TEOTWAWKI equipment/tools

[sethorly]

Well my new year's resolution was to do more lurking and less posting. That hasn't worked out very well. Anyway, TEOTWAWKI happens and HURRAH! YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND DOG AND PET HAMSTER SURVIVE! After a few years you're a lean, mean, fighting machine with a steely glint in your eye. You're the head of a small clan of families just like your own, built out of common aims and hard-earned trust. Your diet consists mostly of potato, rabbit, squirrel, chicken eggs and fish - living the dream! Brambles is your medicine woman, Deeps is the morale officer, and gamekeeper752 is your hunting specialist. Yorkshire Andy puts up the shelves.

Okey, anyway, I'll get serious for a minute. Let's say there was no electricity, no petrol or diesel, no oil, no camping gas - all used up.

What equipment/tools would you want?

Note that we're not talking about food or weaponry here please, just stuff for making stuff. Please try to be specific. The idea is that we work out the contents of the ideal prepper's shed. Items should be portable.

I'll start with:

knife - eg. mora companion - superb edge, right-angled spine for ferro-rod scraping, scandi grind and thin for excellent slicing, excellent grip.

axe - eg. wetterlings, hultafors, gransfors bruks - 18-24" general purpose.

2 saws - eg. bahco laplander (small stuff) + silky katanaboy 650 (big stuff).

awl - eg. like the one on a SAK - for making holes in thin wood or leather or cloth.

manual hand drill - ? (no idea about these)

[Plymtom]

manual hand drill - ? (no idea about these)

I could swear I have one of these but where ???

Assuming I bugged in, survived and managed to hold on to my possessions, I'm an ex electrician who occasionally had to work old school, so spare bits for my rawlplug tool, plus a few more brand new hand saws of differing kinds, more hacksaw blades wouldn't go amiss either, even though well equipped already if I had the space I'd love do do a "supermarket sweep" in screwfix as I could fill a van with useful fixings and stuff if I were being a handyman in a community, but there's part of my issue I don't interact much with the neighbours as it is, because I knew some of them before I moved here, and the type of folk I was in among, I would have been everybody's go to Mr Fix it (mug) for the last 30 years, back then I had to work long hours to bring up a young family, I didn't need the hassle and still don't really but if the time came where some "blitz spirit" had to be rustled up I would have to step up, but so would they

Again assuming that a successful bug in had occurred then the bushcraft type tools would have long been shelved asides from those go to EDC ish items we depend on in the here and now, if I needed an axe for instance it would be a bloody big bugger like those ones Aldi or Lidl sell and a similar small one, long lasting and cheap and for cooking/preparing veg, no matter how many outdoor knives I try I always finish up using a chef's knife of some description and a serrated kitchen devil type thing, here's a thing ask Ray Mears how he goes about cooking at home?... I bet it's much the same as the rest of us, same if he wants to put up shelves, the parracord knots and carving skills, whilst handy out there aren't relevant in a DIY environment. For those of us who haven't done much DIY I'd say look at a basic tool kit from the laminated book of dreams and then build on it

[jaffab]

My top 3 list would be....

1) A Piranha hand saw (wickedly fast sawing action)
2) A Phillips screw driver
3) A big top of 3 inch screws

Give me this and I could build the world anew.

[gamekeeper752]

I would never pretend to be an expert but I drink and I know things lol.

firstly I don't do named stuff as most of my kit is so old and passed down from my grandfather and father the names have long since gone, however
I need to have a small knife for gutting and skinning
A long bladed machete for general brush work
a spoke-shave for bow making
a good axe and set of wedges for splitting logs into rough planks

luckily if I haven't got these I could use flint but things, apart from the gutting and skinning are gonna take a lot longer

and a lifetime supply of tea.

[grenfell]

Basic set of gardening tools ,
Basic set of woodworking tools,
Basic set of metal working tools,
Basic set of seamstress tools for making and repairing clothes,
Simple kettle for on the wood burner so I can have a cuppa after all that work.

[jansman]

Everything in my workshop! Ha ha! If I had to prioritise though...All the hand tools.Including the brace and bit drill and little Stanley hand drill. that covers repairs. We heat with solid fuel,so bush saws and spare blades,felling axe,maul and wedges. The chimney rods and brushes - most important. Gardening tools,spade,shovel,fork,how and rake.Wheelbarrow! Most important. Buckets. My butchers/slaughter tools...the list goes on.

[Deeps]

Stone working tools would be handy if we were going to rebuild more or less from scratch, my brother in law is a stone mason so he might come in handy, assuming the zombies hadn't yomped him.

Oh and a pack of cards seeing as how I'm now the morale bosun.

I would never pretend to be an expert but I drink and I know things lol.

firstly I don't do named stuff as most of my kit is so old and passed down from my grandfather and father the names have long since gone, however
I need to have a small knife for gutting and skinning
A long bladed machete for general brush work
a spoke-shave for bow making
a good axe and set of wedges for splitting logs into rough planks

luckily if I haven't got these I could use flint but things, apart from the gutting and skinning are gonna take a lot longer

and a lifetime supply of tea.

My missus got a T shirt with this wee gem on it, she's right too.

[sniper 55]

Stone working tools would be handy if we were going to rebuild more or less from scratch, my brother in law is a stone mason so he might come in handy, assuming the zombies hadn't yomped him.

Oh and a pack of cards seeing as how I'm now the morale bosun.


My missus got a T shirt with this wee gem on it, she's right too.

Does poker count as a morale boost?

[Yorkshire Andy]

No one has listed a

FBH


A FBH is a cracking tool comes with either a fibre glass handle or hard wood

Can be used for all sorts of tasks.. such as demolishing damaged brick work to smacking wedges in / seating fence posts in the ground and emergency entry to locked buildings.......



A big hammer is a must

[Plymtom]

No one has listed a

FBH


A FBH is a cracking tool comes with either a fibre glass handle or hard wood

Can be used for all sorts of tasks.. such as demolishing damaged brick work to smacking wedges in / seating fence posts in the ground and emergency entry to locked buildings.......



A big hammer is a must

I thought we were listing what we may want over and above what we already have