What useful old time skills do you have?

[MontyVeda]

so... after 8 pages... you're all fecking useless, apart from Arch, who can make a belt out of an old tyre, which means when the end is nigh, our pants will stay up... is that good?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 2109810, member: 76"]Well between us Mort I don't see the need for the rest of these hangers on. Come the Apocalypse we'll be sorted mate.[/quote]

Me and Fnaar AKA Shaggy and Scooby are gonna come after your sorry arses, we'll be tooled up with Billy bookcases and arm chuffs.

 

[penguinking9]

I've a few good books on herbs and their uses, also a fairly comprehensive collection of Home Farmer and Country Smallholding magazines and books by John Seymour. Plus masses of other assorted books on a ridiculously wide range of subjects.

Could come in handy

I mean it. If we're not going to save my library I'm not going to paint the cave.

(oook!)

 

[Arch]

[QUOTE 2109836, member: 76"]Hmmm, well OK, one person who can knit as well. Then that's it! Drawbridge up. Fighting, hammocks, chutney and a tank-top, that's the essentials covered. Apart from the cheese.

We'll need a hell of a compound. Is Waco back on the market? It'll be quite cheap, what with the slight fire damage.[/quote]


Let NT in as well, and he can make good the structural stuff, and make chairs for AP to re-cane....

I reckon between us on this thread we've got it all covered. Anyone without specific skills, well, we need labour. And there's always a need for an entertainer or two.

BTW, I've watched enough editions of Countryfile to have a basic understanding of how cheese works, and with PenguinKing's library, we're good to go.

Hmm, this wasn't meant to end up as a roll call for the post-apocalypse, but it seems to have turned out that way!

 

[Night Train]

so... after 8 pages... you're all fecking useless, apart from Arch, who can make a belt out of an old tyre, which means when the end is nigh, our pants will stay up... is that good?

Am I?

I guess I won't be sharing dung methane, sanitary arrangements, food, power, shelter, tools, metal and woodwork, etc with you then.

I guess I'll be the one pulling up the drawbridge I built with the winch I made....

 

[subaqua]

I can fish with a basic line. gut and cook fish. same for rabbits and poultry. i suppose same principles apply on a larger scale for lareger animals.

shelter building is easy with a bit of common sense and application- the best day we had as a family at Eden was on the den building day. it was down to the kids to design and tell us adults what to do. when the Eden events team came amnd looked they saiud we had cheated as i must have built it as it was really good. my daughter then aged 9 told them to stop being silly as it was her who came up with the ideas and methods as her daddy had taught her how to build good shelters years ago ( which i had as playing with her "in the wild") she can gut fish too but gets a bit squemish doing it.

growing plants for food is a pain in the arris but we do it in tubs in the back yard and get a good crop of toms peppers carrots and sprouts each year.
weapons are fairly easy to make but i am not happy teaching my kids how to just yet !!
I can lead people too bujt would be happy to be a doer rather than a thinker if civilisationj collapsed.

 

[TVC]

I have a degree in Engineering so if ever anyone needs to work out the thremodynamic performance of a closed system or calculate the torsional stiffness of a complex beam then I can be the go-to guy.


I'm pretty good at plumbing too, which in recent years has proved more useful to me than a degree in Engineering.

 

[al78]

Let NT in as well, and he can make good the structural stuff, and make chairs for AP to re-cane....

I reckon between us on this thread we've got it all covered. Anyone without specific skills, well, we need labour. And there's always a need for an entertainer or two.

I can do that. Just tell/show me what to do and I'll happily get on with it.

 

[Arch]

I can do that. Just tell/show me what to do and I'll happily get on with it.

Excellent!

See that kettle over there? Could you fill it with water, and get some tea on please?

 

[Milo]

I have a copy of Beetons book of house management. At least we will know how one should treat the house staff in times of economy. Not to mention sponge pudding all round. If we have any hands left between us that is.

 

[Black Sheep]

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

Well, we seem to be a pretty hardy bunch!

Maybe we ought to arrange a rendezvous location now, and all make our way there in the event of An Event.

I think I feel pretty confident that NT and I could survive in terms of food and drink and shelter and stuff if we were in medieval or stone age conditions, especially in a small community of like minded people. What I fear more in the the breakdown of modern 'civilisation' is the initial period of chaos, when the bullies take over, and use force to get the stuff they need. Chances are they'll only think short term (grab all the supplies in shops and warehouses and protect them with guns), but in the process, they could well do a lot of damage to those of us who just need to get through that time and settle in for the long run.

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

 

[Speicher]

I have a degree in Engineering so if ever anyone needs to work out the thremodynamic performance of a closed system or calculate the torsional stiffness of a complex beam then I can be the go-to guy.


I'm pretty good at plumbing too, which in recent years has proved more useful to me than a degree in Engineering.

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

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 2110138, member: 259"]Strange. Surely there must be at least one economist out there?[/quote]

I can spout made up bollocks, so I could be the economist.

 

[ianrauk]

I spout bollocks

FTFY

 

[MontyVeda]

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

I can throw a potato... less impressive than your method but a lot less faff and infinitely quicker.