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Old 10-05-2008, 07:22 PM   #1 (permalink)
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100 Skills Everyone Should Know

Popular Mechanics has posted a list of 100 Skills that every Man should have.

I am going to ignore the gender specificity of their article and ask the TFP of all genders... how many of these skill are in your repertoire?

(I have bolded the ones I can do)

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
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