Amish farm sale

DLMKA

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There is a farm sale coming up in two weeks for a 5th generation Amish farm in Arthur, IL. Some of the items in the sale bill were sure fun to look at. Especially this one with a team of horses pulling a rack cart with Ford engine to use the PTO to drive a round baler. I'm a little over 2 hrs away and am planning on going to this sale if nothing else but to look at some of the adaptations they've made to their equipment to match their lifestyle.

http://www.auctionzip.com/cgi-bin/auctionview.cgi?lid=2277810


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They seem to have a lot of smart people in that area just look
at there furniture shops and other things and you have to go to
aurthur and try out yoders kitchen they have really good food
 
You see forecarts with engines on them all the time
around this area. They use them to power everything
from balers to cornpickers and discbines.. They
also use ones with batteries for hydraulics for
plows and other implements that require a lift like
cornworkers. Most of them around here are on steel
wheels. They are also now using tractors with steel
rebar wheels and driving them on the road, but I
don't think the local authorities like it too
much...
 
Why are they having the farm sale????? I just don't get using an engine forcart in place of a tractor if they used horse drawn implements as is would be one thing!!
 
Cephus and Lonnie Yoder are selling out they own Yoder's produce market next door to the Amish comunity center. They are tired of the rat race of running a business and are moving south to Ava, Illinois to return to farming.That's what their cousin told me. I spent the night at their house this spring after testing different walking plows and Teams. Good Christian people fun to work in the field with, excelant food too!
 
(quoted from post at 14:59:38 10/29/14) Why are they having the farm sale????? I just don't get using an engine forcart in place of a tractor if they used horse drawn implements as is would be one thing!!

Fortunately for them, it's not up to us to decide what makes sense for them. Lots of English horse farmers do that same thing, use power forecarts, and I have a time understanding the concept too. But realistically, they are all under the same pressure we are- you have to produce as much high quality as you can. They pay the same high taxes we do, their fuel costs are the same, the good horse drawn stuff is 50-75 years old now. It's an attempt to stick with horse motive power and a workable way to use PTO power.

A power forecart will use a LOT less fuel than a tractor on the same implement. That much is for sure. They are just trying to find a workable balance point. And it's not all Amish. Ours don't use power forecarts at all.
 
I went to an amish auction once years ago and I
must admit it was a real education.There was a
tidy farmstead with painted barns yet he didn't
have $ 2000 in machinery.I like the engine cart.My
nieghbour made one years ago to run a baler with
his 8N Ford.It looked a little odd with
tractor,engine cart,baler and wagon all following
each other but it worked for him for many years.
 
Some of these amish and older farmers were geniuses when it came to ingenuity. Look at an old wards or sears catalog from back in the day.Seem today if they cant buy it and it does at least 24 rows forget it. lol I saw where one guy and i imagine more than one pulled a picker then a sheller behind it then the wagon. One exception is a you tube video where they show them in a foreign country picking corn and how they handle it on ear on a big scale!
 

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