Humper Thumper

[will 47]

I've been having an argument with an ex Royal Marine that i go drinking with for months now over the name of that tube thing with handles on it used for banging in picketts, I reckon it's a humper thumper and he reckons it's a monkey are there any ex storemen out there that can put us straight on this one?

[John Turner]

A post driver, you rammed some hessian up it to cushion it if I remember right, or was it to make less noise?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZKMVgLhLJo

[richie264]

I thought it was a 4 inch mortar that you sent sprogs to the armourer with to get giggling pins for !!

[johnnye63]

WE always called it the Monkey and you can have a two or four handles on it, sorry John Nye.

[Glyn Hughes 17]

I agreed with John, the “Monkey” I used it many times on the farm and during my time with the Forestry Commission.
Glyn

[will 47]

Cheers boys but i cant go back to a bootneck and tell him he was right ... are you sure it was'nt a Humper Thumper!!!

[johnnye63]

Very Sure???????

[will 47]

Cheers John ... I'll stop drinking and bootneck will be none the wiser!!!

[ap1]

Hang on Will....Im younger than Johnny or JT. In Lemgo(Alphas) we called it a "Thumper"

Al :-) So your both right.

[richie264]

Thumper !! where did monkey come from ? What's it's correct name ? Tools Thumping, MK1.

[johnnye63]

Do you have the "part Number"??? you never asked thre storeman for a "Thumper as you might get something you did NOT ask for but a monkey you all know what you you mean

[John Turner]

See para 4.4 and fig 4.11 here - CLICK (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/accp/en0065/le4.htm)

Also from ARRSEpedia - CLICK (http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Monkey)

So - proper name Picket driver - nickname/slang 'Monkey'

[richie264]

Na never a monkey never heard it been called that.

[will 47]

Cheers all I'll spend the next few months dropping the name "expedient picket driver" into the conversation so when he looks himself I'll be right anyway ... Happy Days! ... however I'm with Richie all the way on this one a monkey is something that eats bananas and lives in a zoo

[ap1]

See para 4.4 and fig 4.11 here - CLICK (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/accp/en0065/le4.htm)

Also from ARRSEpedia - CLICK (http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Monkey)

So - proper name Picket driver - nickname/slang 'Monkey'

Never heard it called a "Monkey" Thumper ...yes