Tools And Equipment Without Fuel Or Electricity For Prepping

In the event of a SHTF collapse, our refining and fuel operations & infrastructure will quickly grind to a halt while local fuel supplies will deplete and disappear within days.

In a long term collapse scenario without electricity, your gasoline-diesel-gas-electricity powered equipment and tools will become useless.
Have you thought about this?


Even if you’ve stored an amount of fuel for your generator, vehicle, and other such powered ‘tools’ — it will run out.

While reliance on stored fuels for short term disaster is not a particular issue, if a major collapse were to occur, you would be in big trouble without alternatives such as hand tools, etc.

It may be worth your while to acquire some practical hand tools and manual operated equipment (those not requiring petroleum fuels or electricity) for survival preparedness tasks which fit categories including the following…

Cooking
Processing foods from raw ingredients
Food preservation (without electricity)
Tree cutting & Log splitting for heat and building materials
Soil tilling
Brush cutting
Wood carpentry & construction, and associated hand tools
Transportation of self and/or supplies

I could go on with examples, but I suggest that you write a list of top-level categories (your tools & equipment which require fuel-electricity) and then break each of them down into individual items which you currently use around your home. Any of them which are fuel or electricity dependent, you should strongly consider a manual replacement alternative.

Many people may have all sorts of very useful modern tools, however most of these would become quite useless without fuel and energy to power them. If you have an alternative energy source (solar panels with inverter system, etc.), this may be enough – but many people don’t have this.
Think about it, and think about how you would apply your skills after the SHTF without these ‘modern’ tools. How would you do it?

Remember this…
Redundancy is important. Two is one and one is none.
Stock up on spare parts and maintenance supplies for everything.
Survival after collapse is lots more than having stored food, it’s about adapting to a lifestyle which will be VERY different (and difficult) from our modern lifestyle today. Having alternatives for the tools and equipment we take for granted today will be life essential.

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