The top 100 DIY skills every man should know

[Wheezer]

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Automotive
1. Handle a blowout
2. Drive in snow
3. Check trouble codes
4. Replace fan belt
5. Wax a car
6. Conquer an off-road obstacle
7. Use a stick welder
8. Hitch up a trailer
9. Jump start a car

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

Home
14. Carve a turkey
15. Use a sewing machine
16. Put out a fire
17. Home brew beer
18. Remove bloodstains from fabric
19. Move heavy stuff
20. Grow food
21. Read an electric meter
22. Shovel the right way
23. Solder wire
24. Tape drywall
25. Split firewood
26. Replace a faucet washer
27. Mix concrete
28. Paint a straight line
29. Use a French knife
30. Prune bushes and small trees
31. Iron a shirt
32. Fix a toilet tank flapper
33. Change a single-pole switch
34. Fell a tree
35. Replace a broken windowpane
36. Set up a ladder, safely
37. Fix a faucet cartridge
38. Sweat copper tubing
39. Change a diaper
40. Grill with charcoal
41. Sew a button on a shirt
42. Fold a flag

Medical Myths
43. Treat frostbite
44. Treat a burn
45. Help a seizure victim
46. Treat a snakebite
47. Remove a tick

Military Know-How
48. Shine shoes
49. Make a drum-tight bed
50. Drop and give the perfect pushup

Outdoors
51. Run rapids in a canoe
52. Hang food in the wild
53. Skipper a boat
54. Shoot straight
55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike
56. Escape a rip current

Primitive Skills
57. Build a fire in the wilderness
58. Build a shelter
59. Find potable water

Surviving Extremes
60. Floods
61. Tornados
62. Cold
63. Heat
64. Lightning

Teach Your Kids
65. Cast a line
66. Lend a hand
67. Change a tire
68. Throw a spiral
69. Fly a stunt kite
70. Drive a stick shift
71. Parallel park
72. Tie a bowline
73. Tie a necktie
74. Whittle
75. Ride a bike

Technology
76. Install a graphics card
77. Take the perfect portrait
78. Calibrate HDTV settings
79. Shoot a home movie
80. Ditch your hard drive

Master Key Workshop Tools
81. Drill driver
82. Grease gun
83. Coolant hydrometer
84. Socket wrench
85. Test light
86. Brick trowel
87. Framing hammer
88. Wood chisel
89. Spade bit
90. Circular saw
91. Sledge hammer
92. Hacksaw
93. Torque wrench
94. Air wrench
95. Infrared thermometer
96. Sand blaster
97. Crosscut saw
98. Hand plane
99. Multimeter
100. Feeler gauges

 

[OdiN]

18. Remove bloodstains from fabric

:Q

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: OdiN
18. Remove bloodstains from fabric

:Q

Ever hurt yourself working?

 

[Wheezer]

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: OdiN
18. Remove bloodstains from fabric

:Q

Ever hurt yourself working?

don't be too judgemental...isn't that one of the jobs for a woman?

 

[Baked]

How the fuck do you survive a lightning strike?

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: OdiN
18. Remove bloodstains from fabric

:Q

Ever hurt yourself working?

Yeah but that ususally means blood on cement. I can't think of something where I would injure myself that badly to get blood on fabric.

But overall I just don't do stupid things so mostly I don't injure myself.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Baked
How the fuck do you survive a lightning strike?

Surviving lightning storms, not a fucking lightning strike, you shitface.

 

[Sphexi]

I agree with the automotive ones except using a stick welder. Seriously, if something in your engine compartment has busted off, who's going to have welding equipment with them to fix it? That's more something for the professionals.

Edit:

Honestly, I've done most of the stuff on this list since I've grown up. A few I haven't but I could if necessary. Now I realize that all those Saturday mornings I was being tortured by my father, forced to follow him around while he fixed stuff, apparently was for good reason.

:thumbsup: to dads

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: Sphexi
I agree with the automotive ones except using a stick welder. Seriously, if something in your engine compartment has busted off, who's going to have welding equipment with them to fix it? That's more something for the professionals.

You obviously don't own a 4x4

I was just at a friends place putting a lift kit on and he is making custom engine mounts. Also I'm going to weld an extension onto my t-case shifter.

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Baked
How the fuck do you survive a lightning strike?

Surviving lightning storms, not a fucking lightning strike, you shitface.

Pfff, well that's just common sense then. Don't stand in wide open space and high grounds during a t storm. That's no man's list. I bet chuck norris can survive a lightning strike.

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: Sphexi
I agree with the automotive ones except using a stick welder. Seriously, if something in your engine compartment has busted off, who's going to have welding equipment with them to fix it? That's more something for the professionals.

You obviously don't own a 4x4

I was just at a friends place putting a lift kit on and he is making custom engine mounts. Also I'm going to weld an extension onto my t-case shifter.

No I don't, and I'm not arguing the need for some guys to know this, but for EVERY guy? It's more like, "Something you should have a good friend who knows" kind of a thing.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Baked
How the fuck do you survive a lightning strike?

Surviving lightning storms, not a fucking lightning strike, you shitface.

Pfff, well that's just common sense then. Don't stand in wide open space and high grounds during a t storm. That's no man's list. I bet chuck norris can survive a lightning strike.

There are a handful of people who have been hit by lightning multiple times.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: Sphexi

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: Sphexi
I agree with the automotive ones except using a stick welder. Seriously, if something in your engine compartment has busted off, who's going to have welding equipment with them to fix it? That's more something for the professionals.

You obviously don't own a 4x4

I was just at a friends place putting a lift kit on and he is making custom engine mounts. Also I'm going to weld an extension onto my t-case shifter.

No I don't, and I'm not arguing the need for some guys to know this, but for EVERY guy? It's more like, "Something you should have a good friend who knows" kind of a thing.

Yeah

I am not a very good welder. I just know people who are.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Where the hell is navigate and read a map?

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Baked
How the fuck do you survive a lightning strike?

Surviving lightning storms, not a fucking lightning strike, you shitface.

Pfff, well that's just common sense then. Don't stand in wide open space and high grounds during a t storm. That's no man's list. I bet chuck norris can survive a lightning strike.

There are a handful of people who have been hit by lightning multiple times.

Sucks for them. And they must have been doing something wrong if they've been hit multiple times.

 

[IronWing]

31. Iron a shirt

The list is a lie! Don't fall for it men!

 

[her209]

Survive a gunshot wound to the chest area.

 

[EGGO]

Of all the stuff I see there that I could do and see things that I disagree you need to know, I don't see how to use a compass and map or road atlas or even how to drive stick. Actually, I learned a lot of that stuff when I worked as a laborer so I'm good.

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Where the hell is navigate and read a map?

Indeed. That's a heck of a lot more important than knowing how to sew a button on a shirt.

 

[imported_apocalypse]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Where the hell is navigate and read a map?

Real men navigate by scent.

 

[Bignate603]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: Sphexi
I agree with the automotive ones except using a stick welder. Seriously, if something in your engine compartment has busted off, who's going to have welding equipment with them to fix it? That's more something for the professionals.

You obviously don't own a 4x4

I was just at a friends place putting a lift kit on and he is making custom engine mounts. Also I'm going to weld an extension onto my t-case shifter.

Most guys I know don't do stick welding on their 4x4s, usually they use wire feed.

There's some things I don't agree with. Knowing how to fly a stunt kite? Probably not something I would think is absolutely important to teach my kids. No setting up a wireless network in the tech sections is a big omission too.

 

[Squisher]

After reading that list I feel like Big Man on Campus. Funny, because there are so many that intimidate me with their knowledge. I'm just a small fish in a big pond.

 

[JTsyo]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Baked
How the fuck do you survive a lightning strike?

Surviving lightning storms, not a fucking lightning strike, you shitface.

Pfff, well that's just common sense then. Don't stand in wide open space and high grounds during a t storm. That's no man's list. I bet chuck norris can survive a lightning strike.

There are a handful of people who have been hit by lightning multiple times.

Sucks for them. And they must have been doing something wrong if they've been hit multiple times.

High iron diets?

 

[Hyperlite]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Where the hell is navigate and read a map?

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