To give you some backround information. I am a 67 year old retired farmer from Wapak, Oh and was a rual newspaper driver for close to I think 18 years. There is an amish comunity at Degraff, Belle Center and Kenton, Oh all within 30 mile from me. Have not gotten aquainted with them tho, they use the closed buggys. Then there is the Amish comunity around Holmes county that is the largest in the nation and there they are allowed to use tractors on steel as stationary power units but will take them to the field and say what the bishop does not know will not hurt him, electricity in the barn but not in the house.That area is about a hundred mile from me and have friends that have Amish friends there. The group that I work with is from around Berne, In and is the second largest Amish comunity in the states. I got aquainted with them before I started the newspaper route. I needed some work done around the farm and just had to fire a local person because of bad work. Then I found out about a man that lived 4 mile from me that halled a Amish crew, he brought them out to check the work I had and they started that day, the next day he went home to mow his yard after dropping them off and when he came back to pick them up was just putting a lader away and talking to him , he was walking about 15' in back of me, all at once I heard him say "I feel dizzy" and turned around to see him fall against a tree and then the ground, in those 2 seconds he died. They had to get home so I took them and we made out that I would pick them up and take them home till my work was done. Well after that I kept hauling the crew and sometime a second crew for a year when they decided they needed someone that could stay with them all day as I could not do and do my farming. But in that time I got to know them very well and what they needed. I had gotten aquainted with a small scrap yard in Eureka, Il that had plenty of machinery they could use after buying a antique wagon off of ebay for $10 from them. In coresponding with the yard he sent me a list of machinery that he had, I though some of the smaller pieces they might be interesyted in. There were several steel wheel hay rakes he had on the list. When I showed the Amish the list they said get us those rakes so that is how I came to be doing what I am now doing and that is buying Items at farm sales for one of the Amish men to put in his small store and I am rebuilding steel wheel hay rakes for him to resell now, this past year I did 3 of them including painting, first 2 in harvest season and he had them sold within 2 weeks of delievery, year befor about a half dozen but they were unpainted. Lot of other machinery like wagons and field sprayers. I have since gotten aquainted with anouther Amish man and he has a shop that he builds new manure spreaders and disks among other things and buys and sells machinery. His shop is lit by solar power and he has 3 arc welders that are powered by a generator that he built. He does a lot of small engine repair. On the machinery they would say I don't need to see it, just buy it and bring it to me. And the person that I am getting the items for now has always offered me more than I would have asked for the item. Long but a history of me and my aquaintence with the Amish. The group from Indiana have the open buggies but use a lot of Honda engines. Just gradually fell into it.
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