Big Orn, be my guest !!

[Renze]

This subject is added on Big Orn's special request. So, go ahead and post.

 

[big_orn]

Thanks, Renze. I think I will.

 

[Tony]

Hey Big Orn,

Excuse my ignorance but what on earth is a BUSH HOG. Never heard of such a term in my part of Ireland.

Tony

 

[big_orn]

Hello, Tony. We have certain names for things in Northeast Texas that we get from Brand names and it sticks to that equipment no matter who made it. Bush Hog is a name of a company that mfgs Shredders/Mowers. We call anything that shreds grass, saplings, weeds, etc. a bush hog. When we go out to mow we say, "I'm going out to the back pasture and bush hog for awhile."
BTW - It is good to chat with someone from my ancestral roots. My family moved from Europe to Ireland in the early 1500's then to the USAin 1797.

 

[treaney]

A pig that lives in the wild?

I would wager some kind of brush/scrub cutter - a topper for the Texas environment.

Lets see what Big Orn has to say.

 

[big_orn]

Yep - you got it, Tom.

 

[Renze]

"Bush hog" is a kind of slang term, a brand name that wore into the language as a name for a type of machine (Arnt i right ??)

Just like an adjustable wrench is called a "bahco" Bahco was the Swedish manufacturer that invented it, or anyway, most adjustabel wrenches were sold by Bahco so a brand became a name.

 

[kenjar]

Hey Renze, the common name for the adjustable wrench here is Crescent.

 

[Renze]

Heh heh... a language is more than they can ever teach you....

 

[thecrow]

we tend to call an ajustable rench, an ajustable rench and a "bush hog" is a jungle buster

 

[chris_lockwood]

Hi,
We call an adjustable wrench a monkey wrench and a bush hog either a topper, grass cutter or slasher depending on type.
Chris

 

[Renze]

Yes, monkey wrench is what i've heard in Canada too..

At my brother's work there was a belgian trucker, asking if some "Clark driver" could help him unload a few pallets off his truck... Clark must have had a major forklift truck market stake in Belgium..

 

[big_orn]

Here's one for ya':

Honey, will you go get me a coke?

Sure, my king, what kind?

Dr. Pepper .....

 

[Renze]

hey Big Orn, that has been a long time ago when we last saw you here !!!

Over here, a husband would ask for a beer. Beer is for the dutch as a coke is for north american folks, it seems...
The Canadian folsk wondered about my drinking habits, they drink coke all day round, and a double whiskey or two in the evening. I use to drink a beer with the family when i get home from work at 5, and at 10 before i go to bed.

Most beer is the "Pilsener beer". Like Heineken and a lot of others. But Pilsen is a city in Czechia, and i thought it was also a brand name of beer ??

 

[big_orn]

hey Big Orn, that has been a long time ago when we last saw you here !!!

Yes, a long, long time. I've heard from Tom a couple of times, though. Glad you're still open, old friend.

I spend most of my "free" time "working"...

Building a new house and cleaning/grubbing the land I bought.

I feel like taking a month or two off, that's for sure.

 

[diamond_b_farm]

My father in law told me that in the old days at the tobacco prossesing plant in North Caroline USA they call CocaCola"dopers" because they had real cocaine in them.
George

 

[treaney]

CocaCola had cocaine in it in the early day's - late 1800's. I guess that is where the Coca comes from...Coca-ine. By the early 1900's, most Cocaine was gone although there is still trace present.

You could get a real buzz by taking asprin and washing it down with the REAL THING!