WHY? or alternate title: Can one of you Brits explain this to me?

[David Herbert]

Originally Posted by Russ Gregg

I think the clever bit of the Oddy is that it probably reaches 90% of the grease fittings from only 2 or 3 locations and allows you to pump it on the ground instead of in whatever awkward position you had to get in to connect it. Two guys could make good time with this.

Yes, well put, also British tracked vehicles up to Chieftain used grease as a sort of consumable dirt/mud seal that relied on being renewed every day when working in bad conditions. That used an enormous amount of grease that you couldn't possibly have provided with a normal gun unless you had two, with a guy doing nothing but filling while another guy pumped grease into hubs. Certainly Oddys are prized by those of us in the UK who have them - pointless for a Landrover but brilliant for a large truck or a tank.

David