[Texan5]

Thanks! I can’t picture many big city kids figuring out how to move a hay bale or big salt block a few feet without a pallet jack or a forklift-do science classes still teach what mechanical advantage is, or how to use an object like a long branch as a fulcrum?

[Fiddlstix]

I know how I moved a lot of stuff around using make shift levers, block and tackle and what not.
I always thought of it as a problem to be solved and made a game of it.
I don't know what they are teaching these days.
But sure ain't like when I was in school back in the 40's

[squarebarb]

My husband (military) used to call this ‘field expedience’. Grab anything at hand to make something else work. Make a new tool on the spot. Remember where you are and where North is. Be able to know and identify one cow out of a hundred..and on and on.

Big difference from desk or book knowledge. Our ancestors in the remote steppes, the Indo Europeans, spoke a language a hundred times more complex than the one we speak now. And they couldn’t even read or write.

God, how did we ever survive?