100 Skills Every Man Should Know

[skyking]

Stuff I have not done yet.



Handling Emergencies
10. Perform the Heimlich
11. Reverse hypothermia
12. Perform hands-only CPR
13. Escape a sinking car

Home

17. Home brew beer




42. Fold a flag

Medical Myths

44. Treat a burn

46. Treat a snakebite


Military Know-How

49. Make a drum-tight bed


Outdoors

52. Hang food in the wild

55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike


Primitive Skills

59. Find potable water

Surviving Extremes
60. Floods

62. Cold
63. Heat
64. Lightning






Master Key Workshop Tools

95. Infrared thermometer

 

[IronWing]

My list of never dones/don't know how to do:

Courtsey of Popular Mechanics..

Automotive
3. Check trouble codes
5. Wax a car
7. Use a stick welder

Handling Emergencies

Home
17. Home brew beer
24. Tape drywall
39. Change a diaper

Medical Myths

Military Know-How
50. Drop and give the perfect pushup

Outdoors

Primitive Skills

Surviving Extremes

Teach Your Kids
68. Throw a spiral

Technology
78. Calibrate HDTV settings

Master Key Workshop Tools

 

[skyking]

you've got some stories to tell! escape a sinking car?

 

[IronWing]

you've got some stories to tell! escape a sinking car?

Fixed my wording.

Anyway, to escape a sinking car what you do is shift your weight in the car so that the front aims downward. But don't remove your seatbelt as that would be dangerous. When the nose of the car impacts the bottom of the water body, the airbags will deploy, floating the car back to the surface where you should remain in your seat awaiting rescue.

 

[skyking]

Fixed my wording.

HEhe.

I have performed cpr, just not the hands only kind. It was the olden days of CPR.

 

[IronWing]

HEhe.

I have performed cpr, just not the hands only kind. It was the olden days of CPR.

Me too. It actually really sucks to do on a real live dead person.

 

[skyking]

Me too. It actually really sucks to do on a real live dead person.

There is not shit about that. Last time it was me pops, and it did not work

 

[Fox5]

How about I just focus on being really good at a few things and make lots of money with my time instead?

 

[skyking]

How about I just focus on being really good at a few things and make lots of money with my time instead?

You're all good man. I just grew up in a different era and place. On the farm in the 60's and 70's, I had done all the mechanics and shop skills stuff by the time I was 16. I was falling trees when I was 14.

 

[Arcadio]

I would add:

-Locate and name major constellations, stars, and planets in the night sky at any given day.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I've done most of those things.

 

[IronWing]

Read a map
Buy feminine hygiene products when asked
Work a washing machine
Hit the toilet
Be polite to fat chicks
Do your own taxes
Estimate distances/volumes/areas
Replace a doorknob
Use a command line interface
Use a two way radio, enter frequencies and tones

 

[DrPizza]

Fixed my wording.

Anyway, to escape a sinking car what you do is shift your weight in the car so that the front aims downward. But don't remove your seatbelt as that would be dangerous. When the nose of the car impacts the bottom of the water body, the airbags will deploy, floating the car back to the surface where you should remain in your seat awaiting rescue.

I just sprayed coffee all over my monitor. :thumbsup:

My deficits: I don't own an air wrench (although I know how to use one.) I just haven't gotten around to purchasing one. I also don't own a sand blaster. I'm a little unsure of what they mean by the steep slope with a mountain bike - how steep? I don't know how to fold a flag (the right way) without looking at the directions again. But, I could run a proper electric circuit to install a small spotlight outside to keep it lit at night, avoiding to have to take it down. I've never home brewed beer. Does hard cider count? "Find potable water" - If it can be found, I can find it, but it's not always able to be found, and there are never guarantees. I can treat water though (and have on numerous occasions.)
"Check trouble codes" - easy, I just go to Autozone. The emergency things - I know how to do, but haven't needed to do them. Just about everything else, I've done.

To whoever said "change a video card, that's easy!" I can't see anything on that list that's more technical. They're all easy (to know how to do) although things like waxing a car, changing a belt, require a tiny bit more labor, which you should be able to handle if you can do a pushup.

Starting a fire: Trident if you lived near me, I'd bet that with a lighter, you couldn't go out into the woods right now and start a fire within 1 hour. There's a foot of snow on the ground. If you needed a fire to survive, you'd probably be doomed. Any idiot can start a fire in the right conditions ("warning! High forest fire risk today"), but if there's any dampness at all, most people wouldn't succeed in a reasonable amount of time, even with a lighter. Hell, I'll give you a propane torch on a rainy day & bet you couldn't start a fire.

 

[olds]

<-- Never brewed beer or heard of a french knife.

 

[IronWing]

<-- Never ... heard of a french knife.

It has a dull tip so you don't cut your tongue.

 

[MadAmos]

39. Change a diaper
53. Skipper a boat
55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike

These are my never done or don't know how. I have been a master automotive mechanic, truck driver and now a mechanical maintenance instructor at a Nuclear power plant, oh and I grew up on a dairy farm in Northern WI.

 

[ussfletcher]

17. Home brew beer - I understand all of the steps involved, but haven't done it (similar to a sinking car)

21. Read an electric meter - what kind of meter?

35. Replace a broken windowpane - never had to do this, and don't see it ever coming up

42. Fold a flag - I'm pretty sure I can fold anything within reason, but they probably mean a special way. Youtube ftw?

70. Drive a stick shift - I've never driven a car with stick shift, but I have driven other vehicles

72. Tie a bowline - ??

100. Feeler gauges - Never heard of this.

 

[Malak]

Pretty sure I can do 98 of them. Home brewing beer is stupid and I don't know what whittling is.

 

[ViviTheMage]

I think women and men alike so know this stuff...

 

[Wyndru]

List is missing "open a beer bottle with eye socket", or a lighter if your slightly less of a man.

 

[vi edit]

So a french knife is just a kitchen knife? Why not just call it that? I've done or could do most except sand blast and the sewing machine but I have a wife for the later.

 

[tcsenter]

100. Feeler gauges - Never heard of this.

Its a gauge to see how well you feel up the boobz.

AKA gap guages, to check the gap between spark plugs or points on old-school condenser ignition systems, or to measure/check the distance between any two points or parts (rarely required these days). Unlike round wire gaps typically used to gap plugs, feeler gauges are always flat spring steel.

So a french knife is just a kitchen knife? Why not just call it that? I've done or could do most except sand blast and the sewing machine but I have a wife for the later.

Its a Chef's Knife (e.g. 8" or 10"), not just any kitchen knife.

 

[coxmaster]

I am surprised that I know how to/have done a large majority of those..

I guess helping around the house and boy scouts actually helped quite a bit

 

[IronWing]

Pretty sure I can do 98 of them. Home brewing beer is stupid and I don't know what whittling is.

Whittling is where you use a knife to turn bigger sticks into smaller sticks.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Erm...what is the point of learning to drive in snow...in a place where it never snows? If the world goes all Day-after-Tomorrow on me, I think I have more pressing issues to worry about than driving in snow.