30 Hilarious DIY Solutions Posted To “Redneck Engineering”
You know what they say – there’s nothing more permanent than a temporary solution. You know, like sticking a book under a wobbly table leg “until you fix it”, and then just leaving it there for the next ten years. But even though these solutions might not be the most aesthetically pleasing, can you really be mad if it works?
If you thought you’re the only one that comes up with these funny “temporary solutions”, we’ve got some good news for you – there are thousands of people out there that do the same thing. Someone even created a whole subreddit dedicated to various examples of redneck engineering, and it’s an absolute goldmine of DIY blunders – check out some of the best examples in the gallery below!
#1 Protection From Escaping
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#2 Touchless Dispenser
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#3 Fixed The Gate Problem…
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#4 Looks Level To Me
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#5 For Remote Teaching Without A Document Camera
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#6 Master Lock 100
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#7 My 12 Year Old Son Modified His Bike With Carpet For Barefoot Riding
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#8 Rear Parking Sensor
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#9 Landlord Decided To Turn Down The Heat Today In My Mn Apartment As It Reached -40°. But The Idiot Must Have Forgotten He Pays My Electric And Doesn’t Realize That I Value My Comfort Over Safety Or Energy Conservation.
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#10 When You Ask A Welder To Fix Something For You
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#11 Found This Fork In My Brothers House And Asked Him Why He Had Done It…. Then He Ran Upstairs To Grab His iPad
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#12 Man Puts Chicken On Top Of Squeegee To Eat The Spiders Trapped In The Ceiling, Natural Pest Control
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#13 A Whole Crap Load Of Amish Guys Moving A Barn
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#14 I’m Bad For Using Whatever Tool Is Handy As A Hammer, Usually A Crescent Wrench. My Husband Learned A Bit Of Welding And Redneck Engineered This For My Birthday
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#15 Your Move, NASA
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#16 Would Like To Buy This Guy A Beer And Hear His Story
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#17 Buoyancy
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2 Korean students made a raft out of potato chip bags to prove they have too much air in them.
#18 Whoever Built This Might Have A Phd In Redneck Engineering
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#19 Steering Wheel Broke, Needed To Finish The Yard. Thankfully I Know How To Drive A Stick
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#20 Local Chinese Restaurant. The Entire Kitchen Is Walled Off With Plastic. There’s A Cardboard Flap To Pass Money, And The Box On The Right Acts As An Airlock With Two Flaps To Pass The Food Through. It’s All Plastic Sheet, Cardboard And Duct Tape
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#21 *Beep Beep*
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#22 Grandpa: 1 Trash Panda: 0
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#23 Use A Fishing Rod To Teach Your Son Baseball
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#24 Silent Killer Mkii
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#25 We Needed To Disassemble A Shelf In An Office And We Didn’t Have A Mallet. Rubber Bands + Hammer = Mallet
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#26 Came Across This Picture And Wanted To Share
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#27 Redneck Security System
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#28 When Covid Requires Separate Climate Control In An Auto, What Can You Do?
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#29 My Life Has Been A Lie
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#30 Bought A Used Toy For My Kids At A Garage Sale. I Guess They Didn’t Have Any C Batteries. But They Did Have An Aa Battery And A Wood Dowel Though
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