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Started by bedway, October 20, 2010, 12:50:07 AM

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bedway

My wife told me today that i have a jitney, and what i could do with it. :o I was surprised and impressed!

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submarinesailor

Bedway,

Is your wife from the Philippines-like mine?  The Philippines is the only place I have seen the term jitney: http://www.film.queensu.ca/cj3b/World/Philippines.html

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Neat idea,   use one of those for your portable sawmill business and everyone will know who you are!!

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pineywoods

The term "jitney" was quite common around large sawmills in the deep south up until the early 50's. Refered to cut-down pickup trucks used to tow lumber carts. They went away when small forklifts became available after ww2. Most of the forklifts were towmotor brand. Even to this day, any small forklift is called a towmotor in many areas.
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beenthere

Growing up in IA, often heard the term "jitney" when referred to something like a model T Ford or some similar older vehicle. A term my grandmother quite often used, and she grew up in the East until she married Gpa who was from IA.

I guess I thought it could be used for anything that didn't have a known name. :)
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Around here, the term JITNEY usually means "old vehicle"!
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okie

 ??? I just looked up the definition, jitney means bus or several passenger vehicle.  ???
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barbender

So, I'm still lost as to what Bedway meant by it ???
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Sub salor Bruce,I thought the PI term was jeepney,spent two years at NAS Cubi point.Frank C.
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Radar67

Around here, Jitney is a grocery store. I figured he had to cook his own supper for something he didn't, or did do.  :D
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He probably did, as the wife handed him the fry pan. That could leave an impression, depending on how much force was used. :D
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bandmiller2

Probibly a catchall term like johnson bar,an old term not usally heard today.Frank C.
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r.man

Frank, is a Johnson bar a long socket arm that doesn't ratchet?
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Or a Crow bar that would hurt  smiley_argue01 Violin_smiley ;) :D :D :D :D :D
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I thought a Johnson Bar was the trailer brake lever on most trucks that was attached to the brake control, (manufactured by Johnson Controls)?  That bar in the pic on your post Tom, what would that be used for? Levering and moving Barrels?  I have seen them before, but never used one.
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Maybe moving a train car!!
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captain_crunch

Strange how many differences in word meaning from one part of this contry from one side to other
Old Timers called a fork lift a  jitney. And Johnson bar is the forward reverse control lever on cat transmission(shuttle shift)
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bandmiller2

Like I said Johnson can mean almost anything,we all have one but usally don't use it to pry up machinery.Steam locos engineers called the  valve lever a johnson bar.Tom I had one of those machinery riggers bars, think I left it at work when I retired.Frank C.
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barbender

The only time I've heard the term Johnson bar up here was refering to the lever that works the service brakes on the trailer of a tractor/trailer. The only time I've ever used that lever is when hooking up a trailer to make sure the king pin latched. The '09 Pete I was driving last year didn't have one. It seems tradition dies hard with truck manufacturers, look at how many years they had seperate switches for about every light on the truck, turn signals had to be manually switched off, etc. Some of that is finally starting to disappear, I like to just turn on one switch for the lights,  not going through a checklist like I am firing up an airplane or something. Clearance lights-check. Marker lights-check ::)
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Okrafarmer

I was under the impression that Johnson Bar was a catch-all phrase used to denote any very long lever, usually attached to some piece of equipment, and using the operator's brute force alone to lift something up-- ie, the long handles they used to have on old tractors to raise the cultivators up and down, etc. Many old equipment had these things in the days of horses and steam and early gas power. They used leverage and muscle power alone to get something heavy moved on the machine-- that is to say they were "power" lift-- "Armstrong Power-Lift System." Ok, so Armstrong Power was another one of those phrases, and I think Armstrong and Johnson must have invented a lot of machines together. . . . .  ::) ::) ::)
Anyway, that's the story I was told.

Many of the Johnson bars on the old equipment had spring-loaded squeeze handles that let you set the bar in a locking position, then unlock it to move the bar. I think a lot of old circle mills had them, too.

But I think Johnson Bar is just a term for a lever.

Now as for Jitney. . . . Ok, I was also told that the things in the Philippines are Jeepneys. My wife visited the PI's before we were married. Jitneys I don't know for sure, but I wonder if they are related to the jitterbugs of Maine. Usually cut down pickups outfitted for hauling 4' pulpwood or firewood out of the woods (but not generally down the road).
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