now considered useless traits

[Finnman]

Buying NR elk points in any state.

 

[Elkhunter24]

I can look person straight in the eye, shake his hand, and not get two steps away before I forgot his name.

I’m so glad I am not the only that does this!!

 

[Nick87]

Isn't that why you have lots of kids to stack bales on wagon and put hay up in the mow while you drive the tractor? Or let the 3 year old drive if none of the bigger kids are around to pick up just 30 more bales that didn't fit on wagons. My little guy loves to make hay since he was 2. Picked up the bigger kids to help and left him at grandma's. He bawled and screamed till grandma brought him to the field 1 hr later and then he just sat on a bale trying to catch his breath for another hour. At 3 he would use his butchers meat hook/hay hook on you if you tried to take his bale in the rotation in order to get ahead of the baler.

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Wish I could have passed It on. Other constrains were also factored in. No offense but God I hate stacker balers. Good to see those kids working. The sooner they figure out work is probably the biggest part of your life the easier life will be. No better way to raise them than that.

 

[C17loadclear]

The soft wood of the west is sooo easy compared to the nasty stuff in the south...sweet gum comes to mind..

 

[MarvB]

Sense of direction.... pretty adept at finding my way around be it rural or urban....meanwhile the wife and kids pull up google maps to find the bathroom in our house

 

[Wildabeest]

Skiing sans helmet. Why can’t anyone ski bareheaded these days?

I hate to think what my head would have looked like had I not been wearing this…

 

[VikingsGuy]

I can look person straight in the eye, shake his hand, and not get two steps away before I forgot his name.

I was saving this one for the thread on, "Infuriating and inexplicable gaping weaknesses"

 

[Wildabeest]

I can look person straight in the eye, shake his hand, and not get two steps away before I forgot his name.

A very long time ago, a mentor told me to always say a person’s name out loud when you meet them and it will anchor it in your brain. Something as simple as “Nice to meet you, Gomer.” It’s ingrained as a habit for me, so I really have no baseline to compare it to, but I do tend to remember people’s names.

 

[Mudranger1]

I carry the juxtaposed curse of being good looking and handy.

you have the most extensive vocabulary of anyone I've never met on the interwebs.....Hold that good looking head up high

 

[belshawelk]

Huh?

I split cherry by the ton. We heat with wood and cherry might be our most common firewood. Splits great with a splitting axe or a 6# maul. No hydraulic splitter here.

Elm sucks. I don't even bother.

I should call it bitter Cherry. Different tree, Its bark looks like a birch tree only black and is like metal. When its dry its easy to split but when its wet the wood itself is easy to split but the bark will hold it together. Different than a true wild Cherry.

 

[Otto Matic]

Spelling. Autocorrect has made the skill obsolete.

The "spill chick"?
No thank you!

Remembering phone numbers?
They're in my phone. I don't even know my wife's phone number or either one of my kids!
Before cell phones, all of our phone number was the same!

Morse code.
Touch typing.
Telegrams.
Standard transmissions.
Malt shops.
Drive in theaters.
Paper drinking straws.
New blue jeans - WITHOUT holes!
Common courtesy (yes ma'am, no ma'am, yes sir, no sir, thank you, you're welcome, pardon me)
Canvas tents.
Barber shops.
Women without tattoos!
MEN without tattoos! LOL!
Body piercings where bodies shouldn't be pierced. That nose ring thing people do! It's VERY disconcerting! I had a waitress with one! Looked like she had a booger hanging out of her nose! YUCK!

Oh well!
My "old fart syndrome" kicks in sometimes.

"Pardon me!"

 

[Shangobango]

I have always been good with maps, blueprints, schematics, etc. Not sure if that is useless or not nowadays. I guess so if we are talking paper.

I am a very good poker player along with other card games. Had a knack there from a very early age. That is almost useless to me now since the gubment all but shut down online poker and I just can’t do casinos except for the odd poker tournament now and then.

Always had a knack for tracking and reading sign. I was drawn to it from an early age. It fascinates me to this day. It’s not useless or obsolete yet but I feel as if it is headed toward lost art status. A good friend and hunting buddy pointed out to me years ago that my way of looking at things when it comes to tracking may correlate to my successful poker career. I had never considered it before but the idea may hold water.

Which leads me to trapping. I was lucky to have top notch teachers but it also came pretty natural. That is one that is not useless yet but is headed toward obsolete on a steep trajectory.

 

[Nick87]

blueprints

Hardly useless.

 

[Pucky Freak]

Writing a letter in a single draft
Cursive
Navigating via a compass, and topo map
Fixing a VCR
Reading the clouds (weather)
Straightening a nail
Churning butter
Hitchhiking
Telling time by the position of the sun
Navigating by the stars
Using a road atlas
Rotary phone
Baking bread
Estimating distances by sight in yards or miles

 

[EYJONAS!]

Writing a letter in a single draft
Cursive
Navigating via a compass, and topo map
Fixing a VCR
Reading the clouds (weather)
Straightening a nail
Churning butter
Hitchhiking
Telling time by the position of the sun
Navigating by the stars
Using a road atlas
Rotary phone
Baking bread
Estimating distances by sight in yards or miles

Show off....

 

[Pucky Freak]

Show off....

Too bad I don’t have a comparable list of useful skills…

 

[Otto Matic]

Spelling. Autocorrect has made the skill obsolete.

The "spill chick"?
No thank you!

Remembering phone numbers?
They're in my phone. I don't even know my wife's phone number or either one of my kids!
Before cell phones, all of our phone number was the same!

Morse code.
Touch typing.
Telegrams.
Standard transmissions.
Malt shops.
Drive in theaters.
Paper drinking straws.
New blue jeans - WITHOUT holes!
Common courtesy (yes ma'am, no ma'am, yes sir, no sir, thank you, you're welcome)
Canvas tents.
Barber shops.
Women without tattoos!
MEN without tattoos! LOL!
Body piercings where bodies shouldn't be pierced. That nose ring thing people do! It's VERY disconcerting! I had a waitress with one! Looked like she had a booger hanging out of her nose! YUCK!

p.s. - old farts that drone on and on about how it "usta be"!

 

[Otto Matic]

@EYJONAS!
My dad would pick up used lumber by the pickup loads.
MY job, whether I chose it or not, was to pull all the nails (they went in an old water bucket), sort the lumber and stack it.
Once that was accomplished, the job turned to the bucket of bent nails.
A piece of old railroad iron and an afternoon spent straightening and sorting 8d, 12d and 16d nails.
I didn't drive a new nail until I was 16 and that was because a neighbor hired me to help him build a shed! LOL!

We built 2 barns, wooden fences, an addition to our hunting camp, box blinds, a tool shed and who knows what else.
I still pick up used lumber, but I normally put stuff together with drywall screws.

The price of lumber these days, I even pick up lawnmower crates at the Stihl dealer!

 

[NEWHunter]

Common sense . . . given how little of it I see these days, I’m guessing most consider it useless. I also have a tendency to think about how what I am about to say or do will affect other people - also seems to have gone out of style.

 

[Wallydeuce]

I hate to think what my head would have looked like had I not been wearing this…
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Good lord.