Nomad,
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Wondering if the Amish has changed their approaches to the internet. )</font>
If the Amish are using the web, I am not aware of it. Perhaps if you can design a computer that runs on compressed air they will use it.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( No plastic, no engine, no electricity. )</font>
The Amish in Turkey must be quite different from those that live next to me. They use plastic, engines (gasoline and diesel), and batteries to power their buggy lights and fences. I have seen them use some old equipment, likely motivated by thrift, but nothing as antiquated as a dump rake.
Usually, they will either manufacture horse drawn equipment or convert it to steel wheels and power it with a gasoline engine. For many years, Wisconsin was the standard power source for their field equipment with either a Petter or Lister diesel to run the air system. Now, Honda engines are very popular and I've seen diesel's of all makes in use.
Several years ago, my Amish neighbor split his farm into two farms and sold them to two of his sons. He opened a chain saw / string trimmer shop and lives in half of the new house that was built on the farm. After many years of using the neighbors' telephones, he constructed a phone shanty about two feet inside his property line and now the three families share a telephone.
