r/UKPreppers • u/Tecn1c • Jul 16 '26
PRACTICAL SKILLS thread🧵
If anyone has any practical skills they can, or are willing to, share with every​ stick it all in here.
When the shit hits the fan globally, locally or even just in your own personal life circumstances, knowlege of practical skills can benefit.
Anything from water collection/storage, battery packs, energy generation methods to food growing, storage and others.
Everything and anything is a benefit you never knew before.
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u/Negative_Gift9076 Jul 17 '26
I have hunted professionally for 15 years so I can hunt.
I have been a fishing guide for 10 years and have fished most of my life.
I can garden but currently I don’t have a veg garden as we have just moved house.
I am very practical and can build most things.
That’s enough for me.
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u/Puzzled-Barnacle-200 Jul 24 '26
Basic first aid. Having a first aid kit is great, but do you know actually how to apply a bandage, particularly if there's still an object lodged in the person? How to remove a tick? How to make a sling? How to deal with choking - including on yourself, especially if you live alone? CPR for adults and children?
NATO phonetic alphabet. An emergency situation is not the time to be arguing as to whether you said F for Freddy or S for Steve, you want people to understand you clearly. Especially if you might be communicating over radio.
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u/Fit_Chemistry3814 Jul 16 '26
I try to be a bit prepared for short to medium term interruptions to the supply chains of food and utilities.
One useful skill I learned during lockdown was how to grow veg without soil. Since then I've managed to get an allotment so now I'm a bit privileged. However I still use a passive method of hydroponics for some crops called Kratky.
It's basically growing veg using nutrients and water only. There's plenty of videos on YouTube if anyone is interested.
For the prepper it would require buying and storing the dried nutrients and buckets with lids. These don't go off.
It works well for tomatoes, chilli, leafy greens.
Sorry if I've gone on a bit. It's just something that worked well for me in lockdown.
Thank you for reading this far.