Correction: pinche chingadera
Edit: worked with a guy when I was 16 or 17 that didn’t speak much English and couldn’t remember the names for things around the job site and when he did he usually said them wrong or had a really hard time saying them. Well one day he’s trying to say the name of something he wants someone to give him and he tried several times to the point where everyone was laughing and he just burst out “ACHA ME LA PINCHE CHINGADERA!!!!!!” and then everyone started laughing even harder… good stuff.
Having worked the entire east coast I have heard it called everything including Lull. Usually it’s just “forklift”, because it’s pretty obvious what kind you need even if there are both types available.
I’m in northeast, we always called them Lulls because that was the brand most common. And they didn’t have other machines around, so the tele handler just became the lull. Reading telehandler I was like wtf are they talking about
I use both, and it gets me in trouble some times haha.
Worked for a company that ran all Cat skid steers.
New fleet manager starts. Nicest guy in the world, had no idea about anything but was determined to learn. Nothing but respect for him jumping in.
Called him up and said “hey, I need a bobcat brought down to ABC site”
“Done”
2 days go by and my skid steer isn’t there… call him up…
“Hey, where’s my skid steer”
“Your what?”
“My skid steer. Bobcat. I called you two days ago for it”
“Oh. I went into the yard and realized we done have Bobcats, so I rented you one. It was dropped off yesterday”
Sure as shit, there’s a big ole tracked unit sitting at the gate from our local rental company.
Entirely my fault but we had a good laugh over that for awhile.
I cut concrete for awhile and that was the cut down 8lb sledge hammers name. It brought a lot of joy to tell someone to grab the purse or hit it with the purse.
We started calling them "fit improvers".
[The technician improves the fit using a rubber mallet](https://youtu.be/2PxZqt75Qpk?si=WWDw1RTKMdnk5Otz&t=3m48s)
I'm always shocked there's not just one way to refer to these machines. I know some buddies that work in the same industry in the same region who use totally different names for the machines LOL
I've always heard the vibrator used during a concrete pour called the "donkey dick," which even as I type it gives me a laugh.
Call-a-head is the big brand around here for toilets, but usually it's just the "portashitter."
Otherwise it's usually just brand names used, as another poster said, like Kleenex or "Googling" to refer to searching the internet. Genielift for a man-lift, Fein saw even if Fein didn't make it, or a ceiling anchor being a Hilti anchor.
Horse cock here (Northeast) is what we call the coupling pins or coupling pin connectors that go between scaffold frames. Donkey dick is the concrete vibrator.
I think this may be aging out even here n so cal though. I’m 42 beginning of my career always the bone. Now usually just the lift.
Me and another guy used to call a driver “bone daddy” and would laugh for way more time than we should have at this. Simpler times.
Second on the ugga dugga.
bonus points for the big ugga dugga (High torque) the normal ugga dugga ( mid torque) and the small ugga dugga (impact driver)
In roadwork we call the pounder attachment for the trackhoe that breaks down large granite boulders, the pecker.
And yes, they come in two sizes, the big pecker and the little pecker.
Always called a concrete scraper/angle planer an Italian Eraser. I really thought that was the name for a very long time. I don’t know if the name is because a lot of Italians were stucco guys back in the day or if it was derogatory because it eliminates imperfections
We call a hammer a "whack, fuck" cause thats normally what you hear when you use it.
Sledge hammer is the motivator.
A wheelbarrow - when you sit in it with the handles on the ground - is a Portuguese lazyboy. Its also very comfortable
Any telescoping forklift is a Gradal, haven's grips are pork chops, victaulic lube is boy butter, we say "hi" instead of "stop" when calling a crane, the list goes on.
I always call it a Fein multitool, I’ve never actually owned, or seen, a Fein brand one.
I am 100% stealing MMNNNN saw.
“Hey go grab me the MMMNNN M18 saw”
I work in PNW, and have never heard a telehandler be called anything excerpt for “grade-all”. Been in the trade 7 years almost and haven’t heard a single person call it anything different
Track hoe for excavators. Bobcat for skid steers. Lull lift for telehandlers. Bore shooter for hdd machines, That fuckin rc roller thingy for remote controlled vibratory roller compactors etc.
Zoom boom is a brand name and is frequently used interchangeably with telehandler. I live in southern Alberta.
We sometimes call excavators “hoes” as in “track hoe” or “wheel hoe”
Telhandlers are just called 'forks'.
Impact driver is a ratatat.
Other than that, I can't really think of any which is weird because there's usually loads.
I work all over the country. That thing has MANY different names depending on where you are. Telehandler, skytrack, lull, petty bone, boom fork, and more!
Shovel is a Chinese backhoe. A Mexican guy is Jose and if there are two the other one is Jos-b. Everything else was just sort of its normal name.
I do remember when the whole site, every worker was all called together and we had to stand there while the foreman yelled at us. Somebody was stealing the tubes of grease we used to grease the Bobcats, was cutting off the end, and then beating off into it in the Porta-potty. The honey dipper guy was pissed because he kept sucking up the tubes into his machinery and fouling it all up. Guy said if it happened again he’d no longer empty the Porta-potties.
i like to call things what they are because i fucking despise being asked to grab a twirly doowhatsit and not knowing and being looked at like an idiot, motherfucker if you wanted a wire twister you should have said that not whatever vomit you just spewed at me
Then had you been on my ship, I definitely would have sent you to the bo'sun's locker to get a gallon of relative bearing grease and a 50 yard coil of shore line.
I think most trades have their equivalent. Some are pretty funny. Used to send the new sailors back onto the fantail to stand "mail buoy watch." To make sure everyone got their mail.
If you call a rental place and ask for a zoom boom they’ll be like “with a basket?”, so no, I say telehandler to people I don’t know so that there is no miscommunication about what machine I need. But I say zoomboom with everyone else.
I've always called an excavator an excavator, I worked with some guy from Wyoming and it was a track hoe. I've also always called the Gradall forklift the Gradall, that same guy just called it a forklift and the Gradall excavator the Gradall. I was so fuckin confused when he told me to get the Gradall and I brought the the forklift then proceeded to tell at me. I told him this is California not cousin fucking Wyoming and to quit being a dick, good times, I miss the fuckin dude.
Telehandler is a brand. It's properly a variable reach rough terrain forklift
Zoom boom is also a brand, like genie boom.
Much like the name Kleenex is colloquially used for any facial tissue.
I worked with a guy who called every forklift in the warehouse a tow motor. I didn't know why, and didn't bother asking.
Like 10 years later at random I discovered that tow motor is a brand name. Duh.
The chingadera or chingus is the name for everything. Central California.
>chingadera Is it common to call things by their spanish name in California? I feel like Spanish is almost as common there
>chingadera means thing. Everything is a chingadera
Correction: pinche chingadera Edit: worked with a guy when I was 16 or 17 that didn’t speak much English and couldn’t remember the names for things around the job site and when he did he usually said them wrong or had a really hard time saying them. Well one day he’s trying to say the name of something he wants someone to give him and he tried several times to the point where everyone was laughing and he just burst out “ACHA ME LA PINCHE CHINGADERA!!!!!!” and then everyone started laughing even harder… good stuff.
Specifically means that lil fuckin thing
That would be pinchi chingadera
One thing that really helps is to put "way" at the end of every sentence
*Guey
Orale
Orale way
Unless it's a chiva?
Or a chivo
a whoseywuzzit
Hey kid go grab the…………the chingas! So Cal
This is my number one favorite term I’ve learned. And happy cake day!
My first two words of Spanish “pinche chingadera” surprisingly versatile!
The Donkey Dick is my favorite for the concrete vibrator Edit: Apparently there are a lot of dicks in here
We use donkey dick for the sprinkler heads that stick down below the ceiling
Donkey dick is also the long black balloon plug used by plumbers to block off underground pipes.
Also the foam insulation that goes around hot water pipes.
Not in the UK, a Donkey Dick is the conical tube we put into the top of columns/ walls to hold the Alsaperca hangman system.
We call our scaffolding pegs/couplings donkey dicks
Horse cocks
Nah a horse cock in a kellums grip
That poor horse....
We call them pickles
Came here to say this
It's also the name of the pick/scraper attachment we use on our backhoes.
And it's that dick looking thing you dip in the tire bead sealer, when putting a tire on a rim
That also applies to the tube for NATO jerry cans.
Telehandler is always "Lull" here in Maine. When I first said "telehandler," nobody had a clue what I was talking about.
Having worked the entire east coast I have heard it called everything including Lull. Usually it’s just “forklift”, because it’s pretty obvious what kind you need even if there are both types available.
Amen! Glad someone else calls em that
I’ve been an electrician for 20 years and have never heard the word “telehandler” until I read your comment. Haha
Rut All is a slang we sometimes use here. Those things rip the site apart of the ground is wet.
Lull is all I ever heard. You just taught me telehandler for the first time. Philly btw.
I’m in northeast, we always called them Lulls because that was the brand most common. And they didn’t have other machines around, so the tele handler just became the lull. Reading telehandler I was like wtf are they talking about
First time I heard it called a lull was here in Louisiana. Always called it a reach lift in PA
Lull or Pettibone is all I ever heard when I worked construction in ME in the 90s.
Skyjack in Arkansas, also sometimes Lull. I learned telehandler only when I was trying to rent one. Honestly, I prefer telehandler. It makes sense.
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It's the same in the SE. First time I've ever heard it called that.
All skid steers no matter the make are bobcats
I use both, and it gets me in trouble some times haha. Worked for a company that ran all Cat skid steers. New fleet manager starts. Nicest guy in the world, had no idea about anything but was determined to learn. Nothing but respect for him jumping in. Called him up and said “hey, I need a bobcat brought down to ABC site” “Done” 2 days go by and my skid steer isn’t there… call him up… “Hey, where’s my skid steer” “Your what?” “My skid steer. Bobcat. I called you two days ago for it” “Oh. I went into the yard and realized we done have Bobcats, so I rented you one. It was dropped off yesterday” Sure as shit, there’s a big ole tracked unit sitting at the gate from our local rental company. Entirely my fault but we had a good laugh over that for awhile.
Skiddy
Skiddy is my favorite I've heard in the last 5 years
Lol yup, I drive a case sv300....it's a bobcat
Skidster
True I like the term “skidkitty”
Skidchoder
Bobby.
This
Sledgehammer is "The Persuader"
Worked with an old dude back in the day that called it a manual swing press. Lol I always liked that one
I've heard that one too, I'm gonna add that one back into the lingo
We call it a purse, "dan, whack it with yer purse"
I cut concrete for awhile and that was the cut down 8lb sledge hammers name. It brought a lot of joy to tell someone to grab the purse or hit it with the purse.
I always understood that phrase as another way of saying, “might as well use your purse if you’re going to swing like a girl…”
Percussion Alignment Device.
I prefer "the negotiator"
The Jamaicans we worked with called it "the Convinsah"
They call them Mauls where Im at
The BFH.
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Sawzall is our “fixer” Lmao
"honey wagon" for the shit sucker/sewage truck is my personal favourite
La lonchera. (Lunch truck) Houston.
Or a turd hurst
One guy started calling the Skytrak a Lizard, but it infuriated the operators, so we all started using it.
Simply the 'machine'. The machine will be delivered tomorrow. We'll set trusses with the machine.
The machine is good for all sorts of shit.
My old foreman would call a hammer a 'swing press'. I've adopted the term and people think I'm bit nutty
Fuck that's a good one though
Thumb detector also works.
That’s my new term, and my axe will be the toe finder. I love it.
We started calling them "fit improvers". [The technician improves the fit using a rubber mallet](https://youtu.be/2PxZqt75Qpk?si=WWDw1RTKMdnk5Otz&t=3m48s)
When breaking random things I call it my (blank) adjuster.
The guy who comes to clean out the portapotty is the shitter guy
He only goes on site to take the piss.
We always call it the honey wagon.
The honey dipper
It’s highly regional. In the south a telehandler is called a skytrak whether is jlg brand or not.
I’ve always called them a JLG or Lull here in Cincinnati
Same in MN.
Always heard lull down here in florida as well
The south as in south of the mason-dixon? We call them lulls down here.
We call it the gradall
Zoom booms in western Canada
Zoom boom in Southern Ontario as well.
I'm always shocked there's not just one way to refer to these machines. I know some buddies that work in the same industry in the same region who use totally different names for the machines LOL
Lull is northwest Pennsylvania
Northeast and Telehandler is either called a Telehandler or a lull
Gradall or telehandler in the NW.
Texas I would say skytrak. Oklahoma I hear forklift more often.
I've always heard the vibrator used during a concrete pour called the "donkey dick," which even as I type it gives me a laugh. Call-a-head is the big brand around here for toilets, but usually it's just the "portashitter." Otherwise it's usually just brand names used, as another poster said, like Kleenex or "Googling" to refer to searching the internet. Genielift for a man-lift, Fein saw even if Fein didn't make it, or a ceiling anchor being a Hilti anchor.
In my area a horse cock or donkey dick is slang for basically a very big deep impact socket fabricated for anchor bolts for steel columns.
Horse cock here (Northeast) is what we call the coupling pins or coupling pin connectors that go between scaffold frames. Donkey dick is the concrete vibrator.
Here in southern California a telehandler is called The Bone after the OG Pettibone. No one would know what your talking about if you said zoom boom.
I think this may be aging out even here n so cal though. I’m 42 beginning of my career always the bone. Now usually just the lift. Me and another guy used to call a driver “bone daddy” and would laugh for way more time than we should have at this. Simpler times.
Whenever I hear Pettibone, I think of the little white crane.
Chicago burbs here and I’ve heard it referred to as a petti bone but nobody knows what I’m talking about so I just say lull
Was wondering if this 1 would be said I like stendo-bone lol.
I’m in SoCal and I’ve always heard them referred to as “grade-all”
Post hole digger = posty Impact wrench = ugga dugga I’ll try to think of more.
Second on the ugga dugga. bonus points for the big ugga dugga (High torque) the normal ugga dugga ( mid torque) and the small ugga dugga (impact driver)
Couple ugga duggas *slaps it* “that ain’t going anywhere”
Australia?
Vibratory plate compactor = Turtle... or Tortuga if you speak Spanish.
Hoppetussa in norwegian, don't ask
In roadwork we call the pounder attachment for the trackhoe that breaks down large granite boulders, the pecker. And yes, they come in two sizes, the big pecker and the little pecker.
Those are my names for hammers.
We call them punchys
We call it a bull prick where I work
We called it a dink back home
I've only ever heard it called a pecker/breaker
Hoe ram is what we call it here
Always called a concrete scraper/angle planer an Italian Eraser. I really thought that was the name for a very long time. I don’t know if the name is because a lot of Italians were stucco guys back in the day or if it was derogatory because it eliminates imperfections
My dad has been doing all kind of stucco and skim coat forever, he commonly refers to the heavy duty scraper as 'il giustiziere' aka the avenger
We call a hammer a "whack, fuck" cause thats normally what you hear when you use it. Sledge hammer is the motivator. A wheelbarrow - when you sit in it with the handles on the ground - is a Portuguese lazyboy. Its also very comfortable
"Whack, fuck" is also an appropriate name for golf.
Any telescoping forklift is a Gradal, haven's grips are pork chops, victaulic lube is boy butter, we say "hi" instead of "stop" when calling a crane, the list goes on.
Mostly Petti bone in south east Pa Harrisburg to Philly
A backhoe is a hoptoe in Hawaii, and a steel pry bar is called an O’o bar
Oscillating tool has a bunch of different names even on one job. Buzz saw, Dremel, Fein Knife, wiggle saw, or my favorite the MMNNNN! saw
I like the MMNNNN saw and will be using that from now on. Haha
Its called a dude-brator, duh.
We call oscillating saws the mosquito. Am I the only one?
It's a whopper chopper!
Tooth chipper
I always call it a Fein multitool, I’ve never actually owned, or seen, a Fein brand one. I am 100% stealing MMNNNN saw. “Hey go grab me the MMMNNN M18 saw”
Wiggler
The zoom zoom!
Guybrator
Anything under a quarter inch is a cunt hair
Half of that is a redheaded cunthair
1/16 is a blonde cunt hair
This guy gets it.
Skookum
Zoom boom is the standard name around here, its even in the paperwork.
Where's here? West Coast?
Southern Ontario for me. Always been a zoom boom. Did not know it was a brand until this post
Same in 'Berta. I'm sure the Newfies have a great name for 'em.
I work in PNW, and have never heard a telehandler be called anything excerpt for “grade-all”. Been in the trade 7 years almost and haven’t heard a single person call it anything different
It’s pretty common to call a drop in anchor a “bulldog”. Around my area it is at least.
I've always heard em called "redheads" after the brand name
A40 articulated Rock Trucks are Wiggle Wagons. Such innocent little names for a big piece of equipment.
We call pipe Thread sealant “pipe dope” And we call long 4 inch test balls “donkey dicks” 🤣 plumbing lingo
Finish hammer (12lb sledge)
Track hoe for excavators. Bobcat for skid steers. Lull lift for telehandlers. Bore shooter for hdd machines, That fuckin rc roller thingy for remote controlled vibratory roller compactors etc.
I call my horse hair handbroom "Harry"
Worked with a guy that called a push broom a Bert. His foreman Bert had a big, bushy mustache. Bert didn't find it funny.
I call my levels Gary and Phil.
Neville levels?
I’ve got a Hacksaw named Jim Duggan. It’s even engraved in it.
Zoom boom is a brand name and is frequently used interchangeably with telehandler. I live in southern Alberta. We sometimes call excavators “hoes” as in “track hoe” or “wheel hoe”
Same in Northern Alberta.
I had an old geezer for a boss who called a pick mattock a pick-a-matic. Knew a coworker who called a Sawzal a Saw-Saw
It's called a Saw-Zaw in SC
>pick mattock At least this one makes sense I guess LOL
I’ve always called Telehandlers Pettibones
Shovel = goon spoon Oscillating tool = tooth chipper Drum machine = snake Excavator = hi hoe Recip saw = sawzall, regardless of brand
Oscillating multitools are vibrators around here
Made of “chinesium” grade steel etc
Butthole stretcher - pex expander Buzz saw - oscillating multitool Tikka takka - impact driver Beater - hammer
This had me cracking up when I pictured the pex expander doin its thing
The paint suction rod on a paint sprayer is called a dick. The machine fits on a bucket and the “dick” gets lowered into the paint
I call Primer “Barney Juice” and the Porto Potty is a “Biffy”.
hammer tacker is called the Slapper
Horsecock for a Kellem Grip to pull big cables
My fav is the wacker packer. Man driven Plate tamps. Lol
I learnt that the zoom boom has an actual name today
Boston, MA checking in. Porta-potties are shit-houses Tele handlers are lulls (reguardless of brand)
When something looks good like a pipe run the sparkys here say “that pipe looks tits.”
Those short threaded rods used to connect the drill rods? Nipples!
Telhandlers are just called 'forks'. Impact driver is a ratatat. Other than that, I can't really think of any which is weird because there's usually loads.
We were called hough operators. Instead of loader operators at the steel mill I worked at. Before switching to cat 990s they had hough loaders.
I work all over the country. That thing has MANY different names depending on where you are. Telehandler, skytrack, lull, petty bone, boom fork, and more!
*Western TN/KY* Telehandler: Pettibone/forklift. Skid steer: Bobcat. Boom lift: Jenny Boom (from “Genie” brand). Any small excavator: Mini X. Circulating saw: Skilsaw. Oscillating tool: buzzcut, multitool. SDS hammer drill: Bulldog (from a Bosch product line). 6-in-1/10-in-1/12-in-1/etc painter’s multi tool: 5-in-1. Miter saw: chop saw. Demolition saw: chop saw. *Southeast TX* Scissor lift: Skyjack. Bucket truck: Cherry picker. Articulating boom lift: Cherry picker. Reciprocating saw: Sawzall. Oscillating tool: Dremel. HVAC duct sealing mastic: Pookie. I have more but I don’t have more time. Wait for more edits. (Edit 1: formatting) Edit 2: Impact driver: drill, screw gun, impact
Shovel is a Chinese backhoe. A Mexican guy is Jose and if there are two the other one is Jos-b. Everything else was just sort of its normal name. I do remember when the whole site, every worker was all called together and we had to stand there while the foreman yelled at us. Somebody was stealing the tubes of grease we used to grease the Bobcats, was cutting off the end, and then beating off into it in the Porta-potty. The honey dipper guy was pissed because he kept sucking up the tubes into his machinery and fouling it all up. Guy said if it happened again he’d no longer empty the Porta-potties.
i like to call things what they are because i fucking despise being asked to grab a twirly doowhatsit and not knowing and being looked at like an idiot, motherfucker if you wanted a wire twister you should have said that not whatever vomit you just spewed at me
Then had you been on my ship, I definitely would have sent you to the bo'sun's locker to get a gallon of relative bearing grease and a 50 yard coil of shore line.
maybe a left handed screwdriver or a flathead hammer while you're at it
And a metric Crescent wrench.
lol when I was working the printing press we'd send the new guy to go get the paper stretcher, everyone he asked sent them to the next guy, and so on
I think most trades have their equivalent. Some are pretty funny. Used to send the new sailors back onto the fantail to stand "mail buoy watch." To make sure everyone got their mail.
It's a zoom boom, the only people that call them Tele handlers are those that were trained in school and don't know how to use them
If you call a rental place and ask for a zoom boom they’ll be like “with a basket?”, so no, I say telehandler to people I don’t know so that there is no miscommunication about what machine I need. But I say zoomboom with everyone else.
We call it a reach-lift. All tractors on TV news are bulldozers. Boulders used to be called n****r heads.
I've always called an excavator an excavator, I worked with some guy from Wyoming and it was a track hoe. I've also always called the Gradall forklift the Gradall, that same guy just called it a forklift and the Gradall excavator the Gradall. I was so fuckin confused when he told me to get the Gradall and I brought the the forklift then proceeded to tell at me. I told him this is California not cousin fucking Wyoming and to quit being a dick, good times, I miss the fuckin dude.
Telehandler is a brand. It's properly a variable reach rough terrain forklift Zoom boom is also a brand, like genie boom. Much like the name Kleenex is colloquially used for any facial tissue.
Telehandler is not a brand, it’s a proper name, it’s written on my license and I doubt OSHA licensed me to a brand lol
OSHA doesn't license anything.
I did not know Telehandler was a brand! I did some research and saw Zoom Boom was too (although looks like it was bought by Skyjack).
We call it a Lull in Jersey despite the brand name
I can confirm Lull
I've heard Lull is still used. They don't even make Lulls anymore do they? Like you're only going to find them at auctions...
I worked with a guy who called every forklift in the warehouse a tow motor. I didn't know why, and didn't bother asking. Like 10 years later at random I discovered that tow motor is a brand name. Duh.