Eventually, after months and years of living in a world after the grid has gone down, certain tools and weapons will become ineffective. You will need to rethink how you are going to survive.
Sure, there will always be that garden in the backyard, the fresh water well, and your much-treasured pantry. But how do you plan to protect your property; that which you have struggled so hard to keep thriving?
Early on that might not be a problem but eventually you may need to learn how to forge your own weapons or tools that will keep you in meat (aka – hunting) and discourage predators from plundering your stash and loved ones.
The prepper on the next page, with his well-appointed workshop, has decided to try a great hack using a lawn mower blade and a little ingenuity!
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Mark Bauscher
Erin hayes
Working on this one now for camping
Shanrod M. Kennedy
Dennis Dodrill Jr.
Most lawnmower blade steel is crap for knife making.
Looks like the handle is the wrong way
Mark Schwartz
SMH. Unbelievably dumb.
Debbie McPeak
Carl
The leaf springs (1060 spring steel) of early Toyota or Datsun cars & trucks are a far better medium. If you can heat to 1800F and have steel carbide flux you can forge your own (folded or not) tanto or karambit. Chris laniro is right… lawnmower blades were quality until the mid 80’s. Classic mowers had thicker blades that were tempered at the forward side much like a katana blade.
Matt Whipple
Johnny Gaglione
I was thinking same thing!
Still got mine
Old rusty files make great blades. A bit on the brittle side, but they hold an edge a good long time.