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Jim Stewart wrote: Michael Koblic wrote: I saw an interesting event on Jay Jeno last night: Memebrs of the five armed services were trying to open a can of cranberry sauce using a Swiss army knife. It was horrible. None of them seemed to have a clear idea how to use the can opener attachment, in fact I am pretty sure some of them used the wrong attachment. Four of them managed eventually at a cost of some injuries and the cans were mangled. One failed to empty the can in the alloted time. I wondered about the implications: Is this a reflection on general population's unfamiliarity with a can opener? Is this a reflection on basic training? Is it because the knife was *Swiss*? It cannot be because the knife was *Army* as I believe it was the Army guy who failed. I hesitate to cite stress affecting the performance of members of fighitng forces. Would members of the Special Forces have done better? One of the guys made a creditable effort to rip the can open with his bare hands but with a minimum result. How would the US Armed forces stack up against, say, the Brits or the Russians? Is this something to be concerned about? Do I have too much time on my hands? We all probably have too much time on our hands so I'll let that slide. Any pre-gulf war vet would have used a P-38 to open his/her C-rations and would be able to figure out the knife. I hope. I was shocked to learn that some of my daugher's high school friends were never allowed to use kitchen knives. I'm guessing that the whole concept of tool-using is slowly bleeding out of a large portion of the population. Cars neither need nor are easy to repair. Most products are cheaper to throw away than to fix. How many *hundreds* of old collected sets of tools end up at the flea market, presumably because their new owner had no use for them. For example, most people used to at least have a clue as to how a television works. I think that if you asked most young people, you'd get a one word answer, LED or LCL or plasma. The military is having a hard time attracting enough smart and educated recruits. This is not meant to disparage our troops, but OTOH, there's not a lot of kids going into the military to learn a civilian trade any more. Oh well, just means us old farts will have some value in the next 20 or 30 years. The biggest issue this points out is the lack of basic mechanical aptitude and problem solving skills. Even if all these troops have seen are tear to open MREs, they should be able to look at the can, look at the options on the knife and use basic mechanical problem solving skills to figure it out. The sad fact is that a large portion of our volunteer troops come from backgrounds where religious indoctrination took precedence over basic education - not unlike the enemy they are currently fighting. |
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On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:14:24 -0600, "Pete C."
wrote: Jim Stewart wrote: Michael Koblic wrote: I saw an interesting event on Jay Jeno last night: Memebrs of the five armed services were trying to open a can of cranberry sauce using a Swiss army knife. It was horrible. None of them seemed to have a clear idea how to use the can opener attachment, in fact I am pretty sure some of them used the wrong attachment. Four of them managed eventually at a cost of some injuries and the cans were mangled. One failed to empty the can in the alloted time. I wondered about the implications: Is this a reflection on general population's unfamiliarity with a can opener? Is this a reflection on basic training? Is it because the knife was *Swiss*? It cannot be because the knife was *Army* as I believe it was the Army guy who failed. I hesitate to cite stress affecting the performance of members of fighitng forces. Would members of the Special Forces have done better? One of the guys made a creditable effort to rip the can open with his bare hands but with a minimum result. How would the US Armed forces stack up against, say, the Brits or the Russians? Is this something to be concerned about? Do I have too much time on my hands? We all probably have too much time on our hands so I'll let that slide. Any pre-gulf war vet would have used a P-38 to open his/her C-rations and would be able to figure out the knife. I hope. I was shocked to learn that some of my daugher's high school friends were never allowed to use kitchen knives. I'm guessing that the whole concept of tool-using is slowly bleeding out of a large portion of the population. Cars neither need nor are easy to repair. Most products are cheaper to throw away than to fix. How many *hundreds* of old collected sets of tools end up at the flea market, presumably because their new owner had no use for them. For example, most people used to at least have a clue as to how a television works. I think that if you asked most young people, you'd get a one word answer, LED or LCL or plasma. The military is having a hard time attracting enough smart and educated recruits. This is not meant to disparage our troops, but OTOH, there's not a lot of kids going into the military to learn a civilian trade any more. Oh well, just means us old farts will have some value in the next 20 or 30 years. The biggest issue this points out is the lack of basic mechanical aptitude and problem solving skills. Even if all these troops have seen are tear to open MREs, they should be able to look at the can, look at the options on the knife and use basic mechanical problem solving skills to figure it out. The sad fact is that a large portion of our volunteer troops come from backgrounds where religious indoctrination took precedence over basic education - not unlike the enemy they are currently fighting. You are confusing something..most of these kids are conservative and largely from rural areas..so they are head and hands smarter and better educatied than city kids. Are you saying that the kid that just put the carby out of a 72 Poncho into his 89 Poncho cant figure out how to open an MRE? Gunner "Aren't cats Libertarian? They just want to be left alone. I think our dog is a Democrat, as he is always looking for a handout" Unknown Usnet Poster Heh, heh, I'm pretty sure my dog is a liberal - he has no balls. Keyton |
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Gunner Asch wrote: On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:56:17 -0800, Gunner Asch wrote: On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:14:24 -0600, "Pete C." wrote: Jim Stewart wrote: Michael Koblic wrote: I saw an interesting event on Jay Jeno last night: Memebrs of the five armed services were trying to open a can of cranberry sauce using a Swiss army knife. It was horrible. None of them seemed to have a clear idea how to use the can opener attachment, in fact I am pretty sure some of them used the wrong attachment. Four of them managed eventually at a cost of some injuries and the cans were mangled. One failed to empty the can in the alloted time. I wondered about the implications: Is this a reflection on general population's unfamiliarity with a can opener? Is this a reflection on basic training? Is it because the knife was *Swiss*? It cannot be because the knife was *Army* as I believe it was the Army guy who failed. I hesitate to cite stress affecting the performance of members of fighitng forces. Would members of the Special Forces have done better? One of the guys made a creditable effort to rip the can open with his bare hands but with a minimum result. How would the US Armed forces stack up against, say, the Brits or the Russians? Is this something to be concerned about? Do I have too much time on my hands? We all probably have too much time on our hands so I'll let that slide. Any pre-gulf war vet would have used a P-38 to open his/her C-rations and would be able to figure out the knife. I hope. I was shocked to learn that some of my daugher's high school friends were never allowed to use kitchen knives. I'm guessing that the whole concept of tool-using is slowly bleeding out of a large portion of the population. Cars neither need nor are easy to repair. Most products are cheaper to throw away than to fix. How many *hundreds* of old collected sets of tools end up at the flea market, presumably because their new owner had no use for them. For example, most people used to at least have a clue as to how a television works. I think that if you asked most young people, you'd get a one word answer, LED or LCL or plasma. The military is having a hard time attracting enough smart and educated recruits. This is not meant to disparage our troops, but OTOH, there's not a lot of kids going into the military to learn a civilian trade any more. Oh well, just means us old farts will have some value in the next 20 or 30 years. The biggest issue this points out is the lack of basic mechanical aptitude and problem solving skills. Even if all these troops have seen are tear to open MREs, they should be able to look at the can, look at the options on the knife and use basic mechanical problem solving skills to figure it out. The sad fact is that a large portion of our volunteer troops come from backgrounds where religious indoctrination took precedence over basic education - not unlike the enemy they are currently fighting. You are confusing something..most of these kids are conservative and largely from rural areas..so they are head and hands smarter and better educatied than city kids. Are you saying that the kid that just put the carby out of a 72 Poncho into his 89 Poncho cant figure out how to open an MRE? Gunner I should mention..that I as a survivalist or miltiary man..have opened 3 cans of Stuff in my entire life with a Swiss Army Knife. On the other hand....I have a P38/P51 on every keychain I own, and one on the dog tags chain I wear when Im out in the field And I can and HAVE opened a **** load of stuff with a P38 or its larger brother..the P51 The .."swiss army knife" has not been GI Issue since WW2 to the best of my knowlege...the various P38s have done yoemans duty since 43 or so IRRC http://www.georgia-outfitters.com/page52.shtml#p51 Gunner I may have grown up on more modern can openers, but when faced with pina coladas to make and no modern can opener to use on the cans of Coco Lopez it took me mere seconds to open them with the old style opener on my multi tool. |
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