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What Is It? for 7/1/12

Posted July 01, 2012 12:00 AM
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07/01/2012 1:37 AM

In the construction business its more often called a womper stomper or a wacker packer and occasionally a sh!t shaker/toe smasher.

And no I don't know the make model serial number or owners name of this item.

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07/01/2012 4:29 AM

Power tamper.

Or, gas powered tamper.

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07/01/2012 10:42 AM

A floor massager....

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07/01/2012 3:38 PM

Grand Ma's winning hopping let in the Olympics. Grand Ma 's long gone but the leg is still there.

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07/01/2012 9:49 PM

Looks like a Mikasa jumping jack tamper rammer with oil injection...

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07/01/2012 10:45 PM

when we used'em we called'em Tampers. You use it to compact the dirt prior to pouring concrete. The one pictured is a gas powered one man model.
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07/02/2012 9:21 AM

GA for adding a more descriptive purpose along with the name
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07/01/2012 11:01 PM

We just called them jumping jack compactors as that goes, every one we were around had a different name for them

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07/02/2012 6:26 AM

Gas powered pogo stick.

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07/02/2012 8:45 PM

Metronome for tap dancers?

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07/09/2012 1:25 AM

Binford 2000 I believe

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07/02/2012 8:39 AM

Single cylinder reciprocating engine (sans crankshaft, flywheel etc ).

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07/02/2012 9:18 AM

It's what we in the construction industry refer to as a "Jumpin' Jack". It's used to consolidate (compact) soil......usually backfill placed in trenches and other excavations and what not.

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07/02/2012 11:18 AM

You are all wrong! It is an articulated powered prosthetic leg so an injured hippo can lead a normal life.

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07/03/2012 3:29 AM

_ Very funny JPool! I like your humour! _
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07/02/2012 11:34 AM

Motorized macadam tamper

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07/02/2012 9:33 PM

Rumpelstiltskin the Robot.

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07/03/2012 8:38 AM

Angela Merkel squashing Europe?
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07/03/2012 9:19 AM

R1D1
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07/03/2012 10:30 AM

Is that my Daddy?

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07/03/2012 12:33 PM

We call them dancers in my country, it is used to compact the soil prior to the building of a pipe stage for exotic dancers.

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07/03/2012 1:51 PM

It is a disciplinary tool my boss uses. Only his is aimed horizontally against our hind quarters!

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07/05/2012 12:45 AM

Dance partner for the lonely.

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07/05/2012 10:22 AM

Is it a Higgs boson?

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07/09/2012 8:35 AM

It's a Mikasa Multiquip Jumping Jack tamper.
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07/09/2012 9:29 AM

Gas powered shop vac.

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07/09/2012 8:19 PM

a "massager" for obese people

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