If you can look at a broken situation and decide that a bungee cord, half a roll of duct tape, and complete confidence in yourself are all it’s going to take, you might just be a Redneck. And that’s not a bad thing! You can find a fix before someone else even finds the number of a professional.
Redneck engineering gets a bad rap because the results are objectively unhinged and occasionally load-bearing. But the internet has been collecting the best of them to give them the respect they deserve. These are the fixes that should not work, the repairs that would make a structural engineer dry heave, and the solutions so aggressively practical that they loop back around to brilliant. Duct tape was involved in most of them.
#1 Sheets Kept Coming Off The Bed, So I Sewed Some Underwear Elastic To The Corners
#2 Motorbike Saw
#3 Redneck Soap Dispenser Xpost Perfectfit
#4 Nothing Quite Like Oversized Tires For The Car
#5 Air Freshener Using A Fan And A Fabric Softener Sheet
#6 Boat Camping, Why Not?
#7 The Owner Of The Building Where I Work Decided To “Fix” The Leaky Roof. The Tubing Goes To A Floor Drain
#8 Flatscreen
#9 Broken Headlight?
#10 Girlfriend Saw This
#11 Asked For A Hammer At Work Today
#12 Strap Down That Dirt
#13 My Coworkers Bumper!
#14 I Hate To Rake
#15 A Little Love For Those European Rednecks!
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#16 My TV Antenna Needed To Be A Foot Higher. So I Duct Taped It To A Rake
#17 I Want To Know How That Car Got On The Truck?
#18 Got Some Power Windows For My Truck
#19 No Snow Where I Live Yet, But I Really Wanted To Go Sledding
#20 Feeling Hot?
#21 Sneak Your Drink Into Nascar!
#22 Do You Have An Obsolete Console And A Bike Without Handlebars?
#23 I Don’t Need A Got Dang Steering Wheel
#24 Is Yer Car Made Before 1989 And Lacking The Safety Features Y’all Family Deserves? No Problem!
#25 Redneck Server Farm
#26 Ain’t Got No Tailgate No More? Don’t Matter Cause I Gots Some Plywood!
#27 I’m Sure It Keeps Him Quite Cool
#28 Big Truck-Check. Deep Fryer-Check. Mullet. Check
#29 Spare Door Knob? Perfect!
#30 Redneck Bench Press
#31 My Brother Got An Apartment For Himself And Needed To Hang His Shower Curtain
#32 The Only Thing Missing Is A Lift For That Trailer. Smh
#33 Broken Glasses? Break A Clothes Hanger. Sorted
#34 $50 For A New Hood Latch Thay Said. Forget That I Got A Bungee Cord
#35 New G8!
#36 So My Toaster Dosen’t Work Without The Button On The Right Being Down, But Now I Have To Use A Knife And A Bowl To Keep It On
#37 Let Me Just Tape This Shut
#38 Was Told You Would Like My Dish Washing Video Hat. Makes Time Go By Much Faster! Never Doing Dishes Again Without It!
#39 No Bumper? No Problem! Just Slap Some Plywood And Paint On There And Call It A Day! (X-Post R/Shitty_car_mods)
#40 My Best Guess: They Wanted To Move The Fireplace 2 Feet To The Right (Xpost From Crappydesign)
#41 No Flag? No Problem
#42 Best Grill In The Market
#43 Shower Heads Are Like $7
#44 Hand Me That There Duct Tape, Hon! I’m Fixin’ To Fix My Truck
#45 Don’t Have A Razor?
#46 Needed To Grind Alot Of Pepper
#47 The Skin On My Boots Were Breaking So I Fixed Them
#48 Safety Is A Priority!
#49 Newegg’s Brand New Product
#50 Cold Air Intake Done Right.
#51 Lazyboy Abrams Edition
#52 Redneck Fixes, Estonian Edition
#53 This Car With A Pickle Jar For A Headlight In A Walmart Parking Lot
#54 No Clean Dishes?
#55 Redneck Ceiling Fan
#56 Thought You Guys Would Like Me Xbox Headset
#57 Hot Water Faucet Not Working, Got The Fix For You
#58 No Cufflinks? No Problem!
#59 We Don’t Have One Of Those Fancy Rich People Basters. We Have Duct Tape
#60 Broken Lock. Lactose Intolerance, Uh Uh, Finds A Way
#61 House Cold? Redneck Insulation Can Help!
#62 Custom Stereo Kit
#63 DIY TV Tray
#64 Made One Of Them Fancy Rain Showers That All The Rich People Have
#65 Ah Yes This Will Fix It
#66 Mounted My Phone To A Tripod With A Capo
#67 My Dad’s Solution To A Bad Plug Fixture. Seems Legit
#68 Gas-Cap Door Fixed
#69 Putting The “Fun” Back In Funeral
#70 Who Needs Steel Bolts If You Got A Pen?
