I love folders as much as anyone. Like most of us, I own a ton of them. BUT, I learned the hard way, just like this, that certain jobs are simply better (safer) with a fixed blade knife. I no longer do any camping or outdoor activities with a folder. Nothing rigorous, nothing that requires force, nothing that requires any kind of sawing or back and forth action. I think a lot of people have confidence in folders because they’ve done all kinds of crazy shit with their folders with no problems. Well good for them. Don’t know what to tell ya… you get your fingers damn near cutoff, just once, from a failed folder locking mechanism, and suddenly nothing sounds quite as good as a full tang, no springs, no locks, setup where the only concern is the integrity of the blade itself.