50 Times People Had Such Wild Solutions To Their Problems, They Were Celebrated In The ‘Redneck Engineers’ Group (New Pics)
Metal rusts and velour can be torn, so it's only a matter of time before your old Honda Civic breaks down. Of course, if you have money and you bought that car because you love the way it looks, you can probably just take it to the mechanic and let them fix it. However, if you're broke and that was the only reason why you got that pile of junk in the first place, you'll probably have to bring it back to life yourself.
But fear not, you'd be amazed to know how much is possible with so little. And the subreddit r/RedneckEngineering is the perfect example of that. It has plenty of funny, surprising, and creative DIY projects that simultaneously make sense and appear completely useless but can definitely inspire you to pick up a wrench and start working on that metal pony of yours.
Continue scrolling to check out recent posts that went viral within this online community and fire up Bored Panda's earlier article on it for more.
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Cut A Pool Noodle In Half To Make A Comfortable Armrest For The Truck. From Australia
When my colleague Liucija contacted the founder of r/RedneckEngineering, they told her that the term “redneck engineering" is still open for interpretation. However, the Redditor reassured that it's also “the kind of thing you know when you see.”
For example, “It can range from something as common as using a hand mirror to replace a side-view mirror to something complex like building a backyard water slide with a loop-de-loop.” The members of the subreddit give “bonus points if it'd make an OSHA inspector cringe.”
Not The Prettiest, But It Gets The Job Done!
A Plunger And Hot Water, Who’d A Thunk It
Who's Laughing Now?
The biggest difference between now and the old days in 2013 when r/RedneckEngineering was created is growth. The founder said that he used to be responsible for most of the posts, but the community has become really self-sustaining over time.
When it comes to submissions, you’ll see all kinds of bizarre makeshift gadgets and very questionable workarounds. Most posts generally come from people finding “low-budget workarounds to everyday problems with a few high-effort engineering projects and other submissions sprinkled in.”
The pandemic might also have something to do with the subreddit's increasing popularity. According to a national survey by The Freedonia Group in December 2020, 39% of consumers reported undertaking home improvement projects because of changes associated with these trying times.
Czech Engineering
How To Keep Your Drone From Falling Down Into A River
The Birdhouse Booby Trap Device
I Work At A Warehouse In Sweden, And Recently They Halved The Speed Of All Forklifts (From 16 Km/H To 8 Km/H) For Safety Reasons. I Just Thought They Put Some Limiter In The Software, But No. They Found A Far Smarter Solution…
Homemade Roller Coaster
All Y'all Doing Yard Work Like Scrubs. Here's The Real Way
Found In A Group Called “Stairs Designed By People Who Aren’t Afraid To Die” But I Still Quite Like How Simple And Cheap A Solution It Is
Adjustable Wrench
Disinfecting In A Beiping Market, Smart And Timely!
This Has To Count
Anti-Theft Protection
In the USA, having a stickshift is a theft protection on its own. (It's just a joke, don't hate me)
My Father Built His Own Observatory
Absolutely nothing wrong with this. This is how the first observatories were built and even became a thing in the first place!
This Guy Built A Wooden Gym So He Could Train
I Couldn't Find Any Washers That Would Fit Over The Heads Of Screws... So... Yep
Smart! I like this solution. I rarely have washers around, and bottle caps are just trash. It's smart to reuse them.
Safe As Houses
Humane Rat Trap
I did this once when we had some baby mice trapped in our garage. We set them free in a park nearby~
Someone Suggested This Would Fit Here
Our Doorbell Has Been Broken So We Had To Improvise
This Man Is Before His Time
Home Made Drone
A Pvc Pipe Basketball "Hoop" I Made So That My Son Could Practise
Love it. I'm sure the son does too ^-^ that show caring as well as ingenuity
Does This Count?
Found This On An Old Project File, I Was Ahead Of My Time
This Was Very Smart
Using tree limbs chained to the wheels to free a stuck tractor.
When You Finally Decide To Re-Purpose Those Old Bombs You Had Laying Around...
Saw This Volume Limiter On R/Hometheater Thought Of This Sub
Portable AC Unit (Pumps Ice Cold Water From Cooler Through Copper Coil Over Fan)
the cooler shouldn't be in the same room or the it would generate heat to cool
Ain't Stupid If It Works!
Back In 2006 When We Lived In Thailand I Couldn't Find A Guitar Hero Guitar For My Playstation 2 So I Hacked A Knock-Off Dualshock Controller And A Mosquito Zapper Into A DIY Guitar Hero Controller - Complete With A Mercury Switch For Star Power
My 96y/O Great Grandma Was Having Trouble. Her Apartment’s Ac Vent Blew Directly Into Her Eyes To The Point She Couldn’t Watch TV Or Read Anymore. I Made A Cardboard Vent Cover To Go Over The Vent & Reverse The Air Flow Direction
Feast Your Eyes… My Brother’s Gaming Chair
Oculus 2 Weight Balance Fix
Kinda dumb that the makers of this device (and other makers of devices like these) didn't even bother to solve this issue themselves to begin with. Unless they intend for your neck/head to get sore after a while to purposely limit how much time you use the device for??
The 80s In Switzerland
Pharmacy Ran Out Of Iv Holders. They Suggested To Hold It With My Hands. I Lasted Half A Bottle
Well It Surely Works
My Dumbass Solution To The Problem Of High-Hanging Fruit
Deathcart
Ramen Fix
Only Had Two Batteries, And Also This Thing Was Crazy Bright
The messed up part is that it has a three battery compartment if it never needed that much power to begin with.
Redneck Rotisserie
Hah, amateurs. I know of somebody with an aeroplane engined race car that has a sausage rotisserie attachment for the side of his car and he flame grills sausages with the exhaust. It even has a couple of toast holders. Sausage butties wherever he goes! Edit: Can't find footage of the rotisserie, but this is the car: https://youtu.be/Ua-0wSn0azs
There, I Fixed It
Saw This In Another Sub And Thought It Belonged Here
Bubba, Why Does Your Lawn Have Crop Circles On It?
We Made A Buggy At The Machine Shop By Welding Two Scooters Together
Don't Know
Speaker Theft Deterrent
I Mean…
It Ain't Stupid If It Works
My Mum And Sisters’ Attempt At Providing Air Conditioning In The Back For Me, It Did The Trick!
This Trailer I Spotted A Few Years Back
Pool Heater
When You’re Too Lazy To Paddle
Drove The Chevy To The Levee
Broke My Glasses, Lost My Backups. Threw This Together Out Of Desperation
That's A Pretty Cool Audi
Never Too Young To Start Rednecking
Ummmm
Floating Concession Stand Towed By A Jet Ski
Got Tired Of Losing Nerf Wars…
Behold, My Homemade Pontoon Boat
Local Shop Wanted $400 To Use Their Coil Compressor. Boss Said I Could Borrow The Pony Clamps As Long As I Brought Them Back Monday...
The U Pipe Under My Kitchen Sink Refuses To Stay Connected. A Ten Pound Dumbbell Solved The Problem
It's called the trap and is meant to help catch items that fall into the drain as well as keep noxious gas from coming out of the drain.
I Think This Belongs Here
Teehee I hook my laptop up to a monitor too. Until i can get a new one, it works fine ^-^
Guess It Fits Here
A Menu Holder Out The Front Of My Local Indian Restaurant
This Guy Knows Whats Up
Custom Body Work
I Want To Steam Potatoes But Don’t Have The Rack
Trash Can Broke. Buy A New One? Never
The parts to repair it probably cost as much or more than a new trash can
I Present The Garden Multi Tool. Aka My 14 Year Old Is Learning To Weld...
Houma La, After Hurricane Ida
Would be highly illegal in most countries in the world because the cabin is an integral part of the construction. That's why it's not allowed to remove the roof of a car and call it a convertible.
Redneck Boat
Apparently, Forceps Make Great Antenna Boosters
my late father in law used small bronze statue of Lenin with raised arm to do the same
Way Above Around Pool
Fisher Cat Broke My Last Cat Door Into My Chicken Coop, I Decide I Wasn't Going To Let It Win
How My Husband Stirs Paint!
I “Installed” A Temporary Solution To Stop The Downstairs Ac’s Cool Air To Escape To The Rest Of The House Upstairs And Prevent The Hot Air To Come In Downstairs. The Bubblewrap Is Like A Curtain
Thought This Belonged Here
That's called a "swamp cooler." It relies far more on the absorption of heat energy when water evaporates than on the coolness of the ice. (in fact, the ice might make it LESS effective, ESPECIALLY if the freezer which makes the ice is running in the same environment.) VERY effective in drier climates.
Farm Truck Boat On Water
I Told Ya' It'd Fit!
Behold, My Friends Butt Razor!
What In The Redneck Heck Is This…
Forgot To Get A Fork For My Salad While On The Job. Worked Perfectly For Chick-Fil-A As Well. Only Took A Few Zipties And Tape
Who Needs A Gaming Chair When You Have A Folding Chair, Pillows, A Towel, And A Roll Of Tape?
My Sunglasses Broke While Working On A Roof Two Days Ago. So Far, So Good
That Oughta Do It
We've Already Thrown Out All Of Our Kitchen Without Realizing It's Gonna Take 2 Weeks To Ship The Next One
USB Power Bank
Mounted The Clock Boss. Vaccination Center, Bacau, Romania
I beg all my friends in Romania to please get the vaccine. I am also begging my friends in Bulgaria, Makedonia and Greece. I know that you don't trust governments. You have reasons for that. But in this case just please get vaccinated.
Private Hospital, To Keep The TV At The Right Angle...
Newest Swimming Pool Heating Technology
I mean.. it'll work. It'll take a fairly long while TO work, since it doesn't have anything actively moving the water through the radiator, so has to rely solely on convection currents to do the job. And I can't imagine the electricity or gas bill - depending on what the house boiler uses - is going to be fun to pay by the end. But it'll work all the same.
Saw This On A Highway In Missouri. I Think It’s An Old Truck Turned Into A Boat…?
If It Works, It's Ok
USB In A Hotel Room
Either Or
Redneck Engineering To Balance A Camper...
This Temporary Fix Has Been There For 6+ Years
Theft Protection
Sun Blinds Were Not Bought, So They Built Their Own
Gotta Put That Pacific Northwest Heat To Good Use! Redneck Ingenuity!
Not Say I'm A Genius But
I really hope that "fuse" isn't for a hard or expensive part of the vehicle to replace, otherwise you may be in for a rather painful learning experience!
My Brother’s Solution To A Bird That Wakes Him Up Every Morning
My Buddy Needed A New Gaming Chair… He Sent Me This...
This entire post veered between "wow, that's cool" and "jesus h. christ what were you thinking?"
That's pretty much a definition of "redneck engineering".
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Y'all should see my husband's weed-eater-motor-powered bicycle, and what we affectionately call "Tilly", a rototiller with a wheeled seat trailer thing, so when the rototiller goes, it pulls along your seat. Tilly-618e...3f09b0.jpg 
Want warmer kitchen floors without having to renovate for radiant heat flooring or having filthy carpets? Interlocking foam tiles like they use in daycares. :) I can stand in my kitchen barefoot in winter, when previously, I could feel the cold of the floor right through socks and slippers. Easy maintenance, easy replacement. If the cats pukes on it - easy clean up. Drop something? Doesn't break. :)
I love the full, international flavor of "redneck engineering" presented here. ("Rednecks" are middle-American, manual laborers, who are often poor compared to the coastal elites, but very proud of their self-sufficiency and culture which is very distinct from coastal elites.)
I take it back. Some of these no self-respecting redneck would ever do.
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I was expecting really lazy or stupid designs, but most of these were actually pretty smart. Some people can be creative when they don't wabt to do something
Every great invention starts somewhere. These guys are the next google garage.
When I was in Cabo, Mexico, they did tricks like that. The hotel van's door opener was missing. They replaced it with a grip wrench and it worked like a charm. There were so many Mexico-built VW bugs there. Many of them have different colors on them. Like , a door was replaced with another color door. They were really resourceful.
Most of these were just dangerous accidents just waiting to happen and gave me pain just from looking at them. A couple were very clever though.
This entire post veered between "wow, that's cool" and "jesus h. christ what were you thinking?"
That's pretty much a definition of "redneck engineering".
Load More Replies... Y'all should see my husband's weed-eater-motor-powered bicycle, and what we affectionately call "Tilly", a rototiller with a wheeled seat trailer thing, so when the rototiller goes, it pulls along your seat. Tilly-618e...3f09b0.jpg
Want warmer kitchen floors without having to renovate for radiant heat flooring or having filthy carpets? Interlocking foam tiles like they use in daycares. :) I can stand in my kitchen barefoot in winter, when previously, I could feel the cold of the floor right through socks and slippers. Easy maintenance, easy replacement. If the cats pukes on it - easy clean up. Drop something? Doesn't break. :)
I love the full, international flavor of "redneck engineering" presented here. ("Rednecks" are middle-American, manual laborers, who are often poor compared to the coastal elites, but very proud of their self-sufficiency and culture which is very distinct from coastal elites.)
I take it back. Some of these no self-respecting redneck would ever do.
Load More Replies... I was expecting really lazy or stupid designs, but most of these were actually pretty smart. Some people can be creative when they don't wabt to do something
Every great invention starts somewhere. These guys are the next google garage.
When I was in Cabo, Mexico, they did tricks like that. The hotel van's door opener was missing. They replaced it with a grip wrench and it worked like a charm. There were so many Mexico-built VW bugs there. Many of them have different colors on them. Like , a door was replaced with another color door. They were really resourceful.
Most of these were just dangerous accidents just waiting to happen and gave me pain just from looking at them. A couple were very clever though.
