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N Dentressangle
Original Poster
2,488 posts
92 months
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moanthebairns
4,540 posts
68 months
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Any site Ive worked at or designed p&ids for has always called machinery "plant items" or "plant machinery".
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king arthur
2,537 posts
131 months
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I don't know the answer, but astonishingly this actual thread is now the fifth result on that page.
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davepoth
20,179 posts
69 months
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The internet is quite good for this sort of thing.
"Plant Machinery" derives from the use of the word "Plant" for a factory. In that context "plant" comes from the latin plantare meaning "fix in place"; indeed in accounting terms all plant machinery is considered a fixed asset.
It gets a bit more confusing when you see "heavy plant crossing" signs. When I was little I would be scared of those because I thought it would be Triffids.
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toastybase
791 posts
78 months
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Comes from when we used to work on the plantations back in the day.
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Ray Luxury-Yacht
6,515 posts
86 months
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Whenever I see a sign by the side of the road that says 'Warning - Heavy Plant Crossing' my ridiculously childish mind makes me be on guard for 'Triffids' in the road 
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AndyT77
1,257 posts
32 months
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toastybase said: Comes from when we used to work on the plantations back in the day. The reply above yours seems more likely.
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Pothole
18,290 posts
152 months
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toastybase said: Comes from when we used to work on the plantations back in the day. We?
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TheEnd
12,281 posts
58 months
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"I suspect it could also stem from the fact that another word for a factory is a plant (e.g. a power plant)"
Facepalm on aisle 3, that's a facepalm, on aisle 3.
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PumpkinSteve
1,815 posts
26 months
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I always wonder why people seem to refer to every single type of wood as 'timber'.
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astroarcadia
894 posts
70 months
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PumpkinSteve said: I always wonder why people seem to refer to every single type of wood as 'timber'. Timber is the word for all types of wood once it has been cut or sawn.
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Firefoot
1,466 posts
87 months
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Ray Luxury-Yacht said: Whenever I see a sign by the side of the road that says 'Warning - Heavy Plant Crossing' my ridiculously childish mind makes me be on guard for 'Triffids' in the road I used to drive past a steel mill every day and they have warning signs saying "Hot Slag Crossing". Made me giggle for some chldish reason.
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Eric Mc
67,846 posts
135 months
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Yes - "plant" is also used as a word for a "factory". So a car factorty could be called a "car plant" or an steel works could be called a "steel plant".
"Plant" generally denotes something rooted to the ground - whether it is a living organism or a man made building or equipment.
Large scale settling of immigrants in foreign counties, especially in the 16th and 17th centuries, were referred to as "plantations" e.g. The Plantation of Ulster - because the government of the day hoped the "transplanted" new population would stay put.
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PumpkinSteve
1,815 posts
26 months
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astroarcadia said: Timber is the word for all types of wood once it has been cut or sawn. Consider me schooled. I thought it was particular woods used for building.
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maniac0796
1,290 posts
36 months
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astroarcadia said: PumpkinSteve said: I always wonder why people seem to refer to every single type of wood as 'timber'. Timber is the word for all types of wood once it has been cut or sawn. So what is lumber, or is that an Americanism?
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john2443
1,969 posts
81 months
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maniac0796 said: astroarcadia said: PumpkinSteve said: I always wonder why people seem to refer to every single type of wood as 'timber'. Timber is the word for all types of wood once it has been cut or sawn. So what is lumber, or is that an Americanism? Yes, it's American timber.
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Pesty
26,137 posts
126 months
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What is it called in Canada?
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Roger645
1,279 posts
117 months
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poo at Paul's
3,076 posts
45 months
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DrTre
12,428 posts
102 months
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Pesty said: What is it called in Canada? Lumber, eh.
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ks these guys would have come up with:
