Make fire. Regardless of conditions.

Things are always breaking around here and I have gotten pretty handy with my little welder. Oh, the welds hold up alright, but it looks like crap.

Always envied those that know how to really weld.

I desire more hand weapon skills, specifically short stick and knife. Also, I can do karate, but need a stronger inside game.

I recently began studying Filipino Kali (aka escrima/arnis), and can access all of the above and more. Eventually I'd like to move over to Aikido, but this looks perfect for the time being.

I'd also have to say welding. That seems to be a popular one.

High end carpentry, welding, machine shop skills, and one or two others.

I wish were a stronger swimmer. I enjoy being in the water and can swim/tread water enough to save my ass if I fell off of a bass boat but distance swimming not so much. I marvel a those that can do 50+ laps in the pool and get out no more winded than had they been walking on the tread mill that amount of time.

Maybe not in the manly column, but I'd like to play a musical instrument well enough to entertain people. My musical experience is limited to blowing the trumpet for a couple of years in Jr High band and I'm pretty good at air guitar.

Seems to be a theme in the thread but I wish I knew how to weld. I also wish I had more knowledge and confidence in home wiring.

I'm pretty decent at woodworking, but wish I could weld.

I can skin a buck and run a trot line... Grew up shooting, hunting, fishing, and cleaning all of the animals so that's solid from bream up to a deer and all in-between.

I can back a trailer like nobody's business. Had boats growing up and have pulled tons of trailers and I'm quite used to it. On the flip-side, I've never owned a manual transmission vehicle and am sketchy at best with a stick shift. If you're bleeding out, I can get you to an ER but it's going to be a bumpy ride.

I'd say plumbing is my weak point in home improvement. I'm getting better and more confident with electricity. I'm tentative with those things because they can both ruin a house when done wrong and one of them can even kill you.

Otherwise, I can build things just fine. Rough carpentry, especially. I've built a few more finished things and they've turned out pretty well but usually require more patience than I want to expend.

I'm dangerous as a mechanic thanks to youtube. I don't mind small fixes. I can do brakes or oil changes but typically choose not to. I saved myself $700 fixing an oil pressure sensor a few months ago. Small engines aren't bad, either. Don't mind tearing down a carb or something similar.

If I could add a skill it would definitely be welding. I don't know what all I'd weld... it would probably be more of a hobby than a necessity.

I would also like to pick up reloading at some point, though I don't actually shoot enough right now to make it worthwhile. My goal is to shoot shotguns enough to where it makes sense to reload shotgun shells.

I have the skills needed for shooting, hunting and fishing including after the kill like butchering, smoking and cooking the meat. My survival skills are good and I can drive a stick, back a trailer, growing a garden etc.

I can pretty much stumble through most things mechanical and projects requiring tools of some kind except plumbing. Any time I need to do a plumbing project I end up having to get more experienced help to do it right. Very frustrating. With the advent of Google and YouTube I can usually figure out how to do things I've never done before.....EXCEPT PUMBING!!

Some things I wish I could do is break into the 80s in golf, anything musical and PLUMBING!

Jim

Welding, again. Blacksmithing in general. I do minor versions of each at work everyday, shaping nickel plates on an anvil with a ball-peen, filing, dremeling and sanding before finish soldering for stability and clean appearance.

I desire the knowledge and ability to shape steel to my will. Removal methods, I'm fine on. Anything involving heating to shape or add, zero experience, but all the will in the world.

Field dressing and butchering for me too.

Backing a trailer is something I've just never been able to do. My nephew could do it when he was 10, not me.

Most things automotive beyond simple routine maintenance, although modern cars are so damn computerized that I think it's probably not worth trying to learn now.

Does "understanding women" count?

semaphore, morse code, lip reading, sign language, canning, and another language

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Originally posted by Expert308:

Does "understanding women" count?

The OP said "skills" not "miracles".

Flirting. I'm terrible at picking up cues and making conversation.

Golf. I really tried hard to learn, but I just stink.

Probably several that I need, but the one I wish I had the most is simply a good sense of direction. I'm blessed to be born in a time that has gps available from several sources.

If I were born in the 1800's, I'm certain I would have wandered off hunting never to be seen again.