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Manola,Ab, Ca | I got started back to hauling logs out the bush this week. On my first load to the mill after I got unloaded and was turning around I could hear something slapping the side of the bunk or cab. I did a walk around and couldn’t see anything obvious so I headed back for my next load. I happened to look in the passenger side mirror and noticed that the exhaust stack was moving in and out,it dawned on me that I had seen this before. I stopped and looked and sure enough the pin and bushings were missing from the top exhaust bracket.
I stood there scratching my head for a minute and then started looking in the truck to hold it in place. I then walked down into the ditch to the fence row and found a willow tree that I selected a branch about the right size. The branch was a perfect fit and I left a “y” attached so it wouldn’t fall through and then found a zip tie in my emergency kit. Five minutes later I was back on the road.
What creative bush fixes have you made?
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South/central Alberta | We took a Toyota civic in for a safety. Tech said everything looked good except the zip tie holding up muffler! |
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New London, Wisconsin | Nice!
Jim |
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East Central Arkansas | I have a zip tie holding the gear shift cable in on at least one Toyota vehicle. I think I fixed one as I can't find the little plastic bushing I bought to fix it. |
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Texas | Baling wire has fixed many things . Who knew it came on a roll called machine wire :) |
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| Dad always said Grandpa was really good with wire, way better then him, IDK Grandpa died when I was 1-1/2, I always thought dad was really good with wire. Old timers had to be good with wire as they did not have welders. |
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coast of Maine | I took a neighbor farmer with me on a deep woods snowmobile trip in Quebec.We could only go 120 miles between fuel stops so deep woods is always limited by your 50% fuel range,sort of like a plane as at say 20 below zero out of fuel in a sled is about the same death sentence as a plane...So we are maybe 50 miles from alight pole,,friends sled has a severe breakdown,,I go back find him,,"I got some wire ,,no problem" he pulled this old roll of rusty wire out from under the seat pocket.He proceeded to weave a solution.It moved and we were basically out of fuel as we putted into a safe camp.I was so in doubt when he pulled that rusty wire out,,, |
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East central Iowa | Dad used one of mom's corset stays to replace the spring in the magneto. |
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| I use old bicycle inner tubes free from bike shop to strap up hydraulic hoses on equipment |
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| tommyw-5088 - 11/20/2024 21:41
Baling wire has fixed many things . Who knew it came on a roll called machine wire :)
Baling wire and machine wire are two different things. |
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Cleveland, MS. Own small farm near Booneville, MS | Dad always carried a pair of slip joint pliers and a flat blade screwdriver in the tool pocket of his overalls. Give him a roll of baling wire and I believe he could have rebuilt any piece of equipment on the farm. Brother bought an IH 1456. It had a York a/c compressor on it. Mounting bracket was a very poor design. Belt kept getting loose. Dad used baling wire to rig a solution. It worked. I recently used zip ties to fasten a broom handle to the clothes hangers in the back seat of my pickup so that my wife could hang more clothes back there for our vacation trip. |
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RR Valley, ND; MN native | When I was a poor college student...
Rented house with room mates and the dryer in the basement was making a horrid screeching noise that echo'd up the duct work to my room making it impossible for me to concentrate on my homework/studying. Asking the roomy to not dry their laundry when I was studying was not going anywhere. Pestering the landlord; it could take weeks to get anything done.
So, investigation found the bushing holding up the rear of the dryer drum was shot and the shaft ate a slot downward into the housing so that the drum too low and was rubbing on something to make that screech.
Drawing on my handiness from the farm growing up.... Bought some grease from my non-existent "fun" money and a tin snips. A empty soup can cut a strip off and rolled it into enough of a shim to jam into the bottom of the worn through bushing and with that grease got the drum to stop rubbing on whatever it was rubbing on. Screech stopped and I got back to my studies.
I always wonder how long that "fix" lasted as this was during the last semester before I graduated and we all moved out some weeks later. |
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Eastern Washington | Saw a boat being pulled on the lake by another boat. (They were using fishing line, as the tow rope).
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Most creative use of a zip tie and a stick
