Ot: how do they do it?

JayinNY · Feb 9, 2015

We got about 6 inches of snow last night I'm out here plowing
out the driveway and areas and I started to wonder how do the
Amish plow their places out? Just something to ponder! Lol

MtMan · Feb 9, 2015

They probally plow with their horses.When I was a young boy we had a snow plow made for horses. It was a V-plow made out of planks. The only problem the horses had to walk through the snow first. It worked for us.

L.Fure · Feb 9, 2015

Probably use a scoop shovel. That, or they hire someone to clean out the drive.

RCP · Feb 9, 2015

The local feed store had his workers remove the snow plow from his delivery truck, because they were plowing driveways for the Amish so they could make their deliveries.

ss55 · Feb 9, 2015

I don't know how the Amish do it now. Before tractors and cars existed, to get around in snow people replaced their tall spoke wagon wheels with low sled runners.

Formerly PaMike · Feb 9, 2015

All the amish around here have skidsteers. The ones that dont have a forklift. They make a little blade that goes on the front of a forklift.
I sold round bales to a real conservative amish guy. We pushed the round bales off the wagon. He said he used a horse and chain to drag the bales into the dairy barn.

rrlund · Feb 9, 2015

Same way that we have a tractor for every job,they have a kid for every job. lol

Adirondack case guy · Feb 9, 2015

The ones atound here bought the big Cub Cadet or Troybilt walkbehind blowers. The ones with either tracks or dual wheels.
On the other side of the valley (more traditional sect), they use a forcart with a blade fastened to it. The horses pull it through the snow. A horse or a team can pull a buck board or buggy through some pretty deep snow. Others just switch to bob sleighs. By us the bulk milk tankers pick up their milk at their farm. The otherside of the valley, they have comunity milk houses where they dump their canned milk into a shared bulk tank, and the truck picks it up there. I don't know how they keep track of individual production, or tainted milk for that matter.
We also have Menoites. They have modern tractors with loaders and 3pt snow blowers.
Loren.

Bret4207 · Feb 9, 2015

We have Schwartzentruber Amish here, the strict old order type. They use a rig thats kind of like a box with a back end lift gate, horse drawn. Some use old drawn road graders and a few use home made vee plows. Not a one uses any powered equipment for snow removal.

RayP(MI) · Feb 9, 2015

Some have a sledge like contraption with a box on it like a dumpster and a blade under it like a carpenters hand plane. Horses pull it through the snow until box is full and then haul it off and dump it. Crazy but it works if you have enough time.

oleozz · Feb 9, 2015

In central Pa many of the Amish hire an English to plow their drives. Makes sense because they pay English to haul them around so why not pay them to plow.

Dan in Ohio · Feb 9, 2015

Jay,

The amish around here use a sulky/log arch with a dirt blade suspended between the wheels and pull it with a horse or two. Does a nice job and made me ask myself why I walk through the stuff all winter long. My rig is green though LOL.

farmer123 · Feb 9, 2015

The ones around here hire guys with pickups with plows. They also hire farmers to plow thier ground with tractors and a month ago some friends got hired to drywall thier houses!

Rich_WI · Feb 9, 2015

Here, besides all the kids, they use a back blade on a forecart. Drag the snow up the driveway to an out of the way area, lift the blade to drop the snow and then circle around to start over. The horses can walk through pretty deep snow and as winter goes on, they build up a bank but its packed from being walked on. Its not a plowed bank like a truck makes, its spread out over 10 yards or so. They slowly lift the blade to drop a little snow at a time so the snow bank that gets made is gradual. Think of how scraper piles up dirt for a road project.

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