Relevant Experience.

Red Neck Hughie

Any hope of maybe arranging people according to - or getting them to declare their relevant experience? Kildare .17hmr I reckon would make a good go to for hunting info for example. Grizzly 45 seems to know his meds well. Just a thought.
Well done on the forum Jonjo.

Grizzly 45

I'll show you mine if you show me yours!!:D:D:D
And it will be a pretty looong post.

kildare.17hmr

some of the longest posts in the hunting section are from grizzly! Interesting reading tho, most of the time:D

Grizzly 45

But thats because I've stood on giants shoulders and am still learning.[Like today I learnt how to make vaseline fire starter.I was using lint or charcloth.] I've been into survivalism for over 30 years now,and long before it was ever considerd or even thought of in Ireland except as some quaint American oddity or somthing for aspiring DJs to make their name on in controversial lamb killing[very lamb or hamfisted and time consuming] on pouplar radio shows.:rolleyes::rolleyes:
So,what I have in knowledge I'll gladly share,and I hope to learn alot as well.
Best
Grizzly 45.

Tigger

i read this



when i was 10 i changed my views on a lot of things from then on

its the excellent "how to survive a nuclear war" irish civil defence publication 1965

i remain ready as best i can since then and i reckoned that knowledge was the easiest thing to carry so i made it my business

Grizzly 45

Havent seen a copy of that in Yonks!!:D That is a great cold war heirloom.

krissovo

I am a ex British Army survival instructor with a small bit of experience in escape and evasion. Spent around 15 years in the regular Army (not special forces) and did practice survival often enough.

Left the Army nearly 10 years ago and still twice a year live off the land for a few weekends in full survival mode but plenty of other opportunities working on skills outside of these weekends.

meathstevie

Just a humble public servant. Very interested in hunting, somewhat practical minded in general and I know that you won't last any amount of time without water, heat, shelter and food.

ch750536

Software engineer. I can write an app where you run around collecting virtual berries to stem the virtual hunger.
Oh, can fish quite well and once lived in a tent for a year (including a solitary 7 day spell in the desert).
Good knowledge of what to eat & how from the waters.

kildare.17hmr

your gonna have to explain the year in the tent lad!

mrbig

I'm just a typical redneck from Meath, alot of people around me are fairly self sufficient too keeping chickens growing stuff in poly tunnels etc.
we already have to survive on our own water supply , water treatment , log fired , stove,back up generator etc. why not go the whole hog and call it survivalism
I am also a control and automation engineer, that might not be much use in the apocalypse but it could be useful in a regular emergency.:)

ch750536

kildare.17hmr wrote: »

your gonna have to explain the year in the tent lad!

I travelled a lot when I was younger, part of that was 14 months in Australia. Didn't like the usual behaviour of staying in the cities so bought a tent and lived in that for the rest of the year. Was much closer to a unique ecosystem and thoroughly enjoyed it. Pretty much covered all the interesting spots in the following year.

The 7 solitary days in the desert was especially good, was in SA and waiting for the work to kick in at the vineyards. Ants became my best friends and are truly awesome creatures. After 7 days rolled back into town and pretty much loved everyone. Was an amazing feeling.

slammer187

I used to do a bit of knife making

kildare.17hmr

slammer187 wrote: »

I used to do a bit of knife making

good skill that

Tackleberrywho

slammer187 wrote: »

I used to do a bit of knife making

Trying to make one myself at the mo.
Hope to have a blade soon, Have a nice bit of Antler for a handle.
I was thinking Leather from a forse Saddle to make a scabbard.

I have lots of bought knives.
I would like my own knife as it adds character to the knife knowing you made it yourself.

In regards to survival, I can cook meat in a mauri style oven, boil water in an old plastic discarded bottle. I can make traps for fish, and I do enjoy some pine needle tea from time to time.

Red Neck Hughie

15 odd years in construction so I'm good with my hands, doing a degree in Renewable Electrical Energy generation atm, it ties in very well with a survivalist mindframe.

eth0

Red Neck Hughie wrote: »

15 odd years in construction so I'm good with my hands, doing a degree in Renewable Electrical Energy generation atm, it ties in very well with a survivalist mindframe.

Where you doing that degree lad?

Red Neck Hughie

eth0 wrote: »

Where you doing that degree lad?

limerick IT. I'm in 3rd yr now. Gives a good broad intro to renewables, electrical and electronics, automation/control, unfortunately not an engineering degree so I'm not convinced about job prospects after.

eth0

Yea well we're all kind of in the same boat sure i have an engineering degree and nobody wants to give me a job either.

Was at a career fair today and things were fairly bleak

ajhalpin

Know a bit about comms. Had various Ham radios over the years. Never got licenced tho.

Misty Moon

I know a bit about the domestic side of things (preserving food and such) but that's about it so far. I can knit but am still trying to figure darning out. Also still waiting to meet a friend who likes camping and would be willing to show me the ropes. I've only done luxury camping up to now - you know, the kind where the car won't be more than a few minutes walk away so you bring your air mattress and a duvet rather than a sleeping bag.

I did pick up a great book called The Ashley Book of Knots a while back to try and teach myself some of that. Oh how I wish my parents had let me join the brownies when I was younger.

kildare.17hmr

Misty Moon wrote: »

I know a bit about the domestic side of things (preserving food and such) but that's about it so far. I can knit but am still trying to figure darning out. Also still waiting to meet a friend who likes camping and would be willing to show me the ropes. I've only done luxury camping up to now - you know, the kind where the car won't be more than a few minutes walk away so you bring your air mattress and a duvet rather than a sleeping bag.

I did pick up a great book called The Ashley Book of Knots a while back to try and teach myself some of that. Oh how I wish my parents had let me join the brownies when I was younger.

never too late to learn!

Doc Ruby

Just a countryman, now urbanised, who's done a little travelling. I grew up in the backwoods of Connemara where my father showed me a lot of ways and tricks most people have forgotten.

slowburner

Just an urban man, now ruralised Spent a good while in Connemara too.
No real experience in 'proper' survivalist things but I've always had a fascination with older country crafts right from the day when a wise old man showed me how to trap rats with hair from a horse's tail.
As I'm sure I've said before here, there are a lot of folk who have forgotten more than we will ever know, but as they follow nature's cycle we lose so much knowledge and wisdom.
I'm a great believer that we can learn so, so much from the past. Our ancestors recent and ancient, can tell us so many things through the oral tradition and archaeology - if you didn't have access to metal, would you know which stone could provide you with an edge and how to shape it?
My interest in the subject comes from shootin' and fishin' since I was a nipper. Along the way I've picked up some allied skills (building rods, tying flies and making lures etc.) and now most of my income is from various wood related crafts and my hobby is archaeology - when you come face to face and touch work done by someone 5,000 years ago, you kinda realise how small you are in the scheme of things.
I firmly believe that there are very few problems with regard to surviving which haven't been solved before.
I think if a neolithic hunter gatherer was to log onto this forum he would be a little bemused to say the least at how we would find it a challenge to survive even with all our fine metal tools, gadgets, electricity and so on.

kildare.17hmr

slowburner wrote: »

if you didn't have access to metal, would you know which stone could provide you with an edge and how to shape it?.

Was out shooting rabbits one day and realised i had 6 dead rabbits needed gutting and no knife:o Found a piece of flint, split it and gutted them with that. it now lives in my shootin bag

slowburner

kildare.17hmr wrote: »

Was out shooting rabbits one day and realised i had 6 dead rabbits needed gutting and no knife:o Found a piece of flint, split it and gutted them with that. it now lives in my shootin bag

That's a rare enough type of stone to find in Kildare, are you sure it wasn't used before?

kildare.17hmr

slowburner wrote: »

That's a rare enough type of stone to find in Kildare, are you sure it wasn't used before?

No idea, went looking along the stream and found it among a load of rocks, 90% sure its flint but it worked well!

slowburner

kildare.17hmr wrote: »

No idea, went looking along the stream and found it among a load of rocks, 90% sure its flint but it worked well!

Any chance of a pic sometime?

kildare.17hmr

slowburner wrote: »

Any chance of a pic sometime?

Yeah ill see what i can do over the weekend!

Odysseus

Misty Moon wrote: »

I know a bit about the domestic side of things (preserving food and such) but that's about it so far. I can knit but am still trying to figure darning out. Also still waiting to meet a friend who likes camping and would be willing to show me the ropes. I've only done luxury camping up to now - you know, the kind where the car won't be more than a few minutes walk away so you bring your air mattress and a duvet rather than a sleeping bag.

I did pick up a great book called The Ashley Book of Knots a while back to try and teach myself some of that. Oh how I wish my parents had let me join the brownies when I was younger.

There are still options as an adult, I joined the civil denfence a few years ago, I'm in resuce so plenly of knots, but I have get my first aid training kept up to date and learn plently of other skills. I get taught for free and also give something back to my community at the same time.

eth0

I thought I knew a good bit but when I read this thread I realise I know feck all

kildare.17hmr

eth0 wrote: »

I thought I knew a good bit but when I read this thread I realise I know feck all

care to share?

eth0

kildare.17hmr wrote: »

care to share?

Well I know a bit about self sufficiency because thats kind of how I grew up although not off the grid or anything really hard core. but my survivalism skills would be fairly rusty now, havn't been fishing in years and the only camping i have ever done is of the luxury variety many years ago.