Plant Definition

hollc004 · #1 (**permalink**) 09-19-2007, 07:44 AM

Thse are probably the dumbest questions on this forum but:///

WHY ARE ALL MACHINES (EXCAVATOR DUMPER ETC) CALLED PLANT?

WHAT RELATION DOES A PLANT HAVE WITH A MACHINE ?

ANYBODY

NYC Demo · #2 (**permalink**) 09-19-2007, 06:34 PM

never heard of this

hollc004 · #3 (**permalink**) 09-20-2007, 03:25 AM

Where the word 'plant' origionates from, and why it is used to describe machines.

Plant hire
Heavy plant

etc

**James** · #4 (**permalink**) 09-21-2007, 09:50 AM

I am going to be honest here too, I have never heard of this either.

Now I have heard of "heavy plant" equipment, just describing equipment in a manufacturing plant. But never heard in terms using for describing excavators and the like. Maybe it's a UK term?

hollc004 · #5 (**permalink**) 09-24-2007, 07:44 AM

Hey,

Perhaps your right I my self am a Pom and Plant is the word to describe and machinery. Just as an example our web site strongly uses this word.
H.E. Services

demobud · #6 (**permalink**) 09-24-2007, 10:07 PM

I suppose it could be an extrapolation of the use of "plant" to mean a factory; perhaps each machine is in itself a "demolition factory". Or it could come from the fact that original end users of hired equipment may have been large "plants" and the name stuck?
I am, of course speculating and as they say, the US and the UK are "separated by a common language".