Homesteading and pioneer skills part 2, peak oil, blacksmithing, survivalist

Part Two of a new series showcasing some Homesteading and Pioneer living skills. We recently attended a public festival demonstrating some of these "old school" skills.

This second part shows some blacksmithing. Later parts will cover candlemaking, sugar cane and other homesteading/pioneer type skills.

In these videos we toured the festival and talked with some of the folks demonstrating these skills. With some of these people we had to kind of "lead" them into talking about the skills via asking obvious questions, etc. Some were really helpful and interested in talking about the skills, a few were downright rude.

As your watching this, consider the amount of TIME involved with certain tasks- like putting up a year supply of firewood. In this first video we show them using a crosscut saw and a Bucksaw. It would take you probably weeks to put up a year supply of firewood with these methods. Now it's important to know these skills and even have of these old school tools and implements, but don't throw away your chainsaws! Matter of fact, you should take a hard look at your chainsaws and resulting logistics train (spare parts, extra bar, extra chains, files, preserved fuel, fuel mix, bar/chain oil, etc.) after watching this once you realize that you could put up as much wood in probably a DAY that it would take a WEEK or more to put up with hand tools! I'm all for learning these skills and we practice a lot of these skills regularly, but I also think it's important to stockpile a pile of cheap soap (Ivory 16 bars $3.). Make soap by yourself from scratch- not from a kit- one time and you'll want to go out and add another 100 bars to your storage also!



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[suprhandyman]

just wanted to wish everyone at P.A.W. Merry Christmas.

[SurvivalReport]

Will pass that along to our friends at PAW! Merry Christmas to you also! RH

[vagitoe]

I have been thinking of learning a thing or two about smithing. Nothing big, just how to make nails and such.

Don't have much by the way of equipment though, so for now I guess book learning is the best I can do.

[SurvivalReport]

Keep watching, we will have something out soon of our own regarding this. I built our forge out of mostly junk stuff. Total cost was around $50.00 I'm no "blacksmith" but I'll play one on youtube ;) LOL

[localbrewz]

just wondering, how did you do it for 50?

[SurvivalReport]

Used a tire rim, some 2" iron pipe fittings, firebrick. It's not pretty but it works and was better than spending $600. I'll post a video of it soon, working on finishing up the rabbit series now.

[kaleb4444]

this guys parents were siblings

[tramonte]

so?...

[zlb12345678910]

He made more mistakes than the quinching/tempering thing; the dinner bell (triangle) is a triangle all triangles have 180 degrees and because this is an equilateral triangle the angles for each corner would be 60 all around not 30 like he said

[Zarbod]

Have we seen this one before? Looks familiar.

[SurvivalReport]

Well keep in mind this was a public demonstration at a festival. Dinner bell could be useful for alerting others in the area to specific threats.

[fredryckphocks]

that black smith had a cell phone not even i have one of those...

[radicaldanzero]

Cool!