“It’s Not Stupid If It Works”: 40 Wild Repair Jobs People Actually Pulled Off

The human instinct to innovate doesn’t always involve high-tech labs or billion-dollar budgets. Sometimes, all it takes is duct tape, a bit of determination, and a healthy disregard for the rules. That’s the spirit behind the Reddit community Redneck Engineering, where folks share their most creative, and occasionally questionable, DIY solutions to life’s problems.

This online group has become a goldmine of posts showcasing everything from hilariously clever fixes to downright dangerous “inventions.” Whether you’re impressed by the ingenuity or shaking your head at the risks involved, one thing’s for sure: these people refuse to let a lack of resources stop them.

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#1 I Screwed A Mesh Screen To A Cap To Use While Weedwacking

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#2 Siding Truck

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#3 Maybe Not Pretty, But

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#4 Two Lock Authentication

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#5 For Rainy Season

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#6 W Parents

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#7 Installing A Hanging Shelf For The First Time And Here’s My Scaffolding To Hold It Because I’m Not Confident I’ll Hold It Straight

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#8 My “Custom” Prescription Goggles For Snowboarding

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#9 The Chipper

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#10 Nothing Says Hospitality…

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#11 6 People Have Their Own Lock And Each Person Can Open The Gate With Their Own

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#12 Kid Wanted A Kiss Doll, All We Could Afford Was A Sharpie

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#13 Made This Guitar A Few Weeks Ago For A Friend’s Birthday

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#14 USPS Snowbird

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#15 Multi Use

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#16 My Dad Hurt His Shoulder. Made This

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#17 Improvise, Adapt, Overcome!

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#18 Canoeing

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#19 Nasa’s Apollo 17 Astronauts Used Spare Maps, Clamps, And Strips Of “Duct Tape” To Repair One Of Their Lunar Rover’s Fenders In December 1972

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#20 Perfume

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#21 20 Pound War Hammer Made From Stuff I Found While Magnet Fishing

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#22 Marketplace Never Ceases To Amaze Me

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#23 Perfect

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#24 I’m So Tired Of My Husband’s DIY

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#25 He’s Got A Woody

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#26 Son’s Bed Rungs Were Slippery In Socks

Had some spare water pipe insulation, silicone (so it doesn’t spin) and zip ties.

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#27 Backyard Bidet

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#28 Don’t Pay The Disposal Fee Next Time And Make Something

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#29 New Yacht, Having Trouble Naming Her Any Thoughts?

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#30 Homemade Taco Holders

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#31 Thoroughly Impressed With This One

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#32 Dad’s Razor

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#33 Ride On Recliner

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#34 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 the f**k up there!