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Amish Ingenity

I can’t make my mind up if $21k is a lot for what he ended up with, sounds a bit pricey.
Wonder how long the base was down before it was delivered, the grass seemed to have grown back well :eusa-think:
 
I read a nice write up on an Amish joiners shop in Fine W/Working.....
their machines were pueumatic powered...
anything else, they employ non Aimish person's to operate such......
they also use contract tractor drivers to plough the feilds....

I do like some of their furniture designs tho....
 
14:45 What sort of Monster comes down a ladder forwards?!? :shock:

I quite like the sensibility of not believing in using machinary etc but having no problem in hiring other people to use it on your behalf. That seems like a very balanced, self confident and restrained system of beliefs.
Without overtly bringing 'religion' up as a discussion it seems like an admirable creed. Anyway back on track. Somebody burn that kid at the stake for putting the ladder at what's that?!? 8:1! My God. Never been so offended...etc etc...
 
clogs":1f507778 said:
their machines were pueumatic powered...
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I follow an American Machinery dealer on Instagram and he had a couple of machines (a planer thicknesser and a bandsaw if I remember correctly) that in his words had been "Amishised" by converting the machines from being electrically driven to Pneumatic drive, and these weren't your turn of the last century archaic machinery you'd assume, they were very modern Italian machines like SCM or similar that couldn't have been 15 years old.

This article in Popular Mechanics about the Amish and power tools is quite interesting: https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/tools/a13077/how-the-amish-use-power-tools-15171374/

"No Amish person will use tech powered by standard electrical grids (it has to do with not allowing outsiders to have influence over their lives and families).

Nevertheless, the stereotypical image of an Amish barn raising, with crews of men building with hand tools, isn't quite accurate. In fact, some Amish people will use diesel generators and batteries as a common solution for electricity. And, as NPR's Planet Money recently found out while visiting an Amish trade show in Ohio, they'll use power tools, too—but only pneumatically powered ones."
 
I spent some time at Wharton Business School twenty years ago and we were taken to see an Amish furniture maker. We all expected it to be like on the film Witness - it wasn’t. They were making some beautiful furniture and it was a money spinning business. However it felt decidedly bizarre that while they shun modern technology the owner of the business employed someone from outside of the community to take and make phone calls on a mobile phone for him.
 
RogerS":21shu0ye said:
And yet they will use diesel fuel. Bizarre. As they say, nowt so strange as folk.
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Religions can have some unusual rules. I figure they know what they want, and as long as they leave me alone I'll leave them alone.

Pneumatic tooling is inefficient, but less of a PITA than most flat belt setups.

Kirk
 
My American lady lives in the middle of Amish country in Pennsylvania, see them all the time ploughing with mules, scooting down the road on adult size scooters like we had when we were children, the shops have a covered over area for their horses and carts/buggies to stand out of the Sun whilst the owner shops.
Strange that I haven’t seen any furniture that they make, I shall have to investigate, but it’s well-known if you order something to be made it’s not likely to fit, as they don’t seem to use tape measures.
There is another offshoot sect I think they’re called Menonites, they are allowed a little bit of technology and drive cars but all the chrome work is painted over black.
The Amish have their own language which is based on Swiss German so American is their second language which if you didn’t know explains why it’s difficult to talk to them sometimes. Ian
 
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