What did your GrandDad teach you?

[cúagusgiorraí 57]

Hi everyone,

I was got thinking about me Grandfather, while reading Duckwing's topic about his axe he restored. You see my Grandfather taught me all about hewing timber the old fashioned way with an axe. My Granddad is one of the few people who devoted his life to restoring historic buildings authentically using the old methods he learned from his grandfather, mainly hewing timber into beams. My Grandfather is now in a nursing home and senile. I was fortunate enough to learn the skills from him when he was fit and strong.

 

So my question is to ye all, What did your GrandDad's teach you? Anything, skills, lessons, etc

 

Edited May 4, 2010 by cúagusgiorraí

[greatwhitehunter 47]

taught me about photography and world war two

[cúagusgiorraí 57]

taught me about photography and world war two

 

 

My GrandDad was in the Korean War, he just missed out on WW2. The world has certainly changed in the last 60 years

[scothunter 12,609]

taught me his days in auschwitz.he died there.

he got very drunk and fell out the machinegun tower

[willum 89]

taught me take only waht ya need from the land and not to turn your back on a goat lol he had a goat that when you turned your back the fecker charged ya. also taught me to prep game and set old style traps

[riohog 5,751]

taught me his days in auschwitz.he died there.

he got very drunk and fell out the machinegun tower

not many would be getting drunk in that camp!! unless they were guards!!

[scothunter 12,609]

taught me his days in auschwitz.he died there.

he got very drunk and fell out the machinegun tower

not many would be getting drunk in that camp!! unless they were guards!!

 

i know lol

[Attack Fell Terrier 864]

taught me his days in auschwitz.he died there.

he got very drunk and fell out the machinegun tower

 

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[borntoshoot 1]

How to fish (sea and carp), a bit of woodwork and he got me into shooting by buying me my first airrifle for my 9th birthday which i stupidly sold a few years ago and have spent a while trying to buy it back.

[steboro 26]

taught me his days in auschwitz.he died there.

he got very drunk and fell out the machinegun tower

[dogs-n-natives 1,182]

my grandad tought me about lurcherwork, terrierwork and ferreting, also keeping pigeons, and farming in general, driving tractors etc these are all things i hope my son will want to know.... hes 18 months now and already keen for the outdoor life. He dont have his great grandad around though, so its down to me to pass on what I have learned.

[SHOTGUNSNIPER 47]

Taught me how to rob a bank!

[Fishslayer 10]

How to catch catfish with my bare hands.

 

How to make a toothpick out of a boar coon.

[Tallyho 181]

Nothing , one grandad died before i was born and the other didnt want to know us grandkids , on the odd occassion we did see him we wernt allowed to call him grandad as he said it made him feel old , what a joke .

[MAIN MAN 277]

my grandad was a c**t! in the first order, when i get up there i im guna kick his fxkin ass