pics from an Amish auction

Kerry50 · Nov 2, 2012

Buddy and I went to an Amish auction today. Here are some pics of what we saw. Was really disappointed in the quality. Looked like 3 or 4 families cleaned out their sheds and had a sale. The only thing I bought was a loaf of homemade bread and a jar of molasses.

Daryl in PA · Nov 2, 2012

:roll:

greygoat · Nov 2, 2012

Ingenuity..the work they go through to avoid
rubber tires..yet still put on rubber treads!

Kerry50 · Nov 2, 2012

greygoat.......exactly...I do not understand. Did you see the power unit on the baler?

kyplowboy · Nov 2, 2012

Went to one last winter, all kinds of neat stuff and milk cows. Coolest thing I seen was a hand crank sausage grinder with the handle replaced with a small hydrolic motor. Had ISO nipples on it to plug it into one of their steel wheeled/rubber treaded tractors.

Dave

Kerry50 · Nov 2, 2012

Dave....one thing I did see that was interesting was their sheep shears. The shears had a flexible coil running from a hand crank to the shears which powered them.

just another old geezer · Nov 2, 2012

It's not the rubber tires that is the sin, it's the air in them.

Tim(nj) · Nov 2, 2012

I've got an antique cow clipper (with a box of NOS blades yet) like that. Was made by Chicago Flexible Shaft Co. around 1910 or so.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 2, 2012

(quoted from post at 19:13:35 11/02/12) It's not the rubber tires that is the sin, it's the air in them.

Sounds about like the same problem our politicians have... :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :roll:

Heat Houser · Nov 2, 2012

Doubtful if it is homemade bread. Around here, the Amish signs all say, Home Baked Bread. Stand around the grocery store and you'll watch them buy dozens upon dozens of frozen dough loaves.....

They didn't lie 'cause they didn't say homemade....

casenut1 · Nov 2, 2012

Double Roll!

Old Roy · Nov 2, 2012

tractor engines can be run only run as a stationary engine, to run baler. (PTO or belt driven.)
The exception is if machine can have it's own power source , and it can be horse drawn it is OK in Most Amish rules. The rules don't apply if Amish is working on farm other than Amish owned land.

Roy in UK · Nov 3, 2012

Looking at that baler, they can"t use rubber tyres but they CAN sell the wheels complete with tyres that they took off the baler before they converted it to run on steel wheels. But once they put steel wheels on a machine they can cover them with treads off a tyre?

Bruce from Can. · Nov 3, 2012

The original "run flat" tires!!

55deere70 · Nov 3, 2012

Look at the engine on that baler. It doesn't look like a Wisconsin. It's probably a diesel as some Amish can't use gas, but diesel is OK.

Bret4207 · Nov 3, 2012

Ya know, I realize not everyone lives near and knows Amish. And I realize not everyone can look at something they don't understand and make sense of it. Amish are just people, pretty decent people for the most part. Each church has it's own rules that they set up in an effort to keep the farms going and families together and to live within Biblical principles. It's about that simple. We have one of the strictest sects here and some stuff does make little sense- flash lights limited to 2 cells for instance. Still, I figure that's their business and not mine. I know for a fact they can't understand why anyone would put $40K or more into a pickup truck or let their wives and daughters dress like tramps, cover their bodies in tattoos, allow their kids to be rude and abusive or why anyone would collect old tractors. That's to say nothing of killing off babies int he womb at the rate of almost 2 million a year. But I also know they figure it's none of their business. Makes sense to me.

JD PHIL · Nov 3, 2012

Nobody said they were smart, work harder at crazy stuff like rubber covered wheels, most are only amish if it gets them something for nothing.

Traditional Farmer · Nov 3, 2012

Yep if you see well mannered,well behaved kids these days there is about a 95% chance they're either Amish/Mennoite or home schooled.

Dachshund · Nov 3, 2012

Not always - there are Amish/Mennonite kids with the same problems as "English" kids - sometimes worse.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 3, 2012

Interesting they won't have pneumatic tyres but will use the rubber over steel.

Leroy · Nov 3, 2012

Anything with air in is out, sollid rubber is OK except on the buggies. They have up to 2 years to convert machinery bought on rubber to steel.

Tony in Mass. · Nov 3, 2012

Yeah! The Amish up the road from me did that too, bought the ready to bake frozen dough at the supermarket, but man was that good the way she made it. Like fresh from a French or Italian bakery, and not smokey either, just- better than homemade at my place!

Bret4207 · Nov 3, 2012

(quoted from post at 05:13:07 11/03/12) Nobody said they were smart, work harder at crazy stuff like rubber covered wheels, most are only amish if it gets them something for nothing.

That's about the stupidest, most illogical thing I ever heard. It's like saying most women are only women if gets them something for nothing. They are born into it.

Jeeze, this place is filling up with morons and idiots.

RGMartin · Nov 4, 2012

Jeeze, this place is filling up with morons and idiots.

Not just here my friend. Everywhere.

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