Hoes

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psy-ops

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This might be a strange thought but.........

A small hand held hoe is a great tool for wilderness survival. sure an axe is better in an immediate crisis involving the need for fire and shelter.

on a more long term basis a hoe is really going to come into its own. Finding tubers in the woods is taping into a huge cache of food. once you have knowledge and experience growing and picking herbs that are indigenous to your area. I know that is easier said than done but it can be done. I am in the process of growing some herbs and veggies that will help me see the plant in its differents stages of growth, this will help me be able to locate these plants in nature. I know I won't be able to grow every species of edible plants but I will broaden my food source little by little.
 
hmmmmmm, I like the idea of planting herbs found in this area (North Ala) to see each stage of thier growing process to id them at anytime.
Thanks
 
I think that a lot of folks think of their (insert favorite survival bladed thing here) as THE ITEM that gets them through a survival situation. But really, any blade should be looked at as a tool, and in the woods an axe or bowie or whatever should really be looked at as a tool to make other tools. I don't know why people mention digging holes with their knives. I'd rather find a stick and make a point on it with my knife or with an axe and then dig with that! Or, as mentioned, make a hoe and go digging for food. Or make a bowl, or a trap, or.... etc. Think of blaes as tools for making specialized tools for getting jobs done.

Cool idea about planting those plants, by the way. That is a great idea.
 
crayola, making a hoe might not be as hard as I thought which would give an axe or a large knife another important use.

Ron Hood attached a piece of copper at the end of a walking stick which would make it a sufficient root digger.
 
Some info & drawings of tools made by NW Coast Natives that may spark some ideas:
http://www.class.uidaho.edu/arch499/nonwest/northwest/theirtools.htm

This site sells primitive type NW Coast Native tools, including elbow adze that were traditionally made from an alder branch crotch and crooked knives. They sell both the completed tools and kits to make your own. For $0.50 to $1.50 they have info sheets that tell how to make some of the containers used by the NW Coast peoples and some of the tools used to make them.
http://www.rockisland.com/~kestrel/

A very comprehensive webpage on primitive hide tanning techniques that includes some of the manufactured tools used.
http://www.abotech.com/Articles/Richards01.htm

Sites dealing with primitive tools or skills.
http://www.primitiveways.com/
http://www.prairiewolf.net
http://directory.google.com/Top/Recreation/Outdoors/Survival_and_Primitive_Technology/Shelters/
http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Outdoors/Survival_and_Primitive_Technology/ (page of links)
 
educating yourself in the many ways of edible plants is a long wandering meandering topic. It is deep but the payoffs are there.

Also gardening is one way I got my wife involved in my survival ways. She is the green thumb in the family, I simply asked her if she would help me plant a few herbs in her garden, she was excited I was into her thing. She was also excited cause she knew I was gonna be the row maker. So it became a way we both can share our interests together.
TEAM WORK in a family the importance of which cannot be stressed.


Thanks rokjok, you led me to many great links with the info I seek.

BTW, a group of us down here are hiring a guy from the gulf coast who specializes in nature tours, showing the many uses of edible wild
plants.


Spend the idle summer days studying, one day you might need it.

It is foolish if not deadly to wander in the winter, but it is great to wander in the summer when the living is easy. who knows you might actually learn something you never would have thought of.
 
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