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Ingenious...
or nuts?
I've been working for a 77 year old man this week who has plenty of money, wood working tools and skills. I've really been enjoying his company and sense of humor.
Then he showed me this and I nearly busted a gut...
I like the ingenuity, but I'm not sure it would stand up to the abuse it give my wheelbarrows.
"Handles, we don't need no stinkin handles!"
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Looks like something my Grandpa Herbert would have rigged up.
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Is one of his arms longer than the other?
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It made me laugh too, and I was wondering the same thing as Rusty!
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Very "colonial".
The "woodwright" would be proud.
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My 1997 Weber Genesis at my house in Japan. I'm on my third lid handle, I think. (This one's my favorite so far.)
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In the old motorcycle world, that brand of homespun rigging or engineering would be called a “bodge”. A guy can take pride in some of them. Others, not so much.
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If you ever rode enduro you knew to carry baling wire, duct tape and assorted bolts etc. We always got the bikes back to a road, but sometimes it took some real ingenuity / backyard mechanic skill to get it done.......
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Oft times there is a very fine line between ingenious and nuts, and in this case it may be a bit of both.
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Looks like " redneck" ingenuity.
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My dad cut two Straight oak saplings and shaped them for handles. We used it to dig a basement.
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Dad had an old Ford and the tension screw in the driver's side window crank handle stripped out. He locked a pair of Vise-Grips on the shaft and went about his business.
They were still on the door when he sold it.
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Being a Ironworker with a 8 lb sledge hammer, you do NOT want to see some of my improvements.
However I do manage a #22 dry fly, quite well.
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Next time I break a wheel barrow handle I will replace it with some of 1-1/4" aluminum pipe I have a bunch of
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Dad had an old Ford and the tension screw in the driver's side window crank handle stripped out. He locked a pair of Vise-Grips on the shaft and went about his business.
They were still on the door when he sold it.
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I knew a mechanic that had a pair of vice grips clamped on the shaft for the steering wheel. I don't know if that was the pair he used and just clamped them on when he wanted to ride or if it was a designated pair. Larry
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FWIW, the grain on that branch runs continuously end-to-end.
Unlike a sawed piece of lumber that runs across the grain of the wood.
Plus it has the protective benefits of being covered in natural bark.
Unless it has a big knot in the wrong place, that branch will probably outlast the sawed and shaped handle on the other side of the wheelbarow!
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I knew a mechanic that had a pair of vice grips clamped on the shaft for the steering wheel. I don't know if that was the pair he used and just clamped them on when he wanted to ride or if it was a designated pair. Larry
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I remember an old guy that used one for a column shifter.
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If that old wheelbarrow handle breaks, problem will be finding a new matching oak one.
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Dad had an old Ford and the tension screw in the driver's side window crank handle stripped out. He locked a pair of Vise-Grips on the shaft and went about his business.
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My dad would have taken the vice grips off when he sold it......
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Dad was in the AF at the time. He just requisitioned more.
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Was riding with a couple buddies back from Sturgis when I had a bolt fall off the bike. It was one of the 2 bolts that held my chrome radiator cover on. We noticed it right as we pulled up to a bank so my buddies could use the ATM. When I pulled out the bailing wire they couldn't believe I had brought it. But I was ready to go again before they had their cash.
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Now that is ballin right there. Dirt bike yes, airplane gonna think long and hard.
I did have the engine cover pop open on takeoff one time. Somehow the latches didn't get locked down after pre flight oil check. Hmmm wonder who the pilot was.......
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In the Navy, there were three or four different expressions used to describe such a solution. Strangely, the one used most often (jury-rigged), is perhaps the only one usable here.
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Now that is ballin right there. Dirt bike yes, airplane gonna think long and hard.
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