HaHa!!! Yeah it's been a LOOOOOOOONG time coming.

Discontinued Dyad, I believe (most lines run only a short time), and glad you stayed clear of the grain auger.....mine, when clipped, dang near got me killed when it snagged and I was at great height. The Salt versions are so flat/light/rounded, even the huge one carries easy in a front pocket, and totally absolutely rustproof under normal circumstances. My dream knife.....too bad it's plastic!

Oh yeah, long discontinued. I remember shopping around for the replacement at the "secondary sales" sites. I forgot that I had actually plunked money down at one.

The "grain auger incident" happened at a small shop that cleans'n'dries wheat to sell as seed to area farmers. The "pit" is for grain trucks coming in from the field to dump their load. It's a relatively small pit, just big enough to catch the width of a truck bed without having to sweep grain into it. It's much too small to "just unload the truck" into it, so the auger has to be cranking while you're dumping and the dump can't be "wide open." It has a grate on top to keep large things (kittens and larger) from dropping into the moving parts.

The first auger runs horizontally, feeds a second auger that lifts grain up (at an angle) to feed a pit for ladder buckets (on a chain) to lift grain up to the top of the building where it can be dumped straight into the cleaner feed bin or diverted to one of the storage bins.

I was working the gate on the back of the truck and an upward motion hooked the knife clip and lifted it clean out of my front pocket. At first we figured that we'd hear it plunk in one of the lift scoops. After a few minutes of waiting and no-show, I shut things down and manually cranked the second auger backwards and the knife popped out.

This was back in the summer of 2001.

Rob, interesting story
This rarely happens, but it happens.

For me clip is very useful if I do not have a belt cover.
When the knife without a clip and a holster,
it often falls and turns dents

Better photo of mine....to me an amazing knife due to total rustproofness plus super flat (even the largest is only 1/4" thick), great strong blade design and material, and exceptionally light where even largest is under 3oz with clip removed....too bad it's plastic.

Agree on the handles..... My Civilians are hopefully never needed.... if so needed, they would be considered disposable.

If they made that same knife with one-piece titanium handle of same shape, and no "improvements" of bolted together halves and liners and liner lock, and the rustproof H1 steel, I would never look at another folder after that.

My Titanium Spyderco. To heavy for my taste as a EDC.

Seal Team Gold Police Model that I liked.

Except for the squared off stern on second plastic handle version (which I approved of as it ditched unrequired excess length), the side profile of first plastic knives, the second plastic knives, the current Salt version, AND the Police model are pretty much identical. A titanium handled Police model is close to what I would wish for, but think the Salt blade design a far better working blade design. But I would take the Ti Police with no other changes.

Did someone say Spyderco

Nice knives guys, here are mine, a few are rare

Peter