the simplest and easiest of the anti theft devices

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=28757775470541595&set=pcb.28464101196605021

if you need to remove 1950s GM hood springs and don't have the correct tool - get innovative

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10238894949740003&set=a.1358470649558

a canoe with an odometer! When mapmaking in the everglades in 1897, Ed Brewer wanted to know exactly how many miles had been traveled

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10168508082232782&set=pcb.10168508083127782  via the Antique Overland facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1740495786660758/

there is a road grading attachment for Caterpillar 972M XE wheel loaders

 just put the bucket in it, and drop it to the ground, and push. Video of it at work at https://youtu.be/hWp9vZ7eeaM

for a more fun motor.... exhaust pipe motor mouths

see this in action at https://www.facebook.com/reel/2870416340007100

Caltrans needed a way to build an off ramp embankment on a foundation of 30 feet of mud from San Francisco Bay, a weak layer of soil that cannot support heavy structures, without it settling or sinking unevenly over time - so they innovated - and used 6,627 tons of shredded tires (thank you George!)

Caltrans chose the tire aggregate: it weighed about 50 pounds per cubic foot, lighter than the roughly 60-pound alternative, and cheaper too. Tire-derived aggregate is made by shredding used tires into pieces a few inches across that can replace gravel, rock, or soil in construction projects.

the finished embankment is roughly 26 feet tall, 700 feet long, and 50 feet wide. 

Dr. DingXin Cheng of California State University, Chico, who documented the project for a CalRecycle usage guide, calls it the first embankment project where Caltrans used shredded tires this way, and notes that the same layered approach became standard practice on later projects of this kind.

The main goal behind using shredded tires was reducing stress on the fragile bay mud, and the numbers back that up. The built embankment put pressure of 2,250 pounds per square foot on the foundation ground. By comparison, a similar earth-filled embankment would have exerted 3,750 pounds per square foot

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/in-2000-california-packed-6627-tons-of-shredded-tires-beneath-dixon-landing-road-the-lightweight-fill-saved-an-estimated-477000/articleshow/133702443.cms

So, since shredded used tires have proven to be really good for something, why are landfills still full of them, instead of them being shredded and preventing mosquitos from having a  place to create many more generations of blood thirsty skeeters? 

good use for a worn out tire

video at https://www.facebook.com/reel/1552632066266928

clever stuff is shared on facebook, innovative ways of doing things

https://www.facebook.com/groups/698432885431161/

The service body came from a wrecked firetruck. Great storage and the top makes a nice work bench if needed.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10238936139796825&set=gm.1328332929107817&idorvanity=698432885431161

In 2004, Mark Miller and Ryan Arciero took refueling to another level. They fueled theirTrophyTruck ON THE MOVE at about 60 mph, with a specially built refueling boom from their chase truck. They only did it once, but it worked, no stop, better track position, and they went on to win the TrophyTruck class.

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1492232939596954&set=a.550406143779643

A 49 foot section of a worn turbine blade trucked in from a Colorado wind farm was laid across a creek in an Atlanta park, with a bridge built on it, allowing access to 2 acres previously blocked off by the river

The park is Beaverbrook Park, and the girder is a section of a retired turbine blade hauled in from a wind farm in Colorado. The piece runs about 49 feet and weighs close to 7,000 pounds. It was cut, laid on its side, bolted into concrete abutments and decked over.

A wind turbine blade is not scrap that happens to be strong. It is a cantilever beam, engineered to hold its own weight in the air and take bending load in every weather for two or three decades without cracking.

The Atlanta crossing is the third of these, and the first outside Europe. The original went in on a greenway in County Cork in January 2022, a span of about 16 feet built from two blades that once turned on small turbines, and the team counted a 20 percent reduction in carbon against the steel girders it replaced.

https://www.ecoportal.net/en/wind-turbine-blade-footbridge-atlanta-park/32037/

great innovative way of using old tires!

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2026/08/good-use-of-old-tires.html

keeping the wingnuts from disappearing... good idea!

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=27873369468966971&set=pcb.2366131914204348

Mythbusters tested a Taurus out to see what the effect of dimples would be on gas mileage... and it was about 10% fuel mpg improvement. From 26 to 29.6 mpg

Adam had so much more life/enthusiasm than Jamie. 

I think it's to be expected from someone that chooses to look like this

Greg found a cool innovation of re-using stuff in his grand fathers garage

He graduated high school in 1957, 

 bought his own farm the same year, 

proceeded to erect a barn behind house there. 

 In 1959 he built a work shop. 

In 1960 he bought a sears air compressor it has date on it, and is still in use.

And he made this hose reel!

It has a pipe union in it with a leather washer with grease on it to seal air. 

Greg says in his post that he was born in 1971, and has no idea how many times his grandfather, Greg himself, and his 2 sons, and countless neighbors pulled this hose out 

His grandfather passed away in 1999 but this thing lives on. 

The hub that the hose is rolled up on is a 4 legged John Deere logo, 5 gallon oil can.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1294444273957513/permalink/27026081263700461

superb innovative idea - use guitar electric cord plug to run your airline through the frame!

https://www.reddit.com/r/guitars/comments/ifptdo/made_a_custom_trem_arm_for_a_strat_so_its_not_in/#lightbox

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10164614886257472&set=pcb.10164614886617472

Here's a good innovative way to make better battery terminal clamps... bicycle seat post clamps.

interesting door latch release, nice and elegant

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/495/

all it takes to learn something new, is step outside your normal life. Here's what some 4x4 trucks used when overcoming the problem of extra long rear axle travel... a sliding two piece drive shaft

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1176529144645766&set=a.555860870045933

interesting innovation, using flip down steps instead of a ladder

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/542/