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RE: Required Skills - CharlesHarris - 6 October 2013
My take on this is that everyone should develop proficiency in starting a fire by more than one method, without matches, use an axe to cut firewood and to build a shelter. Use a knife to cut poles, split kindling, make small game and fish traps, clean fish, dress game.
Navigate with map and compass. Be able to establish direction using improvised methods, without a compass, walk a straight course to a landmark, diverting around terrain bsriers and returning to original course. Build a hide to shelter. Use of debris and natural insulation. Primitive fishing and trapping methods. Ground to air signals for rescue and IFF.
RE: Required Skills - Lanky Yankee - 6 October 2013
Gardening and farming methods. I'm bugging in so need to be able to produce food and right now i can abrely keep my house plants alive.
RE: Required Skills - Steve - 6 October 2013
I need to learn how to keep bees. Life is nicer with honey, it's also a useful wound treatment.
RE: Required Skills - Grumpy Grandpa - 7 October 2013
(5 October 2013, 19:04)Skean Dhude Wrote: What single skill, that you do not yet have, do you consider most critical to your prepping?
There are many areas in which I know what to do and even how to do it but lack current practice that would allow me say I have those skills up to date but the one area in which I really lack - and which is most crucial to me now - is the ability to persuade my wife to embrace preparedness particularly as, since my disability, she has controlled the purse strings - very tightly!
Those preparations I have been able to start, amount to, well, not a lot, when I can't put my grubby mitts on a bit of cash to even get started on just one week's supply for us. (Although I have been given an idea by a good friend on a way to at least get started...)
RE: Required Skills - Mortblanc - 7 October 2013
Anesthesiology and general surgery.
That and I want to run the steam train.
RE: Required Skills - Binnie - 7 October 2013
(5 October 2013, 23:23)Midnitemo Wrote: My most obvious defficiency(there are many)is my absolute lack of knowledge with plants and gardening/foraging....bought a recommended plant recognition book,taken it on a couple of woodland walks and i'm still none the wiser.
Yeah i'll add myself to that one too,
I've a long way to go with learning about wild ediibles