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Jerry rig comes from WWII as near the end the Germans had fewer resources and would put things together with whatever they had.

 

SO tempted to add to this but will resist....

 

Damnit, I thought I got rid of that picture of me

 

After 4 hours................................................why call at all............................

 

5 tine cultivator. I bought a brand **new** one back in the late 1970s to use in a vegetable garden. That got mighty old in a veryyyy short time. By the next year we bought a motorized one. Even with a motorized one it got old. In a few short years after I saw how cheap bushel barrels of beans, okra, corn, tomatoes, etc... were at the Farmer's Market, our home garden was put to rest - RIP. No doubt this one is probably older than the one I had, but amazingly it is made in the same way. The style of these haven't changed in decades.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Earthway-Ke...ivator-6500-Go-Green-Uses-No-Gas/151688883300

--- Susan

 

it is horse drawn ,the wheel just keeps you in the rutt (seen on the rifleman and other westerns ) and when i moved to the prairies they are used as lawn ornaments on farms or rusting in a barns .

 

Once these were worked out for materials and construction there wasn't much need to improve them.

 

We have an auctioneer here in town who sells Jury in a separate Jury Ring, LOL!

 

HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

.... Did you hear that a wall will be 10' up and 10' down in the ground?

 

Jerry rig comes from WWII as near the end the Germans had fewer resources and would put things together with whatever they had.

Not really. It would have to be a British term as the Americans called the Germans krauts, and if it were in circulation in Britain at the time I would have heard it used. Imaginative but not true. A common term for German stuff was ersatz, meaning substitute.

One of the factors leading to the German defeat was the very high quality of their equipment. They overspent their way out of the war market. Pretty well all the German war material cost up to twice the British equivalent, it was built to high standards and to last, and the British stuff was made to last just long enough.
The US equipment was more expensive than the British, but they were in a better position to afford it.

 

OMG........still roaring my butt off!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Where's the FUN in THAT!!!!!!

 

Sometimes fun is frowned upon by some here.

 

I had heard/read that about the Germans in WWII. The way it was explained was that in the North African Campaign the Germans were running out of parts for their equipment. The British referred to some of the makeshift repairs that they saw on captured equipment as Jerry-rigged. I guess that’s not right.
There are Jerry cans though.

 

I hadn't ever heard of "jury-rigged" until it was mentioned on these forums. Soooo just looked it up. Like af said a nautical term for repairing something or other. Jury-rigging temporary or makeshift repairs, and on a ship jerry rig is a replacement mast. Welll, I learned something new today!

Also Agree with af on Jerry being an English for the Germans were referred to as *G*erry and not *J*erry. BTW, af, the term Gerry was also used here in the states during WWI as well as Kraut.

--- Susan

 

and on a ship jerry rig is a replacement mast.

No, that was a joke. And Jerries had a J not a G. The term was also and probably earlier used for a chamber pot, hence the popularity. There is no such thing as Jerry rig. It's a malapropism.

Here are some other nautical terms 'spanker', 'lubber holes' and 'futtock shrouds'.

 

WELL!
I NEVER!
Such language!!!!
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