Friday, January 10, 2014

Tool Names

I grew up with my dad telling me to go get me a pair of channel locks, vise grips, dikes, crescent wrench, and a crowbar. I knew exactly what my father wanted.  There were two type of hammers.  Ball Peen hammer and a Claw Hammer.  Both hammers had wooden handles.  Now that I am grown I still call them by the same names.  I know the correct names for the tools but still use the terms I grew up with.  

Channel Locks are a pair of  tongue/grove adjustable pliers.


          
A Crescent wrench is an adjustable wrench.


  


A pair of Vise Grips is a pair of Locking pliers.






A pair of Dikes are Diagonal pliers.


                                                                                                       A crowbar is a pry bar.  One end is flat and used for prying.  The other end is curved and had a spit used to pull nails. They were about 2 foot long. 
A claw hammer has a flat hammer for driving nails and a curved split end for pulling a nail.   The ball peen hammers were used to work on vehicles.  My father had several sizes from ounces to pounds.  


This is just a few of the tool names I grew up with.  I am sure there are many more of them out there.  If you can think of any leave them in the comments. 
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12 comments:

  1. Melissa ShirleyJanuary 11, 2014 at 2:02 PM

    This is great to know. I know some but not all the names. I may use this a tool for the names of the tools. LOL

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  2. Deborah DummJanuary 12, 2014 at 7:16 AM

    Thank you for explaining the tools. I knew most of them but not all of them. I know where to come now for tool information!

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  3. rochelleJanuary 14, 2014 at 6:01 AM

    Thanks for the explanation of the tools

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  4. alenaJanuary 19, 2014 at 7:13 AM

    i didnt know most of the names,but thank you for this helpfull post,now i know their names too.

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  5. UnknownJanuary 22, 2014 at 2:22 PM

    I knew all but 2. It is nice to know what someone is talking about when they ask you to go grab that tool! Thank you for the information.

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  6. UnknownJanuary 24, 2014 at 8:34 AM

    Thanks for sharing this information. Normally, I just point and say can you give me that "thingy". Sad, but true. (I knew a couple of them, but most - Not). Now, I that I know a few names to put with the tools. :-)

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  7. DawnJanuary 25, 2014 at 1:16 AM

    I have memorys of my dad doing the same and my mom doing it with kitchen utensils and some foods. To this day I have to stop myself from calling a green bell pepper a mango, why she called it that Im not sure.

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  8. UnknownJanuary 26, 2014 at 11:56 AM

    I grew up helping my father work on his backhoe n vehicles n learned what tool was what at a young age..

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  9. elaineJanuary 27, 2014 at 4:26 PM

    a jig saw ... dad was forever using it

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  10. Vickie @Vickie's Kitchen and GardenJanuary 28, 2014 at 3:56 AM

    Oh man it was my Mom who was always telling me to get a plain screwdriver!

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  11. lmurley2000January 30, 2014 at 5:23 PM

    I don't know the name of some tools but some I do thanks

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  12. GeorgiaBeckmanJanuary 31, 2014 at 6:33 PM

    This is great. It's nice that you don't assume we already know these things that you might talk about in your posts. Many of us don't. But this very simple explanation is really helpful!

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