When people talk about preparedness, they’re usually referring to food, water, first aid kits, emergency radios, and all the other usual suspects. Most people don’t think about hammers, shovels, chainsaws, and other common tools, but they really should. After a disaster, they will really need those tools.
One obvious example: A hurricane or tornado has partially crushed a home, and a family is trapped inside. You might need a flashlight, a sledgehammer, and a pry bar to get them out. Even if there isn’t a life-or-death situation like that, you still might need tools to repair damaged doors, roofs, and windows. Or a chainsaw to chop up downed trees in the middle of the road.
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The point is, preppers should take time to acquire emergency tools and put them in a safe location. But which tools? In this video, Survival Dispatch shows off 15 tools you should have and explains why you’ll need them. Here’s the list:
- Chainsaw
- Work Gloves
- Goggles
- Dust Masks
- Duct Tape
- Flashlight
- Gas/Water Shutoff Tool
- T-Handle Tool
- Hammer
- Pry Bar
- Bolt Cutters
- Axe
- Sledgehammer
- Shovels
- Generator
Watch the video below to hear him discuss these tools.
some manual tools not mentioned 1 three or four foot bow saw for cutting limbs and small tree trunks , 2 three foot wrecking bar not Stanley pry bar , 3 five foot pry bar or digging dirt and lifting rocks and such , 4 long handled pincers for cutting nails ,wire and pulling nails better that pry bar if you are careful not to cut nails off , 5 miners pick, light weight pick pointed both ends used for rock work and digging hard soil
6 military entrenching shovel nuf said , 7 long handled grain scoop shovel best snow shovel around
Keep the videos coming. I learn more every time. Thanks
What is a “T handle tool”????
It’s for shutting off water. Something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Bully-Tools-99207Water-Tstyle-48-Inch/dp/B00KOMTJCO
take a gander down the access hole to that buried “buffalo box” shut off water supply valve – better yet put a measuring tape down there – in the frozen North they are generally deeper than 48″ down >>>> longer never hurts …
Way cheaper at Home Depot. Also, in Washington State when the utility company must replace the water line and meter at the street, the new equipment now must have a shutdown so junk doesn’t backwash into your house lines.
Btw, all of these blasted ads keep covering all of the information that this site is attempting to share. One reason I seldom open Urban Survival.
Mike,
Just a guess, but since they mention a gas shutoff tool , they may be referring to the tool we use to shut off underground water main valves. It is a t-handled wrench , usuall 4-6 feet long with a 2″ square piece at the bottom to fit over the valve stem. This would come in handy after the excrement has impacted the ventilator (shtf), for closing down a broken water main so as not to lose very necessary resources.
What is a T handle tool?
Living in a small rural community we have all that and much more just to meet needs on the property. I still have a T handled water key from days in towns on water systems but we set up inline shutoffs to most buildings here and the key or a hand can reach the valves easily.
Were on a well. Many things I have both hand and battery pack power tools. We can work wood or rebuild an engine in the shop. Most families have a tractor and front loader. A neighbor has a bucket to trim trees and I have a backhoe on mine. I have a chipper to handle brush and branches and gas and electric chainsaws for larger jobs. Hand tools from axes, ads, and picks to hoes, rakes, shovels, weeders, post hole diggers, spading forks, and saws. Several different sets of mechanic tools, and tools for metal and PVC pipe and pex. Generators both gas and solar from small to 9k. Also a welder generator. Wire fed and oxy/acetylene welders and cutting torch. I have a small mobile home and a cabover camper for guests to stay in. My home is just one bedroom, one bathroom and a large room for the kitchen/Living room and a breakfast bar with 4 tall stools where we eat. A small laundry room leads to the backdoor. My cook stove is propane but my heat is pellets/ chips/sticks up to 2″. I heat water and can cook on the heating stove. I keep my little tea pot hot on a ledge by the stoves burn box. I’ve never hooked up propane to the furnace or water heater.
I may think about an on demand electric water heater for the shower, bathroom sink, and kitchen sink. Cold water at the washing machine is fine. It’s still a work in progress. I have a gas dryer still sitting in the shop where it was unloaded when we moved back. I may never hook it up. I use in-house folding racks the most.
We didn’t prepare for emergencies so much as prepare for life. Needs arrive and we met them and then we have the tools. We couldn’t have bought it all in a year or two but we’ve added as needed or when we were able. We both love tools enough that our favorite gifts for each other are another tool. A much appreciated Christmas gift from a friend was good leather work gloves. I think my late Mothers Day gift to myself will be another set of router bits. 🙂
If you start out to fill an ideal list of tools you probably can’t do it all at once. Do get started and make it a priority. Eventually you’ll have the list and much more.
Thanks for the info. keep it coming.