There was a news reporter in Bloomfield, who would dress up Amish and take his girl friend dressed Amish to a bar in Ottumwa, smoke (when you could smoke indoors) play pool, drink Bud Light and get a ton of stares. Did that all the time.
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Many in Davis Co. own all sorts of business, making windows, saw mills, lumber yards and many do carpentry work. They get around by hiring drivers to get them to the job site, or do the horse and buggy. the work ranges from high quality to complete garbage.
I’ve had a battery back up for 8 years and can’t complain. It’s also never been used outside me testing it occasionally.
I’d look into a back system that uses water pressure from your houses water line. Those seem really fool proof
I recently learned of this. I was in Independence and a bunch of them showed up at a gas station. A buddy of mine says a lot of retirees take driver jobs for the Amish and make pretty decent money.
Yes they do, but they smell up the cars so people around here will use an old beater to drive them around.
You can make good money hauling them around. I know of at least one retired gal that purchased a multi-seat van to haul them to out of state to family weddings and gatherings. I know another guy that every Friday night he would be contracted by a group of them to order pizza from Casey's, pay for it and then delivery it to their house, where they would pay him for the order and his time. If they own a business they are allowed to have a cell phone for their business and many use that for other things.
My brother before he passed used to haul them rock for their buildings, farms and businesses. When he passed they owed him 10s of thousands of dollars in rock and hauling chargers that they had not paid. My nephew had to go to the local Amish elders in their area to explain the situation and gave him a list of people and what they owned his father. Within a week they all paid up, their entire community will shun a person or family that makes their group look bad, and not paying your debts is considered a huge no no in their society.
B O is a huge problem and the few people I know do like you say, transport them locally in old beaters of vehicles.
My uncle had a decent livestock hauling business back in the 70/80s. My dad would work for him and would tell that the Amish would hire them for an auction. Dad would pull up and they would climb into the trailer and ride to the sale and then they would ride home with anything they bought in the trailer after the auction. It was ok to be in the trailer since that didn’t have the motor.
Today most groups allow you to ride in a vehicle, you just cannot drive a vehicle, nothing that runs on gas or diesel. So those that own a fork lift for their business use natural gas to run their skid loader or fork lift. Many have small wind mills to get electricity, they just cannot be on the grid. In Davis Co. there is a mix of Amish and Mennonite's and the latter group is a lot less strict but for the average person they get lumped all together.
I e done a little work for the Mennonites and they only difference between them and the average joe was they were much more strait laced and had more livestock.
I had my sump pump back up in 2010. After that I have been through 2 backup Sump Pumps as a standalone unit with a 12 hour battery. - It has saved my ass at least 3 times since. I set it up so it just easily threw it onto the outside of the house. From there I could connect it to a longer hose to carry it out in the yard if needed.
I won't own another house without such a backup system installed ever again.
Depends on the bishop. My Amish crew that built our garage was allowed to have a phone, but our farrier from a different area cannot. But you’re right, most allow it.
I spent somewhere around $1400 a few years ago on a Honda generator. Can't believe how quiet it is. I figured I could use it for tailgating and also have it available to run the sump pump in emergencies.
