One of the tools that can best see you through calamity is the chainsaw.

No matter if you live in the countryside or the burbs, whether the situation is epic failure or localized in nature, one of the most important tools in your collection is a chainsaw.

It will allow you to provide the most basic rudimentary necessities of light, heat, and basis of cooking.

I know that such can be acquired through the use of manual implements, but the chainsaw will accomplish such needs far outpacing manual implements by economy and quantity.

Even though the possibility of replenishing expendables needed to maintain and operate the chainsaw are low, the initial yield performed by such an implement far outpaces the the work of five individuals using manual implements. Better to use the chainsaw with resources available, than to start off cold with manual tools.

A chainsaw not only provides the means to provide quantity in heating and cooking resources, it also allows for the facilitation of transportation in the time of localized or permanent disaster. It allows for the continuation of egress, in the times of natural or man-made obstacles, to swiftly facilitate extraction from a potential danger zone. A single tree can cause life threatening delay in route of travel regardless of cause.

A chainsaw is also EMP proof. It will work when everything else fails. There will be plenty of time to use manual tools once fuel and lubricants are exhausted. The chainsaw will provide the base in which you can build from, circumstances providing.