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You left out pliers!
Universally acceptable at virtually all levels of maintenance and repair work, pliers are indispensible. And if you need to keep the list to ten, just include the pliers and forget the wire... with pliers you can get all the wire you need!
As did Eldred Norman, infamous racer of the fifties. Stuck in a bog on a lonely NSW road, he used pliers to cut the nearby fence, then he used the pliers to tie the wire once he'd caught the cow he was going to hitch up to the car to tow him out of the bog....
And then he used them again to cut some more wire when that didn't work, hooking it to a plug lead and wrapping it around one of the cow's horns...
Shame he couldn't use the pliers to get the cow out from between the trees where it jammed itself when it got him out of the bog, but he did use them to cut the wire free again.
Another use for pliers is in conjunction with sockets... but I have to illustrate this by including snow in the equation.
John O'Brien, Clubman racer in Sydney in the seventies, was caught in the snow in Victoria after moving there in the eighties. He had no snow chains and was on a deserted road. His pregnant wife was with him.
He cut the fencing wire, as is always necessary, and used sockets as he wove up a set of snow chains with the sockets providing the necessary bulk.
He finished up with a lot of rusty sockets, but he, his wife, and his baby, are alive.
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