Trig

Tom67

Does anyone know why a trig is called a trig? Seems like almost everyone I work with calls it a twig.

tkle

From the Scandinavian word tryggr meaning true.Besides it makes you sound like you know what you're talking about.

6stringmason

I've never heard it called a twig.

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Tom67

Thanks, tkle.

lukachuki

we call em twigs

"Which comes from the english word twig meaning a small stick."

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tkle

Never used a twig except to start a fire.

Teetorbilt

Tri this; http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52595.html

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lukachuki

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is this what you are talking about...its what we call twigs

O.E. twigge, from P.Gmc. *twigan (cf. M.Du. twijch, Du. twijg, O.H.G. zwig, Ger. Zweig "branch, twig"), from the root of twi- (see twin), here meaning "forked" (as in O.E. twisel "fork, point of division"). Twiggy "slender" is recorded from 1562.

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Tom67

yea, Lukachuki thats what I'm talking about , but I personally think the right term is trig. The guys I work with don't have a large vocabulary.

jvcstone

Found this definition:

TRIG. The bricks laid in the middle of the wall that act as a guide to eliminate the sag in the line and to reduce the effect of wind blowing the line out of plumb.

http://www.masonryinstitute.com/guid...ssary_tuv.html.

Seems like one uses a line twig to hold the line to the top of the trig.

JVC

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lukachuki

Now its getting complicated!

Good find JVC.

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Double-A

New math for masons only.

If the side of the building is 17 courses high, and 137 CMU long, how long will your story pole have to be, and on which CMU will you have to set a trig to keep the face of the wall square if you had pie for lunch, and left your house at 5:30, doing 37 MPH?

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Double-A

-- I wish I knew who to credit with this... US Army I think, but who the hell can tell.

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tkle

What kind of pie?

lukachuki

u be hungry?

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stacker

always been called a twig in my part of the world..........until i started working a school project in okc,iand i meet the one we called,TOOTER.we called him that because he was always tooting his own horn,he knew everything about bricklaying,even tho he was only an 85% cub.anyway,after calling a twig a twig all day,he informed me it was called a trig.
who cares what we call it as long as it works for all of us.
in oklahoma,the art of grabing big flat head catfish out of the river with your hands is called noodlin.in other parts of the us its called grabling.

i think i almost have this figured out,but have a couple questions.are these concrete or lw block.and is our laborer related to use by marrage or blood.

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Bigbricklayer

We call them twigs here in Southwest Missouri also. I have had the same 2 twigs for the past 15 years.Plus it is cooler to say twig than trig

Tscarborough

I call them "twigs", "(line)pins", and "(line)blocks"; "toys" for short, and I give them away by the hundred.

stacker

[QUOTE][I have had the same 2 twigs for the past 15 years./QUOTE]
i lose at least 2 twigs per job.i have a bricklayer who works for me from time to time and i cant get him to stop using his hat bill for a twig holder.all he does is bend the twig out of place and makes them hard to hold a line.

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Glasshousebltr

We used to call them roach clips.

Bob

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