Does anyone keep a side-strike chisel for a GP cutting tool?

These are sometimes called "Construction Knives, Wrecking Knives, Chisel Knives, or Carpentry Chisel."

Dewalt is not the only one who makes one, but this is the one I was looking at. I have a 3.5" folder in my glove compartment but It seems like this chisel can do all of the cutting tasks that I would probably have for a regular knife.

I want to see how it cuts through seat belts.

I picked one up at Home Depot.

I was thinking "What if my nightmare scenario actually happens?" My biggest fear is that I'll be driving down the highway when suddenly I'll want to make a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich.

What would I do?

WHAT

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Do ?

SO the fist thing I did was try to make tomato slices with this chisel.

I can tell you that this tool is a lot heavier than any knife of the same size. Its pretty heavy and I can't see carrying this thing around, not even in a cargo pocket. I am going to put it in my car and probably only use it instead of a knife in a situation where using a regular knife could break or chip the blade.

It is meant to be held in the left hand and struck with a mallet or a hammer with the right hand. I found that if I wanted to use it to slice down on something - like a tomato, I had to use it left-handed. If you're going to cut something, the flat side has to face toward the middle of whatever you're cutting and the bevel has to face toward the outside. If you didn't do it this way the bevel would force your blade away from whatever you're cutting and you'd only be able to carve out semi-circle slices.

But anyway, I was able to create tomato slices.

Lee Valley makes a right-handed and left-handed "Batoning" Chisel:

http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.aspx?p=67735&cat=1,41504

Very nice looking tool and it comes with a scabbard.

Garrett Wade makes something that is a little more like a cleaver:

X-HD Chisel Knife

https://www.garrettwade.com/tough-versatile-x-hd-chisel-knife.html

The only information on the steel is "tempered carbon chrome steel" that doesn't tell you much. The Dewalt is one of the cheaper ones, but it does have a lifetime warranty with it. Since I'd be using this at times when I wouldn't want to break or chip a knife blade, I probably wouldn't limit my use of it to chiseling wood, so if I did chip it, I probably would be voiding the warranty with the way I'd be using it.

There are cheaper side-stike chisels out there. There is a company called Work Pro that claims that their side-strike chisel is "Drop forged chrome-vanadium steel blade HRC 54-58" but its a Chinese company and I don't believe what Chinese companies say about their products.