Yes it can work temporarily on a local scale if people get back to basics; food, shelter, clothing. But there are so many problems with barter as anyone can tell you who has tried it like I have. Money makes it easy to compensate for partial values and settle. Say you offer your services of half a day for 2 1/2 live chickens. How do you make change? Then what if the guy shows up with sickly chickens much smaller than you imagined?
Money settles problems like this. You look at his chickens and pay him or not. You only have to deal with the value of one side of the transaction at a time. The guy with the chickens you want doesn't have to be the same guy who wants your services.
Barter also causes problems with egos. Dishonest people take advantage of you. You have to develop bartering skills in addition to your regular trade. The number of skills has exploded in the last century. People need to specialize more. A "doctor" can no longer know everything about the human body. An electrician who wires new houses doesn't know how to troubleshoot electrical in complex industrial machinery (that's what I do).
So money is necessary to make value portable. People can't concentrate all necessary skills in one small town.
Now if we have hyperinflation like in Germany, Zimbabwe etc., we can barter, but we will need to give up all high technology and live like the Amish. It will be an extremely frustrating, difficult life because our cities are not configured to live like the Amish, and our people don't have those skills.
How many of us are skilled at farming, raising animals, butchering, making clothes, and repairing houses?
Those are the skills that can be bartered when money has no value. Nothing can be had from a distance.
Most high technology like these computers can't survive on a barter system. If you know everything it takes to make and sustain computers, batteries, electricity, and the internet you will know why.
Most of the food we consume in the US is produced at a distance. We would need to move to small towns surrounded by farms. But people already own that land around small towns, so it would skyrocket in value, and your house in the city would be worthless. We would need many more farmers, etc.
So yes, upon radically changing our entire society and life style, we can live with barter. It would mean giving up everything we know, learning new skills, and starting over.