Is there a glossary of terms?

[SkunkWerX]

I seem to remember there was a thread that had all or most of them listed, but here a few I've found to get you started.
COMMON TRACTOR ACRONYMS

FEL = Front End Loader
TPH = Three Point hitch
CUT= compact utility tractor
SCUT= subcompact utility tractor
PHD= post hole digger
PTO= power take off
4WD= 4 wheel drive
ROPS=Roll over protection system
FOPS = Falling Object Protection Structure
EROPS = Enclosed Roll Over Protection Structure
BH = Back Hoe
WW = wheel weights
FEW = front end weights
WFT = water filled tires (as opposed to WTF! ) sorry...
HL = head light
TL = tail light
CL = canopy light
WL = work light
AC = Air conditioning
PS = power steering
QA = quick attach bracketry (for FEL and related implements)
LR = low range (transmission)
HR = high range (transmission)
SS = shuttle shift (transmission)
SV = spool valve (used for T&T)
T&T = top and tilt (for 3-point equipment)
EHV = electric over hydraulic valve (for grapples etc. on the FEL)
ORB = O-ring boss (hydraulic fitting)
ORFS = O-ring face seal (hydraulic fitting)
JIC = Joint Industry Conference Standard (hydraulic fitting)
NPT = National Pipe Thread (hydraulic fitting)
ALT = alternator
GEN = generator
SL = Self Leveling (Loader)
QC = Quick Coupling (or maybe Quick Connect) (Hydraulic hose joiners)

3RRL, Great LIST!!

Recently I've seen RB=Rear Blade and RGB=Rear Grader Blade.
So there must be an FB=Front Blade?

PU=Power UP and PA=Power Angle or Power Assisted

FSB=Front Snow Blower, and there is RSB too.
The RSB works off of the PTO, of course.

Speaking of which there can be soem different PTOs.
FPTO=Front PTO
MPTO=Mid PTO
and of course RPTO.

For the lighter models:
LT=Lawn Tractor
LGT=Lawn and Garden Tractor
GT=Garden Tractor

And, to go with QC is QD=Quick Disconnect

And, per Roy, there is the SHS=Secret Hand Shake.
And per his avatar there is the FLH=Funny Lookin Hat.

Sorry Roy, just funnin.

It's a DFH=Darn Fine Hat!

 

[irwin]

No one mentioned the confusing.: bh = backhoe, and bh = bushhog...

 

[3RRL]

Thanks Skunk, but you don't think I made that list up do you? I'm pretty sure I copied it from somewhere?
I especially like the WFT as opposed to WTF.
Yeah, there are a lot more that I don't know, that's for sure.
I use RC for Rotary Cutter instead of bh for brush hog. But once you start a subject the acronym makes sense in context regardless which one you use.

 

[Rara Avis]

I was in the Ohio National Guard from 1963 to 1969 .
For 5 of those 6 years I spent 2 weeks summer camp in that area.
One week at Camp Perry near Port Clinton Ohio and 1 week bivouacked at Marblehead, Ohio.

Yeah and if you went down the S. Quarry Road that led to the local dump...You guys would practice camouflage off to the right on the tree lined S. Hartshorn Road...

Yeah...Been to Camp Perry......NRA Benefactor

 

[mjncad]

Don't forget the Special High Intensity Training!

 

[Rara Avis]

Don't forget the Special High Intensity Training!

Yeah...did that at Sam Houston Institute of Technology...

 

[LBrown59]

Yeah and if you went down the S. Quarry Road that led to the local dump...You guys would practice camouflage off to the right on the tree lined S. Hartshorn Road...

Yeah...Been to Camp Perry......NRA Benefactor

I will never forget what happened 1 year at Marblehead during the week of bivouac.
The first day we arrived at Marblehead everybody piled off the trucks.
I threw down my duffel bag by a scrawny little bush about an inch or 2 in diameter.
It was about 4 feet tall and had almost no branches or leaves.
There was no way anybody could hide behind it.
I laid down there by it using the duffel bag for a pillow and went to sleep.
I spent the entire week sleeping by that little scrub bush.
The only time I got up was for meals.
After eating I'd go back to sleep by that little bush.
How I got by with that I'll never know.
It's not like I was hiding someplace and people were walking rite by me all the time.
I don't know how they did it but they never missed me.

 

[LBrown59]

No one mentioned the confusing.: bh = backhoe, and bh = bushhog...

But I noticed it.

 

[MSWoodlot]

Many non-internet related acronyms can be found at this website:

AcronymFinder.com

MSWoodlot

 

[Soundguy]

And what about "rockshaft"? Another JD-only? I wonder how that came
to mean the 3-point.....

?

hardly.. a 'rockshaft' has been a part of 3pt setups since 1939... way befroe deer had a 3pt lift as we know it today..

Soundguy