I'll start.

Use a leaf blower to clean garage floor after messy repairs or when if gets alot of crud from outside trees and grass.
Just open overhead door and start from the back.

Leave a chain wrapped around a overhead tree branch next to driveway and overhead door to load/unload engines from truck bed.
Just back under it.

Use a grocey cart to clean and "mostly" rince parts with garden hose.

Have one of those white plastic laundry tubs under outside house faucet to wash up in instead of going into house.
It drains into a grease pit, then goes out to a old dry well.
Wife had fits at 1st, but now uses it

And probly the worst one i can think of right now.
I used old drop lamp cords to wire my garage with free 4' flourescent lamps when one of our schools remodeled.
Tech's at work are required to turn in broken ones to get a new one.

Used a dishwasher to clean parts...

Used an oven to cure paint on heads.

Entertain and argue with a "stroke" who thinks he knows it all, when in fact he buys his cars and engines pre built/pre finished. That is real redneck, cause most all rednecks are like McGuyver and can build a motor with bubble gum, straws, a razor blade and a kazoo.

Ditto on the dishwasher, had my own parts dishwasher at the old house when restoring my first car. Now I use the nice one in the kitchen.
Ditto on the leafblower (isn't that what they were really made for?)
Use a tree cart to move blocks, and a garden cart to move parts.
Drive cars short distances on public roads without minor things like seats, glass, brakes, bumpers, hood, fenders, wipers, shifter. As long as it has a steering wheel, a tire chock and way to shut it off I'm good with it.
Use kerosene drained from my parts washer to start brush burning piles.
Use milk crates to store parts.
Keep old car carpet to lay on in the winter so I don't lay on the concrete.

I've got a car dolly hanging in a tree so it doesn't get all rusted out from weeds growing under it.
Never remove stumps in my yard when I cut down a tree. They go away in time.

Park your $40,000 SUV outside so you can keep your $2500 next project car inside.

I once wore a white dinner jacket to an affair at the country club after labor day.

LOL, you've seen my driveway then.

Cut a 55 gal drum in half lengthwise, added hinges and a handle, mounted on the bottom half of an old grocery cart, used the side of the cart as a grill, and called it a bar-b-que pit.
I gotta find a photo of this. My Dad made this when I was a kid.

See i'm not alone.
Thought of 2 more.

Old 20" push mower frame to move blocks and tranys around.

Have a constant racoon problem, so got an old 55g car wash soap plastic drum from work and cut out a side hole just barely large enough to put a tall plastic trash can in.
Fits so well, the trash lid has to be slide out before installing or removing.
No racoon has beaten it yet.
Paw marks all over it from spinning it around in circles, but cant knock it down

BTY, my wife hasnt been able to use "our" garage for her car in 20 yrs.

Yep, old carpet makes a good "creeper".
Also good when used under real creepers. Helps keep'm from rolling around.

pic of my redneck French brother in law....cutting a transmission grease drum..for his new BBQ...we had to burn it out a bit after before cooking...lol.....see, we dont have dibs on Rednecks here in the US...

Carpet does make a good creeper. Especially from the standpoint of getting hair caught up in the wheels. I also have to be very careful around leaf blowers. At least since I got a bunch of hair caught up in in the air intake once. <it killed the motor thank goo'ness> Now that could've been embarrasing. Now I tie and tuck before blowing or weed eating. or was that blowing weed. Hey, I may be on to something!
Otherwise, I didn't realize just what a redneck I was.

"cause most all rednecks are like McGuyver and can build a motor with bubble gum..." NO but I used Bubblegum and a nickle to get home. Powerbrake fitting (top) popped off??? and just add nickle w/BG and presto.. you've got PB's back.

Yeah, but he didn't use a chain saw...

thats true...maybe just because he didnt have one!??

Cutting an oil drum with a chains say could make you a real RED neck....or other parts...

lets's se...I use a Tiger torch to start my bonfires at the cabin...but thats only if I am out of caribou campfire starter....when I put the last in the ATV...

When you put your bottle on the seat, it rolls off, goes through the floor boards, and gives yourself a flat tire.

When you use your truck to pull down a tree, it falls the other direction, taking your truck with it.

You use plywood to cover the holes in your floorboard.

I'm guilty of these to. One of the benefits of being single.



Mine are full. I need more!



That's a good idea! I have to pull up my basement carpet. I'll have to save a piece.

I use it year round. Helps keep you cleaner too. The deeper, the better.
A good place to get good clean scrap carpet is the dumpster next to carpet wholesaler/installers.

OH NO...another reckneck thing i do

I made a trailer to haul my camping stuff out of a Citation axle, angle iron, green lumber, and a truck cap. And what makes me a Redneck is the great feeling I get just looking at it! What a sweet trailer!

If one were to have driven down SW 98th St in Giansville Florida in 1986 they might have seen a '68 hardtop suspended from a large oak tree. If they were really lucky they might have seen the '78 TA body in the same tree....the tree made it easier to remove the fender flairs...with an axe.

you guys are giving us rednecks, or hillbillies for those of us in the lifestyle like to call us, a bad name..

wrap your minds around this for a second...

any fool can live on a hundred thousand dollars a year.. that doesn't take any brains... you gotta talk to the man getting by on $15,000, he is the resourceful one that you can actually learn something from!

I scraped our 30 yr old pop up camper a few years ago.
The bunk cushions are in the bed of my truck for staying over night at the race track, or hunt/fishing etc, so i dont have to sleep in the front.
Yes, there is a cap on it for those wunder'n.

There isn't any rednecks in Maine lol this is not something I do myself , But i am going down to Rockland to watch the lobster boat races in a few minutes. I talked to one of the guys yesturday. asked what he had it was a 617 something or other with twin tunnel rams headers sticking out he raced yesturday earlyer and won all three. they have been taping them and wanted to get the dis channel to air it kinda like deadliest catch.
I watched them before it is pretty cool

Used a tree, a chain, and reverse gear to pull out a front end that had been smashed in.

Wrapped a foil gum wrapper around a fuse when I was stranded (have done this more than once).

Used (and cracked) a ceiling joist to pull an engine (in a rental no less).

I found a little video of the races

Nothing red neck about that. That was cool!

Do'n a side job yesterday, needed to get a nut started underneath in a blind spot.
Could just barely get my middle finger in far enough to reach the tip of the bolt.
No way could you get 2 in.

The owner checked it out and said; no way are you gona get'r done.

I said; want'a bet?

Before i answer how i won, anyone care to guess how i did it?
If you guess right...YOU are a redneck

Duct tape

straw from a shake

bjorn,you ain't no redneck

I know, not even sun burnt on it...

Rubber hose

Rubber hose

Might work if it had a very short 90* bend.
I'll have to remember that one

Nope.
But need to remember this one too

Ahhh...

Stickum on a stick. That butyl stuff is great for more than just windshields.

Thread it onto your callused finger and hold it in place while you turn the bolt.

Quick dry modeling glued it to the tip of your finger.


...or offered a young child some candy to install the bolt with their tiny hand.

...that surgical rubber tube kit works

...how many guesses do we get?