Round baling with 6 horse (well, mule) power
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k0ua
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No, it is very weird. I think out imperial system sucks, bigtime. We should have switched to the metric system back in the 70's when we said we were going to do it.
Weird and stupid is just weird and stupid. No matter if Americans do it or whomever.
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I liked the video....it is their way and it is fine with me. Good for them!
JLH4
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:thumbsup:I agree totally, I hate using King George's big toe (1") to measure things.:thumbdown:
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I agree. Good for them. Good honest lifestyle. :thumbsup:
quicksandfarmer
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I'm going to be contrarian and say that customary measures have evolved over time from being used for actual work. Ten is a lousy unit because you rarely divide anything into tenths. With a standard tape measure divided into 16ths, there's one half-inch mark, two quarter marks, four eighth marks and eight 16th marks. They're all different sizes, and you can just tell by looking which type a mark is, you don't have to count to know the measure. With a metric ruler or tape, you have cm and ten mm marks, the fifth one might be noted somehow but you have to count. A 16th of an inch is the smallest unit usually used it carpentry, it's half a saw blade. A mm is about a third smaller and I find it too small to be useful.
Acres and miles used to be logical but got screwed up. At one time in Europe there were two competing measures for the foot, called the short foot and the long foot. England used the short foot and most of Europe used the long foot, which was 10% longer. At that time a mile was 4800 feet and an acre was 36,000 square feet, which are great units for doing math. England eventually switched to the long foot in order to facilitate trade with the rest of Europe. Rather than redo all of the land records, all of the units of measure above a yard were redefined to be 10% longer. So a mile became 5280 feet and the acre became 43,560 square feet. This was almost a thousand years ago.
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Avenger
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To each is their own. But I think the gal driving the horses with a sickle bar is more 'authentic' than the Amish who pull gas powered equipment though the field with a team of mules. Still, both videos are fun to watch.
I have never met anyone who is Amish, or someone who prefers to live like we did back in the 1800's. I know nothing about their culture or religion. I think it is fascinating to watch people make or do things the old way, and I enjoy learning all that I can about that type of craft. But the Amish video just kinda seems like cheating to me.
I have never met anyone who is Amish, or someone who prefers to live like we did back in the 1800's. I know nothing about their culture or religion. I think it is fascinating to watch people make or do things the old way, and I enjoy learning all that I can about that type of craft. But the Amish video just kinda seems like cheating to me.
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It's a different way of thinking. The "modern" way is to be faster and more productive so we buy very expensive equipment. To pay for the equipment, we need to farm more land, THEN we need more equipment. It is an endless cycle that creates mega farms and crashing commodity prices. I doubt the Amish have big bank loans on those mules and horses like the modern farmers have on all that equipment.
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Around us we have the "Old Order Amish".They carry hay to the baler;do not us a motor that is moving.They do run stationary motors for saw mills,pumps ect. Some will ride in a vehicle;most only in an emergency.They have no electric or phone hook-ups to their homes.