Gidday SW23,
I have the pleasure of sitting between 2 Garetts at work, what's the chicken thingy you refer to?
Back in my dark Jetstream days, the "Chicken Lever" referred to the lever that you turned and pulled to shutoff fuel and feather the prop. It was so long ago I can't remember its correct name.
What I
can remember is the capt used to hang onto it tightly during engine starts incase he decided to "chicken out" of the start.
A "chicken stick", OTOH is a flat stick about the size of a doctor's tongue depresser, but about 4mm thick and made of nylon. We used them in the glass industry for anything from a scraper to installing windscreens. Fantastic bit of gear.
Sort of like the Queensland socket wrench (shifting spanner) or the Queensland screwdriver (2lb hammer)
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