Posted by Radd Icenoggle on September 29, 2008
Automotive
1. Handle a blowout
2. Drive in snow - Montana, duh! 3. Check trouble codes 4. Replace fan belt 5. Wax a car
6. Conquer an off-road obstacle - Once again, Montana, duh! 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 - Hmm, just a little bit 18. Remove bloodstains from fabric 19. Move heavy stuff - My calling in life 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 - safety, smafety 37. Fix a faucet cartridge 38. Sweat copper tubing 39. Change a diaper - God, let’s hope not 40. Grill with charcoal 41. Sew a button on a shirt 42. Fold a flag - That Boy Scout training coming in handy
Medical Myths
43. Treat frostbite
44. Treat a burn
45. Help a seizure victim 46. Treat a snakebite - Don’t suck the venom 47. Remove a tick - Even from the change purse.
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 - Montana, duh! 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
Source: Popular Mechanics
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