it's only for emergency use. fanny pack? not in this camp. for obvious reasons.
