I'm going to feel like an idiot, but...

[Marvak]

I'm having trouble with the stockyards in Abe's Oddysee PC (OMFG I JUST GOT IT OMGOMGOMG). There's this little bit where you have to jump/run through a gap, and there's a Scrab on the ground waiting for his lunch.

I run and jump from the ledge, land on the ground with the Scrab, and... get eaten. Several times. I try to hoist up onto the other ledge, but I run into the wall and fall down. Thus letting the Scrab overpower me.
Is there some secret jig you have to do or something, or is there just a knack to hoisting up to the ledge in time?
P.S. No I DON'T want to use the 'I_am_your_father' thing. Doing it properly is just so much more fulfilling.

P.P.S Scratch that. I'm now at the bit with the two Sligs, and you have to hide in the shadows. I keep geting killed by the second Slig. :\

[Nate]

From memory, you have to wait until the scrab is facing to the right, do a running jump, keep running after you land, jump and hoist. If you time it right, the Scrab won't be quick enough to react and attack you.

[Mistress of Oddworld]

The two sligs n the shadows? All the advice I can give you is to just be really patient, rushing things will just get you killed. Wait for the sligs to go back and forth a couple of times, to get used to their walk-cycle. then, when you're ready, sneak in and outta the shadows, ONE at a time! Patience and timing is what the stockyards are all about. Master that, and you've mastered the level. If you need anymore help, feel free to pm me, I've finished AO over 30 times, with 100%.

[AlienMagi]

Finished in 30 min??Dude u must be freak'n crazy... do you spend all your life for computer??(take as a note)

[Wil]

What is wrong with you? Read the words people post!

‘I've finished AO over 30 times’ ≠ ‘Finished in 30 min’

[AlienMagi]

oh ya?and you know all secrets?coz i do

[Hobo]

oh ya?and you know all secrets?coz i do

I do too! Btw I'm Fats Fuggler

[skillya_glowi]

Uh. Ok.
(This is referring to the Scrab bit)To avoid the long wait until the timing is right, just start running from the previous screen and don't stop when you run into the problem screen. Then just as you approach the end of the ledge make a running jump, don't stop -- and practically a second or two after you land (and keep running) make a running jump again. You should catch the ledge (needless to say, get up immediately). Taking things at a run helps sometimes.
The reason you're running into the wall is that you're not run-jumping onto the ledge fast enough. The right timing for the jump is almost right after you land in the middle of the pen.
/long confusing instructions

Now for the sligs:
This part is relatively easy to do (if you know what to do that is). There are many ways of doing this, but the second one involves complex timing and a lot of waiting. So I'll just say the first one.
Start from the screen just before the slig screen (with the UXB and the ledge and the hidden bird portal) and sneak into the slig screen. Keep going, right through the shadow, now sneak one step out of the shadow. As soon as the Sligs yell, "Freeze!" - start running back into the previous screen.
In the previous screen, stop. You should stop running relatively close to the left edge. One of the Sligs will follow you, but don't worry - as long as you're pretty close to the edge it won't notice you. However, as soon as you notice it running into your screen, run as fast as you can back into the screen where the second slig is remaining.
Without paying any attention to the slig whatsoever, run across the screen and run-jump onto the ledge.

Hope you understood all that. :-/

[Mac Sirloin]

I do too! Btw I'm Fats Fuggler

I came to hilarity.

Anyways, that Scrab is a ballsack, so, if you're feeling like being stupid, you can chant right before you jump, (while he's facing you) just in case you need some extra time (That is, .6 seconds).

As for the sligs....ugh....

Of course sneak, durr, or, if an adventorous attitude iw what you have, wait by the edge of the screen with the first slig, THE EXACT SECOND that he enters the screen, take a step forward to enter the next, then, crouch and hide behind the rock, wait for the other slig to leave the screen, and wait right beside the exit like you did with the first.

Easy as pie.

[mr.odd]

he is right below run off and keep running tell your to the edge

[Vanilla ✜]

And then jump whilst you'er running