What is it? Game 101

a stick.

I win.

I think this is a device that enables the user to remove/replace a rubber grip on a cricket bat.

Is it a tool for testing whether say, and electric fence has current running through it?

i thought it was a tire thumper used by semi-truck drivers, check to be sure every tire is inflated by thumping 'em and listening for a thump instead of a thud.

It is a stick with one end covered with metal. There is a loop of leather string threaded through a hole at the other end.

It's a lever to throw electrical switches on power poles. Usually these have sockets for the metal covered end - and often padlocks in case some unauthorized prankster happens to have a handy stick

It's used for snake whacking like on the Simpson's episode Whacking Day.

This is the prototype WMD developed in Iraq, but was incomplete due to budget costs.

I second the tire thumper, although they often look more like a billy club, usually weighted on the end.

With #4 & 9 on this, it is a tire thumper.

It's a twitch for a horse.. you twist the leather end around their nose to keep them quiet while working around them. Releases endorphins..

Mr Wixon has it right

Used for hitting transpert truct tires. Very technical

bill wixon is quite correct, I've used one of these for several years when driving truck.

it is either:

- a "fishbat" for clubbing a big fish once its been hauled on board a boat.

or

- a batten - used for sail rigging in an old-timey sailboat.

It's Priest. Used to kill salmon.

Sorry, that LOOKS like a tire-thumper, but note the indentations on the metal sleeve. This is actually a relatively new training tool used by the Isreali Special Forces to teach their elite soldiers how to deflect bullets wearing Wonder Woman type bracelets. It's their latest effort to maintiain their reputation among the special forces community of their unparalleled and insane bad-assedness.

It's a Volt-Travel 16" wooden Tire Buddy, a tire thumper, as Bill Wixon already posted.

I think it's all those things! It would work...

ITS A TRAP!!!!

A tool for removing ice from boats while at sea

Finally Iknow one! It's a "tire thumper". Truckers use this tool to determine if their tires are properly inflated. (and to assualt lot lizards, but that is for another post)

Finally one I know as well :) - because it is exactly the same as what I use. A tire thumper.

tire thumper also a legal weapon...honest officer

I thought it was a twitch too, but on looking more closely the leather doesn't look strong enough.

Isn't this just a fence-post?

It isn't much to go on (I can see a hook somewhere), but, heck, we don't even know if its bigger than a breadbox. Could be a zoomed up bottle-opener for all I know.

Wait, I just searched for "tire thumper" and... these can't be real.

Why not just give tires a good old swift kick?

It is an attitude adjuster

It's an illegal alien deterent device.

...A tooth pick for someone with wide teeth...?

this is a tire thumper, to check the air pressure, semi drivers love it.

You're all wrong.
It's Dick Cheney's lead tipped "persuader". And it's not for "braining" someone, it is best used on the smaller brain at the other end of the spinal column. But it's not torture!

It's the object I hit the editors of this blog with for not offering a prize. Do I win?

It is a tire knocker... to check the air pressure in large trucks..and you can use it to fight off zombie hobos.

That's obviously an instrument of torture.

It's a proctologist's retrieval tool, to be used when a doctor loses a wristwatch or flashlight up there.

It's a tire thumper

its a stick used to beat the SHIZZZ out of people.

No, it is not used for "braining" people;
I believe that the Mafia use things like this to "knee-cap" them instead; keep them alive, but unable to run away.

It's a legal device to have in the car, just in case you are having one of those days where you find jerks in the middle of the road...

Gong striker.

Haven't truckers discovered the magic of a tire pressure gauge yet? One that gives you an actual number of proper inflation? This seems more appropriate for checking the inflation of a dead horse than highway equipment.

looks like the stick that's used to pull the shutter down. You see those shutters for various small shops, they're too high to reach. So, we'd need something to pull it down to padlock it..

Piñata opener

It is a heavy duty laundry tub poker; it assists in jamming the clothes below the soapy water level, so there is no contact between detergent and person.

Baton used to ward off zombies, quite obviously.

Its a stick for making rope

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.

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.

It's a robot's Q-tip

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.

An old Potato Masher.

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

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

It's a legal department approved safety ax.

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

"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.

Tire checker

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.

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.

Is it a porridge spurtle?

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.

it's a tire checker.

Butter churner mixing stick!

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

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.

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

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.

its a seal club. for beating fluffy seals.

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.

It's a fish bonker.

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.

fish whacker

a bung starter for taping old style beer barrels

Looks like a cheap club for scattering protesters.

Tire Billy