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Replaced car transmissions, built desks & a patio table, rebuilt our pantry/garage, constructed raised garden beds (all helping my dad).
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My uncle did oddly sized window screens to keep out mosquitos in my apartment (necessary-ish because wife is allergic). Yards of screen+flashing+nails. Doing it professionally would be very expensive, due to size and not-setup-for-screens windowframes.
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Also, my dairy farmer father had a cow wheel built for fixing displaced abomasum (torqued intestine, fixed by rolling the cow over). Made of pipe and flat bar. Dairy farms generally have a lot of this, enough so to have a professional handyman on staff.
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From that list you're basically limited to houses and their subsystems. The trade is always time for money: any cash you save not hiring a tradesman to do the same thing is spent in opportunity cost for the days / weeks / months / years it takes you to redo your bathroom
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