Amish at work

[Cat_Driver]

AMAZING work by the Amish. Love this No cranes, no tractors, no electric tools, no power saws. Just man, hand saws, hammer nails.


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[Green Power]

Wow! Get enough friends over and i suppose you can do about anything.

 

[Garandman]

That seems to link to an app download but here is a time-lapse of a huge barn being raised in 10 hours, 7am to 5pm.

 

[lockhaven]

The Amish actually do use power saws, they have nothing against using equipment. They do not want to be "connected" with the outside world and electric lines are seen as a connection. They will use gasoline powered tools or generators. The community works together on the large projects and it is amazing to watch. Two tobacco barns have recently been built around Collomsville, PA. They are like any other group of people, most are very friendly and they actually have "drivers" on call that take them to places not practical for horse drawn travel. The local Amish welding shop actually has a tractor with forks for lifting of the heavy items. It has steel wheels and is only used to move and load steel and the finished products. Generators run the welders and other required equipment. The telephone has its own little house because like electric the telephone is considered an attachment to the outside world.

 

[nybirdman]

The Amish actually do use power saws, they have nothing against using equipment. They do not want to be "connected" with the outside world and electric lines are seen as a connection. They will use gasoline powered tools or generators. The community works together on the large projects and it is amazing to watch. Two tobacco barns have recently been built around Collomsville, PA. They are like any other group of people, most are very friendly and they actually have "drivers" on call that take them to places not practical for horse drawn travel. The local Amish welding shop actually has a tractor with forks for lifting of the heavy items. It has steel wheels and is only used to move and load steel and the finished products. Generators run the welders and other required equipment. The telephone has its own little house because like electric the telephone is considered an attachment to the outside world.

The Amish(old order) in our area are not so liberal.NO phones,generators,power tools unless run by a belt system tied to a diesel motor.Ours will not run anything with wheels at all.The also won';t put any lights on their buggies even after many car/buggy accidents.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I had an amish crew replace my roof last year. They use cell phones and power tools, but they hire a driver/helper to get them to the jobsite. They did a good job, but did miss nail a few shingles which caused 3 to blow off.

 

[SPIKER]

Lived in Amish area for most of my life, & worked around them too. The barn on my place was built by a local crew (from Apple Creek) their Deccan lets them use cell phones and power electrical equipment via generators etc. However as Birdman said the way the local Amish are are not typical, just a few miles away they are old Amish Sect which their Deccan prevents all those modern amenities. It really comes down to the Deccan and the local church as to what is OK or not.


Mark

 

[2458n]

The Amish and German Baptist are in my area . Some have horse and buggy some drive tractors and some drive cars.Bought some bushes and could not dig them on Sunday. Broke the handle off my shovel. Went to the house with buggy in front yard and oil lamp on the table. The man said he had a shovel in the barn. Went to the barn,and it was full of John Deere tractors. He gave me a shovel with a pipe welded on for a handle. Many times you see a tractor pulling a trailer with a Bobcat on it.

 

[RichZ]

We live in an area with several different orders of Amish. Each community has a bishop and board of elders, and they decide what technology the community may use to survive in the world. Different orders allow more or less technology. We have one group that allows cell phones and computers, but only for business purposes. We have another group that allow community telephones, but again, only for business, We have another group that only use phones owned by "English" friends or neighbors. We sometimes use Amish work crews on our farm, when we can fit into their schedule. We have several Amish friends, and in certain situations we have driven them to places that were too far for them to reach using their horse powered vehicles.

 

[murphy1244]

Lived in Amish area for most of my life, & worked around them too. The barn on my place was built by a local crew (from Apple Creek) their Deccan lets them use cell phones and power electrical equipment via generators etc. However as Birdman said the way the local Amish are are not typical, just a few miles away they are old Amish Sect which their Deccan prevents all those modern amenities. It really comes down to the Deccan and the local church as to what is OK or not.


Mark

My crew came from Fredricksburg and built my Barn using a Bobcat w/Auger.

 

[lockhaven]

living near an Amish community I made it a point to educate myself about their customs and rules so as not to embarrass anyone. The old order Amish which many think are "The Amish" have elders that decide what the rules are. That is why some do not use any motorized equipment and others do. The younger men seem to always be pushing the boundaries with whats accepted, again this varies from community to community. They do have a time when they are in their teens, Rumspringa it is the time of youth around 15 or 16 before actually joining the church that many in some congregations seem to break the rules. The Amish make a decision to join the church and follow the rules of the congregation as young adults. Their attitude towards work and community are without equal in my humble opinion.

 

[wawajake]

Where it gets tricky is when they compete for construction business . We have a few sects in our area too, and local contractors would not mind competing with them, if they were under the same safety and building code constraints as they are , but that is not the case...........here the local safety and buidlding inspectors turn a blind eye . Maybe they miss it all happening because it happens so quick.........they built a barn across the road from me........no safety harnesses whatosever, they used manual mandrels to put in the roof screws, but tractor to install the posts (pole barn).............their black horses sat in the hot sun tied to a post for ten hours......... miserable looking horses, I felt for them.

 

[oldballs]

Too bad we don't have a time-lapse of the Pyramids or the Cathedrals of the middle ages. But I don't think they went up in one day.