Friday, November 14, 2008

100 Skills Every Man Should Know

According to Popular Mechanics magazine there are 100 Skills that Every Man Should Know...let's see how many of them I know...

Automotive

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

Handling Emergencies

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

Home

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

Medical Myths

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

Military Know-How

Y 48. Shine shoes
N 49. Make a drum-tight bed
Y 50. Drop and give the perfect pushup

Outdoors

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

Primitive Skills

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

Surviving Extremes

Y 60. Floods
Y 61. Tornados
Y 62. Cold
Y 63. Heat
Y 64. Lightning

Teach Your Kids

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

Technology

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

Master Key Workshop Tools

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

83 out of 100...I guess I need to learn more skills.

4 comments:

Christina McCrery said...

I didn't see nunchuk skills, bow hunting skills or computer hacking skills. This list is WAAY off. I would definitely start with these three to add to your list of skills :)

Michael Johnson said...

Christina, I didn't make the list. :) If you come up with a list of skills you think every man should know I would be happy to see how many I have!

Christina McCrery said...

Michael, all one needs to do is watch Napolean Dynamite to find the answer to the skills question. He's pretty much got it down :)

Michael Johnson said...

Well he doesn't give a list of 100...but his list is a good one to live by.