What useful old time skills do you have?

[threebikesmcginty]

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[ianrauk]

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[Fnaar]

I can say "do you want fries with that?", so I can open the first post-apocalypse fast food chain. You can pay using pebbles, and shiny ones are of particular value. A ratburger with cheese will cost 2 shiny ones and a dull brown one. If we find a cheesemaker. Otherwise I'll have to improvise, and you might not like that.

 

[TVC]

Yes please, I would like an explanation of the thremodynamic of a closed system.

Right then young lady, pull up a chair and be ready to take notes - there will be a test at the end.

 

[TVC]

I can say "do you want fries with that?", so I can open the first post-apocalypse fast food chain. You can pay using pebbles, and shiny ones are of particular value. A ratburger with cheese will cost 2 shiny ones and a dull brown one. If we find a cheesemaker. Otherwise I'll have to improvise, and you might not like that.

Will you also be selling badly packed kebabs?

 

[Dayvo]

After the hunter and gatherers, the shelter builders, the firemakers and cooks have returned to the camp, I can entertain and amuse them by burping the alphabet in one go.

 

[Arch]

Night Train and I, his apprentice, shall re-build our civilisation in a manner befitting of Fred Dibnah!

Rendevous, I suggest NRM? many tools and a full workshop that's bigger than NT's shed
that and we'd have some method of getting around as we could fire up one or two of the locos since no-one would care about health and safety and 'main-line certificates'

woop woop


I can also make a potato cannon out of a length of drainpipe and a pezo-electric lighter and a can of deoderant.

I'm liking your thinking!

Also, there are several rather nice Pullman and Sleeper coaches, so we'd have ready made living quarters.

Hmmm. Mad Max with steam trains!

 

[Andy_R]

I can make ice melt by staring at it. It takes a bit of time, but I can do it.

 

[TVC]

After the hunter and gatherers, the shelter builders, the firemakers and cooks have returned to the camp, I can entertain and amuse them by burping the alphabet in one go.

When we're ready to re-establish the golf courses we'll give you a shout

 

[TheDoctor]

I can make cheese. And milk a cow.
I also know how to brew booze and bake bread with ambient yeast.
There you go. Ploughmans lunch from scratch.

 

[Piemaster]

I can make cheese. And milk a cow.
I also know how to brew booze and bake bread with ambient yeast.
There you go. Ploughmans lunch from scratch.

Taken 9 pages of hunting and killing before anyone has come up with milking a cow. Though I'd presume a few would be capable of snaring one.
Anyone actually got any idea of how to farm? My experience is limited to watching WW2 farm.

 

[defy-one]

Reminded me. Milked cows in India on holiday. Drank cows milk fresh and warm from the pail. Driven tractors.
Alll usefull in 2012 UK

 

[Arch]

Taken 9 pages of hunting and killing before anyone has come up with milking a cow. Though I'd presume a few would be capable of snaring one.
Anyone actually got any idea of how to farm? My experience is limited to watching WW2 farm.

I think anyone with organic allotment/vegetable gardening experience would be able to work out crop rotation and so on. We'd probably have to rely less on wheat, and as F1 seed ran out, we'd have to save seed each year and results may become a little more variable.

Dairying would have to revert to a cottage level, with milk only available when a cow has a calf, and I think the intensive dairy breeds like Holsteins would die out eventually. Without refrigeration, we couldn't keep raw milk so well anyway - but making cheese and butter would preserve it.

Chickens would still lay eggs, and sheep, goats and pigs wouldn't be hard too to keep, especially older less intensive breeds. I reckon I could have a stab at it - especially with some useful books on hand.

 

[Night Train]

Taken 9 pages of hunting and killing before anyone has come up with milking a cow. Though I'd presume a few would be capable of snaring one.
Anyone actually got any idea of how to farm? My experience is limited to watching WW2 farm.

@Coffeejo can, I think!
Well, she can hug pigs, and balance chickens on her head...

 

[Piemaster]

Horses would be handy. Walking power plant for pulling a plough that runs on grass.
They are also made of meat.