Posted on 01/13/2017 4:09:04 PM PST by BBell
So?
I'd bet that MOST Amewricans do!
Mine spun a bearing on 495 (L.I.E.) one hot summer day. Rebuilt to spec.
You don’t come here for the hunting; do you...
Why would they be breaking into a museum?
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Although my tractor, various lawn mowers and a motorcycle or two...
I’ve found NOTHING that works to ‘train’ pet goats; to do ANYTHNG!
Well; rattling an empty potato chip bag WILL get them running from far out in the pasture to the barn.
Silly things NEVER figger out they’re being scammed once again.
Yes; a lot of us are self taught.
But remember; we grew up when things were actually FIXABLE!
Today it is economically incorrect to repair any complex thing that is broken.
At least most any shift they'd likely come across will NOT have straight cut gears!
(I'm sure a lot of us old coots learned how to shift gears with OUT using the clutch; right?)
I assure any boy that grew up South of Thibodaux, Louisiana knows how to hunt, fish, shoot, build a fire, shoot bad guys and survive.
VW vans had that long clutch cable, very prone to break. I carried a spare, of course, but I used to drive around for days (sometimes a week or more) without the clutch, until I felt like rolling around underneath to replace the cable.
I’ve taught a few people to drive clutchless as well. The problem is that for quite a few years now, everything has that safety switch so you can’t start the engine in gear. Still have to use the clutch from a dead stop (unless you bypass the switch), but then you’re OK. Parking so you can roll down a hill is another option.
And you’re right, synchro makes it a whole lot easier.
Aside from survival skills, there’s just basic housekeeping skills.
Many years ago one of the neighborhood girls, about 6 at the time, was watching me make mashed potatoes (through the kitchen door, and as I was at the stove doing them, she asked me what I was doing.
I told her I was making mashed potatoes.
Then she asked me, innocent as could be, with all sincerity, (quote) “Why don’t you make them the homemade way, in the microwave?” (I can still see this in my mind’s eye) and I said to her, “This is just a different kind of homemade way.”
And this had to be 20 years ago, easily.
So many kids these days lack any kind of skill in putting up food.
I learned to can and freeze from my mom and kept it up. Now I do canning and pressure canning and freeze what doesn’t can well.
Whenever we have turkey, I make soup out of the carcass and pressure can the meat and broth. It keeps way better than freezing it, don’t have to worry about power loss and losing the food. And any time someone wants a meal of turkey soup, I can grab a can off the shelf and throw in some veggies and *instant* fresh soup.
We could live months on what I have in my basement.
But when I tell people that I pressure can, their reaction is mostly *You can DO that?*
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