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Old 10-06-2008, 05:43 AM   #19 (permalink)
PonyPotato
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Location: Ohio!
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


(YES, I can weld. And I'm pretty good at it.. even though I might need a refresher.)

Handling Emergencies
10. Perform the Heimlich
11. Reverse hypothermia

12. Perform hands-only CPR (not confident enough for this)
13. Escape a sinking car (does it count if I've never done it?)

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 I've worked in archaeology.. duh.
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
(I'm really good at this.. I have horses.)

Military Know-How
48. Shine shoes
49. Make a drum-tight bed
50. Drop and give the perfect pushup (Ask Crompsin.. I'm good.)

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 (I theoretically know how but haven't done it)

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

I guess I had a good old-fashioned childhood, because I learned most of these. I learn pretty quickly and tend to retain useful information, so I'm confident I can learn them all by the time I'm 30. Just have to go camping and build stuff.
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