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Dumb Nicknames for parts

Who came up with the name "pans" for steel plank> What are we, cooks?

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Permalink Reply by Aaron Thomas Swan on September 21, 2011 at 1:44pm

we ether call them "chicken legs" or "donky dicks" one guy called it "a ice cream" holding it upside down

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Permalink Reply by Justin T. Wittwer on September 21, 2011 at 1:46pm

Nice. Why do they usually resort to food and cookware?

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Permalink Reply by Doug Easter on September 21, 2011 at 2:47pm

AL pertains to Adjustable Leg; 1 pertains to the first one and S pertains to special (as with having a base plate attached).

An AL1 pertains to a plain adjustable leg that will accept either a swivel or fixed base plate or a caster.

John Cavelli said:

beats me pal who came up with Al1s

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Permalink Reply by Doug Easter on September 21, 2011 at 2:53pm

Justin,

I have the feeling that we have been here befor. A "buck" can stand for a "horse" and if you take it back in time , originally, we put up two saw horses and covered them with plank, and then put two saw horses on top of that, etc, etc. and there you have buck up or bucks.

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Permalink Reply by Shawn Mills on November 8, 2011 at 11:16pm

Multiple Uses for the "Motherfucker" Part

Pinlock=28' Double Truss

Cuplock=Boiler Foundry Ladder

Safway=7' Steel Stair Sections

You may not like "bucks" but where do you think "buck-hoist" came from?

One of my alltime favorites is dealing with stage hands who call rigid clamps "cheeseburgers"

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Permalink Reply by Dave Glynn on November 21, 2011 at 9:56am

dog leg bracing, meaning alternate bracing. a tranny, meaning a transom and not some bloke dressed in his wifes frock. lol! a long one, meaning a 21ft tube. a blob or bubble, meaning a spirit level. the list can go on forever, brit scaffs have a slang for all and anything. if any of you lads get a bit of time check out a brit scaff site called scaffoldersforum.com theres was asimillar thread on their.

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Permalink Reply by Dave Glynn on November 21, 2011 at 1:20pm

5ft putlog flat ended tubes are very common throughout britain. the company i work for has hundreds of them. theyr used as transoms and the flat end is designed to fit in betwwen the brickwork of a building.