101 the most useful knowledge and skills when SHTF.

101 the most useful knowledge and skills when SHTF.

In this article I will try summarize  the most useful knowledge and skills when SHTF and also for PA time. 

I made this list by alphabetical order on purpose.  Everybody has own priorities, different talent, experiences and various possibilities. List consists mostly skills of our grand fathers and grand mothers when was not electricity and they have very limited sources. What was for them natural daily routine, today  many of us do not have such skills and to use them today is almost attractive.

Later on I will publish articles to each skill I have in this list. In these articles  you will find also links for free download of the literature, manuals and guides.

Of course you do not need to know all of them but more you know better advantage for you, better chance for survival.

 

Remember Knowledge Weights Nothing.

Your knowledge will not take up any space, no one will steal it from you and you always have it with you for immediate use.

 

1.

Basic sign language

2.

Basic Wilderness Survival Skill - fire, shelter, water, food, orientation

3.

Basketry

4.

Beekeeping   download-logo.png

5.

Being Mentally Strong

6.

Bicycle riding

7.

Birth assisting

8.

Blacksmithing

9.

Blending - Gray Man techniques

10.

Booby traps, trip wire defense

11.

Bow hunting, archery download-logo.png, crossbow, sling shot

12.

Bread bakery

13.

Brewing beer

14.

Butchering, de-skinning and gutting animals download-logo.png

15.

Butter churning

16.

Calorific value of wood

17.

Camouflage

18.

Candle making download-logo.png

19.

Canning of fruit and vegetable

20.

Carpentry, wood working

21.

Composting

22.

Conserving Your Energy

23.

Conversion unit tables

24.

Cooking from scratch, war recipes

25.

Dehydrating meat, biltong, jerky, pemikan

26.

Dehydrating of fruit, mushrooms and herbs

27.

Destillation

28.

Distress signals  - audio, video, flag, body

29.

Electrician basic - wiring

30.

Escape and Evasion

31.

Escaping Quicksand

32.

Explosions making and Molotov coctails

33.

Farming

34.

Fermenting sauerkraut

35.

First aid course

36.

Fishing, tying knots on a hook

37.

Foreign languages

38.

Fruit trees growing, slicing and grafting

39.

Fuel Siphoning - removing fuel from the car tank

40.

Gardening

41.

Goal-Setting

42.

Gunsmithing

43.

Hand milking cow, sheep, goat

44.

Hand mowing with scythe

45.

Harvesting seeds

46.

Herbs - medicine, eatable, poisonous

47.

Horseback riding

48.

Hot-wiring car - starting a car without a key

49.

Hunting, tracking, trapping

50.

Charcoal making

51.

Cheese making

52.

Chemical and Bio hazard protection

53.

Identification of military equipment and aviation

54.

K9, defense

55.

Kayaking

56.

Knitting, sewing, weaving and  crocheting

57.

Knots

58.

Leadership Survival Skills

59.

Leather tanning

60.

Livestock breeding

61.

Lock-picking

62.

Lumberjack,  logging

63.

Managing Boredom and Loneliness

64.

Masonry

65.

Memory calculations

66.

Mental Toughness

67.

Meteorology and weather forecast

68.

Motivating People

69.

Mountaineering, climbing,  abseiling

70.

Moving silently - safe and hidden movement

71.

Mushroom hunting, drying and canning

72.

Physical endurance

73.

Plumbing

74.

Pottery

75.

Purifying water  and storage   download-logo.png

76.

Radio communication and  Morse codes

77.

Raft making

78.

Ranger bead pedometer

79.

Reloading ammunition

80.

Running

81.

Scope reticle

82.

Self-defense fight with bare hands

83.

Self-defense Krav Maga

84.

Self-defense throw with a knife, axe and shovel

85.

Self-defense with a stick, telescopic baton

86.

Self-Reliance

87.

Sharpening of scythe

88.

Shelter making

89.

Shooting with a personal weapon, concealed carry

90.

Situational Awareness

91.

Smoking of meat and fish

92.

Soap making

93.

Sourdough making

94.

Swimming and diving

95.

Tactical Hand Signals

96.

Topography, navigation, map reading

97.

Track time by the sun

98.

Tree recognition

99.

Trough

100.

Welding, soldering

101.

Well digging

 

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