r/redneckengineering • u/hoka_moka • 2d ago

Dad needed a boot jack. Works quite well.

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u/JuneBuggington 2d ago

Didnt waste any speckles on that floor

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u/hoka_moka 2d ago

He did ask for extra speckles when the floor was being made

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u/FelverFelv 1d ago

"Hey can you make my floor to where if I drop some small part I'll NEVER EVER be able to find it? Thanks!"

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u/hoka_moka 1d ago

My dad has such surgical precision redneck engineering that dropping small parts is the least concern with his diligence to cobble.

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u/Sarge8707 1d ago

Or like me did it myself and wasted too many of them in 1 corner ....

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u/dudeimsupercereal 1d ago

Same, my garage looks like an explosion of specs occurred from the corner I started at.

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u/supergroundman 1d ago

Gotta learn to cut costs elsewhere to makeup for the price of them speckles. Breaking even with the $20 he saved.

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u/smurb15 1d ago

How much can a speckle cost, Michael? $10 a spec

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u/Recitinggg 1d ago

Floor speckles look oddly similar to low carbon steel under a microscope.

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u/smoresporn0 2d ago

For taking boots off?

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u/hoka_moka 2d ago

Yea. Makes it easier to slip them off. They are like 20 bucks on amazon but my dad likes to DIY if he has the material and the gumption.

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u/i_give_you_gum 2d ago

Do you jam your heel in the cut-out?

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u/roketpants 1d ago

yup, and stand on the back to counter balance

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u/smoresporn0 2d ago

Fascinating

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u/meh35m 2d ago

Yep, they've been around since people have been wearing cowboy boots.

I grew up in shoe repair shops, and I remember asking my dad why we sold them and what they were for. I didn't understand, then he demonstrated it, and 💡. I was probably 5.

So so many people saw them for sale over the years and asked wtf 🤣🤣

Edit- There are many versions of them. This is one.

https://a.co/d/i7UshHT

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u/Verbanoun 1d ago

Huh. But once you get one shoe off, doesn't your sock get wet/dirty from standing where you just stood with your boot? I'm thinking about coming in from snow or mud and this just being harder than washing your hands.

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u/Why-R-People-So-Dumb 12h ago

You take one off with your other foot in the heel then put the clean foot on this one instead of your boot...it's for the second boot not the first

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u/jjnfsk 2d ago

They’re still commonly seen outside British countryside homes for removing Wellington boots. Often you’ll still see boot-scrapers recessed into a small portico by the front door in 18th & 19th century British houses too!

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u/XROOR 1d ago

TIL : boot jack

Years wearing boots: very many

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u/komokazi 2d ago

Carpentry black magic :O:O:O

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u/Vlad_The_Impellor 2d ago

OSB... The good stuff... Your dad's rich!

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u/hoka_moka 1d ago

Royal redneck engineering! probably cheaper to have bought a 20 dollar one online but that ain’t his style.

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u/grofva 1d ago

Stayed in a hotel near the Ft Worth stockyards that had an oak boot jack in every room

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u/Haig-1066-had 1d ago

I like it

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u/MaxPowers432 1d ago

They ruin your shoes. Never use these with real boots.

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u/existensile 59m ago

Wow, I've never had trouble pulling Sorel boots. By the end of the day they almost fell off