What's a 'tank'?

**Planopiper** · 12th September 05, 07:17 AM

Ok, I've seen this term over and over but I haven't been able to firgure out exactly what you guys are talking about. Is it an 8yd wool kilt? Or is it an abreviation for some specific vendor's kilt-like garment?

**Dreadbelly** · 12th September 05, 07:21 AM

It's a perfectly made 8 or 9 yard heavy weight kilt.

**Graham** · 12th September 05, 07:24 AM

Here it is known as a storage device for rainwater. Elsewhere known as a heavily armoured vehicle with a big gun in front.

I am not personally fond of it's use in relation to kilts, but there you go!

**Doc Hudson** · 12th September 05, 08:05 AM

The term originates with Jimmy Carbomb long ago. He referred to a traditionally built 8 yard woolen kilt as being built tough as a tank and the name stuck.

**davedove** · 12th September 05, 08:08 AM

Originally Posted by Doc Hudson

The term originates with Jimmy Carbomb long ago. He referred to a traditionally built 8 yard woolen kilt as being built tough as a tank and the name stuck.

I'd always wondered where the name came from. So, it's all Jimmy's fault.

**Graham** · 12th September 05, 08:17 AM

yes, let's get Jimmy!!

**Hamish** · 13th September 05, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by Graham

Here it is known as a storage device for rainwater. Elsewhere known as a heavily armoured vehicle with a big gun in front.

I am not personally fond of it's use in relation to kilts, but there you go!

I am right with you on that one, Graham.

Maybe I am unusual (NO comments, if you please!) but I have one in, of all places, my car. Instead of rainwater this one contains something called 'petrol'. ;)

**tomcherv** · 14th September 05, 04:55 AM

And don't leave the SCUBA divers out of this. Most people refer to the devices containing compressed air as tanks.

The organization that taught me (and for whom I later taught), however, refered to them as cylinders.

**Jimmy Carbomb** · 14th September 05, 08:08 AM

Originally Posted by Planopiper

Ok, I've seen this term over and over but I haven't been able to firgure out exactly what you guys are talking about. Is it an 8yd wool kilt? Or is it an abreviation for some specific vendor's kilt-like garment?

Whether anyone likes it or not... well... tough.

I did NOT coin this phrase. It was a strange progression from threads LONG ago on this site. I can't take any of the credit, as the follow-up posts took this and ran with it in their own personal observances. At the time, VERY few owned the things and it was difficult to make any comparisons with the light ones. As more and more purchased them and wore them... they just felt compelled to keep the term running.

Originally, it began as an explaination of what the difference was between the light, alternative kilts and the heavy woolen custom-made kilts. My only comparison was that the lighter ones felt like fiber-glass foreign sports cars when worn, and the heavy "traditional" felt like a "Tank". It's pretty easy to live with BOTH since they're used and enjoyed for different reasons.

Tank: a dense-woolen, three buckled, numerous pleated, fully lined, traditional, high-belted, substantial kilt. They "can" be machine made by trained kiltmakers that are not able to handsew anymore due to arthritis or other infirmities (and there are a few out there that I know well). They may be made anywhere on the planet, as long as the techniques are "true" and the finished product respects the heritage. It's a term of enderement for the weight, build and fit of a well-made and beautiful style of kilt.

Don't like the term or comparison? Change it... don't read it... get off my back.

**Archangel** · 14th September 05, 08:12 AM

Originally Posted by Jimmy Carbomb

Whether anyone likes it or not... well... tough.

Don't like the term or comparison? Change it... don't read it... get off my back.

touchy, somebody had a late night, or early morning. I skipped work today too.

What's the significance of three buckles? My tank has three, my army has two. Yes, I prefer three, but what's the issue?