Round baling with 6 horse (well, mule) power

[RalphVa]

Amazing! Amish mules pull modern baler. Old-fashioned meets modern technology, aerial drone view. - YouTube

 

[k0ua]

Amazing! Amish mules pull modern baler. Old-fashioned meets modern technology, aerial drone view. - YouTube

I don't think I will ever understand the Amish. They have no problem with an ICE engine running the driveshaft, and hydraulic pump with a big red hydraulic reservoir on the "little prime mover cart", yet we can't have a tractor pulling the whole contraption. Nope, that would be against my religion. Same for the bale loader wagon.. You can have all the engines you want to do what ever kind of work there is to be done, but they have to be separated out not unified? You must look a horse in the butt in there somewhere. Seems really really absurd.

 

[chim]

I looked at the other videos that "717drone" has and recognized several locations here in my backyard.

I don't understand a lot of the reasons behind how the Amish determine what's acceptable for them to do. Much of it has to do with being "worldly". I recall working on new homes with an Amish crew when I was a young electrician. The superintendent and plumber were given permission by the bishops to get licences and drive. The plumber drove a van and picked up the crew to transport them back and forth. This was before cell phones, and the business phone was in a small red phone booth across the road from the super's house. The super couldn't have a phone in the house because the wire would have connected him to the world. His house did have electricity, because I connected a well pump for him. He may have had some special dispensation to have power wiring to his house.

I was in a new house being built for one of their workers and it was strange to walk into freshly plastered walls with no switch or receptacle boxes. The plasterer said he told the Amish guy it would be a good idea to rough in for electricity for when he sold the place. The Amish guy said he's building the house for himself and it won't be sold.

 

[lman]

Those contraptions probably cost almost as much as a tractor. My neighbor is Amish and he started mowing yards in the area. He uses a tractor and trailer to move his equipment. He uses his tractor on the road more than in any field. Before that he worked at an RV factory and rode his bicycle an hour and 15 minutes one way to get to work.

 

[k0ua]

Those contraptions probably cost almost as much as a tractor. My neighbor is Amish and he started mowing yards in the area. He uses a tractor and trailer to move his equipment. He uses his tractor on the road more than in any field. Before that he worked at an RV factory and rode his bicycle an hour and 15 minutes one way to get to work.

Yeah, I don't "get it". It just seems absurd to me. If you are going to live by the old way, then live by the old way. All of your haying should be done with horsepower. The kind you feed oats to. Not this absolutely asinine method of having horses pull a cart with an ICE engine running a hydraulic system and driveshaft to a MODERN baler. Don't go around in life doing things "half axed" and trying to figure out some way to live up to your religion and have all the efficiency of modernity too. It makes you look disingenuous and a fraud.

As Yoda said "do or don't do, there is no try."

 

[chim]

Many people don't "get it" when viewing any religion that is not theirs. Can't eat cows because they're sacred? Can't eat pork because it's unclean? Have to eat fish on Fridays? A virgin birth? Using weed in worship? Handling poisonous snakes?

All of these make perfect sense to the followers.

 

[Avenger]

Looking at this, not from a religious stand point, but from a practical stand point. Looks cool, gets the views, but whats the point? Engines doing all the work, mules just pulling them through the field.

 

[Diggin It]

I go to an Amish store. They have refrigeration and an electric cash register that doesn't seem to be battery powered. But they have no overhead lighting, only a number of skylights.

 

[Ford850]

Some can use solar electricity since they are not on a grid. That’s they key to their beliefs.

 

[BertZegers]

Every body knows to count money in multiples of 10, but when it is distance, acreage, volume and all the other, than they use an incomprehensible ancient system.
Now that is weird, but not for Americans.

Just saying.