Are you a MFK Redneck?
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Here, this is redneck AF. The plastic filter canister in my breeder tank cracked apart and I needed something in an emergency.
Here we see a plastic peanut jar, some solar screen, zip ties, pillow fluff, and a piece of open mesh plastic gutter screen inside that you can’t see.
Sorry I didn’t clean the glass for these photographs. They just weren’t that special.
Here we see a plastic peanut jar, some solar screen, zip ties, pillow fluff, and a piece of open mesh plastic gutter screen inside that you can’t see.
Sorry I didn’t clean the glass for these photographs. They just weren’t that special.
I could definitely use a Jolly up in the outback with my pals LOL
esoxlucius
I somehow could not toss the redwood boards from a PetSmart doghouse my hounds had been gnawing for ten years.
I disassembled the whole thing, screw by screw, and reused the screws too. They were stainless!
It became this redwood plant stand, which I built for my mrs.
Much of the wood for the new dog house came from leftovers. The red trim was the remaining good wood when I replaced the window trim on our house. I bought carpet, one sheet of new plywood, and some large door hinges, but all the fasteners, floor and floor framing are also recycled.
The paint was left over from painting our house and random projects, and the asphalt shingles & tar were left over from reroofing the house.
I somehow could not toss the redwood boards from a PetSmart doghouse my hounds had been gnawing for ten years.
I disassembled the whole thing, screw by screw, and reused the screws too. They were stainless!
It became this redwood plant stand, which I built for my mrs.
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Much of the wood for the new dog house came from leftovers. The red trim was the remaining good wood when I replaced the window trim on our house. I bought carpet, one sheet of new plywood, and some large door hinges, but all the fasteners, floor and floor framing are also recycled.
The paint was left over from painting our house and random projects, and the asphalt shingles & tar were left over from reroofing the house.
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Now that ^ brings back memories! My father, from whom I obviously inherited both the "cheap" and the "redneck" genes (both recessive genes, which rarely express themselves simultaneously!) built stuff like that. Everything...right down to bird feeders...was constructed as if it needed to survive orbital re-entry followed by a crash landing on a mountainside. And nothing was ever thrown away; instead, it was stripped down to its barest components and furtively stored in the basement, the garage, the barn...it was like living with a gigantic Ukrainian squirrel storing nuts for the winter.
When he passed, all that stuff was cleaned out and much of it ended up in my barn, only to be regretfully tossed years later when I moved out of the province. But a lot of it is still around me, in the form of deer stands, bird feeders, bird houses, bear-proof outside storage boxes, summer dog "lounges" and kennels(no way I leave my dog outside in our winters), miscellaneous pond structures, etc.
Ulu
, your project above lacks only one feature preventing it from being Class A Redneck material. It looks nice; the paint job dresses it up like proper outside furniture. My father would have, and did, paint items like that with paint that was salvaged from a dozen or so almost-empty cans, unceremoniously mixed together to produce a lurid purple-pink-grey colour that we christened "Uke Puke".Note: don't bother looking for Uke Puke at the hardware store. They apparently don't have it in their mixing catalog.
I somehow could not toss the redwood boards from a PetSmart doghouse my hounds had been gnawing for ten years.
I disassembled the whole thing, screw by screw, and reused the screws too. They were stainless!
It became this redwood plant stand, which I built for my mrs.
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Much of the wood for the new dog house came from leftovers. The red trim was the remaining good wood when I replaced the window trim on our house. I bought carpet, one sheet of new plywood, and some large door hinges, but all the fasteners, floor and floor framing are also recycled.
The paint was left over from painting our house and random projects, and the asphalt shingles & tar were left over from reroofing the house.
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Great job ulu.
The satisfaction one gets from turning odds and sods of scrap into something useable again is priceless.
The problem I have now though since we had our woodburner fitted, is that when i look at pieces of old wood now part of me has a bright idea how to further its use, but the other part wants to burn it!! Lol.
Great job ulu.
The satisfaction one gets from turning odds and sods of scrap into something useable again is priceless.
So true!
That is and always will be the final and fitting resting place for wood creations...but don't rush them along!
I haven't always been successful in my wood building projects, lol. Before I discovered the immense benefits of using screws and glue over just nails in my builds, I had a few DIY failures!
The one that springs to mind, and will forever haunt me, was when I had a DIY outdoor chair collapse under the weight of a rather portly aunt when we had a family gathering.
Thankfully she didn't hurt herself, just a few splinters in her arse, oh yeah, not only had I not discovered the benefits of screws and glue, but sandpaper too, oops!
Thankfully, my skillset has improved since those early days.
The one that springs to mind, and will forever haunt me, was when I had a DIY outdoor chair collapse under the weight of a rather portly aunt when we had a family gathering.
Thankfully she didn't hurt herself, just a few splinters in her arse, oh yeah, not only had I not discovered the benefits of screws and glue, but sandpaper too, oops!
Thankfully, my skillset has improved since those early days.
I've got 3 so i guess I qualify. Plus I use duct tape to hold my collecting nets together. The use of duct tape should definitely be added to your list. All "true rednecks" have multiple uses for duct tape.
You're right, "redneck" and "duct tape" go hand in hand, so much so that I didn't think to mention it.
But, really...you had me at "collecting nets"...
