Red Neck Tools - Show Yours

[crash325]

Lets have a little friendly competition between Red Neck Ingenuity And Yankee ingenuity. FRIENDLY IS THE BY WORD.

I'm going to start off with a few pictures. You post a few pictures of yours. Lets have some fun.

First is and easy out made from a R/R spike. Needed to get a shattered brass fitting out of a propane tank. Few minuets on the grinder & it worked to perfection.
Maybe a 1 time use.
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A socket for removing Lag Bolts out of R/R ties. These are lag bolts from He!!. Just a hunk of pipe, split & welded together. Holes are for concrete stake & most of the time a long piece of pipe was needed to get them started. Square hole, some what beat out, was for a cheater bar or impact wrench. I may weld an old socket there if needed. This simple tool has removed over 100 lag bolts.


More simple, useful & fun stuff later.. YOUR TURN

 

[don45640]

Okay...you'll just have to visualize this tool. Not hard to do.I can't post pics. Need to use a hacksaw but can't get in to the tight place to do it.
Yeah,usually you can dremel it if you OWN one,I know. But what I have done so many times is just break a piece off the hacksaw blade and take visegrips and clamp them on one end of the blade to secure it,using the visegrips as your handle.You can adjust the angle of the blade to fit the space you're working in,too. I recommend gloves in case of abrasion of some kind. don-ohio ^)

 

[PILOON]

Vice grips reminds me of using a pair clamped to an outboard motor to steer it as the factory handle was broken off.
(Maybe that's why I suffer from Renaud's syndrome in my left hand)

 

[JBourquin]

Ever try to break the bead on a motorcycle tire?

Before I had the tractor..

Also needed a blind hole bearing puller..

 

[schmism]

Ever try to break the bead on a motorcycle tire?

no but i have tried rusty old gravely tires

 

[schmism]

oh and what in the world do you do with lag bolts like those!

 

[Depmandog]

Okay...you'll just have to visualize this tool. Not hard to do.I can't post pics. Need to use a hacksaw but can't get in to the tight place to do it.
Yeah,usually you can dremel it if you OWN one,I know. But what I have done so many times is just break a piece off the hacksaw blade and take visegrips and clamp them on one end of the blade to secure it,using the visegrips as your handle.You can adjust the angle of the blade to fit the space you're working in,too. I recommend gloves in case of abrasion of some kind. don-ohio ^)

Or you can spend a few bucks and buy the tool....





Super handy! Have had one for 20 years, and just bought my son and son-in-law one for Christmas

 

[Tollster]

Vice grips reminds me of using a pair clamped to an outboard motor to steer it as the factory handle was broken off.
(Maybe that's why I suffer from Renaud's syndrome in my left hand)

Shifted a few motorcycles with those after the splines on the shaft stripped when I was younger.

 

[crash325]

oh and what in the world do you do with lag bolts like those!

Well the could be used as BIG lag bolts. But #1 goal was to get the plates ( 3 types that weigh 40 pounds or so) off the RR ties. So far the ties have been used as fence posts. The next use for them is a wall about 4' high around my black smith & welding area
One lag bolt is now used as a cold chisel. Square off the head with a little grinding and it fits a hole in my anvil.
Many others were cut up and used as feet on my compactor (sheep's foot).



The tool shown by depmandog, been around a long time happen to have one my self.

 

[don45640]

Yeah,Depmandog,I have one of those someplace, but my tool shed is a mess.LOL! Besides,those won't always work at the angle I need,so since I've always got about 4 pairs of vise-grips around,I just grab èm and go.
I gotta' get out there in the shed and organize about three hundred pounds of hand tools.Organization runs against my sloppy nature,though.LOL
don-ohio ^)

 

[MIKE R]

Here is the tool I made for putting fittings onto the maple sap lines.

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[don45640]

Hehe!That's neat,Mike! Funny how those vise-grips keep showin'up! I always told my boys that they were one of the greatest inventions of all time.LOL! don-ohio ^)

 

[crash325]

Here are a couple of useful items.
In the center is what I call a "Pickle Fork Digger". Diggs a trench about 4" wide by 12" deep. Fine for water lines in my area as long as they don't pass under an area that is driven on. Not deep enough for you folks up north. But would work on lines that get drained, such as irrigation line. Have a shovel cut down to 4" wide to clean out the ditch.

The red guy is a quirky set of forks, helps with loading brush and digging small rocks out. Don't use it much anymore since building my 4 foot, easy on / off forks.



2 bolts and either one of them is on.

 

[MIKE R]

Hehe!That's neat,Mike! Funny how those vise-grips keep showin'up! I always told my boys that they were one of the greatest inventions of all time.LOL! don-ohio ^)

They and baleing wire are the only tools in my tool box on the tractor. You got to get the original ones.

All the rest work nothing.

 

[crash325]

Ever Drive Posts??
Here are 3 post drivers. Tall 1 is for those 8 foot posts and almost to heavy for 1 man. Then is my favorite, easy to use and fine for soft ground. Fat one is for the wide posts similar to those used on road signs. I also welded a 1/2" steel plate on the bottom of my FEL bucket. Real handy for larger pipe & that sort of thing.

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[jinman]

Jim, I don't know which is more interesting, your tools or the collection of scrap pieces under the hitch in the background of this photo. I think we are often defined by our scrap piles.



My favorite tools are round toothpicks and golf tees for a gazillion uses. Where would the world be without those?:thumbsup:

 

[don45640]

Yep,Mike! I only put faith in real vise-grip brand pliers. I've tried the foreign junk and Great Neck and the like. They just don't hang on at stress time. don-ohio

 

[DANOCHEESE]

Speaking of hack saws. Falt tire on the 2001 ford Of course the little winch that holds the tire up under the bed is seized? Needed to get up under and cut the cable. The up and under part was going to be interesting. Took a 1/2 inch piece of EMT stuck hack saw blade in open end and proceeded to beat it flat. 6 foot long handle on a hack saw Was able to reach from the bumper. Worked well, tire dropped out like a rock.

 

[bullbreaker]

Jim, I don't know which is more interesting, your tools or the collection of scrap pieces under the hitch in the background of this photo. I think we are often defined by our scrap piles.

Jinman I was also thinking 60 years from now when Jim-crash325 is in heaven. The first guy that runs a metal detector through his land is going to end up in a mental institution ! :biggrin: Might have to get the type that beeps when there is no metal. :thumbsup:

:laughing:

Boone

 

[crash325]

Jim, I don't know which is more interesting, your tools or the collection of scrap pieces under the hitch in the background of this photo. I think we are often defined by our scrap piles.

Jinman I was also thinking 60 years from now when Jim-crash325 is in heaven. The first guy that runs a metal detector through his land is going to end up in a mental institution ! :biggrin: Might have to get the type that beeps when there is no metal. :thumbsup:

:laughing:

Boone

Golly guys when it comes to scrap iron, you haven't seen anything yet. I try to have scrap iron for every occasion. :laughing: You just can't have too much.
the junk under the tongue is just odds & ends left over from building the compacter. It had been tumbled in the cement mixer to clean it up a little.

Now get out there take a few pictures of some of you finely constructed toys or tools. :cool2:

Here is a specialty "spark plug" wrench.