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Colored sketch of a power hand drill holding a Homemade Ratchet Strap Winding Tool with a yellow strap engaged in it

Homemade Ratchet Strap Winding Tool

Once your strapped-down cargo is off-loaded, rolling the straps back up can be a frustrating (and for…

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Left pic of S.S. version of a homemade stand-up planter. Right pic of the Thin Man version of the same tool.

Homemade Stand-Up Planters

Homemade Stand-Up Planters allow those with mobility and/or back issues to sow seeds in their gardens without…

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Color drawing of white driver made of vertical angle-iron with a square flat cap welded on top - a round handle welded just below the top - & a footstep welded at the bottom. An orange electric fence post is shown next to it with yellow insulator.

Homemade Post Driver for Electric Fences

This Homemade Post Driver for Electric Fences allows Beloit (KS) farmer Don Hewitt to move posts from…

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Ink drawing of the tool (its components positioned and welded together as described) about to be inserted into the lower hole at the end of the swivel hitch tongue.

Homemade Swivel-Hitch Hook-Up Tool

Kept in a tractor’s toolbox, this Homemade Swivel-Hitch Hook-Up Tool makes it a lot easier for South…

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Ink drawing of the one-piece frame configured such that the attached oiler slopes about 15 degree to accommodate different-sized animals.

Homemade Mobile Cattle Oiler

This Homemade Mobile Cattle Oiler , designed for insect control, was fabricated by welding three ‘stirrups’ to…

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Ink drawing of the car jack’s ratcheting assembly connected via a two-link chain to the trailer’s tongue-pin receiver.

Homemade Trailer-to-Dump-Cart Modification

This Homemade Trailer-to-Dump-Cart Modification involved simply mounting a car jack to the front of a two-wheeled trailer….

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Ink drawing of the wood-post

Straight Line Fence Walk-Thru Gate

Eliminating the need to open and shut gates when wanting to enter/exit, this Straight Line Fence Walk-Thru…

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Color rendition of Mohrman’s 7-inches-apart added steps mounted over his tractor’s existing steps (as described).

Homemade Added Tractor Steps

The steps to his tractor cab being too far apart, Columbus, NE, farmer Melvin Mohrman modified a…

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Ink drawing of tire hoisted by the chain-hung device

Homemade Tire Hoist

Iowa farmer R.I. mounted to his machine shed rafters a small I-beam and trolley. Hanging from the…

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Pictured is the 4-wheeled machine

Portable Backhoe

With just the turn of the wheel lockout hubs, the TenderFoot 620 Portable Backhoe can be changed…

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