100 Skills Every Man Should Know: 2008's Ultimate DIY List

[natty bumppo 297]

Link to article

Brains and charm are fine, but a real guy needs to know how to do real stuff. After months of debate among PM’s expert editors, here’s our lineup of essential skills for the competent man.

Automotive

1. Handle a blowout

2. Drive in snow

3. Check trouble codes

4. Replace fan belt

5. Wax a car

6. Conquer an off-road obstacle

7. Use a stick welder

8. Hitch up a trailer

9. Jump-start a car

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

18. Remove bloodstains from fabric

19. Move heavy stuff

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

37. Fix a faucet cartridge

38. Sweat copper tubing

39. Change a diaper

40. Grill with charcoal

41. Sew a button on a shirt

42. Fold a flag

Medical

43. Treat frostbite

44. Treat a burn

45. Help a seizure victim

46. Treat a snakebite

47. Remove a tick

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

55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike

56. Escape a rip current

Survival

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 These 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

[DanielParul 50]

What about - keep your woman satisfied, most important

[DanielParul 50]

oops double post!!

Edited November 14, 2008 by DanielParul

[Jenn! 918]

Women should know how to do all those things too!

[doodlebugg 10]

There needs to be a bedroom list fo sho!

[Niels Bohr 72]

A real man should also know E-N-G-I-N-E-E-R-I-N-G-.

[Otto 83]

Fell a tree...? Uhm hasn't come up.

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

Fell a tree...? Uhm hasn't come up.

come on over, i'll give you a class.

[SteveLaura 0]

I have no idea why I personally would ever need to know how to fold a flag, make a drum-tight bed, shoot straight, run rapids, take a steep drop on a mountain bike or whittle. Why can't they make a Real Man list that includes things like busk a handful of Simon & Garfunkel tunes on a guitar, draw an Easter bunny freehand and make parmesan chicken nuggets?

[Jenn! 918]

Why can't they make a Real Man list that includes things like busk a handful of Simon & Garfunkel tunes on a guitar, draw an Easter bunny freehand and make parmesan chicken nuggets?

Those are on the special edition Real Hippie Man list.

Edited November 14, 2008 by Jenn!

[alienlovechild 75]

11. Reverse hypothermia

Treat hypothermia or just make someone hotter than they should be?

13. Escape a sinking car

Unless of course your mother-in-law was inside the car nagging you about getting a better view of the lake.

17. Home-brew beer

Shouldn't this go under the survival section?

74. Whittle

Who whittles beside Jed Clampett?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I think all men should all know how to win a bar room brawl, jump from a speeding car, foil the schemes of evil-doers and find the Lost Ark of the Covenant.

[SteveLaura 0]

Why can't they make a Real Man list that includes things like busk a handful of Simon & Garfunkel tunes on a guitar, draw an Easter bunny freehand and make parmesan chicken nuggets?

Those are on the special edition Real Hippie Man list.

"I have my books, and my poetry to protect me.."

[Jenn! 918]

"I have my books, and my poetry to protect me.."

[one...two...tree 2,762]

missing from the list:

- undoing a bra with just one hand...because if you end up using both, you've killed the moment.