Yeah, these guys have a big workshop with a diesel engine and belts and
shafts and things running in a trench in the floor, with enormous old
woodworking equipment in there. At the sawmill (diesel engine driven)
he has a table saw with a motorcycle engine driving it. They have a
sorghum mill with a huge old wood-fired steam boiler (and a whistle!) to
heat the evaporators.
I go there and they don't feed me, I gotta work on that as the women and
girls are always working in the kitchen cooking up some fine smelling
stuff. I think these guys sorta tolerate "the English" but would rather
not socialize too much, though they always have time to engage in
conversation and are surprisingly knowledgeable about a lot of things.
I got talking to one of the older guys one day, who observed one of the
boys sorta sideways eyeing one of his girls, and remarked it was about
time to ban him from hanging around (he was maybe 12 or 13). Too funny
-- we sympathized about boys and girls and their behaviors.
I went to some Amish auctions up north of Ft Wayne (where I grew up, er,
spent my earlier years), I still have some very old oak barn beams I
bought in the 70s and a Stickley farm kitchen table. One auction they
were selling the farm and everything, I watched one guy pull a $30k roll
out of his pocket to pay for the farm.
--R
LWB250 wrote:
The Amish are allowed to use internal combustion engines for various things - I
used to sell them engines years ago in northern Indiana, where there is a large
Amish community. The typical setup was an engine used to run a jackshaft
through a building. The jackshaft had numerous pulleys on it that used leather
belts to run machinery, like woodworking equipment, for example.
No generators, no electricity, no pumps, etc. I think they were only allowed
to use them for work related stuff.
Good customers. Always fed you when you visited and paid in cash.
Dan
--- On Thu, 2/11/10, John Reames <jwrea...@comcast.net> wrote:
From: John Reames <jwrea...@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Hey Andrew
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 12:00 AM
Probaby have the engine to spin a
compressor to refrigerate milk... The multiletter agencies
are kinda funny about that...
--
John W Reames
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On Feb 10, 2010, at 18:04, Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net>
wrote:
A guy I know was telling me about some Amish people he
knew, they had a diesel engine for something (they will use
diesel engines directly but not generate electricity with
them for reasons that are not clear to me) and ran the
radiator into the house to warm it. So I'm thinking
you could get your diesel car, do a bypass on the radiator,
hook a gen head to the crank pulley with a long belt and the
gen on a wheeled cart that would roll right over the engine,
like a hospital bed table, and you would be good to go as
long as you had diesel.
--R
Peter Hertzing wrote:
In regards to the fireplace - I would get a wood
insert for the fireplace.
Then you can power the blower with your new gas
generator. This would be
the lowest cost way to be sure you would have
an uninterrupted heat source.
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