By survival standards, this is a high-tech way of fashioning a tomahawk.

In a survival situation, though, these skills would be worth their weight in gold, particularly if you had to make your own tools or weapons to get along!

Knowing how to work with metal and wood – with power tools or by hand – is a critical skill you must learn if you want to make it through a long-term survival situation.

Eventually, all tools break or wear out and if the situation is dire enough, making your own could be the only way you can get access to what you need!

While modern tools such as grinders and sanders make this job easier, the basics of metal working and woodcraft apply and would be critical in a longer-term survival situation.