Universal Skyhook

[KJF]

I am looking for a inversion (hanging upside down) device called the Skyhook. It was manufactored by a company called universal. If anyone has any information on where I would be able to find on please email me.

Thanks,

KJF
Kfruge66@yahoo.com

[jdd267]

the only universal skyhook i ever heard of was kareem abdul jabbar's for the Lakers...speaking of which, jabbar was in a movie with bruce lee. A friend of mine from back in the day was a bruce lee freak. he used to practice roundhouse kicks on my head, and even once punched me in the mouth for insulting pamela sue martin. i dont know whatever became of that guy.

[Gunyo Kogusoku]

I am looking for a inversion (hanging upside down) device called the Skyhook. It was manufactored by a company called universal. If anyone has any information on where I would be able to find on please email me.

Thanks,

KJF
Kfruge66@yahoo.com

That's an old builders joke from the 1980's.

They'd have young teenage apprentices going into trade hardware stores asking for them, and would be laughed at. The apprentice would then have the piss taken out of him for quite a few months.

"Skyhook? Where're you going to 'ang it then?"

[Dr.Death]

I remember the skyhook from the Navy in the sixties.It was probably old then.
Right up there with"go get me a bucket of steam".And of course relative bearing grease.

[jwinch2]

We used to send newbies up to battalion or brigade for "grid squares" when I was in the Army...

[Webmaster]

Other examples was sending a boot Marine to Battalion/Squadron Supply for "gun line", flight line" or "firing line". Scary thing was the number that actually fell for it! :laugh:

[jwinch2]

We had a kid who came in around the same time as I did to our platoon when I was at Campbell. He was always screwing up and was very gullible. His squad leader painted an old machine part and told the private it was the "gigawatt converter" for the SINGAR radio. The poor kid carried it whenever we drew equipment for a good 6 months... Must have weighed an extra 20 pounds over his standard load...

[Yang Wei Xin]

in carpentry we always ask for the board stretcher.

[Keisling]

I remember the skyhook from the Navy in the sixties.It was probably old then.
Right up there with"go get me a bucket of steam".And of course relative bearing grease.

Nice memory Roger - it's still the same or it was in 1993 when I got out.

30 yards of waterline

Military Bearing Grease

Sound powered phone batteries

I think the best I saw was a new Machinist Mate we sent forward to get a 16/16" wrench. He went all over the sub hitting the department tool boxes looking for the wrench. The CO saw him and asked him what he was doing. When the new MM explained, the CO told him to get a 1" wrench and the MM told him that that would not work we specifically told him that a 16/16" was needed. The CO had us cleaning bilges for like 12 hours the next day.

Don (MMC/SS)

[David Craik]

My favorite, back when people could still smoke in workspaces, was sending someone for an 'A.S.H. Receiver' (ashtray). Pneumatic fluid and left-handed screwdrivers work too.

I was sent for a yard of 'flight line' myself in the late 80's...luckily they were tearing up part of the runway, so I goofed off for a couple hours then came back with approx. 1 yard of concrete on a trailer.

Now, such innocuous fun is considered 'hazing' :rolleyes:

[Rasputin]

When I was but a sprout of a lad, the Boy Scouts used to send their young troops in search of a "Left-Handed Smoke Shifter". They also were known to gather up midnight hunting parties to go after the "Snipe", a fierce animal known to prey upon the unwary.

Once I reached the service, people either had gotten this out of their system or I was sufficiently unimpressed that it did not make an impression.

[QuiKujoJin]

When we we're railheading back from Bosnia, I had a young private scared to death that he couldn't go home because he had failed to get his "train tickets". We already had almost the entire company on the trains, and I told him we would have to take them all off and get his track off until he got that straightened out.

I did a lot of push-ups for that one. :D

[NickR]

Another is the Long stand.

Or tartan paint.

OR a spare bubble for a spirit level.

Or elbow grease.

Or sparks for the grinder.

[jwinch2]

When I was but a sprout of a lad, the Boy Scouts used to send their young troops in search of a "Left-Handed Smoke Shifter". They also were known to gather up midnight hunting parties to go after the "Snipe", a fierce animal known to prey upon the unwary.

Once I reached the service, people either had gotten this out of their system or I was sufficiently unimpressed that it did not make an impression.

I was suckered on a few Snipe hunts in my day!
:o :laugh:

[QuiKujoJin]

Or sending someone to the commo sergeant for a "Prick E-7" (for those who don't know, an "AN-PRC 77" is a radio, usually referred to as pricks)

[DragonMind]

I had this backfire on me one time. I had a new kid in the squadron and sent him for a bucket of "prop wash". Three days later he comes back with a can of very specialized cleaning solvent for use on the old wooden props. Kid had a three day pass on my nickel...but I figure he earned it. :D

[QuiKujoJin]

That's awesome.

Or the looking for "soft spots" on the armored vehicles and marking it with chalk.

[David Craik]

Once I reached the service, people either had gotten this out of their system or I was sufficiently unimpressed that it did not make an impression.

Well, USAF bases actually get funding for real entertainment, so it isn't as necessary to create one's own. ;)

[Abbax8]

Not to stop all the fun but

http://www.footsmart.com/Product.aspx?ProductId=2375

Peace

Dennis

[DragonMind]

Not to stop all the fun but

http://www.footsmart.com/Product.aspx?ProductId=2375

Peace

Dennis
Sure, there are plenty of inversion products out there, tables, boots, etc. What triggered all this is he specifically asked about "Universal Skyhook".