Informal Poll: Mechanically Inclined or Not?

[ON THE EDGE]

Mechanical. I can fix almost anything. Mostly by just doing it, but YouTube and Google have made things a lot easier. That being said, most of it I broke and had to learn the hard way. The stuff I’ve broken twice I am really good at!!

[savage1134]

I have tools that fix tools

[HoustonHunter94]

Wow, 5 yr old threat finding its way up.

Big NO here on my mechanical abilities. My Dad loved it and was always working on something and he built the house I grew up in. I wish I had caught that gene but I always enjoyed hunting or fishing more than wrenching on a tractor or car or building something. Now I wish I had paid more attention.

[DRT]

I am not. If I have step by step instructions with lots of pics...I can usually do something that i consider mechanical. If I have a youtube vid (thanks youtube for the brake job on my jeep), then I'm usually alright.

But I am not one of those guys that can just climb under the hood or grab the band saw or work the drill press thingy or work the tap and die or drill out a broken bolt from an exhaust manifold (sorry, son) or get my wooden gates to quit sagging.

I have all the respect in the world for you guys that can tackle any project with confidence and usually end up on the winning side.

So who considers themselves mechanical vs. non-mechanical?

It's been my gift to be able to repair and create solutions for machinery and innovate new processes in the water treatment industry. It brings me a satisfaction no pay check can match to take what's broken and make it new again.

That said automotive mechanical work is not appealing to me. In fact I willingly pay others to do what I am fully capable of doing for myself on my vehicles.

Of course some of that may be I'm pretty lazy . .

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[Ironman]

Hopefully some of you guys have learned something in the last five years.

[2B4Him]

Mechanical in the sense of being able to do most any project. Much prefer DIY to hiring help.
However, not mechanical in the sense of being able to diagnose problems/issues with motors, etc. When I find out the problem, stand back.

[Farmdog]

I mow my own yards.show me a neighbor of mine that works all day in the shop and I will show you a farm Im about to take over large modern farms are too big to do all your own wrenching. that deals over with. Everything is coded now

[CabezaBlanca]

Mechanical....I turn a wrench on all our vehicles...I fix all mower, weedeater, chainsaw small engine issues, and repair our appliances if they can be done economically without replacing. Did the same when I had an outboard. I also build decks, installed my irrigation system and am about to replace a fence. Just got a once over lesson by a buddy to replace future capacitors, contacts switches, fan motors and relays on my AC unit.

Now I just need to learn to weld...

Have you learned yet?

[pyrobow]

Mechanical started on cars when i was 15. Built and drove a race car when i was 21-23. Not to afraid any thing (almost)

Also have designed and built my own house with very little professional help. Am currently building a Barndo.

[BigThicketBoy]

Depends on who you ask.
My wife thinks so.
My mechanic not so much.[emoji44]

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[deerplanter]

I would say mechanical since I used to turn wrenches for a living, now I just make sure others do it right.

[Farmdog]

My mechanic makes over 100k per year off me. He lives in a 4000 sq. Ft home. Mine is 3000 sq ft. Unless they lied to me. He bragged about buying more land over beers 2 days ago, but when I say JUMP he has to ask me how high? I have Cotton Pickers laying in pieces and tractors torn down all over his shop. I should go over there and take pictures of the mess but I don't know how to post them.

[tex4k]

Once upon a time I was a little full of myself and had the attitude that if another person built I could fix it. Then modern electronics and computers came along, my ego took a tumble. I can build or repair a lot of things, may not be as Purdy or meet modern standards as what the pros do but I can get by.

[Texas Grown]

I'm not very mechanically inclined. But I do make things out of metal for the mechanically inclined people.

[quarterback]

Somewhere I read that if you fix something and have parts left over that means you figured out a better way.

I've never been very mechanically inclined but I'm forcing myself to learn things as I "mature". Recently bought a '53 Chevy pickup that myself and my sons are going to rebuild. Pretty sure I'm fixin to learn a thing or three from that experience. Thank goodness for youtube.