Survival Toolkit – Small Toolkit for Go Bag – Survivopedia
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Pictured above: SolKoa Grips-S Universal Tool Handles form the core of this survival toolkit.
While man is not the only species that makes and uses tools, it is easy to see why anthropologists initially felt it was what separated man from the other animals. Our ancestors first made tools to solve the problems of survival and we have continued that process to the present day.
Unfortunately, the ingenuity and common sense that drove millennia of toolmaking are being replaced with an addiction to convenience. Today, the only tool some folks know how to use is the credit card. They use it to fix everything. Their car breaks, so they call a tow truck and slap down the card to pay a mechanic to maintain and fix things their parents and grandparent did themselves. Fewer than 2% of Americans grow any of the food they eat. 100% of their food comes from stores and restaurants. They use it to power and heat their homes, to get medical care, water to drink, food to eat, fuel to travel. What happens when the plastic card stops working?
Because if history is a guide, it’s not “if”, it’s “when”. It has happened to many countries already, but thanks to globalization and urbanization, we are now at risk of a global economic collapse. We have never been here before. There is no manual to reboot the world economy. It has never been done on anything close to this scale and with 56% of the world population living in cities. (Bank, 2023) Nobody has ever done it.
How do we prepare for it? We stop reaching for our wallet instead our toolbox. We start growing some of our own food. We learn where we can water. Over time, we use less plastic less and rely more on our problem-solving skills and elbow grease. If you have experienced poverty, you know what I’m talking about because you have had to reach for your toolbox and make do.
So, let’s talk about your survival tool kit. The best survival tools are multiuse. They usually are not the perfect tool for every job but enable the survivor to do many different jobs adequately.
I take a layered, modular approach survival equipment and supplies. Like most other survivalists, I carry a few tools on my person, and more in my Go Bag, which is a bag or satchel that I carry, more still in my vehicle, and more still at fixed sites such as my home and bugout locations. Modules and layers enable me to adapt by lightening my load to improve mobility or adding to it to gain capability and increase sustainment time.
I carry a small toolkit in my Go Bag. Seldom a day passes that I do not use one or more tools from it. While this may seem like a long list, most of these tools fit in one small bag the size of a pencil case. I carry even more tools in my PSK, backpack, vehicle, and so on. Most folks carry a multitool, but that usually confines them to the tools that come with the multitool. This kit is based around a set of universal tool handles that can grip most small tools, allowing me to choose which tools I want to carry instead of carrying the tools offered by some multitool manufacturer.
Bank, T. W. (2023, April 3). Urban Development. Retrieved from worldbank.org: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/urbandevelopment/overview
Kearny, C. H. (1979). Dangers from Nuclear Weapons: Myths and Facts. In C. H. Kearny, Nuclear War Survival Skills (pp. 6-9). Springfield, VA: US Dept of Commerce.