The use of unorthodox methods and tools to build, modify or repair machinery, vehicles, etc, usually with little regard to finesse or technique.

Common tools include: sledgehammers, cutting torches, arc welders, come-alongs, jacks, porta-power kits, large prybars, sawzalls, lengths of pipe and 2 X 4s

So named for the stereotypical redneck who fixes things through brute force and duct tape.

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods

1. To modify an object to suit another purpose from it's original, often very dangerously, however.

2. To build a tool out of scrapped materials, commonly used in the repair of objects, or to substitute a tool.

1.you fix everything with duck tape
2.when in boy scouts you fix your tent with duck tape