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Posted: 10/16/2019 9:25:17 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/16/2019 9:25:36 PM EDT

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It's called a "Pair of Dikes" around here, even though it's only one tool.

Yes, the pronunciation is the same as slang for lesbian.

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:26:13 PM EDT

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This.

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:26:37 PM EDT

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Linesman's pliers, sometimes Kleins.

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:26:37 PM EDT

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Lineman's pliers

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:26:42 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/16/2019 9:26:59 PM EDT

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These are "dikes" or diagonal cutters.
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We just call those wire cutters.

And now I know that what I thought were called dikes are not dikes.

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:27:00 PM EDT

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Kleins pliers

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:27:11 PM EDT

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This, but with an apostrophe.

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:27:35 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/16/2019 9:27:48 PM EDT

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It's called a "Pair of Dikes" around here, even though it's only one tool.

Yes, the pronunciation is the same as slang for lesbian.

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Dykes are diagonal cutters.

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:28:15 PM EDT

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Pliers

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:28:27 PM EDT

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Pliers as show, for use with copper wire I would call lineman’s.
The same set with a hook on the handle, for use with anneled iron tie wire I would call Klein’s

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:28:30 PM EDT

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Side cutters.

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or hammer or multi tool or fish tape puller or how brave are you

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:28:52 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/16/2019 9:29:09 PM EDT

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Wow, those are nice shiny tools. Did you get those from Santa last Christmas?

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I've always wondered about that. I wonder if it's a regional thing?

If you Google it, dykes are diagonal cutters - just like you said. However, I've always known lineman pliers as dykes.

Go figure

I have both in the tool pouch:
http://i.imgur.com/Y2Cx18S.jpg

Wow, those are nice shiny tools. Did you get those from Santa last Christmas?

Ha! No

That was an insurance pic for my homeowner's policy. Anything of value gets a mugshot when purchased. Easier to get replaced when they're stolen. Same reason I built a locking tool crib and put a security camera in the garage. Theft

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:29:14 PM EDT

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toenail fixers.

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:29:31 PM EDT

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Uh guys, it's 2019, it's LinePERSON's pliers.

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:30:08 PM EDT

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Dikes or Kleins...

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:30:30 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/16/2019 9:31:21 PM EDT

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Side cutters.

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Posted: 10/16/2019 9:31:21 PM EDT

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Shark cuts

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:32:39 PM EDT

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Lineman’s pliers

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:33:36 PM EDT

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This, but with an apostrophe.

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How do you pronounce apostrophes?

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:33:38 PM EDT

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Posted: 10/16/2019 9:34:11 PM EDT

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Lineman’s pliers

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:35:13 PM EDT

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Kleins

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The right answer

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:35:16 PM EDT

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Pliers.

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:35:17 PM EDT

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Dikes or is it Dykes?

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Posted: 10/16/2019 9:36:27 PM EDT

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Shark cuts

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Of course

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:38:21 PM EDT

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I've been installing electrical hardware for 20 years.
For whatever reason I rarely see an electrician with linesman pliers. But everybody has a set of dikes on them.
Honestly I think, like the name suggest, we just never come across anything big enough for them to be of use.
I'd rather have a needle nose with a side cutter than that big bill.

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I've been trying these "heavy duty wire strippers" lately. Size is about right for most of the work I do.

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Posted: 10/16/2019 9:38:24 PM EDT

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SPNI

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:39:08 PM EDT

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That's the other common name for them, but I don't like it since many of my other tools are also Klein brand and I don't like unnecessary confusion.

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Kleins

That's the other common name for them, but I don't like it since many of my other tools are also Klein brand and I don't like unnecessary confusion.

*if* many of your other tools are Klein brand, you would easily understand that the term "Kleins" refers to these specific side-cutting lineman's pliers. or, maybe you're an ironworker, and can't be helped.

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:39:19 PM EDT

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Kleins most of the time...

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:39:45 PM EDT

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HPNI

Half a page nails it!

2nd place goes to linesman pliers, just barely.

If you said dikes or dykes, then you may very well be one or it or whatever yall call yourselves nowadays.

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:39:51 PM EDT

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Occasionally call them linemans...

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:40:16 PM EDT

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FP did not NI...

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:41:18 PM EDT

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Wrong tool.

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I'll be sure to pass that along

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:41:31 PM EDT

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You get 3rd place!

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:41:43 PM EDT

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9's

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:43:11 PM EDT

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Kleins or linemans pliers. I use them interchangeably depending on who I'm working with.

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:43:29 PM EDT

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Dikes

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:43:39 PM EDT

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SPNI

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:44:50 PM EDT

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This... or, of course, dykes

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:45:36 PM EDT

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Same here

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:48:02 PM EDT

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Lineman's pliers.

Dykes are side cutters.

Posted: 10/16/2019 9:48:33 PM EDT

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I've been trying these "heavy duty wire strippers" lately. Size is about right for most of the work I do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8CvChR7Xnc

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I've been installing electrical hardware for 20 years.
For whatever reason I rarely see an electrician with linesman pliers. But everybody has a set of dikes on them.
Honestly I think, like the name suggest, we just never come across anything big enough for them to be of use.
I'd rather have a needle nose with a side cutter than that big bill.

I've been trying these "heavy duty wire strippers" lately. Size is about right for most of the work I do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8CvChR7Xnc

Love mine. Got them when they first came out 2 years ago.