what are the top skills every Prepper should have for when TSHTF (farming, house)

[belovenow]

The title says it all; what do you think the top skills every Prepper should have for WTSHTF?

I'm thinking at the top of my list is the following:
Basic Medical knowledge (first aid, trauma treatment/EMT type skills as well as herb identification and remedies)
Hunting (all weather/all season)
Firearms ammunition reloading
Farming/Agriculture and preserving food
Mechanical and Electrical know-how. (Welding/Carpentry/Plumbing as well).
Fire Starting
Navigation
Camping including basic outdoor survival skills

Anything else?

[MTSilvertip]

Knowing how to set a fish trap or nets, knowing what local plants may be available to eat, how to purify water, might want to know how to make some basic tools like a knife from scavanged materials or knapping stone to make the tools you need.
Learning how to make weapons, and how to use them. In a SHTF situation you may not be able to take your reloading supplies with you, so once you run out of gunpowder, bullets and primers, you're SOL. Or you could learn to use a flintlock rifle and how to make gunpowder. If you can make powder, a handfull of pebbles in a smoothbore will kill something if you have to.

Knowing how to make a pot or vessel to boil or carry water would be handy.
How to make cordage from plant fibers for snares or whatever, or learning how to weave those fibers into clothing could spell the difference between life and death.

Knowing how to survive the weather in your area, how to make snow caves or how to avoid flash floods, how to treat insect bites, how to avoid animal attacks, there is an unending list of skills you would need in the case of a full blown SHTF scenario.

Short term survival will be the hardest, long term survival would be difficult but after the disaster had settled, you could have an idea of what remains for you to work with.

Basically, you need shelter and water, then food. You may or may not have the option to plant crops that take a year to mature or grow the next crop, or the several years required to grow fruit or nut trees, so things better be pretty settled before you start your Little House on the Prarie.

[jamies]

How to work a tank. Cause with a tank or two you can do whatever you want!

How to metal work.
How to make cars and trucks and electric things (work) again after an EMP.
How to make improvised explosives and such stuff.

How to make and keep friends - cause without friends you probably won't last long.

[fibonacci]

How to purify water.

PLOS ONE: Water Filtration Using Plant Xylem

[Gunluvver2]

Originally Posted by mbuszu

The title says it all; what do you think the top skills every Prepper should have for WTSHTF?

I'm thinking at the top of my list is the following:
Basic Medical knowledge (first aid, trauma treatment/EMT type skills as well as herb identification and remedies)
Hunting (all weather/all season)
Firearms ammunition reloading
Farming/Agriculture and preserving food
Mechanical and Electrical know-how. (Welding/Carpentry/Plumbing as well).
Fire Starting
Navigation
Camping including basic outdoor survival skills

Anything else?

Self sufficiency would be important but maybe even more important wouild be the ability to get along with others. When TSHTF the GOLDEN RULE will be the most important law.

GL2

[monkeywrenching]

Originally Posted by mbuszu

The title says it all; what do you think the top skills every Prepper should have for WTSHTF?

I'm thinking at the top of my list is the following:
Basic Medical knowledge (first aid, trauma treatment/EMT type skills as well as herb identification and remedies)
Hunting (all weather/all season)
Firearms ammunition reloading
Farming/Agriculture and preserving food
Mechanical and Electrical know-how. (Welding/Carpentry/Plumbing as well).
Fire Starting
Navigation
Camping including basic outdoor survival skills

Anything else?

sound mind and the ability to multitask.

[Submariner]

Self-Sufficiency.

If your living off-grid now, producing your own food and heating fuel. Consider what changes you need to carry that long-term.

If you are not already living off-grid now, producing your own food and heating fuel, then maybe your list is a bit longer.

[Gwynyvyr]

In addition to what has already been mentioned:

Butchering. You can ruin good meat with inept butchering skills!
Cheese-Making: If you are raising any livestock for milk, adding cheese would be a much valued item for your larder and/or barter.
Processing wool/fleece into yarn and cloth.

I have been concentrating on those three skills for the last couple of years. Have goats and alpacas.

[cowdog]

"Preppers" don't have skills, they have supplies. People with skills are at a different level.

[texdav]

You better have skills or your will shortly go from prepper to goner when SHTF.