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What is the Ultimate Use for Duct Tape?
By David DiBenedetto
Like many of you, I’m guessing, I always have a roll of duct tape nearby. I carry a roll in my vehicle, training bag, and on the boat. I’ve used it to do everything from secure a pheasant wing on a bumper to patch a leaky wader during a duck hunt to cover a blister on my big toe in the backcountry. But while on vacation recently my older brother, Christian, showed me a new use for duct tape.
It wasn’t an emergency and it had nothing to do with dog training, but it was pretty damn creative. He made a wallet from a few strips of duct tape. Not a clunky, sticky bunch of tape but a genuine wallet. In fact, he’s been using his own duct tape wallet for two years.
To be honest, I’m not too sure of the benefits of a duct tape wallet, but I do know you can peel some tape off if you need it in a pinch. And if you get tossed in the pond after you win a field trial your wallet will be fine. Or if your dog takes a liking to chewing on it, the replacement cost isn’t very high.
Four feet of duct tape and a pair of scissors. That’s all you need. To watch a video of how it’s done, click here. It’s not anything like building an AR-15 like Gun Nut Phil Bourjaily recently did, but it’s pretty cool.
Any of you have surprising uses for duct tape? Think you’d ever carry a duct tape wallet? Has duct tape saved your hide before?
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Comments (16)
I've carried a duct tape wallet for years. It's relatively waterproof, especially if your sitting because the weight of your rear will seal it closed. It's also pretty long wearing. I've had mine for four years now and it looks like crap but it holds all my cards, spare keys, and money when I have it. The only downside is that the tape can shift slightly and the adhesive will get all over everything. The way to fix this is to put some masking tape inside the card slots.
There r just soo many uses for duct-tape that im gonna list the most insighted and most unknown-at-the-time usage...
Carrie Fisher`s breasts where held up by it in the starwars movies cos: "No breasts bouncing in space, there’s no jiggling in the Empire"- fisher..
If not for that the princess might have been Amy Irving or jodie foster, ughhh! Hail the inventive usage of DT :D
Hmm... your brother is much more creative than I am. The only thing I use duct tape for is to fix the garden hose (I'm too cheap to buy a news one). On an unrelated note: Nice tattered copy of Training Your Retriever. One of the all-time best dog training books. Could use a bit of duct tape on that torn corner...
Yeah, a couple years ago duct tape wallets were all the rage in the pre-teen/teen crowd. Just about everyone I knew had one. Still see a few occasionally.
what CAN'T you do with duct tape?! I'm sure MacGyver could invade a hostile country with duct tape and ramen noodles... hell they're both the most versatile things on the planet!
you can do a damn good job of fixing a fishing rod with it, that's for sure. And let's just say it's kept me dry a few times when I was stupid enough to go camping with a ripped tent(no comments please)
here's one that actually applies to dogs - we use duct tape to secure the rubber dog boots to my Dad's brittany when hunting in western Oklahoma to prevent her from getting the nasty sand-burs in her pads. You just use a small strip of duct tape on her leg to act as an anchor, then secure the boot with duct tape to the leg and anchor.
i've been making and selling them for a long time on the school market, but as the interest and price fell, i sold off the turf to another person, but they also make great gifts.
wouldnt the glue from the tape on a hot day go every where??
I made one for my brother and it deactivated his credit Cards. I don't know why but none of them worked after about a month of being in the Wallet
bowman1222- you shouldn't have hidden that magnet in the wallet...
We were on a recent refting trip on the Colorado river through the Grand Canyon and I got a load of tiny cactus pickers in my foot during a hike. You couldn't even see them they were so small but they hurt like the devil. Our guide used a piece of duct tape to yank those little pricks right out, no problem!
I was going to go bass fishing this evening but now I think I will stay home and make a duct tape wallet.
Duct tape works well in securing an extra car key before the hunt so hunting buddy can get back in truck, taping a hawthorne briar puncture in a Mother Vest hydration bladder, and in waterproofing a small box of matches to put in your upland vest for an emergency fire.
I duct tape the drain plug from my boat to the crank handle on the trailer. That way I can never put the boat in the water without putting the plug back in first.
Found this: http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/fashion/index.html
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There r just soo many uses for duct-tape that im gonna list the most insighted and most unknown-at-the-time usage...
Carrie Fisher`s breasts where held up by it in the starwars movies cos: "No breasts bouncing in space, there’s no jiggling in the Empire"- fisher..
If not for that the princess might have been Amy Irving or jodie foster, ughhh! Hail the inventive usage of DT :D
I've carried a duct tape wallet for years. It's relatively waterproof, especially if your sitting because the weight of your rear will seal it closed. It's also pretty long wearing. I've had mine for four years now and it looks like crap but it holds all my cards, spare keys, and money when I have it. The only downside is that the tape can shift slightly and the adhesive will get all over everything. The way to fix this is to put some masking tape inside the card slots.
Hmm... your brother is much more creative than I am. The only thing I use duct tape for is to fix the garden hose (I'm too cheap to buy a news one). On an unrelated note: Nice tattered copy of Training Your Retriever. One of the all-time best dog training books. Could use a bit of duct tape on that torn corner...
Yeah, a couple years ago duct tape wallets were all the rage in the pre-teen/teen crowd. Just about everyone I knew had one. Still see a few occasionally.
what CAN'T you do with duct tape?! I'm sure MacGyver could invade a hostile country with duct tape and ramen noodles... hell they're both the most versatile things on the planet!
you can do a damn good job of fixing a fishing rod with it, that's for sure. And let's just say it's kept me dry a few times when I was stupid enough to go camping with a ripped tent(no comments please)
here's one that actually applies to dogs - we use duct tape to secure the rubber dog boots to my Dad's brittany when hunting in western Oklahoma to prevent her from getting the nasty sand-burs in her pads. You just use a small strip of duct tape on her leg to act as an anchor, then secure the boot with duct tape to the leg and anchor.
i've been making and selling them for a long time on the school market, but as the interest and price fell, i sold off the turf to another person, but they also make great gifts.
wouldnt the glue from the tape on a hot day go every where??
We were on a recent refting trip on the Colorado river through the Grand Canyon and I got a load of tiny cactus pickers in my foot during a hike. You couldn't even see them they were so small but they hurt like the devil. Our guide used a piece of duct tape to yank those little pricks right out, no problem!
Duct tape works well in securing an extra car key before the hunt so hunting buddy can get back in truck, taping a hawthorne briar puncture in a Mother Vest hydration bladder, and in waterproofing a small box of matches to put in your upland vest for an emergency fire.
I made one for my brother and it deactivated his credit Cards. I don't know why but none of them worked after about a month of being in the Wallet
bowman1222- you shouldn't have hidden that magnet in the wallet...
I was going to go bass fishing this evening but now I think I will stay home and make a duct tape wallet.
I duct tape the drain plug from my boat to the crank handle on the trailer. That way I can never put the boat in the water without putting the plug back in first.
Found this: http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/fashion/index.html
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