71 Ingenious Inventions Of “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.

#1 A Whole Crap Load Of Amish Guys Moving A Barn

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#2 Your Move, NASA

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#3 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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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.”

#4 My 12 Year Old Son Modified His Bike With Carpet For Barefoot Riding

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#5 Touchless Dispenser

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#6 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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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.”

#7 Master Lock 100

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#8 Fixed The Gate Problem...

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#9 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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#10 Steering Wheel Broke, Needed To Finish The Yard. Thankfully I Know How To Drive A Stick

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#11 Innovative

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#12 My Life Has Been A Lie

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#13 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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#14 Text Means "Emergency Stop"

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#15 Gotta Love Uhaul

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#16 Need To Relocate Your Switch?

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#17 Im Actually Impressed

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#18 Redneck Security System

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#19 Rear Parking Sensor

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#20 For Remote Teaching Without A Document Camera

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#21 Whoever Built This Might Have A Phd In Redneck Engineering

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#22 This Is Why We Have The 2nd Amendment. So People Can Do This

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#23 The Wife And I Were Tearing Down A Wall And Saw This And Found This Sub Appropriate As Hell, An iPhone 5 Box Being Used As A Fan Control Holder! Yet Completely Drywalled So You Couldn’t Tell!

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#24 Came Across This Picture And Wanted To Share

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#25 Fixed Hole In My Exhaust With A Baked Bean Tin (Was Quoted More Than The Car Was Worth)

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#26 When You Ask A Welder To Fix Something For You

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#27 Flex Seal Can Do Anything

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#28 Hand-Drilled Speaker Grill In An Elevator In A Newly Built $100m Building

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#29 Use A Fishing Rod To Teach Your Son Baseball

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#30 So There Was A Hole In The Window And This Is How Our School Decided To Fix It

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#31 Engineering Level: Redneck

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#32 From Eastern Europe But Fits Here

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#33 Looks Level To Me

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#34 Are Russians The Rednecks Of Europe?

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#35 When Covid Requires Separate Climate Control In An Auto, What Can You Do?

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#36 50 Bucks Ain’t Too Bad. Just Gotta Watch The Toes

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#37 Buoyancy

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#38 This Is How My Friend’s Apartment Maintenance Man Decided To Hang The Clothes Rack

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#39 Grandpa: 1 Trash Panda: 0

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#40 The Ultimate Redneck Engineering From Russia

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#41 Ese Ingenio Mexicano

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#42 A Hot Water Tap In Vietnam

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#43 Our Hose Broke At Work But Luckily We Got A Redneck In The Kitchen

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#44 Pool Heater

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#45 Man Puts Chicken On Top Of Squeegee To Eat The Spiders Trapped In The Ceiling, Natural Pest Control

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#46 *beep Beep*

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#47 That'll Do For Now, He Said. That Was 4 Years Ago

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#48 Where Can I Get One!

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#49 We Like Redneck Engineering So Much In Brasil We Have A Word For It : "Gambiarra"

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#50 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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#51 Would Like To Buy This Guy A Beer And Hear His Story

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#52 This Van Blessed Me With Its Presence At My Place Of Work 2 Years Ago Today

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#53 My Grandfather Said He Added A Bathroom To The Attic Of His Shop, But To Check For Spiders/Wasps Before Using. Yes That's A Funnel. Yes It Goes Through A Hole In The Wall. And Yes It Rains Down The Outside Corner Of The Building

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#54 Next Level Lawnmowing

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#55 Not Stupid If It Works

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#56 Almost Unnoticeable

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#57 Ran Out Of Washers So Drilled Through Some Pennies

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#58 No Foundation? No Problem....also... Wtf?

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#59 We Needed To Disassemble A Shelf In An Office And We Didn’t Have A Mallet. Rubber Bands + Hammer = Mallet

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#60 Silent Killer Mkii

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#61 The Way My In Laws Fixed Their Garbage Can

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#62 Failed To Realize There Was No Shower Rod When I Was Moving In, But The Show Must Go On

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#63 "It's Not Stupid If It Works" From Instagram

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#64 Installed My Anti-Tailgater Device Today... Now I Just Need To Find Something For Folks Who Cut Me Off...

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#65 Broke My Spray Bottle Trigger, Turns Out A .223 Bullet Casing Fits Perfectly

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#66 I Got A Heated Pool Now. Yup

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#67 When The Crap Gets Clumping, You Get Jumping!

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#68 We Have Ps5 At Home

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#69 I'll Just Knock, Thanks

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#70 I Guess The Dryer Relay Went Bad, It Runs When Pushing Start, It Doesn’t Stay Running. I Fixed It, Just Didn’t Repair It Yet

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#71 Phone Won’t Change? No Problem

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