Popular Mechanics’ 100 Skills Every Man Should Know

  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. Jumpstart a car
  10. Perform the Heimlich
  11. Reverse hypothermia
  12. Perform hands-only CPR
  13. Escape a sinking car
  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 the flag
  43. Treat frostbite
  44. Treat a burn
  45. Help a seizure victim
  46. Treat a snakebite
  47. Remove a tick
  48. Shine shoes
  49. Make a drum-tight bed
  50. Drop and give the perfect pushup
  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
  57. Build a fire in the wilderness
  58. Build a shelter
  59. Find potable water
  60. Survive floods
  61. Survive tornados
  62. Survive extreme cold
  63. Survive extreme heat
  64. Avoid Lightning
  65. Teach your kids to cast a line
  66. Teach your kids to lend a hand
  67. Teach your kids to change a tire
  68. Teach your kids to throw a spiral
  69. Teach your kids to fly a stunt kite
  70. Teach your kids to drive a stick shift
  71. Teach your kids to parallel park
  72. Teach your kids to tie a bowline
  73. Teach your kids to tie a necktie
  74. Teach your kids to whittle
  75. Teach your kids to ride a bike
  76. Install a graphics card
  77. Take the perfect portrait
  78. Calibrate HDTV settings
  79. Shoot a home movie
  80. Ditch your hard drive
  81. Master the Drill driver
  82. Master the grease gun
  83. Master the coolant hydrometer
  84. Master the socket wrench
  85. Master the test light
  86. Master the brick trowel
  87. Master the framing hammer
  88. Master the wood chisel
  89. Master the spade bit
  90. Master the circular saw
  91. Master the sledgehammer
  92. Master the hacksaw
  93. Master the torque wrench
  94. Master the air wrench
  95. Master the infrared thermometer
  96. Master the sandblaster
  97. Master the crosscut saw
  98. Master the hand plane
  99. Master the multimeter
  100. Master the feeler gauges

(via popularmechanics.com)

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