Lancaster Pennsylvania

[THess]

If you're interested in horse-drawn equipment, you need to look up Horse Progress Days. Many manufacturers make modern equipment specifically for the Amish and showcase it at HPD. Look it up on youtube.

 

[BIGNASTY]

THess

Thanks ill do that right now im always into anything horse/mule drawn for the farm. My Son wanted some exercise today when he came by for the day so I gave him a tool that will TEST ANY LOWER BACK!!!! And he wanted to know WHY DO YOU WANT A RIDING MOWER DAD? after about an acre or so he no longer wondered :-laf

 

[GHarman]

BIG and HH,

I'd show you my scar, but the censors would pull it down:-laf

And TDR would be put on notice by the FCC, CIA, FBI, Secret Service, et al! Ha Ha HaOo. :-laf

GregH

 

[BIGNASTY]

I have a few of them kind my own self Pard got hooked up with a barb wire fence tore the crotch right out of a pair of 501 jeans I WILL FOR EVER GO AROUND NOT OVER THE FENCE. That was about the only one the wife got worried about :-laf

 

[GHarman]

:-laf:-laf

 

[HHhuntitall]

I don't have anything that grotesque!!! Just some small stuff, mostly from animals, machinery, trees, and general jackassing around. The biggest is something like a 3-4" slash in my hand from a knife, and about the same on my back from some shrapnel... . nothing that long and certainly not that deep!!! Hell, they barely bled, maybe needed stitches... . most got super-glued.

 

[BIGNASTY]

I dont like them super glue one's they dont seem to hold the meat together very good or long and makes it kind of bumpy under the skin when it heals

 

[HHhuntitall]

Yes, but that's all that's afforded under my health insurance plan. Anything else is over the deductible..... :-laf

 

[Blu-meanie]

Some duct tape woud fix that. As for the @s, that's where I would find it if I expected it to be used by my wife. Think of donkey.

 

[Yo Hoot]

I live close to Lancaster. We have a farmers market right around the corner here in Bethel Twp, PA (Booths Corner Farmers Market)
Bill Haley and the Comets did their first gig there. Bill Haley used to live right up the street from me.
A couple of months ago Ernest Borgnine stopped in for a visit... . he died recently.

They (Amish) are good people. Many have gone modern. It's kinda funny seeing a girl in all her Amish clothes driving a Suburban talking on a cell.

I just bought a shed from them. . posted about it here https://www.turbodieselregister.com/forums/showthread.php?238404-Trailer-need-o-be-able-to-do-this

The sales office was full of computers and flat screens.

The place was right accross the street from a place called Rough and Tumble http://www.roughandtumble.org/
Claims to be the only school in the country where you can get certified to run steam.

To answer your question, yes, many have gone modern.

 

[jgillott]

A quick Amish story from my experience. In the spring of 1998, a tornado went through Salisbury Somerset county here in PA and destroyed quite a few of the Amish farm buildings in the area as well as part of the town. Several people from my company and I spent the better part of the week after there as volunteers helping the community clean up and begin to rebuild.



Spring of 2011, we had several tornadoes here in our area that left several communities leveled. The day after, several coach busses of Amish from Somerset showed up to return the favor all those years later. Never asked, just arrived. Stand up people if I may say so.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Yo Hoot

Thanks for your insight on this they did seem like nice people when I gave them my phone # and we talked. They are really into the farming and said that the land that they use is more than can be worked by animals. They sent pictures of the equipment and its in great shape. I feel kind of funny paying him what the asking price is, it's much lower than anything ive seen around here for a comparable piece of equipment.

 

[PToombs]

Big, 2 of the pictures you posted were taken at the New York John Deere Expo. I think those 2 mowers are owned by Gerry Abraham, a heckuva nice guy. He does beautiful restorations. He has everything from a Dain mower up to the Big #4 mower, plus other stuff.



Hoot, Kinzers is one of only 7 or 8 places in the country that have steam classes. It and Old Threshers in Mount Pleasant in Iowa are the biggest.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Yes those are fine examples of the era tools of farming if I owned them I dont think that I would use those in the field they are in immaculate condition. I would like to get some of the old horse/steam powered things going but I have way to many toys to be learning about steam power. Ive been making a list of Fairs and shows that showcase the older equipment and horse/mule power events and attend as many as possible in a year. Im kind of into the yester-year way of doing things. Life slows way down when its powered by an animal that walks at 3 MPH. I JUST WISH I HAD 2 GOOD LEG'S TO GO THAT FAST IN THE FEILD :-laf



BIG