Comments on: What is it? Game 101

By: WhasDat

WhasDat — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:41:41 +0000

Looks like a cheap club for scattering protesters.

By: jason m

jason m — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:59:49 +0000

a bung starter for taping old style beer barrels

By: mots

mots — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:50:43 +0000

fish whacker

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:03:27 +0000

As it's perfectly clear that others have got the right answer, I'd just like to add that these are incredibly sturdy and made of a heavy hardwood. I keep one in my car just like that one. Just in case. Of black people.

By: Lja

Lja — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:00:31 +0000

It's a fish bonker.

By: monkerz

monkerz — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:30:40 +0000

It is absolutely and without question a tire knocker. Used mostly by those who drive 18 wheelers to check inflation. I drove semis for 20 years and had one just like the photo.

By: freakoid9000

freakoid9000 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:33:43 +0000

its a seal club. for beating fluffy seals.

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:14:43 +0000

It's a riding stick for the Electromagnet Trolley, a transportation system tested briefly in early San Francisco.

When the trolley flew by, you raised the metal end of your stick in the air to get picked up off your feet. It was fast and safe travel if your trip was short enough not to dislocate your shoulder or your destination was close enough to the top of a hill that you didn't fall to your death.

By: strangepork

strangepork — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:04:45 +0000

Bludgeon. To ward off Ne'er-do-wells. Must be a new one, no bits of scalp and hair embedded. yet.

By: bmueller

bmueller — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:42:57 +0000

It's a tire bat. Truckers use them to determine if a tire tread is coming loose. Whacking a good tire makes a different sound than whacking one with a loose tread.

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:42:47 +0000

It's a tire thumper that has never been used. (a tire thumper is something truckers use...they whack the tires with it and from the sound and "feel" they can tell if the tires are under-inflated)
P.S> I've been a trucker for 30 years

By: Derek54

Derek54 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:22:20 +0000

Butter churner mixing stick!

By: christina

christina — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:44:24 +0000

it's a tire checker.

By: Thebes

Thebes — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:28:59 +0000

As has already been said its a tire thumper. It is used by truckers to quickly check tire pressure and give them a plausible reason to keep a brain busting club in their truck cab while driving in even the most weapon hating of communities.

By: Zakk?

Zakk? — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:23:37 +0000

Is it a porridge spurtle?

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:37 +0000

More than one right guess above but it is a tire checker(thumper.) I have one in the RV and I bought it at a truckstop. It takes a good bit of time to check all the pressures in 18 tires so you do that before starting out in the morning. What you fear is that one of a pair (dual) of tires will go flat, leaving the other to take the load. This will destroy both, Violently!You cannot see that it is flat and you will break a toe trying to kick one hard enough but it will sound dull when thumped so it is easy to check when stoping. It is also possible to put your palm on each and feel for the hot one. As has been mentioned above it is legal to have in the cab with you in case you need a weapon.

By: MB

MB — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:16:39 +0000

My sister had one of these given to her by a co-worker. She was told that it was to break the windows out of her car in case of an accident (trapped in car). I always thought it looked like an assault weapon, ie. in case of highjacking.

By: KMG365

KMG365 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:19:20 +0000

Tire checker

By: Frau

Frau — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:10:37 +0000

"Haven’t truckers discovered the magic of a tire pressure gauge yet? One that gives you an actual number of proper inflation?" - Joe

I bet it is fantastic living in the future.

A tire gauge takes time to go around to all eighteen tires. Accessing the inside dual is not easy.
With a thumper you can easily do pre/post trip in about five minutes.
And if you happen to be hauling a turnpike double, then you have more than eighteen tires to check.

You are also required to check your tire pressure every so often. Depending on your load, company rules, state rules, DOT rules, sometimes it can be every one hundred miles.

Multiply that with however far your trip is - a tire thumper is just an easier quicker way to check your tires.

"We" do however check the tire pressure with a gauge weekly.

By: JT the Impailer

JT the Impailer — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:05:05 +0000

It's a stick you use to beat your meat.

By: Jonathan Stampf

Jonathan Stampf — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:15:11 +0000

It's a legal department approved safety ax.

By: glessd

glessd — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:58:22 +0000

It's called a tire billy, like the others have said, for checking semi trailer tires.

By: David Taplin

David Taplin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:50:54 +0000

Tire thumper. It's sold for 18-wheelers to check tire pressure, but makes a darn good self-defense weapon as well.

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:31:15 +0000

An old Potato Masher.

By: Susan Miskowitch

Susan Miskowitch — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:29:01 +0000

This tool is called a twitch and isn't evil at all. When undergoing a painful veterinary procedures, you can help the horse by using a twitch. The rope is placed the horse's nose (muzzle) & is twisted by the wooden handle. The twitch activates the horse's endocrine system and acts to release endorphins (hormonal pain reliever), during a short vet procedure. Some people use the twitch as a tool for behavior modification. For instance if your horse kicks out at you while you're medicating her foot, a twitch would hold her in place, minimize her pain and proof to her that she doesn't have to kick at the pain.

By: Harnett

Harnett — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:18:51 +0000

It's a robot's Q-tip

By: David Smith

David Smith — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:13:09 +0000

Tire Buddy, helps long haul truckers check tire pressure, by striking the metal end on the tire to test air tightness in tires that are hard to real by conventional pressure testing devices.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:58:03 +0000

This is actually the same model "WR-1 Tire Checker" that a U-haul area field manager will issue to a dealer in order to check the consistency of the tire pressures of an incoming U-haul truck.

By: nails80

nails80 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:56:58 +0000

Its a stick for making rope

By: nicenicenicole

nicenicenicole — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:44:09 +0000

Baton used to ward off zombies, quite obviously.