No ROPS allowed

[cpicton1]

Lots of children. They need a lot of hands in the field. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Sometimes the women are at our local Walmart selling homemade baked goods. Everything made from scratch. Very nice people. Don't take them for dummies, they are simple people but pretty sharp. In our area they have a rural Amish school with his and her outhouses. Every fall the local Amish here buy a truck load of Hershey chocolate to make homemade candy to sell to us English for the holiday season. Good stuff. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I know people that have done business with them or done favors for them and they say they are honorable people. If you do them a favor they will be more than happy to repay that favor. They pay for everything in cash. No plastic here. They take turns having Sunday service in each others houses. They mostly still live like our ancestors. I think I'm glad I wasn't born to Amish parents. I have heard they have to work pretty hard to keep their children in the Amish belief. Their children see all the things that modern children have access to and they wonder what it would be like to live like them. Some of them do leave the clan when they can. From what I understand they sometimes import and export people or families to different areas of the country to prevent inbreeding. Can you just imagine being a kid now days without Nintendo or PlayStation? Wow, I don't think my teenager would survive five minutes in the Amish way of life. Lucky for him I couldn't either. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[rockyridgefarm]

Often times Amish teenagers are allowed freedom to "run Wild" a little before they settle down. I heard about some boys that had gotten into trouble and were sent to jail. Problem was, the jailer had to let them go. The jail was far too comfortable for them. Back home they went, where they had it much harder.

The amish build some wonderful barns around here. We really would love one, but they come at a dear price. There is on at Will Rogers Birthplace that is "to die for" Oh well...

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Not taking away anything from the Amish, or anyone else for that matter, but it seems to me that the point here is-

<font color="red"> A folded ROPS can't do its job, and that can get you killed. </font>

All of us have attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs that effect the risks in our lives- some subtly, others greatly. Some amount risk is unavoidable, some risk is acceptable, and sometimes risk is desired. Cost vs. benefit often is a deciding factor in determining what risks are to be mitigated. And in many cases the most obviously dangerous situations are the best protected, while the seemingly mundane ones prove to be the most dangerous, typically through complacency. The truth is that most safety systems are not entirely passive- the user needs to be involved in their own safety.

Also, this tragedy illustrates the huge difference between static and dynamic systems. Something, like a tractor, might be able to sit on a very steep slope and not fall over. But the same thing in motion can be be upset by relatively small factors.

My heart goes out to the family, and especially the children.

 

[StoneHeartFarm]

There is an Amish window shop near here. All of the tools are air powered. Out back there is one great big gas powered air compressor.

Steve

 

[rockyridgefarm]

Well Put, thanks

 

[Soundguy]

Yep.. seems like every group is different. Where my stepfather hunts up north, the hunters buy bread pies and quilts from the locals, and even have a guide show them where the best hunting is.

They were allowed to have tractors on steel.. no rubber.

Soundguy