jansman wrote:I think that is a VERY commendable list of skills.nickdutch wrote:Then we have very different priorities and very different skills.the-gnole wrote:So when the world has gone to hell in a hand cart and you need an extra skill apart from sailing you will use what?
I can strip and clean and re-assemble a number of Lee-Enfield bolt action rifles, stripping and assembly I do blindfold, but when it comes to making a wormery or when to plant my winter crops I tend to go look it up as it isn't something I am familiar with.
Although i am still learning food storage:
I can make a wormery and I know when to plant and harvest.
I can make a fire when needed.
I can assemble solar panels for space heating and electricity
(PV cells, but will also try and learn how to make PV cells from scratch chemicals and glass).
I know how to keep warm, feed myself economically and efficiently and how to make water.
I make my own bread in a frying pan (a round loaf not a pancake) at least 5 times a month, so that skill is sorted.
I can brew alcohol to distill.
I can create a woodgas stove from tins within a matter of minutes that means cooking is sorted and I have the right kind of pruners at hand all the time to make the pellets that are needed to work in a woodgas stove.
AND many more skills are at my disposal.
So chill out, if SHTF, i'll be fine skill wise without needing to go to a lending library.
We all have different skills,all useful to any community. We have to co-exist and cooperate. You can do what you do,I am a Slaughterman/Butcher. Some can strip and clean antiques.
One never stops learning.
Its because we all have different skills that I am trying to connect with people in my area (oxfordshire) so that we can work out who can specialize on what.
I am NOT a slaughterman / butcher, so if you were local I would want you in my group. i would have to get a good feel for the kill sizes you did and then to design a stove selection and cooking method that would work out best for the meat / veg / carbs / fruit etc and to make sure that the lighting technology was on form etc, that enough light could be provided to eat by at night thanks to solar and battery power and so on.
that way, one can design systems that fits in with the routine of ones life rather then over building or under building or wasting time and resources etc.