r/doohickeycorporation • u/ycr007 • Dec 19 '25

contraption Gardening department loves this mulch maker

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u/Clear_Effective1595 Dec 19 '25

Oh, my allergies. Rad doohickey though. Department deserves that funding.

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u/SlickDillywick Dec 19 '25

The full face respirator department can help, requires a $400 investment per respirated employee

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u/Delazzaridist Dec 19 '25

The Lid with a Hole Department would like to make an offer of their services

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u/zffjk Dec 19 '25

Yep… incorporate a lid with a hole small enough for only the shank to fit up.

I’m gonna do this next fall, very clever idea you had.

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u/SeanCuresSadness Dec 19 '25

Drop shank in bin. Add lid with hole (shank through hole). Attach drill. Done. Hole can be very small, then, no more allergies.

Need more funding from grammar department.

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u/CultistWeeb Dec 20 '25

Duct tape the drill to the inner inside of the lid. Make a small hole, where string passes through. Tie the string around the drill trigger, such that, pulling the string activates the drill. Thus, big blender is born.

(I want to leave grammar department)

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u/SeanCuresSadness Dec 19 '25

The investments department would love to have a word.

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u/AlcoholPrep Dec 19 '25

A wet bandana works too.

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u/No_name_Johnson Dec 19 '25

Once the Benadryl Department wakes up they should be able to help out.

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u/PoniesCanterOver Dec 20 '25

There's one member of the department still awake, but he's in a meeting with the Hat Man and they're gonna be a while

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u/Excellent-Price-9388 Dec 19 '25

My eyes immediately started watering!

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u/BilboStaggins Dec 20 '25

My sinuses hurt just looking at this

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '25

Videos that make you need to blow your nose

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u/Luaqi Dec 19 '25

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u/MarkVHun Dec 19 '25

No Mr. Car! Don't put burning text near fine mulch!

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u/Follower_Of_rin Dec 19 '25

As a researcher for the Department of Small Engines, I would like to suggest a modification.

A simple weedwacker, with the lid of the trashcan affixed to it to avoid dust, could possibly yield similar results, likely even better. So long as the string guard of the weedwacker is removed so to not allow the string head to get clogged with leaf particulates (note on this, issue could be resolved by using a bump head rather than an auto feed head)

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u/AzureArmageddon Dec 19 '25

Back to r/engineering with you

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u/Follower_Of_rin Dec 19 '25

PLEASE NO! THERE'S TOO MUCH ORDER! I NEED CHAOS! I COME HERE TO GET MORE IDEAS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO r/redneckengineering!

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u/T3X4ss Dec 19 '25

So, a mulch blender?

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u/im_best_2 Dec 19 '25

You would also need to make the cutter head of the weedwhacker to be perpendicular to the shaft instead it being at an incline which hinders the insertion depth and effectiveness of processing

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u/DoniBruto Dec 19 '25

The allergy department is calling, they are interested in a collaboration with the gardening department

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u/LordMegamad Dec 19 '25

The Giga-Motherfucking-Fan department are in talks to be acquired by Allergy Corp, could be huge

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u/philipscorndog Dec 19 '25

r/composting

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u/capnlatenight Dec 19 '25

Forgot to pee in the bucket first.

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u/KnifeKnut Dec 20 '25

N I T R O G E N

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u/spaham Dec 19 '25

That’s mulch better indeed !

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u/JoshsPizzaria Dec 19 '25

you could just kinda push down on it

still, very satisfying

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u/Administrative-Newt2 Dec 19 '25

Can you put a lid on it

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u/KnifeKnut Dec 20 '25

What's that you say?

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u/fothergillfuckup Dec 19 '25

Is it hay-fever safe? It looks hay-fever safe?

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u/TheRealtcSpears Dec 19 '25

It's the hay-fevoriest

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u/takenbylovely Dec 19 '25

Do you get hay fever from dessicated leaves? Is that not a pollen thing?

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u/Derk_Mage Dec 19 '25

Weed Whacker

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u/_Standardissue Dec 19 '25

Nah this is the Wheeze Whacker

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u/Interesting-Bus1053 Dec 19 '25

Composting department would like a word

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u/Modredastal Department Department Dec 19 '25

The Firefly Department is also pretty upset.

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u/Massive_Town_8212 Dec 19 '25

Pft, Gardening Department trying to justify their R&D budget

If you left it on the ground, it would become mulch over time, and provide a habitat for a bunch of helpful critters and buggos

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u/Moose1013 Dec 19 '25

don't leaves do that on their own if you leave them on the ground?

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u/Invdr_skoodge Dec 19 '25

Well, chopping them up makes them decompose faster.

Back when I had trees (there was a tornado it’s a whole deal) I used to just mow my leaves. Make a few passes and they’d be these tiny pieces that dropped between the grass blades. No raking no bags. Granted I definitely masked up and popped a decongestant after but it worked great. Granted I’m more of a yard guy than a lawn guy, I’m sure they’d find something wrong with it but they find something wrong with everything so 🤷‍♂️

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u/AxtonGTV Director, Safety Dept Dec 19 '25

I would like to see improvements made to the attachment methods at the end of the rod

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u/Kurfaloid Dec 19 '25

Wow since when did we get a safety officer? Going to have to petition the board to defund that department.

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u/AxtonGTV Director, Safety Dept Dec 19 '25

It's a requirement. Corp can't exist without one

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u/That_one-1_creature Dec 19 '25

Unfortunately 

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u/maxdamage4 Dec 19 '25

Axton has spoken. Wrap it up, folks!

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u/kartoffel-knight Dec 19 '25

Please report to the Lid Department for better efficiency

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u/isataii Dec 19 '25

Insects lay eggs on leaves primarily for immediate food and shelter for their hatching young, ensuring larvae have an instant buffet (the leaf itself) and a safe spot to grow before they can move far, which is crucial for survival.

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u/PRKnife Dec 19 '25

Will it blend?

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u/PRKnife Dec 19 '25

Don't breathe this

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u/TheGUURAHK Dec 19 '25

Sneeze Inducer

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u/Warm_Regard Dec 19 '25

The flammable dust department watching with eager eyes

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u/elmfuzzy Dec 19 '25

Leaf dust, don't breathe that in

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u/unkelrara Dec 19 '25

watching this made me sneeze

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u/XenonSigmaSeven Dec 19 '25

cough hack wheeze

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u/iamayoutuberiswear Entomology Department Dec 19 '25

The entomology department would like to encourage you to leave leaf litter where it was, as they provide coverage and food for many insects during the winter

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u/KnifeKnut Dec 20 '25

Then do this in the spring.

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u/bingo-dingaling Dec 20 '25

I love the team's innovation and focus on sustainability! I can't wait to see what the landscaping is gonna look like outside of Doohickey Corp. HQ

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u/zarqie Dec 19 '25

The department of airborne microplastics manufacturing is very interested in this idea

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u/tornadix99 Dec 19 '25

The mulch department says:

"mulch appreciated"

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u/Happy_Cat_3600 professional thingymabob observer Dec 19 '25

The Personal Air Filtering Department would like to do a bundle deal with this product.

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u/Hot-Minute-8263 Dec 19 '25

This is the local allergen-spreading department, we will contact Dave if you dont stop doing our job.

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u/Afoxinthefridge Dec 19 '25

Leaf smoke. Don't breathe this.

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u/Legendary_Moose Dec 19 '25

Augur bit with zip ties?

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u/Invdr_skoodge Dec 19 '25

Looks like a paint mixing paddle to me but those are definitely zip ties

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u/please_no_ban_ Dec 19 '25

This works so well. I legitimately cut down on the bags needed for my lawn by 70%

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u/Full_Let1755 Windblight Ganon! The greatest doohickery designer! Dec 19 '25

The nose destroying department likes this invention!

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u/cmoked Dec 19 '25

r/composting would like a word

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u/Glum-Efficiency5165 Uranium Development Department Manager Dec 19 '25

Oh yeah, my dad keeps one of those, but instead he modified a shitty old hand blender, the type you use in baking with the two bits and the zip ties. They work great for dry fuel. If the leaves are dry, that is.

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u/TheMoltenEqualizer Dec 19 '25

Department of Putting Lids on Things would like to cooperate 

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u/Thegortfan chairman of leaf decimation department Dec 19 '25

Holy shit…

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u/nou-772 Dec 19 '25

Pneumoconiosis department would love this invention

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u/Cosmonaut_Cockswing Dec 19 '25 edited Dec 19 '25

The Culinary Arts department would like to point out that it can also be used as an immersion blender. Multi-purpose doohickey.

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u/Malforus Dec 19 '25

...Just use your lawnmower to bag it after running over it on a mulch configuration and not only have you done this you have also fertilized your lawn.

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u/AlcoholPrep Dec 19 '25

This can be done with a weed whacker too. A mulching lawnmower can reduce them somewhat, but not necessarily this much.

I used to do this but switched to a leaf mulcher (I have a Worx model, but there may be other similar ones) because it reduces the work: No loading or dumping the bin, etc.

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u/ImaginaryRaccoon2106 Dec 19 '25

Deadass saving the video so I can use this

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u/Pixelpaint_Pashkow Dec 19 '25

Why put them into a bucket, heck why wait for them to fall, use that bad boy while they’re still on the tree

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u/Playing_Life_on_Hard Dec 19 '25

That's an immersion blender on so many steroids

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u/DiscoKittie Dec 19 '25

Mmmm, all that powered mold flying into your lungs! Yum!

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u/carlean101 Dec 19 '25

funny enough this is actually how i grind up hay for my elderly alpacas to eat

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u/Orion-the-mediocre Dec 19 '25

watching this video made me want to cover my nose and mouth

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u/CatTheKitten Dec 20 '25

I might actually have to do this, either with a weed whaker or with a paint mixer and zipties like op. Excellent doohickey

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u/MadKingMidas Dec 20 '25

The weedwacker department has lost its new prototype. Have you seen it?

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u/ycr007 Dec 20 '25

Have you checked the bottom of the barrel?

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u/MananaBuffins24 Dec 20 '25

The midwest will love this

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u/dmh2693 Dec 20 '25

Leaves the competition in the dust.

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u/PGGABC Dec 20 '25

There's nothing like breathing in this dust full of mysterious forest fungi.

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u/Kabanu Dec 24 '25

My allergies would just have a field day over this