Five days until Christmas, are you in a panic for the perfect stocking stuffer? Have no fear, duct tape to the rescue. No, really, you can never have enough duct tape, especially around the barn.
We’ve compiled 30 ways you can use duct tape as an easy fix-it for your barnyard needs:
- Tape up a leaky hose.
- Label stalls with animals’ names, feeding needs, turnout instructions, etc.
- Repair busted feed sacks.
- Make an instant belt or suspenders or mend your coverall fastener.
- Tape over baling twine when using it as an emergency rope.
- Hold together broken side mirrors on a truck or tractor – or even windshields.
- Emergency repair of broken cross ties.
- Tape handles on buckets to prevent your animal’s tail or nose from getting caught.
- Patch holes in the bottom of a bucket.
- Tape feed instructions to feed bucket handles.
- Waterers – If they get kicked, duct tape can hold them together.
- Create permanent lines for a grid on the barn’s dry erase message board.
- Apply to leg wraps when the Velcro strips rip off.
- Use as a substitute Band-Aid (with gauze covering the wound).
- Remove hair from your clothes when you don’t have time to change after doing barn chores.
- Repair pitchforks.
- Repair broken brushes and combs.
- Patch up a torn seat on tractor, truck or other chairs.
- Hold your dashboard in place.
- Stick over tops of nail heads in stalls, or over other sharp objects.
- Hold up posters and notes in the barn.
- Tape your pinky finger so it won’t be sore after roping your loose cows.
- Cover trailer door hinge so animal won’t cut its hip when backing out.
- Hold on faulty windshield wipers.
- Secure extension cords for fans and lights.
- Create makeshift hay hooks by wrapping duct tape around the wire on bales of hay.
- While waiting for the veterinarian to arrive, hold together a wound that needs to be sutured.
- Wrap around the base of a travel coffee cup to make it more stable in the truck’s cup holder.
- Wrap around frayed lead rope ends to keep them under control.
- Emergency fan belt repair on truck.
Duct tape can be an indispensable tool (and in oh so many colors, too) … would you like to add to our list?