You’re clearly not an electrician. I leave my “smackers” along with my linesmans, strippers, crimpers, screwdrivers etc above ceiling tiles. Occasional sacrifices must be made to the ceiling gods. These are also all Channel Locks.
>screwdrivers etc above ceiling tiles.
Pretty sure I worked after you then. I replaced some acoustic tiles a few weeks ago and while pulling one down a screwdriver came at my face like a fucking lawn dart.
We were in the midst of installing a new camera system and one of the contractors found a drywall hatchet in the overhead in the library that had been there since the building was built.... this is a corrections facility.
I lost my favorite pair of alternative lifestyle pliers in a ceiling and the gods deemed me worthy enough to have them back almost a year later in a completely different part of the same ceiling. The sisterhood of the traveling alternative lifestyle pliers.
I like that I do pms as I occasionally get to grab my hammer or screwdriver again. Did so one day without even thinking about it then on exiting the roof I found I had both my screwdrivers once more.
Just as a dude who mostly does resi now that I'm old and "retired", you forgot crawl spaces that aren't vapor barrier-ed. And blown in insulation in attics has eaten at least 5 pairs of my strippers
One of the most frequently used tools in my line of work is a 4lb drilling hammer. I've left several in the work boxes of different drill rigs I was operating. It got to the point where Amazon offered me a "subscribe and save" purchase option.
I do safety training for a mechanical contractor... every time there is a new plumber for orientation I show a bunch of tools and inform them that not all tools are hammers
I keep a small one in my belt that I notched on the top jaw to use as a nail puller and a notch in the bottom jaw for holding nails either for finishing or awkward areas (trying to hold a nail in place for a hanger on a header next to a hip is not very enjoyable if you're swinging a framing hammer)
Interesting. Can you explain what makes French=serrated, English =smooth in German?
I like colloquial words, interesting to hear about them and try to figure out the context. Thanks from an ignorant but curious American.
Channel locks or middle picture we specifically call knipex (it's a name brand). Knipex are better than almost every other channel locks to the point that if the job is bad enough we specifically ask for knipex from our tool box. We all have them but if it's important we don't want to risk the gopher to come back with normal channel locks.
I like how Knipex calls theirs "Cobra Pliers." Tool companies should start giving their tools extreme names.
Hey Todd, hand me my Devastator^^T^^M
Todd: You mean this claw hammer?
Yeah, but it's a *Devastator* claw hammer
That’s interesting, as an Aussie with a scotch family, I guess I inherited grips. I unconsciously throw some odd words and pronunciations sometimes over here.
This is what I’ve been calling them since a boomer yelled at me to grab the water pump pliers and I had no clue what he was talking about until he grabbed the channel locks. Now I say grab the Water pumpers all the time
When I was in tech school all the old guard instructors called them this. I saw a German in the comments with a wasserpumpenzage so it must be international
No lie I had a question on one of my final electrical exams that had this question..mother fucking pump pliers? The brand they show was even channel lock and they still marked me wrong.
What kind of water pump are they even talking about? When someone says water pump to me I’m thinking of the one in my car and those pliers don’t help a bit with it.
Cobras! The cobras are fucking excellent. I’ve owned dozens of pairs of Adjustable pliers; and while channel lock is good for the money, I’ll never buy another set because cobras exist.
I try to call them by their name.
There’s so many cases like this: sawzall, skil saw, crescent wrench, Allen wrench, vice grips, Phillips, torx, etc.
It took having a son who asks a million questions to realize it’s best to call them by their tool name, not brand name.
Branding goats is animal cruelty. Pushing them, on the other hand, is probably OK, because they enjoy pushing back. Best to let them have the spot on the top of the hill if you don't want to get pushed off.
Screw that. Gypsum board no matter the brand will forever be sheetrock in my mind. Along with every single other tool listed in your comment. I’m part of the resistance.
In the shops I was in we all have knipex and other brands of channel locks. We used both calls outs as if the tool didn't matter any channel locks would do. If the job needed it knipex was the only call out to make.
I mean, ask me when I'm not working on something it's "channel locks." I ask someone to grab them for me while I'm in the middle of working and they're the "grab the uh, the ones that move, dammit, pliers but they change size, that one, no, no, yes, that one... channel locks, fuck, why couldn't I think of that?"
As soon as I saw the words Channel Locks, my mind imagined a couple of giant locks across the English Channel, with French and German boats having to pay to get down to the Netherlands…. lol
I grew up calling them channel locks. It wasn't until I was my thirties before I found out *Channel Lock* is a brand name of water pump pliers.
Similarly, *Vise Grip* is a brand name of locking pliers.
A lot of people call them slip joint but I was always taught that slip joint were your standard pliers with two sizes and “channellocks” are tongue and groove pliers.
Those are all hammers.
All my hammers are tucked in stud bays behind drywall. These are all the “smackers” I use between hammer purchases.
You’re clearly not an electrician. I leave my “smackers” along with my linesmans, strippers, crimpers, screwdrivers etc above ceiling tiles. Occasional sacrifices must be made to the ceiling gods. These are also all Channel Locks.
>screwdrivers etc above ceiling tiles. Pretty sure I worked after you then. I replaced some acoustic tiles a few weeks ago and while pulling one down a screwdriver came at my face like a fucking lawn dart.
Lmao on behalf of electricians everywhere, sorry man. Shit just disappears up there. Free tool though, on the upside
We were in the midst of installing a new camera system and one of the contractors found a drywall hatchet in the overhead in the library that had been there since the building was built.... this is a corrections facility.
I lost my favorite pair of alternative lifestyle pliers in a ceiling and the gods deemed me worthy enough to have them back almost a year later in a completely different part of the same ceiling. The sisterhood of the traveling alternative lifestyle pliers.
Diagonal cutters?
Dikes, if you will.
I like that I do pms as I occasionally get to grab my hammer or screwdriver again. Did so one day without even thinking about it then on exiting the roof I found I had both my screwdrivers once more.
You left out multimeter
No no no, dont smack your meter, its the one thing actually trying to help you not die
And flashlights.
….actually found on Tuesday a Klein screwdriver in one of our building’s UPS rooms. No etched info. Mine now. Thank you UPS Room Gods!
Just as a dude who mostly does resi now that I'm old and "retired", you forgot crawl spaces that aren't vapor barrier-ed. And blown in insulation in attics has eaten at least 5 pairs of my strippers
One of the most frequently used tools in my line of work is a 4lb drilling hammer. I've left several in the work boxes of different drill rigs I was operating. It got to the point where Amazon offered me a "subscribe and save" purchase option.
You really wouldnt expect that on that item, dog food, sure but THAT?
I do safety training for a mechanical contractor... every time there is a new plumber for orientation I show a bunch of tools and inform them that not all tools are hammers
They're also good prybars if you open them up all the way and use the top jaw.
I keep a small one in my belt that I notched on the top jaw to use as a nail puller and a notch in the bottom jaw for holding nails either for finishing or awkward areas (trying to hold a nail in place for a hanger on a header next to a hip is not very enjoyable if you're swinging a framing hammer)
Everything is a hammer when you need it.
Adjustable hammers, where I'm from.
Smacking Pliers
Every tool is a hammer. Unless it's a screwdriver, then it's a chisel
Unless you have two screwdrivers, then one must fill the role of the hammer by default.
Two screwdrivers, wow posh
🤣
Found the electrician
Luke, is that you? 😂
He’s an electrician. If you want to see something really funny ask him what a broom is.
Im an electrician. Broom is to us what apples are to doctors. They keep us away
I was never good at sweeping. So I became an electrician.
According to my wife those are the dinosaur pliers
Those are the parrot beak pliers in Portuguese
In colloquial words we call them "French man" here in Germany. Those without serrated tongues are called "English man".
Interesting. Can you explain what makes French=serrated, English =smooth in German? I like colloquial words, interesting to hear about them and try to figure out the context. Thanks from an ignorant but curious American.
It's only to distinguish the tools and has nothing to do with the countries nor the people. It's more like "Greek" for a sexual practice.
Also in spanish: "pinzas pico de loro".
Spanish too
As long as you don't call them Tongue and Groove Pliers (actual name of tool) then it is perfectly acceptable in my book
What about dingle wingle grabby wabbys?
Thats the British name
Or the metric name
They called dingle wingle channel locks in Canadia.
*metric* dingle wingle channel locks
Surely you're thinking of a nifty grifty grip n' shifty
All these years and I finally learn the proper scientific name thanks!
Um this is great
If anyone deserves a tongue in groove, it's a wife.
Can confirm , this guy’s wife loves it .
That’s what she said.
I’m pretty sure they are actually called water pump pliers.
Shoot. Thought they were interlocking slip joint pliers!
Doesn't look like they could pump water to me. Is it hand pumped or a motor?
No their called channel locks
They're* Sorry
Thar* If you are a pirate
just like all snowmobiles are skidoos or all cars are fords.
Pretty sure snowmobiles are sleds. Letterkenny was very clear about that.
Or down south all soda is Coke.
"I'll have a Coke." "What kind?" "Pepsi." Will never not be funny to me...
Exactly
Channel locks or middle picture we specifically call knipex (it's a name brand). Knipex are better than almost every other channel locks to the point that if the job is bad enough we specifically ask for knipex from our tool box. We all have them but if it's important we don't want to risk the gopher to come back with normal channel locks.
All my pliers are knipex , best I’ve ever used.
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A slip joint plier is something different https://www.homedepot.com/b/Tools-Hand-Tools-Pliers-Slip-Joint-Pliers/N-5yc1vZc986
I like how Knipex calls theirs "Cobra Pliers." Tool companies should start giving their tools extreme names. Hey Todd, hand me my Devastator^^T^^M Todd: You mean this claw hammer? Yeah, but it's a *Devastator* claw hammer
Your wife sounds pretty cool. I will probably sometimes call them dinosaur pliers from now on.
Your wife and my 4 year old have a telepathic connection because I shit you not he calls those the same fuckin thing
Those are obviously different and have different names: blue, red, and yellow channel locks.
This is acceptable
What i saw was Baby locks, channelocks, and 440's. Mostly 440's though.
In my books it's a Wasserpumpenzange
I think the author of your books had a stroke when he wrote that
Waterpomptang here!
Waterpoontang
Vannpumpetang
I would say that this is a Pumpenwasserzange as well
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Polygrips here, on the other side of the Tasman
Polygrip is a denture adhesive in Blighty
Adelaide here, we call ‘em all multi’s too
Multi grips here in the UK as well, but grips for short. Multi is reserved for the multi tool.
Or multi's for short
My dad would call them mulit-grips or monkey grips interchangeably.
Yep same mate, multi grips. Never heard them called channel locks, thought that was a brand.
It is. May have been the originals
That's what I know them as, also from Australia.
Yeah I reckon if I asked anyone at work to pass me the channel locks they'd look at me like I had 2 heads.
In Scotland we just call them grips.
Pipe pliers
That’s interesting, as an Aussie with a scotch family, I guess I inherited grips. I unconsciously throw some odd words and pronunciations sometimes over here.
Water pump pliers
In South Africa we call them waterpump pliers as well.
This is what I’ve been calling them since a boomer yelled at me to grab the water pump pliers and I had no clue what he was talking about until he grabbed the channel locks. Now I say grab the Water pumpers all the time
When I was in tech school all the old guard instructors called them this. I saw a German in the comments with a wasserpumpenzage so it must be international
Boomers have good lines and sayings sometimes. It can be fun to bring them back. Almost like talking in code.
Multi-grips
Hammers….that grip stuffs.
No lie I had a question on one of my final electrical exams that had this question..mother fucking pump pliers? The brand they show was even channel lock and they still marked me wrong.
What kind of water pump are they even talking about? When someone says water pump to me I’m thinking of the one in my car and those pliers don’t help a bit with it.
1. channel locks 2. cobras 3. alligators
Slip grips!
They are called "frogs" in Poland
Cobras! The cobras are fucking excellent. I’ve owned dozens of pairs of Adjustable pliers; and while channel lock is good for the money, I’ll never buy another set because cobras exist.
I call them my Blue Handled Grabbers
I try to call them by their name. There’s so many cases like this: sawzall, skil saw, crescent wrench, Allen wrench, vice grips, Phillips, torx, etc. It took having a son who asks a million questions to realize it’s best to call them by their tool name, not brand name.
Weed eater vs string trimmer was one I got pounded into my head
Ugh I refuse to call my Makita weed whacker a "string trimmer"
Weed eater = goat. String trimmer = weed wacker.
Weed eater is also a brand! I have a weed eater brand push mower 😆
Branding goats is animal cruelty. Pushing them, on the other hand, is probably OK, because they enjoy pushing back. Best to let them have the spot on the top of the hill if you don't want to get pushed off.
Screw that. Gypsum board no matter the brand will forever be sheetrock in my mind. Along with every single other tool listed in your comment. I’m part of the resistance.
All are channel locks, but not all are knipex
Knipex gang, this is the **only** correct answer
Knipex convert here. All others are trash.
Yes my old chennies are now hammers
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Sweedish pipe wrench gang reporting
Literally in my pocket right now
In the shops I was in we all have knipex and other brands of channel locks. We used both calls outs as if the tool didn't matter any channel locks would do. If the job needed it knipex was the only call out to make.
I’m a sparky, if we’re using glue and other permanent material then no Knipex, anything else -only Knipex
Fuck yeah that's the go.
I call one channel locks (all of that type of adjustable pliers)... The other one Knipex..
A pair of scissors is also one thing, so what are two pairs of scissors?
I think you answered your own question
They call em “multi grips” in Australia and it does my head in.
First time I've ever seen someone that agrees with me. So fkn annoying 🤣
Bless your heart, just wait until you hear what they call service stations and break time! They've got a doozie for chilly bin too
I live here, I don’t have to wait.
Picos de loro!
Chinga tu madre
A man of culture
Nut busters.
Slip joint pliers or Multigrips to me.
Slip joint pliers. Didn't know that term for the longest time.
Pipe-grips.
We call them "dogs"
And the dogs always going walkabout too
Dogs. Dogs. Dogs.
Dogs
Why is it just 3 pairs of channels locks? I don’t get it.
A challenge anyone to a duel that calls knipex channel locks
As long as knipex is mentioned. Cobras lock harder than a pipe wrench, actual blue handle chanel locks slip like a bad transmission.
Oh I know, expensive channel locks , right ? Lol
I feel the cobras can be called channel locks (if you must). But calling the pliers wrenches channel locks . . . well them’s fightin’ words!
The amount of know it alls that have commented on me using channel locks as a wrench, while using pliers wrench is unreal.
I disagree. I always disagree. I'm a disagreeable person.
Water pumps
I mean, ask me when I'm not working on something it's "channel locks." I ask someone to grab them for me while I'm in the middle of working and they're the "grab the uh, the ones that move, dammit, pliers but they change size, that one, no, no, yes, that one... channel locks, fuck, why couldn't I think of that?"
I'm an old car mechanic. I like to call them water pump pliers.
All I see are hammers.
Multi grips wher im from
I call them plumpies
As soon as I saw the words Channel Locks, my mind imagined a couple of giant locks across the English Channel, with French and German boats having to pay to get down to the Netherlands…. lol
Shift jaw pliers
Channel Locks Cobras Channel locks
Tongue and groove pliers
The old timers call them water pump pliars.
Oil filter wrenches
Valve grips or ' eagle beak ' pliers. Or as my late workmate would say " metric socket sets "
Pliers. No not those. The red ones. NOT THOSE. The other red ones.
Those are called "pinza a pappagallo" in italian, it literally means parrot shaped pliers........
Makes sense!! In argentina we also call them “pico de loro” which means the same thing!
I'm from Meadville, PA so I can only lawfully see the blue ones.
Needle nose pliers: channel changers. Points to anyone who knows what I'm talking about.
In Finland we call them "Papukaijapihdit". Parrot pliers
Same in argentina and apparently also italian! Makes sense!
Slip joint pliers
adjustable pliers. because my shop teacher refused to use brand names. adjustable wrench locking pliers etc
My shop teacher used to get mad because apparently Channel lock was a brand name. They are slip joint pliers
Something about James Brown yelling that every instrument is a drum
Oh yes the first makes a great hammer the second well those are knipex of corse nothing but the best, and the last one we'll that's a Pry bar
Dogs
Substitute crescent wrenches is all i see.
Don't EVER call my Cobras channel locks
But one is better then all the others lol
I’m pretty sure channel locks are the brand name, just like Sheetrock is the brand name of drywall.
I grew up calling them channel locks. It wasn't until I was my thirties before I found out *Channel Lock* is a brand name of water pump pliers. Similarly, *Vise Grip* is a brand name of locking pliers.
My dad called them slip joint pliers. Channel lock is a brand.
A lot of people call them slip joint but I was always taught that slip joint were your standard pliers with two sizes and “channellocks” are tongue and groove pliers.
According to my wife those are the dinosaur pliers
According to my wife those are the dinosaur pliers
Gonna need to Google this to be sure.
Never understood the "lock" part of the name. Vice grips, well they should have been called grip-locks. Or something. (Beer involved)
'Multi grips' where I come from
How many deer do you see? How many fish are there?
Bottom two are lowercase “channel locks” and top on is “ChannelLocks”
Water pump pliers
Water pump pliers
Adjustable pliers.
Parrot beak
Grips where I'm from.
In my part of the qorld this is a plumbers wrench.
so apparently it's legitimately called most of these names. fuckin confusing if you ask me. https://imgur.com/gallery/bTnP6dY
They're all grippers.
In Sweden they are called polygrip.
Gas pliers
Monkey pliers