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!
Larry

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It will be after a few days of concrete work.

No, not yet.

Very "colonial".
The "woodwright" would be proud.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, however poverty is the father.

That may be an example of why he has plenty of money.

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.)

I should post pics of some of my repairs around here. I am no longer a craftsman lol

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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You've just moved on ... above and beyond

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.......

Oft times there is a very fine line between ingenious and nuts, and in this case it may be a bit of both.

Looks like " redneck" ingenuity.

We used aviation grade duct tape and bailing wire to keep the B Model Ag Cat flying till the end of the season.

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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I can see why he has plenty of money!

My dad cut two Straight oak saplings and shaped them for handles. We used it to dig a basement.

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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He's from the "Get done with what you've got" corp.

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.

We all have our good and Bad spots.

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

Apparently you've seen my truck......Ben

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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

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 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.

My dad would have taken the vice grips off when he sold it......

Dad was in the AF at the time. He just requisitioned more.

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I had to join that club one day. It was a rare day that I was driving to work instead of taking public transit. I'm not the most mechanically minded person, but this day what I did know got me out of a scrape. I was most of the way to my office when my car, a 1971 Chrysler Newport , just quit cold. Luckily I was on a downhill grade and drifted down and pulled off the road. I popped the hood and saw that the wire from the coil to the distributor cap had rotted clean off. Luckily I had a roll of electrical tape in my toolbox in the trunk. I stuck the broken end of wire from the distributor into the tower on the distributor cap, taped it down, and cranked the car up, all without getting my coat dirty. I probably wouldn't be able to do that now.

But there is a little more to the story. When my car stalled, I pulled off the road behind a green car that had its emergency lights flashing. After I got my car started, I walked up to the passenger side window of the green car and saw a man sitting up at the wheel with his eyes closed and keys in the ignition. In the back seat was a German shepherd chained up and barking up a storm. So without sticking my head in the passenger department I asked the man if he was alright but he never moved or spoke. When I got to the office I called the township police to go check on him but I never heard anything further. It kind of makes you think, why did it happen that my car stalled out on that road on that particular day and I ended up behind that green car?

Duct tape, safety wire, zip ties and hose clamps.

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Probably whistles Somewhere Over The Rainbow when he drives.

Only until the first downshift, I'd bet.

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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.......

True multi-taskers.

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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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I've seen this in our front yard when we were getting foundation work done.

Same one that watched his fuel siphoning out from a loose gas cap?

Use what you have:

Babe Ruth used this bat to hit his 60th home run in 1927.

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Wire coat hangers, the handy mans best friend.

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Whenever I painted, clear coated or let guitar bodies dry after oiling there was a coat hanger involved.

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A unique form of bailing wire.......

And welding rod.

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