What Am I Looking At Here

...what's going on with the wheels?

Yeah, you're correct, but what's the point?

-Slim

Flat free!
Actually some cannot use rubber tired vehicles

Funny to see brand new cab tractors on steel

Thank you DanD for pointing out WHY no air filled tires....

another mystery solved!
now WHERE'S my kitten hiding ??

Jay

SO.........your nick name for you wife is kitten?????

Some of the real staunch Amish around here can't even RIDE in a vehicle with rubber tires.  Go figure....  If that's what your belief is.  God is GREAT no matter which way you look at Him.

Ky.Allis wrote: I've been told that a large population of amish in an area can almost bankrupt a community because most of real estate they own is actualy owned by the church so there is no property tax to pay. Don't know if it's true or not but it wouldn't surprise me if it is. Two things that I absolutly can't stand when I look at an item in a store are the words "Amish" and "Organic". Just part of the scam nowdays.

I purposely don't buy dairy products (or most anything else) in the store labeled "Amish".  I prefer that my milk was carried in a stainless steel line to an electrically powered refrigerated tank.  In the Amish farms, it's put in a can and placed in a trough of water that is pretty much ambient temperature...even in June, July, and August and not picked up on Sunday!  I will however buy a little garden produce from them.


Edited by DanD - 10 Feb 2016 at 4:52pm

The use of 'modern things' that obviously make life easier has become a 'slippery slope' for those very religious groups. I sduppose it's an 'intepretation' thing....?
I wonder though about the use of tractors or any 'engine powered' device as doesn't that pollute the 'breath of God'?
curious, don't mean to upset anyone.

found the kitten..under the deck atop a pile of Roxul insulation ! He's a whole lot warmer than me this morning...thanks Shameless !!

Jay

if you ever do business with Zimmerman Tractor in Versailles MO, they are Mennonite i believe.  They have a farm that is on the same property as their crawler salvage business.   The have newer tractors with steel wheels.  I found interesting that they had a service trailer on air tires hooked to steel wheel tractor.  guess they dont ride on trailer?  They did a very nice conversion on a TD9 crawler, 5.9 cummins, pto, and 3-4 hydraulic remotes they farm with it.  Showed me pictures of pulling a field cutter in wet ground with it.   Very neat and well done.  Buggy parked up by the house last time i was there.

Edited by CAL(KS) - 11 Feb 2016 at 9:14am

The Amish around here have carts to pull behind their horses that have a engine with a PTO shaft adapter thing on it, then they hook it up to hay equipment like a tedder or baler and pull it with their horses. Also, since they aren't allowed to have rubber tires, they have a LOT of treaded skid-steers.

WD45Diesel57 wrote: It's all up to the head bishops of the church.

Amish would be welcome to move in next to me anytime, be better than the drug using welfare bunch that lives there now!!

What's an Amish woman's fantasy?

about35 or 40 years ago I worked at Kentucky fried chicken, and worked part time at a nursery in town. late one summer we had a couple amish girls early 20's older than me helping pot plants. Once we crossed the threshold of coming from different centuries was very enjoyable, and incredibly interesting to talk to. One day I brought them Kentucky fried chicken for lunch. Needless to say that was a big treat, next time we worked they had gotten up before milking and baked me some sugar cookies in a wood stove. Best cookies I ever had. Their community was dwindling here and they were all heading back to pa.I only knew them for about 2 weeks, and before she rode off in the sunset in her buggy, the most outgoing girl told me she would love to have a car and a pair of blue jeans. If I hadn't gotten in on tail end of things I might have me an amish bride today.

Just as WD45 DIESEL57 said, it all depends on what church they attend. The church tells them what they can and can not have. When I was a kid, the only minnonites around here were in Todd county. They had electricity, lived in nice homes, farmed several acres, had hog or chicken houses.
Depending on the church, some could not have tractors over 70 hp, some no tractors over 100 hp, and some could have whatever size of tractor or combine they wanted. There were some Miller Brothers that had 4 articulated 4x4 tractors and 3 case 1480 combines hack then. And a whole Hassel of all size tractors and equipment. But they drove tractors to town.
Then we had some old order minnonites move in here. They farm with mules or horses, all implements on steel, they have fore carts with motors that they pull disc mowers, tedders, bush hogs and spreaders with. Their hay baler have motors on them. They can have one tractor with steel wheels big enough to run the stationary chopper and blower to fill the silos. Usually one tractor is shared by several families. These have to travel by horse and buggy on the roads.
Then there was a bunch like the ones above, but they could work tractors and combines in the fields, but they had to have steel wheels. I have sold some tractors and implements to this group. They will tell you that you can have the tires back. This group has to use horse and buggy to travel down the road.
And lastly, Amish. A whole lot different in some ways. Farm with mules or horses, they too have the forecart with the motor for pto implements. And motors on their balers. With all steel wheels, and they too share one larger tractor on steel to chop and blow the silage at the stationary chopper. It is cut and loaded with mules and hauled to the chopper. These do mostly milking, tobacco, cattle or strictly vegetables and such. They are as a whole group, more dirty, but not every one of them. Some of these will not use any modern tools to build barns and such, they still hand drill and drive pegs.
Needless to say, we have been surrounded now, and they are still moving in. They are just like anyone else, 95% of them are good likeable folks, but that 5% give the rest a bad name.

oh yea, around here anyway, the way to tell Amish from minnonites, Amish wear black coats, pants and vest if they have on a vest, dark blue shirts, black hats in winter, straw hats in summer. And they usually are not wearing shoes unless it is about zero. Old order Minnonites wear blue jeans material coats and pants with a pale green or very light blue shirt. Regular minnonites wear about the same clothes we wear. If any of them are married, they have a beard. Not married, no beard.


Edited by KY poorboy - 11 Feb 2016 at 10:02pm