09221 Essential Equipment and Supplies for Resilience
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. — Unknown
This is not a suggestion to go out and buy all this stuff. They are basic lists of useful stuff. Not everyone has the resources to buy every tool on the planet. Not everyone has the room to store every tool on the planet. Everyone can be part of a community that can find the resources to buy and the space to store this equipment and make it available to members of its community.
These lists are in addition to the items listed in 09211 for a household bug-out bag.
Equipment
Hand Crank Grain Grinder.
Water Purifiers with spare cartridges or filters
Battery Powered Radio (AM-FM-Shortwave)
Flashlight
Rechargeable Batteries
Solar Battery Chargers
N-95 face masks
High quality respirator and replacement cartridges
Detailed maps of your region
Water siphons
Fuel siphons
Winter/cold weather sleeping bag
Tents
Basic tool kit (pliers, needle-nose pliers, wire cutter, Phillips and flathead screwdrivers, crescent wrench, vice grips, hammer, set of metric wrenches, set of English wrenches, Allen wrenches, hex wrenches)
Saws — hand saws, carpenters saws, hack saws, extra blades
Power saws — jig, skill, saws-all, chain, miter extra blades
Knife and saw sharpening equipment
Garden tools (wheelbarrow, shovel, hoe, rake, pitch fork, spading forks, seeders)
Plumber’s snake
Bicycles and/or adult trikes
Air pumps for bicycle tires
Bicycle patch kits
Bicycle/trike trailer
Buckets with lids
Rope
Solar cooker
Miscellaneous Supplies
Duct and gorilla tape
Rolls of clear plastic
Matches
Polypropylene underwear (or other layers of thermal underwear)
Ponchos/raincoats
Warm weather gear
Bleach — 1 gallon of bleach will purify 16,000 gallons of water.
Seeds
Selection of nails and screws