Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Bazookas

We recently had a heap of Tulip Bulbs donated to the counsel from Araluen Botanic Park. The easiest way to plant them is with these things. On the end you dig into the ground, there is a little flap that you open by standing on the lever at the bottom. This creates a little hole in the ground where you drop a plant/bulb down the shoot, lift the contraption and press the dirt around the plant. This makes it easier to plant things. You then press the small lever at the top and that closes the flap and you start again.They are called a Pottiputki and I really wish I knew what silly person decided to call them this was thinking. Nobody knows how to pronounce it and when you do say it right, nobody knows what you are talking about. I call then Bazookas. I wish more people would call them this. I gave them this nickname because of how we use to play with them. At a job I had many years ago we had to use these all day, so to liven things up we would open the flap and lay the 'Bazooka' on our shoulder with our hand on the grip handle at the top. Someone would come up behind you and tap you twice on the hard hat, call "Clear" and you would press the little release lever making the flap close with a loud CLANG. We were easily amused.

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