On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 23:54:36 -0700, Too_Many_Tools
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On Aug 4, 9:05 pm, john wrote:
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I was visiting my Amish friend today. He has several ceiling fans and
a pedistal fan run with air motors. One has a Sproul W16-10 motor
that has 6 cylinders and a swash plate design. The others have
oscilating cylinder, single cylinder units. Another has a Gast and
Thompson direct drive motors. Google searches have not yielded
anything. Do any of you have any manufacturer information? These are
made in Pensylvania and are popular in the Amish Community there as
well.
Bob
One of those Amish loopholes? How do they generate the compressed air to
drive the fans?
The Amish loophole that I admired was a modern piece of farm machinery
being pulled by a team of horses with a 350 chev. engine mounted on the
drawbar driving the pto shaft. They should think of going into politics.
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Politics and religion are one in the same...just different names.
TMT
The BASIS for the rules of the Amish, Old Order, and other
"Conservative" anabaptist sects were very plain, and made a lot of
sense. It was all based on 3 things -Humility,being a "separate
people" and "brotherhood"
The "separate people" became the "plain folk" which tied in with the
humility. The "Brotherhood" dictated that none in a community would
have and use something another in the community could not afford.
So you have the Amish who drive grey top buggies, the "old order"
amish who drive the same with steel wheels and no buttons or zippers
on their clothes and farm only with tractors.No rubber boots (even
heals or soles), no rubber belts on machinery - basically still in the
1600's. You have the Old Order Mennonites who drive black buggies
(some with fancy green pinstripes, some red, etc) and who generally
have rubber tires, may have buttons and/or zippers, and wear rubber
boots. Some of which have advanced to using tractors(some only with
steel wheels - and only red or green in color) all the way up to some
of the Amish and "reborn" who have extremely complex farm based
businesses, with CNC machine shops, tube mills, laser cutters, etc in
state-of-the art (or in other cases, straight out of the '60s) shops
run off a deisel generator (or occaisionally domestic Hydro) while the
homes have no hydro, and usually also no phones.
It's interesting here in Ontario to see the "reborn " (or David Martin
Mennonite) women going in to do the shopping with the horse and buggy,
talking on the cell phone, talking to Hubby out in the machine shop,
being reminded to pick up his cigars/chewing tobacco/machine parts/or
whatever. (Locally known as the "Mennonite Mafia")
Sadly MANY have totally lost sight of the basis of their beleifs and
the reason for the rules they supposedly live by. Many have found ways
to bend the rules and rationalise things, while many others
consciencously live the "simple life" as "the silent in the land".
You have to admire them (those that "walk the talk"), even if you
don't understand or agree with their beliefs. Some very inventive,
intelligent,hard working, honest and unselfish people who believe in
doing what is right, doing it right, and not taking any credit for it,
have made hundreds of thousands of acres of marginal farmland into
some of the most productive land on earth while leaving a "carbon
footprint" that is the envy of the most rabid "Greens" and
environmentalists you could find.
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