Amish you got Old Order and New Order, very easy to tell, Old Order don't use buttons, dey use toggle & loop. Both orders strictly governed by der Bishop who sets rules. Both absolutely right, TV rots de brain. Pretty much all seen TV and agree.
Dey also got Amish Internet, set up in english neighbor house. Don't directly interface to Amishman he get only paper printout and reply on paper english poke in keyboard.
Got Amish newspaper too all in Dutchie, and run own schools to Grade 8. Learn about twice what english learn in 13 years.
Got Tracphone but english helper or young kid gotta answer or dial. Dial 911 OK if necessary.
Also got mini MagLight- OK cause makes own electricity just like Diesel wid electric starter OK same reason.
Use Superglue cause all glue comes from hoofs & hides, Bishop says so.
Wives got sewing factories in houses, machines driven by compressed air motor wid compressor outside. Bishop OK
Some got reefers off trucks wid ThermoKing units. Some even got ice cream truck bodies Diesel powered.
No electric in house is disconnect from english world, plenty candles and candle stands. Mini MagLight gets between candles when needed. Women very well educated, dey can tend garden, can food, cook food and make wonderful pies almost good as my baby sister. Use little different oven, but I workin wid Bishop's daughter's husband to build her nice beehive oven in yard. Dey makin firebricks for de oven liner. Husband runs lumber business switchin over to softwood cause furniture business in US dried up. Used to cut precut chairframes & such for manufacturers. His dad runs machine shop, lineshaft Diesel driven. Got way more between his ears den most english so called machinists. Also repairs steel wheels.
Wood wheels mostly Ohio product, shops der producing at capacity 6 days a week. Dey wise to every trick in de book and you not getting a cannon wheel, not even in pieces from any Amish shop. Against der belief.
Rubber tires bad because dey soft ride disconnect man from earth. New order and even some old order Bishops little softer on using rubber. Seems like most use rubber on power cart between horses and machine. Got 1 Bishop bout half convinced to approve rubber tires wid steel tread like compactor wheels. He goes for it bud of mine gonna have to puthis wheel shop runnin.
Amishman South of me runs steel roofing factory. Fair price and good quality. Got 9 year old son on forklift and de kid is good. No screwin around, all invoices hand written and added up in head den checked by second person. Bishop approves propane forklift but not electric.
Get around Lancaster you see a parade of Amishmen in and out of linoleum factory. OK to work der using modern machinery cause dey can't buy enough land fer everybody to farm. Same in cheese factories.
Amish got der own health care system too dat pays hospital and doctor bills. Dey tough negotiators when talkin price. Sorta like Christian Health Groups.
Amishmen real good at bumpin up against rule, maybe even bend rule little by little, but Bishop still de boss.
