The basics for us are...... carpenter hammer, sledge hammer. Nails- 50 lb boxes of all sizes; same with screws. Saws- wood working saws, hacksaw,swede ect.... and of course chainsaw with a goodly stash of fuel as cutting firewood with the swede saw sucks. Pick axe with spare handles. Post hole digger/tamper bar. Pry bars. Bolt cutters. Tin snips. Grease guns with supply of grease. Anvil and vice clamp.

Drills and bits. 2 axes, 2 hatchets with spare handles and splitting wedges. Lots of shovels and garden tools. Files and a grindstone. 2 scythes and accessories, pitchforks and loads of buckets for all purposes; some you haven't thought of yet. Set of good quality mechanic tools. Good knives for kitchen and butchering. Basic butchering tools. ROPE or twine to make it with. Heavy duty chains. Caulking, duct tape, baling wire (duct tape before duct tape was invented). Loads of pulleys. With these, there is no end to what you can do. This list is for rural folks. Townies can pare it down a bit.

Dont forget the semi and trailer that would be required to haul all of this to the site of your chosing plus the warehouse to store them in. Maybe we could share a 53 ft trailer, cause my stuff will take up at least half of it, and then I could just live in the trailer aftewards. 😐

I have all the tools I need and then some. Power tools of course but also all the hand tools that do the same job. I have a good supply of nails and screws too. Lately I have been buying extra sheets of plywood and OSB. OSB is cheap right now and has many uses. You never know when you might want to board up a window or make a new chicken coop.

When I started my business 20 years ago (one of a kind cottage furniture) I used strictly hand wood working tools.Now i still have all the tools needed for anything to do with wood.All my tools are bought at auction sales.We have all the manual food processing tools from cooking ,sausage making,cheese making,canning,juice making,grinders,cutter atc.,ALL The tools for g
gardening, cutting grass (cut my own hay by hand) hole diggers,shovels,axes,wheel barrows,pules,slouch hummers ,atc.
When Home depot had plywood (chipboard) for $6 I bought 100 of them.I would not even notice when hydro is off.
Henry

loving the comments....it means I don't have to get rid of the jars of old odd "bits" of stuff left over from my grandfathers hardware store. Mind you I may start a thread asking what some of the "bits" are

Do not worry oldschool if anything happens life is the best teacher.You will find out really fast what and how to use every tool.
henry

Do not worry oldschool if anything happens life is the best teacher.You will find out really fast what and how to use every tool.
henry

Thank you but its not the tools, its the "bits"

The brass? screw on the very top right is close to something that I have, which of course I can't find at the moment - its like the screw except it doesn't have a head on it - they are thin, brass "rods" about 2 inches in length. I have no idea what to use them for. I think the thing below it is a lead wall plug.

The rest of the items in the picture I have no clue what they are used for. 😳

I think I know what they all are except the tab at top row centre (possibly a carburetor float chamber part) and the second item on the top left.

Top right looks to be a nut cracker, metal nuts on a bolt not the other kind. Sorry no, it is a cap crimper.

There are only two in that batch that I cant readily identify, 2 are wall ancors, 4 pieces are form an electrical panel, one looks to be part of a spring latch, one looks to be a pull tab of a large zipper or a flush latch. Oh yeah one is a cloth line crimp, the others I would have to look at closer to determine their usage. One is a strap slip buckel. :geek:

When it comes to bits and pieces I always end up finding alternate uses for them anyways. as the saying goes, "If yea havent what you need, use what you've got". And my Ex wife use to call it junk, she found out the hard way, after I was looking for a small of junk that she had thrown away. What was in it was bits and pieces, but one of them cost me $52 to repalce. After that she asked first before throwing my JUNK out. 👿

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Left side third down. Is that a thaching rake bracket for a lawnmower that is missing the teeth on the two ends? Rachet strap part there as well. Is the Bottom left a feeler gauge of some kind, or a dipstick?

Remember scale laddie, the left side third down is a light support bracket, 2 of them there. You have better eyes then mine and yes that is a gauge of sorts,

Remember scale laddie, the left side third down is a light support bracket, 2 of them there. You have better eyes then mine and yes that is a gauge of sorts,

Yeah, the wife just informed me that it was a light support. I run wire and she connects them with her bitty hands.