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7mo ago

Gen alpha has no fucking clue

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??? What does a fence post driver have to do with your age?
- Well for some... It's a thing you put fireworks into....
  
  No, I'm pretty sure it's how SWAT get through doors
  
  I never thought to use one of these as a mortar tube, that's a brilliant idea.
  
  And for a certain group of people, their houses get fucked with by cops using a variant of this.
- Exactly. Back breaking work but this is so much better than any other manual alternatives.
  
  We didn't have one of these. Instead, I got to crouch on the ground and hold the post with my hands while my father brought the front-end loader bucket down on it. Good times.
- *ground rod driver
  
  When I first started in electrical work, we'd take turns with a sledge hammer. Then we bought one of these, and it cut the time in half. Now, I use a driver bit for my demolition hammer and it's done in about 30 seconds. The driver bit also works well for fence posts, just sleeve a 24" section of EMT over it.
- Here I was thinking it was an unpainted big red key
- Age wasn't mentioned
  Edit: I can't read

That isn't a generational thing it's an urban/rural thing. A 5 year old from a farming community would know what that is. Also, if you fill them with concrete, you got yourself a hillbilly skeleton key.
- That isn't a generational thing it's an urban/rural thing.
  Yes, that is indeed the point of the shitpost.
  
  Didn't see what community it was on. Apologies.
- 'hillbilly skeleton key' I like that
- Also, if you fill them with concrete, you got yourself a hillbilly skeleton key.
  I assumed it was a police battering ram, tbh.

fuck all these 'tribalism' promotion posts, we should be finding ways to work together. Lisa, you're tearing me apart!

Gen alpha are literal children. They don't know what a lot of things are
- Fucking idiots
  
  I don't care who they were fucking
  
  That was my point, yes.

OP out here posting boomer humor....
- This is how we take back the internet
  
  What a fuckin ride this has all been gd. Let's do it, Denton.
- Commenters unaware of the sub
  
  Driving unaware posts.
- Post boomer
- Gross. Boomer is like a known cringe thing. This is just some tool. Who gives a shit how old someone is using it? Giving it "boomer" vibes is just a low energy joke.
  
  I know i come to shitpost subs for the bombastic, high energy, illuminating content
  wait til you grow up and come to understand that people sometimes have to talk about things BECAUSE they're fucking cringe and that that, indeed, has been the entire point of the "boomer" meme - THAT BOOMER BEHAVIOUR IS CRINGE - from the beginning. The whole fucking point of it.
  and anyway removed shit is low energy is itself pretty fuckin low energy; i mean it's responding on the right level which is good, but then you break it by turning it into an insult. You want your energy higher, get a coffee and bring it.
  
  OK, Boomer...

metal pipe with handles 👍
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It's so satisfying to slide this thing forcefully onto your pole OVER and OVER again, slamming it against the base.
- ... Is-is it a sex thing?
  
  It can be if you want

- So hot rn

Butt plug next question

This is the thing to get a pole in the ground. I used it to put up an electric fence around a pear orchard once
- I saw a kid piss on an electric fence once. Fucking hilarious.
  
  I watched my brother do this to a cow/horse electric fence, can confirm, fucking hilarious
  
  He's never played the game!
- Okay now im curious, why does an pear orchard need an electric fence?
  
  Keep animals out, would be my guess.
  
  I guess in case people try to jump over to steal the pears before they can be harvested
  
  Ents.

Ngl I thought this was some form of battering ram
- It kinda is.
  
  Fill it with concrete and it'll probably work very well to bash doors
  
  It's a battering ram for dirt.

obviously a fleshlight
- *Robocop's Fleshlight
- Also doubles as a dildo. Multi-purpose, useful!

I've put so many ground rods into this amazing earth. These bad boys have destroyed my shoulders.
- I recently got to use a pole drivers powered by a little 2 stroke motor. It took like 5 sec to sink a tpost down 3 feet. It was so easy and quick that it was kinda upsetting, makes using the old pole drivers feel like you're a monkey banging on rocks.

I made the mistake of using one to pound metal stakes without ear protection.
- eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
  
  Plenty of room at the Hotel Tinnitus

Ugh. My hands and back hurt just looking at that.

What's my fleshlight doing in this picture?
- I thought your fleshlight was in the barn
  
  MmmmmooOOOOOOOO!

And if you use ear protection you can get off my property you piece of shit grandson
- WHAT!?! SPEAK UP PLEASE!

It's a "state police open up-er"

Yes, I have seen Clarksons‘s Farm.
- Don't anger Caleb by doing it like Jeremy did

I don't think most gen alphas are tall enough to use a post driver effectively. I've got early model alphas and they are barely 5'4".

That's one cool looking bong /jk
- Well it does make a BONG sound

It looks like a potato gun
- It is much less fun than that

It's a police battering ram.
- Close enough, we'll accept this answer.

dinosaur fleshlight

Its a post driver for t-posts that get barbed wire around pastures

I'm a millennial. I guess if it was bolted to the ground, you could lock a bike to it?
- Same, and after learning what it is, now I’m wondering what driving fence posts has to do with generations.
- It's for sinking fence poles lol (also a millennial btw) - you use it to hammer them into the ground and it sucks.

Well you know I'm not rural. It never connected for me that these were originally for putting in fence posts.

I'm gen Z, grew up in the city, and I know what that is because we used em in the Boy Scouts. It's for pounding fence posts into the ground. The other end is welded shut and you put the post in the ground, put it over top of it, and pick it up and slam it down a buncha times
- They also make ideal launchers for fire works:) especially in areas where the local police get pissy despite them being legal, you can go out to the country side, mount it upside down and fire off some rockets and yank it out and move a few county roads over before the sheriff can arrive.
  ... Or so I'm told.
  
  Please just don't do this during a drought or burn ban. So many fucking fires caused by fireworks each year. So dumb. Don't do it.

hahah, never seen a bazooka ?
- That thing is full of chewing gum?

What do I win if I own one? It's red.

are you calling me old?

clank clank clank clink "Yup, this one's done"
- "Now onto post 57"

It's a banger!
- CLONK

I've used one to set t-posts for steel targets before a match. It's ever so much easier and faster than using a small sledge hammer.

I thought this was a weird mixer attachment at first

Post driver! They have hand held gas powered ones now BRrRrRrRrRrRrPppPPpp

Ooo so fancy. Mine was the old fashioned that looked like two really curvy shovels joined together at the hilt.
- A fence post driver is so much better than a post hole digger. Just give her a whack whack whack until it's set. Handling the wire, though....that's a removed, especially if it's barbed. Erecting an electric fence was child's play, though.
  
  I have a scar on my wrist from one second of not paying attention to barbed wire. Queasiness warning: I remember staring at the muscle and watching it contract until blood came gushing out. Farm life is quite something
  
  There is a cool trick using these to pull t-posts.

I was literally looking to buy one since I just bought a house and need to use one.
Edit: just read the actual title. C'mon man, this is boomer humor type of stuff.

Potato gun

I used one a couple weeks ago to put up supports for my grape vines. But when I was a teenager I had a horse and was constantly rotating his grazing area so I am very familiar with it.

It's called 'hearing damage, the cowhand communal commiseration.'

Spring loaded or pass.

Better keep that handy for your big dick energy after you showed Gen A who's boss 🙄

It's the tool for making golf course holes.

This is what people used to call a "kazoo". If you've been around as long as I have, you might have played one too!

Grabbed my ol man's winch and made a flying fox with his one.

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