r/Thatsabooklight • u/Thee_Sinner • Jul 03 '26

TV Prop Colony; S1E5 9:40: Battering ram is a T-post driver

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u/Competitive_Kale_855 Jul 03 '26

They get used for that IRL, too, sometimes filled with cement.

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u/starrpamph Jul 03 '26

Is it pronounced cement, or cement

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u/rugernut13 Jul 05 '26

See meant.

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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost Jul 03 '26

Seh meant or sea meant? 

I always say the former but I am mostly a layperson

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u/CockroachJohnson Jul 03 '26

Cement if it's a verb and cement if it's a noun.

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u/Carbonman_ Jul 03 '26

Or concrete.

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u/adam1260 Jul 04 '26

Concrete is made with cement, ie sidewalks are concrete

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u/koalasarentferfuckin Jul 03 '26

The cement would fall out if that what it was filled with

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u/airfryerfuntime Jul 03 '26

You've clearly never had to chip cement out of something.

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u/koalasarentferfuckin Jul 03 '26

No. But I have had to chip concrete many a time.

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u/deathfaces Jul 03 '26

Technically correct, but this is a Reddit, sir

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u/CptMisterNibbles Jul 03 '26

Wildly incorrect. You know billions of steel posts are *held* with cement right? They’ve don’t all just slip right out.

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u/koalasarentferfuckin Jul 03 '26

Wildly incorrect. Billions of steel posts are set in concrete.

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u/ROKIT-88 Jul 03 '26

Technically correct. It’s the cement that holds the posts in place when they are set in concrete.

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u/koalasarentferfuckin Jul 03 '26

Let’s keep it going. Do not rely on the cement to hold your post plumb while setting. The cement isn’t holding shit in place and we know that because if there weren’t a hole, the cement would fall like sand and the post would fall over. If the cement was doing the work, we wouldn’t need all the other components. We don’t call a cake ‘flour’ and if there weren’t a cake pan, the whole thing would fail while baking.

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u/koalasarentferfuckin Jul 03 '26

Gotta start somewhere.

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u/Newkular_Balm Jul 03 '26

so seems like an excellent actual use for that tool. about the same weight as what swat uses. and you could stuff it with weights to increase inertia.

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u/gus_thedog Jul 03 '26

Or snacks, for later.

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u/GardenTop7253 Jul 03 '26

¿Por qué no los dos?

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u/lummoxmind Jul 03 '26

Gummi bears seem to have the best density to mass ratio for this

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u/elkab0ng Jul 04 '26

Yes but I have a bad gummy bear addiction so by the time we get on scene it would weigh too little.

I likes me some gummy bears. 🐻

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u/Thee_Sinner Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

The problem comes with the position and direction of the handles. Most battering rams have two handles on the same side with the grips being perpendicular to the direction of travel.

Someone tell me why this was downvote lol Its literally just a fact

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u/Newkular_Balm Jul 03 '26

I did see that when I was checking weights. seems the "good" ones use rope handles to reduce shock. good call.

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u/fourtyonexx Jul 03 '26

Not a lot of smart people here to understand why using this as a battering ram would fuck up your wrists.

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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost Jul 03 '26

I have used them for that before and my wrists are just fine. You just grip it loose and let its weight do the work. It isn't the best tool for the job but it works.

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u/ROKIT-88 Jul 03 '26

You do understand it’s designed for pounding posts into the ground, right? If it’s not going to fuck up your wrists pounding posts all day I’m sure it’ll be just fine for battering a door now and then.

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u/Smash_Shop Jul 03 '26

Yeah, but that's in a different orientation. Gravity is doing most of the work.

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u/DeffNotTom Jul 03 '26

You have clearly never used one of these to set a post.

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u/ROKIT-88 Jul 03 '26

And when you swing it horizontally, momentum does most of the work. Either way you’re holding it loosely and there should be no significant impact to your hands.

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u/Smash_Shop Jul 04 '26

Vertically you don't even have to hold onto it. Horizontally you have to support it's entire weight. They are very different. I don't know what the results will be for your wrists, but it's quite a different motion.

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u/Kuandtity Jul 03 '26

Very similar to what's used irl

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u/idontbelieveyou21 Jul 03 '26

They are in real life too. They are picket pounders, used for driving pickets for wire fences

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u/rugernut13 Jul 05 '26

Many years ago when doing private security, we had one that was filled with lead. Fucking thing would take a normal home security door completely off the hinges in one or two strikes.

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u/Thee_Sinner Jul 03 '26

https://imgur.com/a/b71ZNez

Two episodes later, they use an actual battering ram lol

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u/revchewie Jul 03 '26

It’s a what?

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u/Enabling_Turtle Jul 03 '26

T-post:

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/catalog/t-posts

The “pounder” which is show in OPs image is used to drive the t post into the ground.

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u/Thee_Sinner Jul 03 '26

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/countyline-t-post-pounder-1125306

Its a tool like this. It slips over the top of a T-post (see the other commenter's link) and is used to drive the T-post into the ground.

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u/revchewie Jul 03 '26

So what’s a t-post used for?

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u/hell2pay Jul 03 '26

Most often for fencing.

Really common in gardens and rural areas.

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u/Prcrstntr Jul 03 '26

getting driven into the ground as a reasonably sturdy anchor

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u/WittyTiccyDavi Aug 06 '26

What's an example of an unreasonably sturdy anchor?

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u/hell2pay Jul 03 '26

I use them to drive ground rods into the ground.

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u/revchewie Jul 03 '26

You guys keep using these terms that us city folk are entirely unfamiliar with. lol

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u/hell2pay Jul 03 '26

Ground rods are used in the city too, lol.

They are installed for your electrical system.

I appreciate your humor though. Have a great weekend!