40 Times People Had Such ‘Genius’ Solutions To Various Problems, They Got Posted On ‘Redneck Engineering’
Don’t you ever feel like we take things too seriously? I mean, if the heating stops working, there are many very questionable, yet bizarrely ingenious ways to go about it—like putting a fan next to the oven. It’s totally not smart, not safe, it doesn’t work, and it’s basically a plain horrible idea.
But in the bizarre and crazy world of “Redneck Engineering,” things are always far from the norm. Before we step into the Reddit community r/RedNeckEngineering, I should warn you not to try this at home under any circumstances. Because safety will likely be breached, and the gadgets you’ll see will raise an alarming level of suspicion.
So let’s see what the buzz is all about in this hilarious subreddit with 354k members that has been rolling since 2013. Whether it's a curse or a blessing, we will find out.
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Touchless Dispenser
Protection From Escaping
For Remote Teaching Without A Document Camera
Bored Panda reached out to the founder of r/RedneckEngineering to find out more about their community. It turns out, the term “redneck engineering" is open for interpretation, but the redditor assured us 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.”
Looks Level To Me
My 12 Year Old Son Modified His Bike With Carpet For Barefoot Riding
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.”
Rear Parking Sensor
When You Ask A Welder To Fix Something For You
Master Lock 100
Found This Fork In My Brothers House And Asked Him Why He Had Done It.... Then He Ran Upstairs To Grab His iPad
A Whole Crap Load Of Amish Guys Moving A Barn
Why is it that we Africans use brick or concrete to build walls even though we don't have hurricanes and tornados and america with it's hurricanes are like... we'll see which is the easiest thing for a bit of wind to blow away
Would Like To Buy This Guy A Beer And Hear His Story
Man Puts Chicken On Top Of Squeegee To Eat The Spiders Trapped In The Ceiling, Natural Pest Control
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.
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
Buoyancy
2 korean student's made a raft out of potato chip bags to prove they have too much air in them.
It annoys me every time I hear people complain about the amount of air in snack chip bags. 1.) The air is necessary, because without it, the chips would get crushed during shipment. 2.) THEY'RE SOLD BY WEIGHT. It doesn't matter if there's empty space in the bag, 5 ounces (or however much in a given bag) is 5 ounces. Learn to read labels
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
Whoever Built This Might Have A Phd In Redneck Engineering
Steering Wheel Broke, Needed To Finish The Yard. Thankfully I Know How To Drive A Stick
Your Move, NASA
I've done this with a hair dryer... but you have to be careful not to melt the hair dryer
Use A Fishing Rod To Teach Your Son Baseball
No more accidentally hitting dad in the crown jewels with the bat or the ball.
We Needed To Disassemble A Shelf In An Office And We Didn’t Have A Mallet. Rubber Bands + Hammer = Mallet
Silent Killer Mkii
Haha, no. Some states require it, but many (Most?) do not. In Colorado you just have to get an emissions test every 2 years, and that's it. Unless you are visibly violating the law and get stopped by a cop, you could be driving a total death trap and no one would know.
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The doors don´t match. I hardly believe this was made from to equal model cars
In the UK and Ireland we have very strict road tests for all vehicles. Seriously the vehicle would nearly have to be new to pass. If they saw this car they would just have a good laugh and instantly fail it.
Not true at all. Watch James May's Toy Stories, specifically the one where he builds a motorbike with sidecar out of only meccano + tires then drives the full TT Man circuit: That had to be inspected to be on the road, and indeed passed.
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For those wondering if this is for real. Yes, but the caption is probably garbage. This is a real thing made by a guy from Canada and not some American dude who "wreck his two Pruis's" and decided to weld them together. You can see the build pictures here: http://www.dieselstation.com/cars/custom-6-door-toyota-prius-a722.html
Thank you. That is definitely not "just two prius's welded together" by any stretch of the imagination. That's a full custom job.
Load More Replies... I know the guy who built that; his kids went to school with my son. He owns a Prius repair shop and built it the same way they make stretch limousines from SUVs, so it is in fact safe and street-legal. I guess they decided to build it because they had more kids than could fit in a 4-door car, but wanted a hybrid because they commute from an hour away from town.
Wow! That's impressive!! This guy is an artist wtih the welding sticks!
Safety requirements for road vehicles are a tad more stringent here in the UK and the EU... I have to get an MOT every year to check the whole car over, like Lauren from NZ explained in her longer post... (no need to duplicate) :D
It looks so weird. I would have to keep looking back to make sure my eyes won’t deceiving me
Same in Canada as long as you don't try to change province of registration. Then inspections mandatory. Silly because I see (and honestly have owned) some cars that were well past their 'best before' date
Parking spaces in the US are freaking long. Can barely fit a normal estate car in some UK spaces
It's all the pickup trucks, some of those are the size of two cars together, and that's before the knuckleheads jack them up on massive tires.
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The 'middle' door is a splice between the front of a back door, and the rear of a front door. I would expect the window in that door to be a sheet of polycarbonate plastic, and not an actual glass window.
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not to be 'that guy' but ... I call Photoshop - that door-line and middle-door coloring looks rather hinky - in fact that whole 'middle door' area has issues that can't be explained
The middle door is a splice between a rear door where it meets the front door, and a front door where it meets the rear door. The car also includes a slice of the roof from a third car. Use google before 'calling photoshop' toyota-pri...5f17d3.jpg 
Nearly every passenger car in the world uses unibody construction. Being front-wheel drive, all the spinny bits remain up-front, the rear suspension is unaltered.
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The roof is higher in the middle than on a standard car, to preserve both the front and rear rooflines. They spliced a front and rear door together to create the middle door, and added a section of roof from a third Prius.
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Came Across This Picture And Wanted To Share
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When Covid Requires Separate Climate Control In An Auto, What Can You Do?
Grandpa: 1 Trash Panda: 0
Redneck Security System
South Africa every day... we also have contraptions for the steering wheel and also the pedals
That'll Do For Now, He Said. That Was 4 Years Ago
My Life Has Been A Lie
Gotta Love Uhaul
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
This Is Why We Have The 2nd Amendment. So People Can Do This
Ran Out Of Washers So Drilled Through Some Pennies
Installed My Anti-Tailgater Device Today... Now I Just Need To Find Something For Folks Who Cut Me Off...
Oh! I just figured it out, took me a minute. So if someone is tailgating they will see the wrench, think it's unsecured and back off.
Are Russians The Rednecks Of Europe?
50 Bucks Ain’t Too Bad. Just Gotta Watch The Toes
Flex Seal Can Do Anything
Need To Relocate Your Switch?
Text Means "Emergency Stop"
Wow... We have laws against such stuff and various instances who regularly check the safety standards. If any of those see this, s**t hits the fan.
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Grow up poor. You make do or do without. Mock at your own peril. Assume at your own peril, as well. I've seen crazy-as-eff hacks in more than one nation. Also, ti's not just about money. Sometimes it's about "need it to work until I *can* replace it after I'm off the clock and finish the laundry and feed my kids and can get to the place that has them..."
Poverty should never be mocked. For the most part the ingeniousness is being honored.
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In NZ we refer to 'redneck engineering' as 'No.8 wire ingenuity ' (No.8 wire was/is a common fencing wire, handy for a lot of quick farm fixes I guess, probably how we got the term)
My dad was an engineer. He would say if someone else can fix this, why can't I? We never paid for a repairman. If a specific tool was needed, he'd make it with what we had. Since I was his "helper" from the time I was little, I've had the same feeling. I maybe the only woman in the auto parts store or the tool area of a Lowes but we have saved a lot of money doing things ourselves, plumbing, patching, electric wiring, painting, minor car repairs (used to have VW, Dad and I pulled the engine 3x's) if it's on YouTube or I can find a manual I'll give it a try. The only time I worry looking at some of these repairs is if they look unsafe. Some risks aren't worth it. Be safe.
Many of these are not unsafe, and show an amazing ingenuity. How do people think many of the slick, mass-produced tools we have today got invented?
Why is it called Redneck Engineering? From what I see you don't have to be a Redneck to come up with this kind of stuff.
Grow up poor. You make do or do without. Mock at your own peril. Assume at your own peril, as well. I've seen crazy-as-eff hacks in more than one nation. Also, ti's not just about money. Sometimes it's about "need it to work until I *can* replace it after I'm off the clock and finish the laundry and feed my kids and can get to the place that has them..."
Poverty should never be mocked. For the most part the ingeniousness is being honored.
Load More Replies... In NZ we refer to 'redneck engineering' as 'No.8 wire ingenuity ' (No.8 wire was/is a common fencing wire, handy for a lot of quick farm fixes I guess, probably how we got the term)
My dad was an engineer. He would say if someone else can fix this, why can't I? We never paid for a repairman. If a specific tool was needed, he'd make it with what we had. Since I was his "helper" from the time I was little, I've had the same feeling. I maybe the only woman in the auto parts store or the tool area of a Lowes but we have saved a lot of money doing things ourselves, plumbing, patching, electric wiring, painting, minor car repairs (used to have VW, Dad and I pulled the engine 3x's) if it's on YouTube or I can find a manual I'll give it a try. The only time I worry looking at some of these repairs is if they look unsafe. Some risks aren't worth it. Be safe.
Many of these are not unsafe, and show an amazing ingenuity. How do people think many of the slick, mass-produced tools we have today got invented?
Why is it called Redneck Engineering? From what I see you don't have to be a Redneck to come up with this kind of stuff.
