JD 4020 with strange wheels

Seen this on craigslist. Whats with the wheels, used by the Amish maybe?
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They use all types but i now see that the Bishops are starting to let more of them using regular factory rubber. I live near the largest group west of the Mississippi here in eastern Iowa.
 
Some Amish or is it Mennonites will not ride on anything with air in the tires or so I hear.
 
Around here that would probably be Mennonite .Amish didn't normally use tractors unless for stationary use. one group is starting to use rubber tired equipment since the bishop gave the o.k. but then he was there equipment dealer and that was good for business.
 
Some of the Amish around Jamesport, MO will use rubber like that on trailers and wagons - but not tractors. They have been doing it for years, but mostly because the city (village) got tired of fixing streets, so asked them to do it, or not bring heavy stuff through town....
They can't own tractors, but they can own a "Bobcat" if they have a business (the business owns it).
The group we live by is "Old Order", and can't have rubber on anything - except their shoes.
 
No---it is not that they won't ride in it, they won't pay for it. When the Amish built my shed the guy that hauled them around told me that. They used Dewalt cordless tools and at the end of the day they plugged them into the outlets in my shop--the lights dimmed for miles around. They couldn't own a skid loader or telehandler but they would rent one from the local Deere dealer---all with air in the tires. They did GOOD work and I was happy.---Tee
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The Old Order ones around us OFTEN get rides from English - and refuse to NOT pay for it! They usually pay quite well, actually....These can USE a battery drill, but can't OWN it.
It all depends on the individual District you live by....
 
Yup,you're right. It's all up to the local Bishop. They're the highest authority in the church. There's no hierarchy. No Amish Pope. If the local Bishop decided they could drive cars,there's no authority above him to tell them they can't. I know of one Amish sect here that can use chainsaws,air compressors,air tools,pretty much anything power driven. Another group on the other side of town can't use any of it. They pretty much stick to themselves and don't even intermingle.

There are two groups of Mennonites here too. The group that has been here longer than I've been alive,drive cars,trucks,have rubber tired tractors,serve on local boards,pretty much you wouldn't know they were Mennonite except for the men having thin little beards and the women wearing long dresses and little skull caps. Many of the women work as nurses and what not.
Then there are what we call the old order. Electricity and phones,but no cars,no rubber tires on tractors. Nice folks though.
 
Larry posted that quite a while ago. The one's around here are probably from the same group,most came from Pa. They use the same wheels on them.
 
AAMISH can't ride on air. some around here use only steel, others somehow streatch a perfectly good looking tractor tire over a steel wheel. some near the in-laws in Ohio use tractors with regular air tires but can't ride bikes. they all have cell phones for their "businesses" . some here can have tractors on steel but cannot use them for field work and use them to grind feed ect. others can drive tractors and use them like cars. many will drive a skid loader backwards down major 2 lane roads with 1 or 2 loaded hay wagons. amazing more aren't hurt.

I wouldn't buy it. in fact we don't by anything from amish. most times we get screwed and that's just simple stuff like honey or furniture. have seen others bad amish transactions.

Well known not to buy amish cars (kids get them when going thru rumspringer (wrong spelling)) as they don't know how to take care of them, buy junk in the 1st place and beat the snot out of them like they do their horses. Tractors would be the same way.. stay away

maybe its just the ones here in Northern Indiana.
 
I knew a Amish Man in Md. that repowered an old 10-20 McCormick with Deutz power. Just used it for belt Power worked well and didn't look very bad.
 
I saw the same ad, Michael, they hit like three local lists with it, and the asking price ($4K) made me think it might be a scam, anyways.

No one has mentioned any of the groups using the internet, even to sell goods. Now, if it had been posted in the Peoples' Exchange, I might believe it!
 
About a hour or so away there is a lot of amish, I seen a IH 1086 on steal. Nice machine with AC and everything. I even see some now driving cars. Not sure where they come from.
 
I live in a German community adjacent to a Mennonite community.

The Mennonites here are pretty much integrated except the women still will only wear dresses, no makeup or jewelry, and the little lace skull caps. Can't tell the difference on the men.

I once had a Mennonite woman work for me. She'd climb ladders and do most anything else while wearing a skirt.
 

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