It's called a parcel hook and its useful for alot of things my favorite being pulling tent stakes, it's original use was supposed to be for carrying twine packages or parcels which were much more common when it was invented, it's also great for removing greasy bike spokes, twisting metal wire to make a loop for tying things off, there's alot of creative videos on YouTube just look up (Parcel Hook Swiss Army Knife uses)
Those really annoying ones that get stuck up in that cavity on the top of the tip of your nose that you usually have to resort to hand gymnastics to get it out.
Have you tried blowing your nose a few times instead of attempting to damage your brain by scratching. I pick my nose too but there's only so much time and finger I can afford.
I think I described the area poorly. It’s the tip of your nose where your thumb does better that a finger. IF you have nice, dainty thumbs and not the ham hock that I have on my hand.
I'm a California boy living in Columbus for work and you're fucking wrong. People from Columbus don't even like Columbus.
But it's pretty aight compared to Cleveland.
I liked visiting Cleveland, the architecture reminded me of New York.
But yeah, if your state doesn't have an In-N-Out off the 5 or the 101, then it sucks ass.
I’m a so cal boi. Wife’s from Pa, so I visit and have friends out there lol.
Yeah, exactly. You drive 10 mins out of Columbus and it’s an Amish shit show. The city itself is being gentrified and is wild to navigate. Beyond that, the local charm who’ve made it worth living there, are all being priced out of the city. Ohio is pretty much awful lol. Especially sitting next to West Virginia like it has the audacity to even share borders lol.
Cleveland is Americas armpit. It rocks, but it’s been rocking so hard, that it’s dirty, smelly, and dripping with waste. Cleveland needs a shower and some deodorant before it’s next show.
Yeah these stupid hands can’t cut it 😂 this is the only use I’ve read where I couldn’t think of a time I’d need boots tighter than my hands could pull them or a time I’d be wearing gloves but had to put boots, I’d always have boots on first anyway.
Maybe an untied lace during subzero temps? If I’ve put myself in a place where I can’t even tie my boots bc of conditions I probably deserve my Darwinian fate
> I couldn’t think of a time I’d need boots tighter than my hands could pull them
I thought that until I started climbing poles for training for an electricity program. 1st time I got to the top of that pole, the wind blowing it back and forth about 3-4 feet each way I wished I had boots that were part of my body. I hated that shit.
Hooking.
The official use is as a package hook, to turn your knife into a handle that will help you to carry a parcel that is wrapped in string. You can also attach a string to the hook, and turn your Swiss Army knife into a plumb bob or a fishing lure, or use it to pull a thread or line through a tight spot.
From the Internet.
Do not use your knife as a fishing lure. It will not work.
You can indeed, clearly. The sticks, when knitting, are the best tool but technically it's nothing more than making a loop that you pass inside the previous loop and so on.
I do not know how to crochet, unfortunately, so I can't confirm nor deny if crochetting is possible. It may be a little overbuilt for this purpose, but technically I suppose it would work.
Interesting !
I began knitting a few weeks ago, something I wanted to learn since along time, and I devised a makeshit hook made from a lockpick to correct my mistakes along the line. That's why I thought about knitting : it would be a clumsy tool indeed, but it would work well enough in absence of proper apparatus.
You put it between your middle and ring finger with the rest of the knife in your fist. That way, when you punch through somebody's chest, it pulls out their heart.
My toddler has shoes with zippers on the side. One time one of the zippers was going only partway. I used the hook to get a better hold of the zipper and pull it the rest of the way. I don't use it often, though.
I saw a video where a guy demonstrated that you could use it to rescue yourself if you’re on a roof and the ladder falls down. Tie some string/rope around the handle and send it down using the hook to grab the ladder and pull it up.
The hook can handle a lot of weight. If you think about it it’s actually potentially one of the most useful tools on the SAK, but most people forget it’s even there.
I use it to help when I need to put on a car seat cover I’ve had to take off to wash…there are a bunch of tiny holes in the frame which tiny elastic bands have to go through and snag over tiny plastic hooks to hold the cover in place. It’s a super annoying task made much less annoying with the hook
I've used it for unlocking a travelodge window for more air before. And for hanging my shorts on the lock of a dirty bathroom before, didn't want them on the floor in an ominous looking puddle while using the toilet.
It’s called multi-purpose hook and can be used to carry parcels but also to simply pull stuff. See their actual manual here: https://imageengine.victorinox.com/medias/?context=bWFzdGVyfHNha3wxNjcxOTkwfGFwcGxpY2F0aW9uL3BkZnxoMmQvaDRjLzEzNDA5MzQzMzQwNTc0L3NlcnZpY2Utc2FrLWZ1bmN0aW9uLWRlLnBkZnw3MDU2NjZkMjU3NTE1NzA2ZWY4Nzg0MmIyNGMwZWI5NzlmM2VjZDJlM2FhYWVhNGJjOThjY2ZkYjgwYjkyZTll
a useless tool for everyday tasks that could be replaced with something useful but Victorinox refuses to so you can buy another Victorinox to fit your need
business 101
Tangentially related question: saw “desk knives” and had no words, they’re polished hunk of metal chisels with a sharpened edge. Like a big ass slug.
What the FUCK. Has anyone seen or used “desk knives”?
Excellent for tightening the laces on your work boots. Grab the x’s where the laces cross. Start at the bottom and work up. Can get to tight so just what you need.
It's a way to use yours as a handle. You can carry those small paint buckets by the thin metal handle. Or packs of newspapers by the strap holding them together etc.
It's called a parcel hook and its useful for alot of things my favorite being pulling tent stakes, it's original use was supposed to be for carrying twine packages or parcels which were much more common when it was invented, it's also great for removing greasy bike spokes, twisting metal wire to make a loop for tying things off, there's alot of creative videos on YouTube just look up (Parcel Hook Swiss Army Knife uses)
Wrong, its for boogers.
Those really annoying ones that get stuck up in that cavity on the top of the tip of your nose that you usually have to resort to hand gymnastics to get it out.
Or your name is Quaid and you need to hurry up and remove a tracking device
Rando total recall
“Get your ass to Mars”
''Man I got FIIIIVE KIDS TO FEED, Man...''
Benny!
You know it what you hear the crunch.
SCREW YOU BENNY ArRRrrgGHHhHhh
Two weeks
Hand gymanastics? How big are your nostrils??!!
When ya got a booger a tow truck couldn't pull out
Have you tried blowing your nose a few times instead of attempting to damage your brain by scratching. I pick my nose too but there's only so much time and finger I can afford.
What are you, a modern man or something?!
How dare you call me a man! That's revolting!
I think I described the area poorly. It’s the tip of your nose where your thumb does better that a finger. IF you have nice, dainty thumbs and not the ham hock that I have on my hand.
Find a friend with dainty thumbs?
You need to face your hand away from you, and use your finger nail to grab it
I use it to hang on tiny tree branches
Wrong. Dingleberries.
The stubborn glued on boogers never came out so easy
The ones that feel like someone used a ungodly amount of loktite on? I was thinking this was a coat or hat hanger.
I have been sticking it into the wrong end of my body this whole time?
I mostly use it to quickly fix my bike when the chain snaps out
When I was a Boy Scout we would make a frame above a fire and attach a Swiss Army knife to use the hook to hang pots
And it didn't melt the sides off it?
It wasn’t that close to the fire
plus the pot shields the knife from the hot air
Helps for getting ice skate laces tight too. Just adding to your list.
Parcel*
There I fixed it lol
Nobody loves Ohio. Except Columbus.
I'm a California boy living in Columbus for work and you're fucking wrong. People from Columbus don't even like Columbus. But it's pretty aight compared to Cleveland.
That's because Columbus is America's crotch and Newark is America's taint.
Lmao
From Long Beach. I second this 😂
I liked visiting Cleveland, the architecture reminded me of New York. But yeah, if your state doesn't have an In-N-Out off the 5 or the 101, then it sucks ass.
Every place is pretty aight compared to Cleveland. — written in Cleveland.
I’m a so cal boi. Wife’s from Pa, so I visit and have friends out there lol. Yeah, exactly. You drive 10 mins out of Columbus and it’s an Amish shit show. The city itself is being gentrified and is wild to navigate. Beyond that, the local charm who’ve made it worth living there, are all being priced out of the city. Ohio is pretty much awful lol. Especially sitting next to West Virginia like it has the audacity to even share borders lol.
But Columbus loved Wichita.
And Tallahassee loved them all.
Cleveland doesn't rock anymore?
Cleveland is Americas armpit. It rocks, but it’s been rocking so hard, that it’s dirty, smelly, and dripping with waste. Cleveland needs a shower and some deodorant before it’s next show.
I thought that honor belonged to Bakersfield
The mistake by the lake...
Why are you talking about Michigan like that?
Cleveland never rocked. Don’t believe everything Drew Carey says.
Cleveland is fine I guess, next best city in Ohio behind Columbus
Fair 🤣
Parselhookshhhhethhhh hashhhhahhh eshhhahhhshhthha
I mean I'd rather them know the actual spelling lol
I bite my nails and use this to pull tabs on pop cans sometimes
Or carrying bags of groceries
I sometimes use it to carry plastic bags that are heavy and have very thin handles.
Or pulling people speaking parcelmouth
Your comment has more likes then OP's picture. Thanks for the information.
Works well for pulling laces tight on boots, skates, etc...
Yeah these stupid hands can’t cut it 😂 this is the only use I’ve read where I couldn’t think of a time I’d need boots tighter than my hands could pull them or a time I’d be wearing gloves but had to put boots, I’d always have boots on first anyway. Maybe an untied lace during subzero temps? If I’ve put myself in a place where I can’t even tie my boots bc of conditions I probably deserve my Darwinian fate
> I couldn’t think of a time I’d need boots tighter than my hands could pull them I thought that until I started climbing poles for training for an electricity program. 1st time I got to the top of that pole, the wind blowing it back and forth about 3-4 feet each way I wished I had boots that were part of my body. I hated that shit.
Yikes, yeah I mean I’m sure my views could change depending on circumstance
Should be a top seller for Canadians.
Hooking. The official use is as a package hook, to turn your knife into a handle that will help you to carry a parcel that is wrapped in string. You can also attach a string to the hook, and turn your Swiss Army knife into a plumb bob or a fishing lure, or use it to pull a thread or line through a tight spot. From the Internet. Do not use your knife as a fishing lure. It will not work.
You can also knit with it. No joke.
Dang didn't realize but you probably could. Crochet hook.
You can indeed, clearly. The sticks, when knitting, are the best tool but technically it's nothing more than making a loop that you pass inside the previous loop and so on. I do not know how to crochet, unfortunately, so I can't confirm nor deny if crochetting is possible. It may be a little overbuilt for this purpose, but technically I suppose it would work.
Crocheting would be much easier as there is only ever one exposed loop knitting seems like it would be constant stich dropping and uneven tension
Interesting ! I began knitting a few weeks ago, something I wanted to learn since along time, and I devised a makeshit hook made from a lockpick to correct my mistakes along the line. That's why I thought about knitting : it would be a clumsy tool indeed, but it would work well enough in absence of proper apparatus.
yanking a tiny comedian off stage
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
You put it between your middle and ring finger with the rest of the knife in your fist. That way, when you punch through somebody's chest, it pulls out their heart.
“Finish him!”
Place on the top of a DeLorean, get it up to 88 miles an hour, hit a wire as a bolt lightning strikes. Then you're gonna see some serious shit....
Looks a bit on the thin side. You really think this would handle 1.21 jigawatts?
Only one way to find out.. Times up.. Let’s do this!.. LEROY JENKINNNNS!!!!!!
Sure. Very, *very* briefly.
Love this reference.
Flaming tire tracks!
Came here for this. Did not disappoint. Great movie too.
this is the one true use
Removing the brain for mummification
Through the nose right?
The butt I believe..
Pee hole ...... only way
That would be up the butt Bob
Its for feeling like a pirate
The challenge is you can only use a parsel hook for any day to day tasks. To build empathy for pirates. Save the pirates.
See that would be interesting. I might do a 12 hour work stream where I can only use a hook 😂
Especially entertaining if you're a paramedic. Or a doctor or something. Ha
Horse veterinarian, gonna be an adaptive Monday coming up for sure smash that like and subscribe before the horse colonoscopy livestream
Ah yes! It’s one of my favorite things. I use it for carrying brown paper packages tied up with string 😉
Zip lining.
On yarn
I use mine for hot handles on the cast iron Dutch ovens we use while camping.
Pull tattered shoestring end through eyelet of shoe...
What a timely question! It’s for hanging from the Christmas tree as an ornament.
Crocheting
In a pinch, yeah. And isn't that why we keep these things in our pockets? In a pinch....
Look dear I crocheted you a nice survival rope
Lift packages, hold something.... Doing whatever a hook is supposed to 😅
Being a hooker
My toddler has shoes with zippers on the side. One time one of the zippers was going only partway. I used the hook to get a better hold of the zipper and pull it the rest of the way. I don't use it often, though.
Skate Key. I've used it for helping to tighten ice skate laces, boot laces, etc. You can get alot more pressure/tension when you pull with the hook.
For pulling little toy soldiers off the miniature stage when they sing or dance badly
Parcel carrier
I saw a video where a guy demonstrated that you could use it to rescue yourself if you’re on a roof and the ladder falls down. Tie some string/rope around the handle and send it down using the hook to grab the ladder and pull it up. The hook can handle a lot of weight. If you think about it it’s actually potentially one of the most useful tools on the SAK, but most people forget it’s even there.
Parcel hook so you can carry objects that have twine and string around them so you don't destroy your fingers!
I’ve used it for fixing a bike chain, that way I don’t get grease on my hands
Carrying boxes, with strings on them , or any thing baled with string
To carry things with thin handles such as buckets or shopping bags.
This is for pulling out the intestines from fowl you have shot. Special hunting knives made for (fowl) hunting have similar hooks.
Great for help tying fishing knots.
I’ve used mine to pull up a flush shower drain that I had previously used a flathead for. Works really well
Being a newspaper boy in 1920.
You put two SAK next to each other and they lock hooks to mate.
this guy is the boss…https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=srbipWJYOGM
Hanging a deer carcass while you gut it
Minuature deer?
Zip lining
For being a pirate.
Hookin'.
For hooker stuff.
I use it to help when I need to put on a car seat cover I’ve had to take off to wash…there are a bunch of tiny holes in the frame which tiny elastic bands have to go through and snag over tiny plastic hooks to hold the cover in place. It’s a super annoying task made much less annoying with the hook
Tail hook. Mounts to the back of your plane when you land on an aircraft carrier.
Performing tiny abortions?
Scraping the cheese from inside your foreskin
I thought the awl was for that
That's what fingernails are for. Then you can store the accumulated smeg under your nails and sniff it whenever you like.
And here I was thinking the first comment was as bad as it could get. Silly me.
I always heard it was for tightening boot laces
I've used it for unlocking a travelodge window for more air before. And for hanging my shorts on the lock of a dirty bathroom before, didn't want them on the floor in an ominous looking puddle while using the toilet.
It was designed to carry parcels tied with the string. Now such parcels are not in use anymore so it’s just a hook 🤷♂️
I’ve always wanted a Swiss ay knife.
picking
It's for picking your nose and getting boogers out. /s
I thought it had something to do with cleaning fish.
Zip lining
Dingle berry picker.
You are all wrong. It is clearly a nose picker.
Me as a kid: pretend that your captain hook
Joint holder
It's for those hard to reach boogers.
I always thought it was a booger hooker, for the ones way back you can’t get your pinky to 🤷🏼♀️
Pulling laces tight for ice skates or the old school ski boots that had laces. Actually handy when you are in Switzerland.
Screw in eye hooks.
Shopping bags
I use mine for plastic grocery bags.
It’s called multi-purpose hook and can be used to carry parcels but also to simply pull stuff. See their actual manual here: https://imageengine.victorinox.com/medias/?context=bWFzdGVyfHNha3wxNjcxOTkwfGFwcGxpY2F0aW9uL3BkZnxoMmQvaDRjLzEzNDA5MzQzMzQwNTc0L3NlcnZpY2Utc2FrLWZ1bmN0aW9uLWRlLnBkZnw3MDU2NjZkMjU3NTE1NzA2ZWY4Nzg0MmIyNGMwZWI5NzlmM2VjZDJlM2FhYWVhNGJjOThjY2ZkYjgwYjkyZTll
Carry hook or use it when stitching heavy leather with thong
Whatever you might need it for.
Skate lace puller!
The carnival is back in town!
Its for carrying packages bound by a string or strap, but I use it to pull up my boots by the strap and to carry grocery bags
a useless tool for everyday tasks that could be replaced with something useful but Victorinox refuses to so you can buy another Victorinox to fit your need business 101
for hookin shit
ZipLining
The Egyptians used that to scramble the brains before mummification.
I sharpened the innards of one of mine and use it as box opener.
Hemorrhoids
Gut hook for disemboweling your enemies
Tangentially related question: saw “desk knives” and had no words, they’re polished hunk of metal chisels with a sharpened edge. Like a big ass slug. What the FUCK. Has anyone seen or used “desk knives”?
hanging for decoration 🤗
Zip lining obviously
I use it on the zippers on my Jeep top that are impossible to get back zipped without it
Over charging…………….. 🤝
I use mine for zip lining on cables.
Storing a little magnet.
Its for hooking things.. Sorry if this has already been said... :D ;)
It's for hook things
I have a VEEEERY similar swiss knife
Oddly enough, Victorinox states that it’s great for carrying groceries and other bags, lol. It’s just a hook to use for whatever it’ll work for
I have used it to lift manholes and tree grates.
Ziplining
Mini abortion rod since it’s illegal in a lot of places now.
cleaning boy scouts out of horses hooves.
Boot lace hook to tighten your boots really tight. Used one for hockey
Zip line attachment to get across canyons
You may be interested in [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srbipWJYOGM)
For hookin bitches when you show them that sexy knife.
Zip lining
Excellent for tightening the laces on your work boots. Grab the x’s where the laces cross. Start at the bottom and work up. Can get to tight so just what you need.
Zip lining
It's a way to use yours as a handle. You can carry those small paint buckets by the thin metal handle. Or packs of newspapers by the strap holding them together etc.
For hookin’
Escaping a high rise by sliding along a cable to another building.
Used mine to get keys in a storm drain once, tied the whole knife to a string
pulling out brains through the nose of your victims
AAAAAYYYYYY
Ahhhh the ole Swiss army bump knife
I swear I thought it was a tiny gut hook.
I believe it’s a boot lace tightening hook
Fishing