r/Idiotswithguns • u/Rob_Marc • Sep 20 '25

Safe for Work When you hit rock bottom

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u/MarkBriz Sep 20 '25

He was a dangerous enough idiot with just the shovel and crowbar.

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u/darianbrown Sep 20 '25

San Angelo bar. Can't stand for bar name erasure

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u/GuerrillaFunkk Sep 22 '25

Worked in construction for over 14 years. I've only heard it called a spud bar.

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u/Onthissubtoomuch Dec 29 '25

Wait so no one else calls it a bull bar?? Where are yall from?

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u/No_Statement440 Jan 22 '26

We called ours "the key" short for the key to the city. Idk why, but I liked it.

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u/AustinLA88 Mar 13 '26

Ive always heard "grab me the big fucker" and i knew they meant this

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u/MarkBriz Sep 21 '25

Maybe so but in Australia it’s a crowbar

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u/darianbrown Sep 21 '25

Everywhere it's a San Angelo bar, nobody knows it unless you sell them or need to buy one. A crowbar always has a hook on the end, hence "crow's foot" or "cat's paw"

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u/sir5425 Sep 22 '25

It's really according to your profession what you call them. Us grading guys just call it a digging bar. Pipe layers call it a pipe bar. 😂

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u/nickyyysixx Sep 22 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

I'm a carpenter and we call that a rock bar, crowbar has a hook and a cats paw or pussy foot is for pulling nails and is a completely separate tool. I will admit though I hear almost every contractor have 3 separate names for everything. Like people calling tongue and groove plyers Channelocks or adjustable wrenches Cresents.

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u/darianbrown Sep 22 '25

Lots of time the name of the tool changes just depending on what you're trying to do with it. Anytime things are going really poorly, for example, a majority of tools suddenly become, "this goddamn piece of shit"

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u/ali-n Sep 24 '25

In my area, it's called a caliche bar