100 Skills Every Man Should Know

Donasay · 10-09-2008, 01:34 AM

From Popular Mechanics:
100 Skills Every Man Should Know â€“ DIY Advice - Popular Mechanics

Read the list count em up and answer the poll. It is the damn blood stains and knowing how to use a sewing machine that got me.... Grrr.

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

**shecky** · 10-09-2008, 01:36 AM

How is use a sewing machine above home brew beer?

M@! · 10-09-2008, 01:41 AM

Other then the sewing stuff I think I almost spot on.

gplutt · 10-09-2008, 01:45 AM

Is this the Robert Heinlein list?

Edit: Sorry, I just read a bit more, no Heinlein

**Borisbbadd** · 10-09-2008, 01:46 AM

I know enough of them to be dangerous !!!

Slappy White · 10-09-2008, 01:48 AM

I was pretty proud of myself

**olllllo** · 10-09-2008, 01:59 AM

I'm not man enough to SURVIVE lightning, but I'm smart enough to avoid it.

lapaglia · 10-09-2008, 01:59 AM

No the Heinlein list was better. I am a Eagle Scout. Between that and what my father taught me I hit 94 of the 100. I raised my kids to be able to do all 100. These are skills everyone should work on.

**truckmann** · 10-09-2008, 02:06 AM

Well I don't have kids yet, but everything else I have either done or know how to do.

**Brooklyn-Brewtality** · 10-09-2008, 02:08 AM

I can do 93. Not bad.... missed all of the ones like sewing, ironing, make your bed, etc