Can you....???

[Just Sayin']

There are many skills that we might need if things get really bad. I'm sure that most of us have identified the major ones as well as some of the more minor skills needed to get by either in everyday living or survival mode. Unfortunately though, you cannot learn a skill, if you don't know you need it.

So pose your question here, but remember, I'm only looking for the skill set, not the actual knowledge of how to do it. If you know of a link that does a really good job of providing the information, by all means please include it. This is just to get us thinking about what we don't know, or have overlooked.

So, can you...deliver a breech baby goat or calf...(or human baby)?

[Coppertop]

Can you identify and use the plants in your area?

[Just Sayin']

Can you... Give an IM (intra-muscular) shot or a Sub Q (subcutaneous, under the skin) shot?

[pheniox17]

Can you fight a bush fire with no water

[omegabrock]

can you stay warm in winter without electricity?
cool in summer?

edited: including your family

[Smokin04]

Can you make your own alcohol?

[Sparkyprep]

Can you catch fish? And, I don't mean "fishing" where you sit around all day and just catch a buzz. Can you catch fish like your life depended on it?

[Just Sayin']

Can you tie at least 10 RECOGNIZED knots and know what theirs uses are?

I had to put that in there, my wife can tie hundreds, but no two are the same.

[Montana Rancher]

Can you sharpen a knife?

Here is a youtube Video I posted a year ago with some tips, this adds to my half million hits on instructional videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28nuuXVoBSQ

I love teaching though I get a bit long winded.

[pheniox17]

Can you trouble shoot

[pheniox17]

Can you fight a bush fire with no water

A expansion on this, can you use Bush fires as a weapon?? (Don't recommend it tho)

Sorry about the references but we are at the start of bushfire (wildfire) season now, and within 2 weeks locally we have had 2 group level fires, (that means local station has called for lots of trucks) and school holidays are next week...

[Infidel]

Can you hunt and process your own meat?

-Infidel

[Baglady]

Can you... Give an IM (intra-muscular) shot or a Sub Q (subcutaneous, under the skin) shot?Yep. Good topic buddy.

[Baglady]

Can you identify poisonous snakes?

[RWalls]

Can you catch fish? And, I don't mean "fishing" where you sit around all day and just catch a buzz. Can you catch fish like your life depended on it?

I been known to.
777

[RWalls]

Can you identify poisonous snakes?

I hope so.
Banded water
778
Juvenile copperhead
779
Adult copperhead
781
Hognose
782
King snake
783

[Arklatex]

Can you grow and store your own produce?

[Arklatex]

Can you collect water and make it potable?

[Just Sayin']

Can you trouble shoot

Can you shoot trouble?

[OSFG]

Can you harness the power of air and or water and use it to drive your processes. Just like it was done in years gone by, before engines and electricity?


Can you re purpose things to make them work...i.e. Water heater being heated and maintained by fire. Hot water being made via running water lines around stove pipes. Using one thing for another purpose. Thats what I'm good at....I'm a jerry riggin mo fo.

[Infidel]

I hope so.
Banded water
778
Juvenile copperhead
779
Adult copperhead
781
Hognose
782
King snake
783

I'm not bothering to identify them, my father always said the only good snake is a dead snake. I tend to agree, I have a strict shoot first ask questions later policy with snakes.

-Infidel

[Just Sayin']

Can you eat a snake?

[Just Sayin']

Off topic...

Have you ever seen a 6 foot copperhead? I have although I didn't believe my wife until I got home...it was a monster... a very dead monster

[Arklatex]

That would be a world record copperhead.

[Just Sayin']

Kid you not, got a picture of it somewhere, I'm 5'7" holding it head high and there's still plenty of tail touching the ground. The head was pretty messed up from my wife shooting it several times with a .38 special. She didn't like it in our yard!

Edit: The reason I'm the one holding the snake in the picture is she wouldn't...lol

[Just Sayin']

Can you climb a rope up a horizontal face, or rappel down one?

[RWalls]

Can you eat a snake?

After you clean it!

http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/09/16/5d4f00af796c80a4a3eafdaaaea6c8ad.jpg

[Just Sayin']

After you clean it!

http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/09/16/5d4f00af796c80a4a3eafdaaaea6c8ad.jpg

Tastes like chicken...lol

[RWalls]

Tastes like chicken...lol

More like alligator.

[Just Sayin']

More like alligator.

Which tastes like chicken...LOL

[1moretoy]

Blackened gator...'mmm

[Just Sayin']

I like 'gator. Prejean's in Lafayette has some good stuff.

[1moretoy]

Fish-n-pig in Macon has some good blackened gator

[Just Sayin']

It's imported 'gator...

Kinda like fresh seafood in Memphis!

LOL

But if I ever get there, I'll be sure to try it!

[RWalls]

Fish-n-pig in Macon has some good blackened gator

I eat there whenever I pass thru.

[1moretoy]

I eat there whenever I pass thru.

It's kinda neat how the owners of two totally different types of eateries merging into one.

[Just Sayin']

Sounds like a good idea for a road trip!