Many people today might not even know what blacksmithing is. However, it's a tried-and-true method of making tools and other metal items that people relied on for years.
Today if you needed tools to perform your job a person would simply drive to the store and buy them. However, in the early days, you would have had to the village blacksmith and they turn a flat piece of iron into almost any type of tool that you needed. You might be surprised to know that there is a growing number of people who are into the old art of blacksmithing.
We're big proponents of being as self-sufficient as possible, and we're very intrigued by the idea of being able to make all of our own tools. Plus, we really like that old-school techniques are gaining new appreciation!
Article Source: The Homestead Survival
You need a welding course first and best to say take the safety class. Heavy metals. But if the shtf it’s the best job.
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I’ve been saying for a long time that the days are coming with automation, drones, and electronics taking the place of order takers, customer check-out employees in business’, and with Internet marketing, we will need to learn the ways of the Pioneers and people living 85-years ago, as done in the Depression of the 1930’s, and begin to live the life as the Amish. Jobs will be lacking for the population of today especially when billions of dollars are redistributed from individual, business and corporate taxes to the illegal immigrants and sanctuary cities. Can’t you see what’s happening? And with a void of workers, the funds will not be available for distribution from government monies or from other organizations that give ‘temporary help’ as machines and electronics don’t PAY TAXES. I sincerely believe that if you don’t become familiar with, and use, some of the old-fashioned ways of 7 generations back, you’ll be lost in the changes from people working to automation/robotics taking the place of employee’s. Can you see it is coming already? I can. Call me old-fashioned and weird, I don’t care because I AM, self-admitted, but I’ve been concerned about what’s happening and what the future appears to be coming to soon, and IT IS DAMN SCARY.