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Wire stripper is the best we can come up with.
+1 for wire stripper.
I've used it for stripping wire.
So at least for me... it's a wire stripper.
blood drain
That's exactly what it is. (Wire stripper, not blood drain.)
Stripping wires out of horses hoof.
I thought it was for bending wire? It's not sharp so doesn't work well as a stripper.
When I started riding horses I was disappointed to discover that:
a) There isn't a tool on a normal Swiss Army knife for removing stones from horses' hoofs
b) A tool like that (they're called 'hoof picks') would be a very useful thing to have on a Swiss Army knife if you rode horses
I haven't since checked to see if they make an equestrian model
P.S. Yes, that bit is a wire stripper.
The small pointy tool is used for removing Boy Scouts from horses hoofs, I think?
Yes, as above, it's for removing 70's celebrities from Boy Scouts.
Wire stripper / bender, according to victotinox website.
Removing benders from Boy Scouts?
Stripping Scouts for horses
only foals and horses starred saDEL boy
I wouldn't expect many strippers to take Moneygram.
Aaaahhhhhhhh....! I see. Every day's a school day.
duntstick...Thanks...Now where is that LIKE button ?
In the mid 90s, I was given a fairly hefty Swiss Army Knife as a leaving present from work. It's got all the usual gubbins; screwdriver, toothpick, flamethrower etc. But there's one thing which always baffled me.
On the back, in so far as these things have a 'back', is a fold-out hook. It's fairly thick, and an odd shape, with a little nodule sticking out.
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In the absence of either the Web or any explanation in the packaging, my friends and I speculated on and off for years about what it might be for. Is it some sort of specialist tool used in fishing or sailing? Are you supposed to carry things with it, turning the knife into a makeshift handle? Is it for winding something, making twine or suchlike?
Years later I remembered this quandary, and now having access to the Web I jumped onto Victorinox's website and looked it up. Finally, I could put this puzzle to rest.
According to the official website, it's a "general purpose hook."
Bastards.
😀 I always imagined it was for some Macgyver style escape down a washing line or such like, such was it's positioning allowing maximum purchase on the knife body.
I watched a lot of Macgyver as a kid.
lace puller for yer boots, gets em tight.. 😀
Are you supposed to carry things with it, turning the knife into a makeshift handle?
In the instructions with my first Swiss Army knife in the '80s it specified it was for carrying string parcels! Now they're less common I guess it's been rebranded...
Integral part of the Swiss army vasectomy kit...
A quick Google would suggest it was introduced in 1991, so it'd seem unlikely that you had one in the 80s (unless the Internet is wrong, and what are the odds of that?!)
Seems you might be right about the usage though. The [url= http://www.victorinox.com/ch/product/Swiss-Army-Knives/Category/The-Original-Swiss-Army-Knives/The-Original-Swiss-Army-Knives-large-size-91-mm/Handyman/1.3773 ]official site[/url] now reads "multi-purpose hook (parcel carrier)", which has been changed since I last looked at it.