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[fredk]

There ya go with the differences in terminology.

I think what you guys are describing is known to me as an 'adjustable'

To me a 'crescent' spanner/wrench is C shaped with a small hook on the inside of the top curve, at the edge. Its used for loosening & tightening special nuts such as found on the handlebars head bearings and the pedal bearing box on bicycles and certain parts on vintage Austin 7 cars. The gap between the jaws of the C are measured to fit the special nut properly

[Frodo]

13 minutes ago, fredk said:

There ya go with the differences in terminology.

I think what you guys are describing is known to me as an 'adjustable'

To me a 'crescent' spanner/wrench is C shaped with a small hook on the inside of the top curve, at the edge. Its used for loosening & tightening special nuts such as found on the handlebars head bearings and the pedal bearing box on bicycles and certain parts on vintage Austin 7 cars. The gap between the jaws of the C are measured to fit the special nut properly

different terminology

I was transferred to Colorado to get a job started,   I kept hearing guys talking about an ''excavator' that was on it's way to move dirt. thye way they talked this was one badazz machine. I had no idea what an ''excavator'' was, so I just kept my mouth shut and eyes open to see.

Truck pulled onto the job site with the ''excavator''

LOL  That is a ''TRACK HOE""   every one knows that.   

Edited September 16, 2019 by Frodo

[Northmount]

5 hours ago, fredk said:

To me a 'crescent' spanner/wrench is C shaped

Here is a crescent wrench by most North American usage.  It is an adjustable wrench, I believe originally made by the Crescent Co.

Tom

[Mark842]

Here you go.

http://www.derose.net/steve/resources/engtables/englishmetric.html

[fredk]

22 minutes ago, Northmount said:

Here is a crescent wrench by most North American usage.  It is an adjustable wrench, I believe originally made by the Crescent Co.

Tom

an 'adjustable'

a C or crescent spanner

 

9 minutes ago, Mark842 said:

Here you go.

http://www.derose.net/steve/resources/engtables/englishmetric.html

spoil-sport   

[Frodo]

7 hours ago, fredk said:

an 'adjustable'

a C or crescent spanner

 

spoil-sport   

crescent wrench

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[480volt]

14 hours ago, Frodo said:

different terminology

 I was transferred to Colorado to get a job started,   I kept hearing guys talking about an ''excavator' that was on it's way to move dirt. thye way they talked this was one badazz machine. I had no idea what an ''excavator'' was, so I just kept my mouth shut and eyes open to see.

 Truck pulled onto the job site with the ''excavator''

 LOL  That is a ''TRACK HOE""   every one knows that.   

Might be a regional difference. Here in the SF Bay Area, you have backhoes (rubber tires, arm swings 90 degrees left or right) and excavators (tracks, house rotates 360 degrees). Backhoes are all similar in size (Kubotas don’t count) and excavators come in many sizes, from the little “Fisher-Price”-sized mini-ex to so big the tracks hang off both sides of the low-boy when they bring it on site.

The contractors I usually use for trenching prefer an excavator for digging and a bobcat (skid steer) for moving spoils and placing backfill.

[Handstitched]

Here in Oz, a 'crescent wrench  ', as you call it ,  or an adjustable  spanner, as we call it,  is also called an ' AFS'   " any f*&^ing size " . 

This is going a bit off topic , unless of course you're trying to use a 'crescent wrench'  or   an ' adjustable spanner' to open a  drum of dye ?  

HS 

[TonyRV2]

4 hours ago, Handstitched said:

Here in Oz, a 'crescent wrench  ', as you call it ,  or an adjustable  spanner, as we call it,  is also called an ' AFS'   " any f*&^ing size " . 

This is going a bit off topic , unless of course you're trying to use a 'crescent wrench'  or   an ' adjustable spanner' to open a  drum of dye ?  

HS 

OH!! ... you mean a 'several sixteenths' wrench.

[Matt S]

3 hours ago, TonyRV2 said:

OH!! ... you mean a 'several sixteenths' wrench.

8 hours ago, Handstitched said:

Here in Oz, a 'crescent wrench  ', as you call it ,  or an adjustable  spanner, as we call it,  is also called an ' AFS'   " any f*&^ing size " . 

AKA "Swedish nut lathe" or "Chinese nut f***er", depending on the origin of your preferred fastener-rounding tool.

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This is going a bit off topic , unless of course you're trying to use a 'crescent wrench'  or   an ' adjustable spanner' to open a  drum of dye ?  

Your countryman Ron Edwards depicted a way of cutting the top off an oil drum using one of the old-fashioned F-shaped adjustable spanners and a hammer. "Crude, noisy and slow... but effective."

I spose, though, a chap could drive a punch, a stamp or a saddle nail with a stilly, or even the millwrong's favourite friend...