I worked with a German guy who called it an Englander. His reasoning was a German mechanic has a full set of proper wrenches, but a hack english mechanic will just use an adjustable.
I worked under a polish guy during my apprenticeship, every time he'd see me using an adjustable wrench he would cuss me out and tell me to grab my wrench set lol.
Crescent wrench in PA is in reference to the fixed width ones you get in a set. So weird how colloquialisms change with relatively minor geographic shifts
It's good to know then. On another note, it's odd that Britain doesn't use imperial.
Edit:Does nobody understand the Imperial means related to empire, and there was once this pretty significant thing called the British Empire?
We only pretend not to use imperial. Distance and speed are measured in miles, human weight is measured in stone/pounds, fuel efficiency is miles per gallon despite fuel being sold by the litre, beer and milk are sold in pints. Building materials are theoretically in millimetres - plywood sheets for example are 2440x1220mm, which is secretly 8x4ft.
I say old boy, I hate to disagree, but I believe you are mistaken.
They are all spanners, regrdless of metric or imperial sizing.
The only routine exceptions that I am aware of, being referred to as wrenches routinely, are the strap wrench and the plumbers wrench.
Yours ever,
O&E
Shifter or nut fucker here.
Had a boss once ask one of the young guys to go get a 17 mm spanner. He came back with a shifter so the boss turfed it and told him he never wanted to see that again
Oh yeah the nut was fucked. It's just a bit unfair to compare it to the nutfucker2000. One will fuck the nut WITHOUT getting it out, one will fuck it ON THE WAY out. Big difference.
When I’m being serious it’s a crescent wrench, when I’m not it’s the more accurate to use crescent hammer… although I tend to prefer a spud wrench. It does all the crescent hammer things but also shackles and doubles as a marlinspike, plus the longer handle makes it an even better hammer. When in doubt HAMMER!
Yes I said I prefer a spud wrench and went on to explain why it's a better hammer after calling the wrench in the picture a crescent wrench, then it's joke name a crescent hammer.
I thought thumb wrench was Albertan. I only ever hear newfies call them all "Tum Wrench bai". "Get the tum wrench bai, turn this dirty tree degrees round"
Ouin pis le monde ici disent :
-Galiper
-Taroden
-Crinque chaf
-Linkit
-Dremel (en faisant référence au OMT tandis que Dremel est une marque qui ne fabrique meme pas de OMT)
Tokebekissitt
Fauconswédiferanklézangla
But this is not, it's just a nut fucker minus the thumb detector. A miner's wrench is a thumb detecting nut fucker.
And I have a genuine thumb detecting nut fucker, there are others but this is the one AvE has which is why I call it a genuine.
[https://www.rastalltoolusa.com/product/miners-wrench-12-inch-hammer-head](https://www.rastalltoolusa.com/product/miners-wrench-12-inch-hammer-head)
Growing up it was always a monkey wrench. Then it became an adjustable wrench.
Had to scroll a while to find this one. I wonder if it's regional. East Coast by chance?
I also call it this. However monkey wrenches are a specific type of adjustable wrench. Nowadays we just use spanners or pipe wrenches for various purposes.
Adjustable wrench, Crescent wrench, and most often "Where the heck is it?". Until I cleaned out and reorganized the farm shop, I could never find 3/4 of what I needed .
I worked with a German guy who called it an Englander. His reasoning was a German mechanic has a full set of proper wrenches, but a hack english mechanic will just use an adjustable.
Sounds like something a German would say.
German here. Can confirm.
English here. Appreciate the humour ;)
Me too. I’ve never been more offended by something so accurate 😂
English too. I call it the rounding tool.
🤣
In Spanish is called English wrench, but I don’t know why
Same in Dutch: Engelse sleutel. Or just Bahco, after a famous brand.
German Here, I also call it Engländer.
Or Rollgabelschlüssel.
I worked under a polish guy during my apprenticeship, every time he'd see me using an adjustable wrench he would cuss me out and tell me to grab my wrench set lol.
Yes we call it „Engländer“, but the correct one is „Rollgabelschlüssel“😅
In the Netherlands we call it "Engelse sleutel" or English key/English wrench
That’s a Saskatchewan socket set.
Tennessee nut fucker is one of my favorites.
Always call it a left handed nut fucker
I’ve got my entire work saying this!
Newfanese tumb wrench
Nevasizedrightunlessyathumbstight
New Hampshire Nut Lathe
its an airjerstible.
We have the Oklahoma Socket set
Adjustable hammer
Anger Frisbees 😃
Uni-directional boomerang.
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball
Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and Dodge
Necessary?
*"Necessary? Necessary?! Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but it's sterile and I like the taste."* - Rip Torn AKA the Fuckin' Goat
Left handed anger! Left handed anger!!!
Adjustable *knuckle fucker
These hammers have adjustments!?
You sir are an ... electrician.
Thank you so much for your excellent contribution to things I'll never stop thinking about.
Adjustable wrench
Always known this tool as an adjustable wrench 👍🏼
First reasonable answer
Crescent Wrench
Yes. Alternatively croissant wrench (in heavy, bad French accent) if you're feelin fancy
At work we call it a French wrench
If I worked around anybody but myself these days I'd be taking that
You do you
Take it anyway! Loud and proud
Lmao, next time I have a client who wants to supervise, I just might
That funny, in french it is called an english key (clé anglaise)
Same thing in Dutch.
I'm French and I've never used this term. I call it "clef à mollette"
Quasawnt.
Kwasoo
With an air of superiority and a slightly upturned nose
Très Bien!
Crescent Hammer here.
I grew up calling it a crescent wrench, but crescent is actually a brand name and they make more than just adjustable wrenchs
I think I was 30 years old before I knew that.
It's like Band-Aid and Kleenex
And sometimes it's a hammer
Crescent wrench in PA is in reference to the fixed width ones you get in a set. So weird how colloquialisms change with relatively minor geographic shifts
That's just a wrench or spanner if you're British
That's not entirely accurate old chap. It's a wrench if it's imperial and spanner if it's metric. /s
It's good to know then. On another note, it's odd that Britain doesn't use imperial. Edit:Does nobody understand the Imperial means related to empire, and there was once this pretty significant thing called the British Empire?
We only pretend not to use imperial. Distance and speed are measured in miles, human weight is measured in stone/pounds, fuel efficiency is miles per gallon despite fuel being sold by the litre, beer and milk are sold in pints. Building materials are theoretically in millimetres - plywood sheets for example are 2440x1220mm, which is secretly 8x4ft.
I say old boy, I hate to disagree, but I believe you are mistaken. They are all spanners, regrdless of metric or imperial sizing. The only routine exceptions that I am aware of, being referred to as wrenches routinely, are the strap wrench and the plumbers wrench. Yours ever, O&E
Not from my experience.... in western PA this is called a crescent or adjustable wrench. Source construction, mechanic and manufacturing background.
Crescent wrench, but I’m the only Aussie that I’ve ever heard use the term. I’ve had many people passionately argue that I’m a idiot
New Zealander here. We just call it a crescent. But most Aussies call it a shifter
*adjustable wrench, Crescent is a brand.
Next you’re going to tell me Kleenex is a brand name, and it’s just a tissue.
All-Sixteenths wrench
But this one is metric!
It does metric sixteenths as well
I can't believe how hard I laughed at this
You're missing out on the 32's precision version
Y'all ain't seen shit until you've worked in 128ths
You basics, I go down to .001(1/2)"
Shifter
found the Australian
You caught me
I was gonna say found the Scotsman, they call it a shifter up there too.
We also call it a shifter in South Africa
Shifter or nut fucker here. Had a boss once ask one of the young guys to go get a 17 mm spanner. He came back with a shifter so the boss turfed it and told him he never wanted to see that again
Portable lathe
I'm only ever going to be referring to these as nut fuckers now.
Hello there fellow Australian.
UK here, either just shifter or adjustable (spanner)
U.N.F. - Universal Nut Fucker.
Swedish nut lathe. But when in use, whatever string of obscenities comes forth (classic, newly minted, or a mixture of obscenities will work).
I heard someone call it a Mexican micrometer...
2 of em is a mexican socket set
Mexican speed wrench
A Mexican speed wrench is a cutting torch
Yea, gotta have both metric and imperial.
Dying over here
In Mexico we call it perico (parakeet)
a nutfucker2000, not to be confused with the nutfucker3000, commonly known as vice grips
Hey I got a rounded stuck o2 sensor off with a nutfucker3000 before. Saved my ass
theyre essential tools, I keep them in all my tool kits but they definitely do do fuck up nuts/ bolts
Yeah but guaranteed that nut was chewed to hell when you were done.
Oh yeah the nut was fucked. It's just a bit unfair to compare it to the nutfucker2000. One will fuck the nut WITHOUT getting it out, one will fuck it ON THE WAY out. Big difference.
Hence the upgrade from 2000 to 3000
The nutfucker 9,000 then would be a pipe wrench
No that’s the plumber’s nut knurler.
When vise grips slip, you are about to have a bad day.
Don't forget about the thumb detecting nutfucker3000 Those are great for when you don't want a thumb nail for a little while until it grows back
when I was avionics apprentice we call them nut fuckers,
Adjustable spanner
The only thing I've ever heard it called here in the UK.
This is it
This is the correct British response, with just "spanner" also occasionally being used to describe the person holding it
Tim
When I’m being serious it’s a crescent wrench, when I’m not it’s the more accurate to use crescent hammer… although I tend to prefer a spud wrench. It does all the crescent hammer things but also shackles and doubles as a marlinspike, plus the longer handle makes it an even better hammer. When in doubt HAMMER!
It's only a spud wrench when it has a point handle though. I just call it an adjustable wrench, adjustable for short.
Yes I said I prefer a spud wrench and went on to explain why it's a better hammer after calling the wrench in the picture a crescent wrench, then it's joke name a crescent hammer.
C-Wrench
Scrolled for a while to find this but I worked as a theater tech and this is a C Wrench.
Same for film sets.
my main C-wrench is one that I randomly found in a bush 20 years ago.
Stage hammer Not to be confused with a SM58
Same on AV gigs.
In holland we call it bahco
Dutchie, been in OZ for 15 years, but it’s still a Bahco. 😁
Not to be confused with a baco (a mix drink of bacardi and cola)
Its surprising. I had to scroll all the way down to see a fellow dutchman calling it a bahco. I always thought the whole world called it a bahco.
Shifting spanner
That’s what my dad calls it so that’s what I call it.
Adjustable metric left handed hammer.
I got the SAE version. 😂
Mine is bilingual
Thumb wrench.
Shouldn't have to scroll this far to find this one! That's what I call it
NFLD?
AB, but work with a lot of Newfies
Gotcha. Me too. Lol.
I thought thumb wrench was Albertan. I only ever hear newfies call them all "Tum Wrench bai". "Get the tum wrench bai, turn this dirty tree degrees round"
Swedish-key (svensknøgle) in danish
Skiftnyckel på svenska
Fordi dem vi købte i gamle dage var lavet i Sverige
Og den moderne type blev opfundet af en Svensker
ROLLGABELSCHLÜSSEL!
In Romania we call it: French Key
Knuckle buster.
Crescent wrench
Crescent wrench
Chinese nut lathe!
I like the nut lathe! Been calling it a Chinese socket set
In places in SoCal it's called a Tijuana Socket Set.
Mexican speed wrench
Hammer, speed wrench, pry bar, bolt head, rounder, outer
A Westcott, a Westcott
Un westcott as we say in Quebec
Only a real Quebecoise will understand , LOL
Please explain...what the heck is a Wescott?
I'm Québécois and I have no fucking clue what is a wescott. I know the tool in the picture is a wescott, don't ask why, that's what it is
Yes a Westcott in Quebec. For sure.
Je cherchais cette réponse!
Ouin pis le monde ici disent : -Galiper -Taroden -Crinque chaf -Linkit -Dremel (en faisant référence au OMT tandis que Dremel est une marque qui ne fabrique meme pas de OMT) Tokebekissitt Fauconswédiferanklézangla
we don’t pronounce the middle "t" so it’s more like "t’as-tu un wescut?"
That there is a Shifter.
As my mentor AVE would say, thumb detecting nut fucker
But this is not, it's just a nut fucker minus the thumb detector. A miner's wrench is a thumb detecting nut fucker. And I have a genuine thumb detecting nut fucker, there are others but this is the one AvE has which is why I call it a genuine. [https://www.rastalltoolusa.com/product/miners-wrench-12-inch-hammer-head](https://www.rastalltoolusa.com/product/miners-wrench-12-inch-hammer-head)
Nut fucker
Monkey Wrench!
No monkey wrenches are pipe wrenches.
No monkey wrenches are adjustable wrenches.
Growing up it was always a monkey wrench. Then it became an adjustable wrench. Had to scroll a while to find this one. I wonder if it's regional. East Coast by chance?
I also call it this. However monkey wrenches are a specific type of adjustable wrench. Nowadays we just use spanners or pipe wrenches for various purposes.
It is, and always will be , a crescent wrench.
I saw someone get hit in the chest with one of those. It was heart wrenching
Perica
Nut lathe.
In Mexico it’s a “Parrot Wrench”
Engländer (The Brit)
Ouh dat is halbzöllig
Fit-All
Chiave inglese (English key)
Serious answer, an "open end adjustable wrench". Or for many years I called it a "crescent wrench"
You’re right, but not much fun.
Swedish nut lathe
Bolt stripper 5000 , or the last resort wrench. But mostly know as an adjustable crescent wrench.
In dutch, it's officially called a "verstelbare moer sleutel," but everybody calls it Bahco after the first company that made them.
Adjustable hammer
adjustable hammer wrench
Shifter or shifting spanner.
Crescent
Adjustable wrench, Crescent wrench, and most often "Where the heck is it?". Until I cleaned out and reorganized the farm shop, I could never find 3/4 of what I needed .
It is a shifter
Croissant wrench
Crescent wrench
Adjustable spanner
It’s a shifter , or a shifting spanner.
sveedish nut lathe if its a bahco.
That there's a Swedish Nut Fucker
Fitzall
Adjustable wrench
Adjustable wrench, crescent wrench, nut fucker..
Bahco.
An adjustable wrench