[AT] Slightly OT: horse drawn implements

[John Hall]

Whereabouts do you live Gene? We went to Lancaster several years back and 
noticed most of the equipment was fairly "modern".  I asked an amish fellow 
about wheat and he said it had been gone from the area for a while.
  I watched 2 boys baling hay for a bit. When they got to the end of the 
row, the older one would turn the team around. If there was a small pile of 
hay that the baler or rake had missed, the younger boy would jump off the 
wagon and get it. Waste not want not, I guess.

John Hall

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Dotson" <gdotsly at watchtv.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Slightly OT: horse drawn implements


>    These implements are very common with my Amish neighbors. They still 
> use
> the binders and threshing machines. Also plow with the sulky plows and put
> the hay up loose. Many of them are running with the tounques cut short and
> pull them behind a forecart with the seats mounted on them. Some of the
> carts have 2 or 3 seats on them so the young kids can ride with them.
>    They use no tractors for any power and use mostly diesel stationary
> engines. I do some of their maintenance work and not unusual to see a
> turbocharged 6 cylinder White diesel on a hammermill to grind feed.
>    Four families bought 143 acres across the road from me. They plowed 22
> straight days with 3 and 4 teams of 8 horses pulling 2 bottom plows to
> finish their fall plowing. Would have liked to have taken a picture of 
> them
> working, but they don't allow their picture to be taken. Would have titled
> it "Amish Plowdays". It was a sight each morning seeing them bringing the
> teams to the farm leading them behind the buggies.
>
>                    Gene
>