I see this all the time. I live in Amish country and most of my friends are Amish. They are wonderfu,l happy, hard working people. The children are happy, healthy and well adjusted. The children work hard everyday. They go to school untill eighth grade then the boys get a job, usually with the fathers and the girls help the mothers for a year or two then they get jobs either helping another family or in a store. Its not an easy life but I have never seen happier healthier children.
Every Amish community is different. But it's not about the technology, it's about the connection to the outside world. The Amish do not want to be connected to the outside world. A gasoline or diesel pump might be ok, but a telephone or electric service is a no no. Depends on the community.
I'm curious as to if they wash and brush down the horses after the task of spreading "the brown" and such.. they are beautiful horses and look healthy but was just wondering.. thx
Nikki Richards Absolutely!! To the Amish their horses are extremely essential.. They use them for transport and in this case on their farm for things such as this, plowing, or harvesting . They take their horses livelihood very seriously. For without them they would essentially lose everything
@@JoshuaSmith-xw6jp I have seen literally hundreds of buggy horses and have NEVER seen one being run. They go at a trot. Also, I have never yet seen one gasping for air. Yes, they use them but they do get breaks when they get to their destination. The buggy horses get the same care as the field horses, it's just that they are used for a different purpose.
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in India they do not put cow dung into water but dry it into briquets. Because cow dung is pure and antiseptic these briquets are then used as fuel in the house. Cow dung contains all the antiseptic properties.
According to a friend who is dating an ex-amish, his family and friends go in and get all of those shots just like everyone else. But that's his family and people he knew so ya can't say everyone does it
I dont get it, they use horses but to fill the tank up they use a tractor, why dont only use the traktor , more efficient, less fuel needed and less manpower^^ i know its the amish but the tractor s running anyway
Thought the Amish life style was meant to be a life free of electronics and machines? that old red fella parked next to the slurry silo runs on diesel last I checked..
Maybe ur so backwards that u dint not wat ur talking bout.u get out n try doin that.ul see wat it takes to do something like that.u probably don't no the difference from a cow to a horse
The tractor does not have rubber tires. Look closely, both rear and fronts are steel wheels. Amish do use modern tractors on steel wheels as a stationary power source for things such as the pump or a silo filling blower. I saw a similar Amish operation in Lancaster County in 1993 so they have been doing it for near 25 years. They do not use tractors in the field pulling implements. Steel wheels do have an advantage... no flats!
Amish do run self propelled equipment they just can not own it we have a few that help us and in return they use our equipment for various different jobs the horses can't do
I take it they dont own that farm? Far too modern for amish....big silo's and round slurry tanks?! Tractor and pumps are probably belong to the farm but there must be a pump on the tanker? Unless some sort of pto is rigged up to the wheels
I think a PTO was hooked up to the wheels of the spreader it doesn't propel very far and all it would need is movement to work. As for everything else there are silos on my farm and the Amish built then without modern day technology, they also built me slurry tanks this past year. My big thing with them is the tractor unless there is someone else working that tractor then these aren't proper Amish
No doubt that is an Amish owned farm. I saw many like it in Lancaster County in 1993. I stopped and visited with an Amish dairy farmer who had a large tractor on steel wheels using it as a stationary power source for his under ground manure storage pit pump and also a pull type silage chopper sitting stationary at his silo. Chopper had discharge spout removed and silo fill pipe was attached directly to chopper's blower. The spreader tank has a gasoline powered engine located on the front of the tank under the seat/upper standing platform. Pause the video, look closely and you can see pulleys and a drive shaft down the side of the tank to the rear spreader fan housing.
@@justinmartin8887 No it's not a blower. It's exactly what the man described it as. The Amish convert pull type forage choppers that were designed for tractor use and they use them at the silo as an ensilage cutter. They take the head off and make a conveyor table in it's place and take the wagon spout off and hook it to the blower pipe on the silo and then bring the cornstalks to it instead of vice versa. And he was describing Amish. Not Mennonites
@@justinmartin8887 The machine that I saw was a late model ( for that time, 1993) Gehl pull type forage harvester on rubber tires. The two row head had been removed and replaced with a conveyor. Corn stalks were harvested in the field with a horse drawn but engine powered corn binder, tied in bundles, put on horse drawn wagons and brought to the farm yard. Bundles of corn were hand laid on the conveyor and fed into the chopper. The field spout had been removed . Silo pipe was attached directly to the chopper's blower housing discharge. The dairyman SAID that they were Amish. There are some Amish near me in North Carolina. They have as modern of operation as any other dairies around here. Fully electric milk parlor, milk pasteurizing and bottling facility, tractors on rubber, modern tillage, planting, hay and silage equipment, they use ag. chemicals and so forth. Their modern house is fully electric, telephone, heating system, etc. They do not have trucks or cars, they still use horse drawn buggies for their transportation on area roads. The father and I had a discussion about them being so modern. He said we are not Mennonites, we ARE Amish, just more modern ones .
Could one become amish? Like if i wanted to say fuck it and go live a life like that with those people. How could you be accepted by them? Maybe im just high.
Depends on their order what they are allowed to use. Some are allowed to use motorized equipment but aren't allowed to drive. Some are allowed to drive but without rubber tires.
