Tractor terms

Harvey 2

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In different parts of the world they have different names for things than we in the US have. Such as the parts of a tractor or truck etc.
Some years ago at a tractor show in Minnesota I was looking a tractor over and this English man introduced himself and as we were talking he refered to things on the tractor by a different name than I was familiar with. I had a difficult time understanding what he wuz saying, as he spoke British english and I spoke American english.
What are some of the names of things in other parts of the world that we in the US call different?
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On some of the car shows on TV, they call the hood a "bonnet".
Over here, we have a bar, over there they have "ye olde pub"...lol
 
Muffler=exhaust
ground wire=earth lead
hood= bonnet
wrench=spanner
fender=mudguard (or wing)
oil pan=sump
discbine=disc mower
Roll-over plow=Reversible plough
rotary tiller=rotavator
wagon=trailer
semi-trailer=articulated lorry (or artic instead of semi)
corn =maize
oats =corn
And there are more......True story....On an Australian tourist website(Aussies are known for their straight speaking and not being politically correct)
A potential American tourist, who had obviously never been much outside America, asked "Would he be able to speak English in many parts of Australia?" The reply........
"You better learn to speak it at home first!!!!"
No offence anyone! LOL
Sam
 
They call the electrical ground- "earth".
Generators are dynamos. Maybe starters too?
Hopefully the resident guys from over across will see this and fill us in.
 
Trunions are Journal type bearings. Boot is the trunk. Hood is sometimes what in the US we call the roof. Dynamo for Alternator or Generator. Gear change Lever (seems obvious). Spanner for wrench. Jim
 
What we call sausage, to them it's "bangers." And if you think you're gonna get a bag of tater chips with your fish, think again. We'd call it fish and fries.
 
David Brown parts books also refer to the hood as a "bonnet" and the shifter rubber boots are called "gators", I remember a new Satoh tractor I put together at our dealership in 1975 on the fender by the battery it said "negitive Earth" instead of negitive ground, thoght that was odd but made sence
 
Back-hoe=digger
slew excavator=track machine
Chopper=silage harvester
Dumpster=dustbin
cell fone=mobile phone
taters=potatoes (spuds in Ireland....Taties in Scotland)
Fries=chips
chips =crisps
ripper=subsoiler
front wheel assist=4 wheel drive
4 wheel drive =pivot steer
extending boom loader=telescopic shovel
Engine sleeves=engine liners
remotes=spool valves
gas=petrol
LPG=gas
I am sure I will think of more!!!!!
Maybe I should get a job as a translater??
Sam
 
My wife got a cookbook written by an English chef; she has to go online and look up the names of things we mostly have here, but call them by a different name.


That's what makes the world go around.
 
Had an English customer he kept wanting to purchase a container of TOPPERS. What he was wanting was rotary cutters or what everyone calls bushhogs.
 
I've spent a little time over there with farmers and heard the term corn used with wheat as well as oats. Might be a generic term to cover all small grains including barley, although including barley might be a stretch. Not tractor related but a car's trunk is called the boot. Side story: Attended a video conference with the Japanese concerning a prototype wheel loader we were testing. One of the topics included occasional problems we were having with the electronics. Japanese asked if we were sure the "dirt wire" was properly connected. Took several seconds to realize they were referring to the ground wire.
 
You don't have to go outside the country to hear things called by different names. It's real easy in reading these forums to pick out the guys that stay close to home and don't read much. Oh, I've been in the Marquesas Islands the last few evenings. In 1846. They have odd names for things too.
 
Wait until you hear them say aluminum, the British say something like allinnumm. Spelling is also different, a tire is a tyre.
 
I remember an auctioneer up here in Michigan telling me one time that he had a phone call from somebody in Kentucky wanting to know if he had any sales coming up with a good "high" rake on it. Said it took him a minute to figure out the guy was looking for a hay rake.
I'd have known because we always made a joke out of my niece when she was about seven,asking our boys if they wanted to go out and play in the "high born".
Then there was my wife's nephew's wife wanting to go to the "dart races" when they were up here one Saturday night.
 
soda = pop = cola = soda pop, etc.
Woodchuck = groundhog + whistle pig, as well as a few onther names, some of which I won"t mention here...

field cultivator = quack digger = quack lifter = drag = harrow = some other descriptions, including some disk type implements,
 
See a topper takes the top off the grass and weeds....a bush hog is a pig that lives in the woods....!
LOL....Sam
 
Who is right and who is wrong? I wonder who was first with this English language?
Coincidently we are having a similar discussion on a British tractor forum today...It was started by a Dutchman complaining about how the English language is butting in on Dutch TV. Someone pointed out that our English language is also being changed by others coming into the country and the influence of TV etc. Another poster pointed out that the same happened in America with all the immigrants (legal or not!) from different countries taking 'your' language off on a different angle. No one noticed this difference until WW2 when we were all forced together again. Nowadays TV and this internet really shows up the differences. However we are mostly countryfolk and we will manage to communicate the way we manage to do everything else.
Sam
 
My Dad and many more used to call them Speak easy during the depression, then we always called them beer gardens ..Joisey folk used to laugh at me when I'd say that..They called them Gin Mills..Most wanted to know what part of the south I was from because of my accent, when in fact I was directly 8 hour drive west of them. OH ! And pop was tonic, or soda.
 
Sorry,
diesel=diesel and is red for agricultural use
D.E.R.V.=diesel for road use
Kerosene=paraffin or T.V.O. (tractor vaporising oil)
28 second oil also is called Paraffin or home heating oil
Sam
 
"Jolly good show ole' chap" My Irish friend in the army wood say that when I would agree with him.
Thanks to every one that had a comment.

One other thing, I have heard an Englishman say: The blimmy fools out on the bloody road act like a bunch of bloakes. What did he mean?
 
Harvey, I bet it was this English-man? Pete and his partner Julie
Sam
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I was on the dock in Manila, PH. Waiting for the capt. To go to a meeting. A British boat was along side. The engineer looked up at me and said "I say there Bloke Petral or Fuel"
I looked at him and said. "Diesel" he looked rather dumbfounded and went back to what he was doing.
Walt
 
Here's a few differences I haven't seen yet:
Our toilet is their "loo"
Our police is their "bobby"
Our subway is their "tube"
Our soccer is their "football"
Our basketball is their "net ball"
In Australia, a common greating is: "How ya goin?
Meaning: How are you doing?
 
Sam what did you bet? You lost, it was an older gent that walked with a cane and had a derby hat. It was several years ago.
 
Had a Canadian friend and three words that I noticed;

Restroom--washroom
electric--hydro
the letter "z"--ZED
 

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