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Submitted by: Eric B of San Antonio. via Submit a Kludge!
Favorite Comment(s!): Fixer K says, “Freddy and Joan Crawford had a child. This is his hand.”
AND: Fixer Ohnonotagain says, “This is a shot of Edward Scissor Hands’ lesser known cousin: Ralph Kludge Arm.”
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Wow! What an amazing use of old coathangers AND old toothbrushes! God bless cardboard, string, and duct tape. If McGyver ever had an emergency need for a rake, he couldn’t make a better one than this. ;D
i’m expecting a rather terrifying version of that ‘Baby Come Back’ song to be playing.
Hang my clothes up and brush my teeth or rake the lawn, it’s one or the other!
Wow! *Great* toothbrush drying rack kludge!!
Or maybe in honor of the season, “Toothbrush roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose…”
A new rake is like $10. Nine wire hangers, a toothbrush and whatever time it took to make that thing has got to be worth more than that, even if you’d only get minimum wage.
Not to mention the invested time – it should take longer to come up with this design and build it than to ride/walk to the nearest place you can buy a real one.
wire hangers + toothbrush + cardboard + duct tape + cloth = RAKE???
How do you get rid of wire rakes by making your own out of wire hangers?
This time, Captain Hook REALLY prepared for Peter Pan.
Freddy and Joan Crawford had a child. This is his hand.
That’s a good one!
It’s beautiful!
+1. That ain’t a kludge, it’s a work of art!
It’s actually a 3 in 1 hygiene kit, A comb, toothbrush and cloth in one convenient package.
With a last lingering look, Artie hung up his beloved rake and finally set off for dental hygienist school.
I just love how the toothbrush is placed at random for that extra kludgy effect.
No, no! It’s there for structural integrity! I’m sure!
I could never imagine anyone actually wanting to rake leaves badly enough to THAT far out of their way to do it!
…to GO that far out their way, sorry.
This is epic!
“MacGyver, it’s an emergency! My lawn is covered with leaves and all I have is this bag of random stuff I bought at Target!”
WTF? How long is that toothbrush FFS?
Next on the to do list: Make hangers and tooth cleaning apparatuses out of the old wire rake.
I think it’s not a rake. There’s a tool used in row gardening, which you drag between the rows to uproot weeds. I cannot for the life of me remember what it’s called, and google searches aren’t helping (I was thinking something like “hand tiller” or “row cultivator” but I am clearly way off”.
These have tines like a leaf rake, but need to be a lot stronger, and are surprisingly not very cheap. This is quite a clever tool.
This disturbs me on so many levels.
Cool, a brush-teeth-n-comb-hair device.
Now I can save some valuable time in the mornings…
You’re all ignoring the context. It’s obviously a divining rod for locating you car. Most of the hooks indicate it’s the red one on the left. The hook with the tape on it isn’t so sure.
It’s for hanging up a very heavy garden tool in the closet–one which would not be supported by one coat hanger.
Now lets see if the neighbor wants to borrow my rake again…
This is a shot of Edward Scissor Hands’ lesser known cousin: Ralph Kludge Arm.
The printers got this all screwed up:
“No! More wire rakes”
Hilarious – ther actually used to be a huge sign up the road at a carwash that read “No! Loud music please!”. No kidding.
I could see why somebody would need a rake that badly, but it’s not to pick up leaves. We go through rakes (and duct tape) pretty quickly at the horse barn.
The inclusion of the toothbrush, though, makes it disturbing.
“So do you like your new rake?”
“I’m hooked!”
This one pretty much screams “I did it so I could post it on thereifixedit.com.”
Tooth brush for the Mrs. even with a touch of pink, and a 6 foot handle so you dont have to get too close.
I wouldn’t use that in public. I’d hire a neighbour kid to rake my lawn with that monstrosity instead.
If not for this heroic improvisation, Apollo 13 would still be hurtling off into deep space.
Ahh he’ll be rakin’ in the cash in no time with cost savings initiatives such as this!
I love that the background here is perfectly-manicured suburbia, not some punk-rock party neighborhood by the railroad tracks. Makes me wonder if this person is an eccentric professor or something.
With a reasonable modification you could make it look like a bouquet of flowers.
That’s not string holding the cardboard to the handle, it’s a white extension cord! Maybe you plug in the power cord and the tines get hot?
must be mcgyvers house…..
No surprise the toothbrush isn’t being used elsewhere…
Based on the cost benifit analysis of building a rake vs buying a real one, this person values there time at about 10 cents an hour.
It’s for breaking into multiple cars at once.
how do you spell TWEAKER!
“… EVERRRRRRRR !!!!!”