No, I’m not talking about slightly rotund people. I’ve just seen a podger spanner on Amazon and have no idea what it’s used for? Could someone enlighten me?

It’s used for professional bodging.

My coat? Thank you!

Scaffolders spanner

You’ve not done much steel erecting then? The first rule of steel erecting is, get your bolt in first. The pointy end is to align the holes in the steelwork so you can.

Podger bars are also useful for aligning holes in suspension components.

Not using a podger as an apprentice led me to the greatest advice that I ever got.

I was pushing my finger through the bolt hole of a flange into the next flange whilst trying to line them up. The tradesman who I was working with went off on one shouting. “Would you put your cock in there” no I replied, obviously. We’ll never put your fingers, where you wouldn’t put your dick came his reply. He sent me off to get a podger.

Saves yer fingers

A set builder I work with lent his podger to a colleague who only discovered later that Trevor also used his podger to “access his girlfriends back door”

As above. No hard hat will ever save you from a falling podger out the picker basket.
Its a finger saver when erecting structural steel, however I always go by my dads golden rule, ” never put your fingers where you wouldn’t put your knob”

A set builder I work with lent his podger to a colleague who only discovered later that Trevor also used his podger to “access his girlfriends back door”

He clearly didn’t want to put his fingers where he would put his cock.

I always go by my dads golden rule, ” never put your fingers where you wouldn’t put your knob”

I appear to have been your dad’s apprentice 🙂

Still wear a denture plate to this day to replace my missing front tooth when I slipped with a 36mm podger.
I was 30 odd foot up in the air in a cherry picker at the time and remember spitting out bits of tooth like they do in the cartoons, came a bit sharp I can tell you!

I now consider myself enlightened. Thanks everyone.

King Dick Podger

😉