An Amish tractor? Say what?

[k0ua]

I struggle with their beliefs. I guess I need to devote some time to educating myself by visiting with them. For example, it's not proper to own a car, but it's okay to hire one to haul you wherever.....

Your not the only one. I don't understand any of it. And my feeling are that if you have a belief then you need to stick with it. If you think tractors are bad, then tractors are bad. You don't stick stupid wheels on them and then allow them. You don't use battery tools because electricity is a bad thing. None of it makes sense, and the "slipping down the slippery slope" and changing you "beliefs" because they are more expedient seems hypocritical to me.

Ok, you can have a gasoline engine powered baler, but it has to be pulled by horses and have a stationary engine. NO. If engines are bad ALL engines are bad. And if power tools are bad ALL power tools are bad. If telephones are bad, then ALL telephones are bad. You can't have one outside in the rain.

Jeez...Hold to your beliefs or change your beliefs. Don't do things half axed, and make concessions to reality. Oh sure a nice JD tractor and now you have to wreck the tires.. yeah, that will keep you on the "straight and narrow". Uh huh.

But what do I know. People do stupid things. I have done a few myself.

 

[lilranch2001]

at 66 years old, I still tend to do something stoopid daily!

 

[k0ua]

at 66 years old, I still tend to do something stoopid daily!

1 year behind ya...

 

[Industrial Toys]

My Dad used to bring certain Mennonites Garbage bags full of freshly laundered but rejected work clothing and gloves. FREE. In one of those interactions, he had bought eggs from the woman and was short the exact change. She held out until she got the full amount. That about sums some of them up. Friendly facade, but there's them, and there's everyone else.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

amish mowing

 

[sixdogs]

Same where I live, ALL the Amish here have tractors on normal rubber.

SR

By Amish, do you mean the black clothed, black bonnet types? Or the Mennonite that might wear the lighter blue pants, drive a car and seem more modern?

 

[Industrial Toys]

Here, it's straw hats after May.

 

[sixdogs]

That is really interesting. We go up Sugar Creek twice a year for the wife to go shopping and I enjoy looking at the Amish craftsmanship and products. I will have to pay more attention to the tractors from now on. On another note - the Chocolate candy place (Coblentz) in Walnut Creek has some of the best chocolate I have ever had!

Yes, Coblentz is the best there is. For anyone reading this, find out if they have mail order and if they do, order something. I like their dark chocolate mints--like Peppermint Patties--but it's all good. Best I ever had. Order some for the wife and when she gets them just start shopping for a new tractor and implements. It's that good.

Coblentz Chocolate in Walnut Creek, Ohio.

 

[goeduck]

Agree with the others. If air in the tires is not allowed, why not fill them with foam or fluid?

 

[sixdogs]

Agree with the others. If air in the tires is not allowed, why not fill them with foam or fluid?

Bishop did not say so. Order, structure, respect and preserving the culture and way of life are all things. Local control.