I got real good at braiding baler twine as a kid. Figured out how to braid 9 together at once, tie in new sections, and made ropes for our hay racks. You could tie them off, stand on them, and they wouldn't break.
Don't like to toss bolts, unless they are too small for a hitch pin and the threads are gone, but even then sometimes you find a use for one.
My laundry soap jugs go to the granary for stock tank floats.
Nesquick cans go to the shop for parts storage.
Aluminum cans go in the basement for use as a creosote build-up preventer.
We have about a dozen Valvoline oil jugs floating around the shop at work. I buy it by the gallon for my truck then we use them for motor oil, the boss gets it by the drum. We write "hyd" on it if we put hydraulic oil in it.
Trying to get every last 1/32 of tread worn off a tire can be done, but with the really cheap tires (think "goodyear wrangler radial") it doesn't pencil out. They won't hold a plug, so they get sent to town for patching, and if you add in just the time spent swapping the spare onto the truck, it doesn't take long to pay for a new set of good truck tires.
The boss' boy uses old twisted-up fence rods for lawn art for his mom. Old T-posts get used for making ramps for getting 4-wheelers onto/into trailers. They also work well for getting traction when a truck is stuck on ice or a pivot is stuck in the mud.
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