[TheForge] Tackle terminology?

[Andy Vida]

Phlip wrote:
> 
> Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
> 
> > I was a little surprised to see this.  Has anyone ever heard
> > the term "nigger head" applied to a portion of a guy derrick?
> > Granted, this was published in 1927, but I still found it a
> > bit unusual.
> 
> Yeah, I've heard the term, though at the time I didn't know enough about the
> equipment to have a clue as to what they were talking about. When I was
> selling insurance to roughnecks on the oil wells in SE Ohio, I heard the
> term once or twice, when the tool pusher was giving the guys orders, as in,
> "Joe, get up to the nigger head and..yada yada" Don't know how common it is,
> or was- this was early 80s, and the outfit was from W. Virginia.

	In this time of hyper-sensitivity I wonder if they still
	use the term.