Re: Pins, Boxes and Collars

The coupling on casing and tubing is called a collar. Collars are usually short or long. Pipe is loaded on semi-trailers (floats) with the direction of the collars specified on the manifest. Usually "collars to the rear" for tubing since it is easier to pick up directly off the float. The direction of the collars is important if a rig is over the hole and there is little room to turn the truck. The pipe has to be set on the rig's pipe racks with collars towards the rig's "V" door in order for them to be picked up and run in the hole.
Pins and boxes are usually references to the threads on tool joints on drill pipe, drill collars, sub-assemblies, test tools, fishing tools etc. Hoss defined a pin and a box very well.
We can skip the glossary terms for roughnecks, worms and ginzels.