Human creativity knows no bounds. After all, we were the ones who came up with the pyramids, the computer, and the animated masterpiece Shrek. However, not every invention has to be pretty or cool. Sometimes, creating something just for bits and giggles can be just as rewarding and inventive.
Here we have for you some examples that show even the dumbest solutions and engineering ideas can work, no matter how silly or useless they look. Courtesy of the “Redneck Engineering” community, we’ve compiled a selection of revamped gear that shows you don’t need a lot of money to make something work.
You can totally make a DIY cybertruck (more like a cybershed, to be honest) or MacGyver an iPhone tripod from a spatula and a welding clamp – you just have to get creative!
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#1 We Saw The Top Half Of This When We Drove By In Alaska Yesterday
Well, after you see a small bed welded on to a sierra cab you pretty much have to go back and take a closer look. We were taken by surprise when we got over the hill and saw the tracks underneath.
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#2 My Dad Was Quoted $1200 To Fix The AC. This Is His “No Cost” Solution
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#3 Wheelchairs In Bosnian Hospitals
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#4 New Yacht, Having Trouble Naming Her Any Thoughts?
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#5 Cybershed
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#6 My 5 Year Old “Shelf” Surprisingly Hasn’t Broke
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#7 This Is The Way Boys!!!
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#8 The Setup vs. The Outcome
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#9 When Everything Is Covered In Ice And Your Boots Have No Grip, But You Need To Go Outside
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#10 I Found This In The Elevator At The Hotel I’m Staying At
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#11 Used Truck At Dealership Has ‘Fixed’ Seat Recliner Handle
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#12 My Jerk Kid Left His Half-Eaten Fruit Cup Laying Around And Attracted A Bunch Of Fruit Flies. Turned It Into A Trap
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#13 When You Want A Riding Mower But Only Got $8 And A Dream
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#14 It Would Appear Someone In My Neighbourhood Is Attempting To Create A Budget Lawnmower Tractor
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#15 Coffee Maker Broke
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#16 Little Guys Need Love Too…
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#17 I Bolted A Predator Generator To My Kid’s ATV And Now It’s Basically A Hybrid Tank—
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#18 It Would Be Inappropriate Not To Share This
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#19 Kid Wanted A Kiss Doll, All We Could Afford Was A Sharpie
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#20 No Comment Necessary
It ain’t stupid if it works…?
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#21 3-Row Ford F-350. Owner Built It Himself Over The Course Of 3 Years
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#22 Top-Shelf Engineering
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#23 When Inflation Gets Out Of Hand
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#24 Should Work… Spotted In East Texas
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#25 6 People Have Their Own Lock And Each Person Can Open The Gate With Their Own
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#26 Rubber Mallet
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#27 I Made This A Little While Back
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#28 My “Custom” Prescription Goggles For Snowboarding
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#29 Two Lock Authentication 🔐
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#30 How My BF Lifted The Washing Machine Onto The Table He Built For Our Laundry Room
He literally drilled into the ceiling just to have something to secure the ratchet straps to the washing machine as he attempted to lift it onto the table with a hydraulic jack (unfortunately I didn’t get a picture of the wooden frame he built, carefully crafted to have a “jack point”, and the wood was ratchet strapped to the bottom of the washer as he jacked it up.
After seeing the washer swinging around a bit, I brought in the paver bricks from the backyard to help with stability after the washer was swinging a bit too much to jack it any higher up.
I was so stressed out about the swinging washer that I walked away after snapping the pic (to send to a friend begging them to come over and bring their bf to help with this washing machine lifting) and came back a few minutes later to see the washer was up on the table he built.
I’m just glad he figured it out because we had no washer or dryer for almost a month after the custom table was built and put in the laundry room, but we couldn’t figure out how to get it up there!
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#31 Turns Out 1/2 Inch Conduit Has The Same Dimensions As Foldable Lawn Chair Frames
Had a friend jump into a lawn chair too hard and snapped one of the frame pieces and bent another, and I wanted to fix it since it has a footrest and most chairs you can find for cheap don’t have that. Turns out $7 gets you 10 feet of conduit and a few couplers which does the job on replacing them pretty well
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#32 Went To Visit My Cousin And Was Very Amused
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#33 Cooling Condenser Fan Stopped Working. Problem Solved!!! Client Says It’s Cooling Well Now
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#34 Made A Wrist Brace For My Tendonitis Out Of Old Underwear, A Sock, And Elastic
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#35 Hole In The Ground + Tarp = Pool!
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#36 Needed A Tripod
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#37 Chlorine Floater
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#38 I Can’t Even Understand Why Would Someone Do This
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#39 Seems Perfectly Reasonable To Me
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#40 My TV’s Leds Burnt Out An This Was My Dad’s Solution
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#41 When Some Guys In A Rural Maine Machine Shop Have Too Much Time On Their Hands, They Produce Greatness
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#42 I’m Impressed, Disgusted, And Tempted All At The Same Time
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#43 Authentic Redneck Expertise
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#44 My Dad Found A Youtube And Decided To Cut The Cable
I come from a proud son of a redneck duct tape engineer.
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#45 When You’re Riding And Client Wants To Hop On A Quick Call To Touch The Base
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#46 Jim Bob Just Gave An OSHA Inspector A Stroke
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#47 For Rainy Season
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#48 I Call It: Ice Breaker 5000
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#49 Anyone Else Mount Their Air Compressor On A Lawn Mower Body So It’s Easier To Push Around?
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#50 Motor Ice Boating
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#51 Cool Way To Store Wrenches
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#52 Playing Skyrim With My Watercooled S25+
CPU 45°C, Battery 24°C.
USB Hub with HDMI for external monitor and the dongle for my cheap controller. And power supply of course.
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#53 I Give You… The Bandit Mower
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#54 Didn’t Have A Jack, So I Used Children. Children Work Just Fine.
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#55 Found In Pa’s Garage
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#56 My Brother Made An Air Compressor For Me
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#57 Pretty Sure This Is What This Sub Was Created For
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#58 Radiation Safety In German University Lab
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#59 Just Gotta Wait 1 More Year
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#60 Honestly Kind Of Impressed
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#61 I Just… What?
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#62 Ladies And Gentlemen: The Lifted Mower
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#63 My Shoe Broke During A Concert
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#64 Power Ran Out
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#65 Has Anyone Made Something Like This?
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#66 Dorm AC
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#67 Found A Rather Brilliant Homemade Adjustable Welding Table On Fb This Morning
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#68 Mailbox Was Knocked Down. This Is How My Dad Fixed It
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#69 DIY Audio Cable Adapter
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#70 The Garlic Wouldn’t Stay Up
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#71 No One Around To Boost Him And He Sends Me This
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#72 Am I Using This Properly?
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