Tools for the end of civilized life.

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Where can you find them?

Damn, I hate coming into the Prepper section. I realize how little "useful" knowledge/skills I have! Pretty sure I can't powerpoint my way through a SHTF scenario, lol.

I habe found several packs on the net so far, but not exactly what he has shown. If I find something nice I'll post it up. Got busy and forgot all about it.
 
The sprialed pyramid splitting wedges are awesome. When i was a wee chap....... All we had were the regular wedges........they were so much work.

On our vacation I had a big pine stump I needed to split but didn't have wedges or a maul. Took a piece of hardwood and made a Glut, wooden wedge. Managed to get it split in half. The guy across the road brought be his maul over to finish it off. With all the large wood around up there I may haul a couple wedges and a sledge up next time. You could make a decent size trunk manageable with them.
 
On our vacation I had a big pine stump I needed to split but didn't have wedges or a maul. Took a piece of hardwood and made a Glut, wooden wedge. Managed to get it split in half. The guy across the road brought be his maul over to finish it off. With all the large wood around up there I may haul a couple wedges and a sledge up next time. You could make a decent size trunk manageable with them.
Been there, done that. Wedges, mail, sledgehammer and glut. Dad turned off the fuel oil heat when I was about 13, never turned it back on. Firewood, yeah I know firewood.
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Harvest any fatwood out of it?

Not out of that one. It was cut down before it was dead. I did take down a standing dead pine before the trip and still have a bunch of fatwood left from it. I stack some fatwood over the firestarter and it really gets a fire going.


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This is reminding me I need to buy a hand drill. Ive got a cheap one, but wish I had the one my father had. We used it a lot when I was a kid. I already have a bit and brace for bigger jobs.
If you're going to garden, and you should, consider a grub hoe. It goes by many names, but basically it's an oversized super heavy duty hoe. We used them in sustainable agriculture school and I used one to make a raised bed for my daughter's strawberry patch. It takes the place of a tiller. There are vids on this site.

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http://www.easydigging.com/grub-hoe.html#one
 
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Hand pump for water in a fresh water well. Old school building knowledge example mortice and tennon joints dove tails for a poplar cabin. Basket making. Knowledge of trees and the uses of them such as burch bark and poplar bark for baskets and hickory bark soaked for making string. White oak wood peels apart to make baskets. Dogwood for arrows. Oak bark for water proof vegetable tan on furs.. Pine for pine tar. You can eat pine bark when cooked make tea from the needles. Sycamore for chair seats. Black smithing tools, forge.
The hand pump for the well is on my list! Those kitty litter plastic jugs full of water for flushing the toilet take up lotsa room. Lol. Do you recommend a particular one? Guess I need to get the plumber on this!
 
The hand pump for the well is on my list! Those kitty litter plastic jugs full of water for flushing the toilet take up lotsa room. Lol. Do you recommend a particular one? Guess I need to get the plumber on this!
I dont know the brand I found one online.
 
I'm too damned old for all of that nonsense. Swinging that maul would wear me slap out in no time. You could burn the wood faster than I could split it. BUT.... what I could do is find some young buck and trade him something for his efforts in splitting it all up. Ammo, I got's ammo..... I can make ammo, what caliber/gauge suits your fancy?? I can also impregnate your wife it that would help in any way??? I got's that ammo too.....
 
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