Tell me your freakin’ clueless without telling me you are freakin’ clueless. You speak like you actually know something but you really are just plain ignorant.
The South became "poor" as a result of the War of Northern Aggression and Reconstruction (the South was occupied by the Northern Army for 12 yeas after the War). Before the War the South was the richest part of the country. People in Kentucky and Tennessee were mostly small farmers. There were no coal mines and no poverty.
Chris Smith you are missing the point of this lifestyle. Living an organic way without harming your body and the environment. I only realized this doing my missions with farmers here in Palawan Philippines. To give you an idea Chris organics food is twice as much healthier that foods grown used in agro chemical farming. You will have the same product but the benefits won't be the same. Am an accountant back when I was in Chicago but I will choose an Amish lifestyle the the former. For sure the benefits on your body is tremendously far better than the latter. I may look clean as accountant me And my family ended up dying from cancer. Except me, a group of farmer nurtured my body back to health thank God by living and eating like this Amish people and adopting the farmers way of life. No more cancer for me now and I survived it. Now it's my third time to survived my clean living only to realized the benefits living filthy as you described. No pun intended, while you still have a chance, try to study and learn their way. You will thank me later. Now I'm the farmers champion, as much as I can do to spend my remaining days to further adapt theirvway of life. Visit my fb and see how i lived RAPTURO READY. GBU!
@@Patrick-sg7cm Yep, I understand why the Amish choose to do things the way they do them. The part I don't understand is others fascination with doing things the hard way. If all farmers still did things this way then a much larger percentage of our population would need to be farmers in order to support the food needs of the country.
I am 77 years old and grew up on a farm in central PA. In the 1950-60's we farmed with two tractors and my grandpa used one tractor and a team of horses. When we "filled silo" we did almost exactly what the Amish are doing on this video. The only difference is our binder had a deck on it that collected the corn bundles and the operator pulled a cord to off load the bundles. You off loaded at the same places going around the field so when you later came around with a wagon, you could be picking up bundles from piles. Neighboring farmers helped each other and it was great times! Everyone gathered in the dining room for a huge sit-down home cooked lunch at noon.
The difference between a solid community where the kid works and is healthy and life in the bad areas of the big city where the kid is on drugs and not looking so healthy. Guess what the government wants you to do.
Thanks- brought back a lot of memories. My dad owned one of these binders and I drove the tractor to pull it when I was a teenager. During my last year in high school, my brother and I bought our dad a welder for Christmas. One of the first repairs I made with that welder was to "build up" a worn chain sprocket on our corn binder. I can still remember the look on my dad's face when I handed him the rebuilt sprocket; he had never seen it done before.
One winter, my dad removed three feet of our gutter cleaner, chain, and welded the chain links back to original size. He would reinstall the repaired chain each day, and repair another three feet.
these are some of the most interesting and relaxing videos on youtube, with just enough commentary to explain but you let the beauty of it all to speak for itself.
You Amish should be proud that you live the life that our forefathers lived hard work ,good values ,great families and a love for God and what he's given us. In a way I wish our whole country could go back to what we've lost for progress. It's been so enjoyable remembering how I was raised on our farm .thankyou
We just visited Lancaster County and got to see some of this in person, but from a distance. I've never seen the whole process. It amazes me that the Amish are still doing things the old way. I love it! Can't wait to share this with my dad. We go to the Amish country every year from NC. It is so beautiful!
That was awesome. When I grew up I helped my grandfathers haul hay with a team of mules. I was young and ambitious to be like my grandfather. Love every minute of it. Dang we were tough. Loved that life. Wish my 3 boys could have experienced what hard work was, really.
Brings back memories, mostly good..although I wasn't Amish we didn't have much so most of the farm work was done by hand or what would be considered today as obsolete. I sure didn't have problems sleeping at the end of the day for sure...
When I was little I would always tell my aunt to let me know when she baled hay. The joy of looking at the hay mound at the end of the day and saying I did that.
Thank you for a walk down memory lane when my dad would open the field with his corn binder being pulled by his 1950 WD Allis. Once opened a custom cutter and his crew would make short work of filling our silo for another season. Love the smell of that fresh silage!
I've never seen anything like this before. It was very interesting to see all the work that goes into this process on a farm. Thank you for sharing this.😊
Wow- been watching midwestern combines harvesting!! In comparison-- This Amish harvest is a ton of work!!! As a very young kid I lived in Gap, PA and my Uncle had a church in Paradise- don't remember a lot, but I remember the Amish and the Gap clock.
Watching this I was reminded of how hard we worked in the 50's&60's at the farm I was raised on ,and LOVED every minute. Our horses could be a handful towing sickle bar mower ,then single horse pulling rake.Of coarse then using pitch forking hay on to wagon.Then a neighbor came along with a baling machine.With that it was necessary to have pails so we could run to creek for water to put out fire from spark the engine kicked out. Oh! ,boy have things changed.It was all good healthy work!Loved it! Thank you for video........
Amazing folks ! True hard working folks that were left behind in time. they put to shame Americans who can't tie their own shoes without a cell phone showing them how. God Bless those people.
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful video! What a terrific chance to see something that I would never have gotten a chance to see in my life. They were so kind to let us see how this gets done. ~Sharon
People forget what it is like to work! I grew up on a small dairy farm a lot of back breaking work but honest work. Thanks again for the video great job
same, alot of small square bale stacking on wagon. then hay loft im talking few thousands. hand shoving cow manure. we had a front loader. but was broken 99% of time. hand milking for a few years then we went electronic or computer.
We milked 60 cows twice a day, and could bale 1200 square bales a day, when the weather cooperated. Long hard hours, but I enjoyed it back then. Now, it would kill me.
I grew up in Lancaster Co, PA, just a fer piece over the hill from a couple of Amish farms. My first memories were with a belt driven wooden framed chopper and blower to fill a 40 Ft. tile silo but soon graduated to tractors and engine power. It's about the most beautiful land there is.
I live near many Amish south central Kentucky. I am amazed by their pristine houses, farms, landscaping, etc. Just awesome! Glad I found your channel to see more of the way of life from the inside.
Been around work horses and Mules most of life, they just love to work, and I love seeing do what they love. Our silage blower was run off a flat belt with a twist in to revers direction .
Thanks so much Opa. To read some of these comments about the draft animals and how they are abused and overworked is laughable. The world seems filled with opinions from ignorant people though. I appreciate you watching!!
This is wonderful in all regards. I love it. THX. Its great how they combine the new with the old.... A 3 horse team with a 3.5 HP Briggs motor to help with the harvest.!! Much respect from Maine.
Matthew 5 : 5 _"Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth."_ The Amish will be the only man remaining after we destroy ourselves with technology - hopefully we'll pump the brakes when we get too close to building "The Terminator". ... but I'm not at all certain we will.
As a Berks Co. kid I witnessed the Mennonites doing this 50 years ago. Left when I was 18 and yes I miss the simple ways but North Carolina winters are kinder and gentler. Great video, thanks for the memories.
I so admire the work ethic of these people. I've often thought of living near a farm like this in hope of being able to acquire non GMO food for healthier living.
Thanks for watching. Many of the crops grown here are GMO especially with the prodding to go no-till. There has to be some way to control the weed population. “Round-Up” ready GMO seed is the usual choice. Tilling can be used to control weed population but then there’s the problem of silt/fertilizer runoff pollution. There’s no perfect solution. There are organic farms here but they have their own set of environmental problems…plastic to control weeds, tilling and runoff,…. A huge waste of crop that isn’t high enough quality to be sold to organic buyers….
Funny. They do actually use Chemical Pesticides & Roundup. Each year I visit a particular farm to get 4 or 5 50lb bags of potatoes 🥔. It was then I noticed it. And they acknowledged it.
What an awesome video; I could almost smell the silage. When I was a youngster, I recall dad would hook up the corn binder to our Allis WD and open the field in DuPage County, IL. Thanks for the memories.
Amazing. When I was a kid and worked on the farm. We had a tractor that pulled the chopper down the corn field. We followed the chopper with the truck. Once the truck was full of chopped corn, we would take it to the sileage pit and dump it.
I absolutely Love the Amish People and the work ethics they instill in their Children is nothing short of phenomenal. I live close to an Amish Order in Northern Michigan and I also drive them to many places they wish to go like shopping for things they need. It is amazing to see them all get together to help one another get bigger jobs done in hours or days that would take the individual days or weeks to finish. I have seen them doing this corn silage many times. Thanks for sharing this.
@@MsErikdeking The use of any type of engine can be different in different Orders of Amish. There are some Amish that won't even ride bicycles and others that own big tractors with metal wheels so they cant actually be driven on roads. The majority do actually use gasoline or diesel engines that generate power for their tools such as saws but don't use any electricity at all. There are many false believes about Amish out there such as only married men are allowed to have beards. This is true in many Orders but some do allow it. I have been driving them for close to 3 years and they are without a doubt some of the nicest most loyal friends anyone could ask for. I had a medical issue 2 years ago and had 8 cords of firewood delivered and 8 Amish men showed up one morning and stacked it in my basement before noon and refused any payment other than the breakfast my wife fixed them.
New subscriber. Thank you so much for filming this! It was wonderful to see how my ancestors worked the fields. My mom grew up in an Amish/Mennonite/Brethern community in western Pennsylvania until she was 6 or 7 I believe, then they moved to town. The farm that they worked on has since changed hands and become a working farm/bed and breakfast. Much love from Oklahoma. ❤ Edit to add- I appreciate the care you took to not show anyone's faces when possible. ❤
Absolutely amazing and I wouldn't ever imagine how fast and the actual progress along the rows they are making. Thanks for your videos and thanks to those farmers too. You know you sound like that Mike fellow who does the big tractor channel. Haha. Thanks again dude.
We growed up like that too.one mule one wagon pulled fatter tied tops,pulled corn took out it in corn crib after shucked .took corn to a mill with water wheel..we done it all by hand too.grandpa built the wagons ,plows he was a blacksmith.. thanks for vedio.plus I ant Amish.lol.
The fields are very neat and The pastoral scene is very attractive what with the machine's work. I've always loved horses and enjoy watching them pulling the equipment.
With a name like Garden Spot Acres reminds me of the time we lived in New Holland, where the name of their High School was Garden Spot High School. A local cheese maker sure made the very best Swiss Cheese ever made and sold in the US - made right on the farm. (My maternal heritage goes back to Mennonite families from Lancaster County in the early 1800s)
Honestly was surprised to see a tractor powering a chopper blowing silage up into a silo. I guess I knew they used engines to power their machines, but never knew they were allowed to have tractors. But I suppose that tractor is just a stationary engine to them. thanks for the video!!
Grew up farming and I gotta say, that silage chopper is one of the most appendage eating implements that I’ve ever seen…reminds me of the old ‘ Eat Your Arm ‘ haybaler we had ! Be safe !
We lost a neighbor to a silo filler in the early 1950s, no one knows how it happened just that the tractor ran till it was out of gas and the farmer was in the silo that's all folks.
@@frankdeegan8974 Complacency, and loose clothing. That usually does it. I knew a guy that lost an uncle to a corn combine. My dad got caught in a PTO once, but his brother was there to shut it off. Also, there are people that are just risk takers and always have to flirt with danger.
Wow so cool.. gotta say the Amish are hard workers... And they also make beautiful and strong furniture... Hats off to the Amish 💯💯💯👍🏼👍🏼. Hey nice video.
It all depends on how the machines may affect the family and community. Too much mechanization leads to too much free time both of which can negatively affect the closeness of both.
I have the greatest respect for this way of life. Amish and Mennonite farmers keep their farms in pristine condition and are great stewards of the land.🇺🇸🚒🐄
Have done this many times in my teen years. Best to wear a long sleeved shirt if loading and unloading no matter the heat. Heavy breakfast, heavy snack at ten, full course dinner at noon,heavy on the mashed potatoes, another snack at three and a full course supper. Exhausting work but much worse if there is no bundle elevator and one has to load from the ground.
I don't see how you done anything but hold your stomach eating all that food. Light breakfast like biscuits and sausage gravy, or sausage biscuit, pack of nabs at 10. Sandwiches for lunch and bag of chips. Then you eat until you can't anymore for supper. But your really suppose to do it opposite I've read. Eat a king's breakfast, a princes lunch, and a peasant's supper. Either way I normally skip breakfast, and depending on how hot it is sometimes lunch, or just a chicken salad sandwich at most in hot parts of year. Then I'm starving by supper and eat to much. Your stomach is suppose to be your bodies natural alarm system if you eat right. I'm more of a water and powerade drinker instead of eating. I feel it slows me down to much. But then again ive never walked behind a team of mules or horses so there's that.
These activities were major social events for the neighborhood. The food was fabulous. Grdandma even made home made donuts, lemonade, coffee . i loved thesse stories.
Wonderful! Its so neat that these farming practices are still relevant today! I collect and operate antique farm machinery myself! I have 2 McCormick-Deering pto driven corn binders, one has the unloading chute. Got it in the field at a friends one year, but the knotter didnt work right. Still got that to line out. Also have a Case belt driven silo blower. I have done belt driven hammer mill demonstrations at show. I also have a youtube channel😊 keep up the great work!
When I was young, I had the stamina to work the Amish life, but not the appreciation. Now I'm old I have the appreciation, but not the stamina. What a shame.
That's cool . I got pictures of my Grampa and his Uncle swinging Sickles in the corn fields . Before the sun went down everyone had to help load the corn onto giant wagons and the horses pulled the wagons to barn and the corn was stored in a loft next to hay .
I say yes and no because if they lived the truth of the word of God then they are doing it right. Awake Amish and search it out in the word of God of your follies. There are other communities around the world doing it the modern ways and still are beautiful honest loving people which makes the world a better place. The Amish behind the seen have their problems also, so no different to the modern farmers who are good people also.
Maybe you should ask the horses about that. I have seen and heard over and over how the Amish, who people like you are always touting, mistreat their livestock. Horses that show up at auction houses are barely alive and usually not even worth the slaughterhouse.
@@GeekRex Yes I have heard of some abuses toward some Amish owned horses. There are far more abuses in the non Amish communities toward animals. But you are way off point and in left field somewhere because that is not the issue. The issue is the sale of butchered meats. If you think that a USDA inspected meat is actually inspected well you are mistaken. So you are against the private harvest of meats? I live on a Farm and the meat product is of a much higher grade before the livestock is sold to those that pump them up for slaughter The products are half of the quality of what they were upon slaughter. How about the feds stripping your means of life and the manner you support yourself
@@davidpotts3844 You are the one that is way off base. I simply stated that the Amish are not who they are made out to be. Taking care of their God's creatures is supposed to be a priority. They don't live up to it.
@@GeekRex The issue is that the Feds raided and shut down a family's livelihood to further and Agenda that want us all to be dependent on a failing Government system of total control. This is an infringement on our right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. It is a violation of our Constitutional Rights. Our Government is over reaching of their Authority. They want us to be solely dependent on their Authority only. This is them telling the people we don't have the right to produce food to feed ourselves. This Family wasn't selling their products to the general population it was a members only and was not in violation of the Laws/ Regulations. The point is the over reach of Government against the people. The Farm they shut down just happened to be Amish and that is not the point. Today it's that Family tomorrow it's you and your Family and then it's the total extermination. How we soon forget what Hitler did and we are replaying that same playbook
Love this video. I'm in sanilac county Michigan near Brown City and I never seen them use this type of equipment. Very interesting and everyone has to respect the hard work Amish people do every single day. Respect and I do admire their work ethic.
i was just thinking that, the price of milled timber from those big stores in towns and citys are going sky high. because people dont know that they should buy timber from the amish communitys, we should all be thinking of buying local produce.
@@LancoAmish that is a cheap price per board foot for pine and hemlock lumber. I love to go salmon fishing in Pulaski, NY. Every fall. Such an awesome experience and a beautiful area Central New York is.
@@smn39 , we just sold a camp we owned on Lake Ontario just south of the Salmon River. It was, as my brother called it, Camp Vicious. Mexico Bay is an absolute monster when the wind comes out of the west. We couldn’t keep up with the constant damage.
@@jeromestrange9 , my goodness, the “no taxes, is such a bunch of BS. Why would the owners of these sawmills write out receipts complete with quantity, price per board foot, total sales, and state sales tax? Kind of weird to create a paper trail when they are supposedly breaking the law don’t you think?
Awesome video. My utmost respect to the Amish. I noticed they seem to use 2 horses and a mule on many teams. Is there a reason? The young man can sure handle driving the wagon and handling the teams. The fellow doing the stacking sure works hard. Grinding or chopping the green stalks seems like it might be moist and mold in the silo. The tires on the old Farmall are very unusual.
No reason for the mix of horses and mules. The ones you see here just seem to work well together. Stacking is a hard job. The jobs are rotated regularly except for the young boys and girls who do not stack nor unload. The high moisture silage ferments in the silo. Properly done silage should be mold free.
@@LancoAmish Thanks for these answers. I used to watch the Amish doing their work in Lancaster County when visiting the Strasburg Railroad. I'd walk the 5 miles of the line and that way could see them at work. I always admired their way with horses and their hard work.
@@LancoAmish silage only molds if it the silage get air during and after the curing process.. in the 1970s i worked on a goat farm in northern norway.. we made silage even right after rain,, wet grass just ment we needed to add a bit more formic acid to the gras if it was a wet summer, by changing the nozzle of the formic acid sprayer mounted on the harvester.. here is a pic of the type of setup we used:: media.snl.no/media/42712/standard_compressed_forhoester.jpg
I would like to see more of the videos of other crops like potato crops sugar beets and other crops that they process and this is something that a lot of people should watch and see where our food really and with these Farmers go through to give us what to put on our plates
My grandfather taught me how to hook up a work horse and use a single row corn binder. (it was the late 1970s)... I barely remember it all, but 40+ years later I wish I could have filmed it. We didn't have an external power supply, if I remember it was about 16 stalks to the bundle.
@@LancoAmish Here in NJ in the eighties, when I was a kid, belt driven cutter-blowers would occasionally show up on farm estate auctions, pulled out of the barn where they sat unused for 30-40 years. They always ended up on a truck to Lancaster County. I suppose since they've all been worn out, the Amish had no choice but to advance a bit.
It’s a great video, showing so much teamwork, planning, and thoughtful use of resources. The appropriate use of technology is essential for community survival. It also works. Here in Ontario ‘old order’ Mennonite and Amish (not sure of all the distinctions) are succeeding in farming as young families are still buying farms and expanding slowly into new areas. While it’s impossible for someone to start farming these days with big tech. Commenters who say why not use a combine or modern (i.e. mega) tractor have obviously never checked the prices for this equipment. ‘Successful’ use of it requires continuous expansion and buying out your smaller neighbours’ land. The Amish are farming for their children and the survival of their community. Unfortunately for technological North American farmers, it’s the banks and equipment manufacturers that benefit most from their work.
Silo is HUGE! Lots of happy animals. There wasn't automatic unloading when I was a kid. Every day sombody had to climb up the ladder and unload the daily dose. Usually me. Open top silo and in winter we used an ice pick to break off the frozen layer. It took around an hour every day to have enough for 2 feedings. I am very glad that part of my life is gone. Very hard work. Comparable to picking rocks.
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All this work and still they live in poverty and filth. Very similar to Appalachia.
Tell me your freakin’ clueless without telling me you are freakin’ clueless. You speak like you actually know something but you really are just plain ignorant.
The South became "poor" as a result of the War of Northern Aggression and Reconstruction (the South was occupied by the Northern Army for 12 yeas after the War). Before the War the South was the richest part of the country. People in Kentucky and Tennessee were mostly small farmers. There were no coal mines and no poverty.
The Amish have beautiful homes. I just was in Lancaster
I really wish I can visit
Chris Smith you are missing the point of this lifestyle. Living an organic way without harming your body and the environment. I only realized this doing my missions with farmers here in Palawan Philippines. To give you an idea Chris organics food is twice as much healthier that foods grown used in agro chemical farming. You will have the same product but the benefits won't be the same. Am an accountant back when I was in Chicago but I will choose an Amish lifestyle the the former. For sure the benefits on your body is tremendously far better than the latter. I may look clean as accountant me And my family ended up dying from cancer. Except me, a group of farmer nurtured my body back to health thank God by living and eating like this Amish people and adopting the farmers way of life. No more cancer for me now and I survived it. Now it's my third time to survived my clean living only to realized the benefits living filthy as you described. No pun intended, while you still have a chance, try to study and learn their way. You will thank me later. Now I'm the farmers champion, as much as I can do to spend my remaining days to further adapt theirvway of life. Visit my fb and see how i lived RAPTURO READY. GBU!
Most people don't know what this is called, It's called a hard day's work, much respect.
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There's something to be said for working smarter not harder. That's the beauty of modern technology.
@@Patrick-sg7cm Yep, I understand why the Amish choose to do things the way they do them. The part I don't understand is others fascination with doing things the hard way. If all farmers still did things this way then a much larger percentage of our population would need to be farmers in order to support the food needs of the country.
@@Nick-tm2sw yes, it would be impossible to 8 billion people doing things the way the Amish do
Whoaa ! Hold your horses !! What ?? A 14 year old kid with 3 in hand ? Incredible !! Hats off to the lad ... and his family for raising him right.
I am 77 years old and grew up on a farm in central PA. In the 1950-60's we farmed with two tractors and my grandpa used one tractor and a team of horses. When we "filled silo" we did almost exactly what the Amish are doing on this video. The only difference is our binder had a deck on it that collected the corn bundles and the operator pulled a cord to off load the bundles. You off loaded at the same places going around the field so when you later came around with a wagon, you could be picking up bundles from piles. Neighboring farmers helped each other and it was great times! Everyone gathered in the dining room for a huge sit-down home cooked lunch at noon.
i wish a lot more kids would help, like this kid is doing. I find videos about the old times very refreshing.
The difference between a solid community where the kid works and is healthy and life in the bad areas of the big city where the kid is on drugs and not looking so healthy. Guess what the government wants you to do.
Thanks- brought back a lot of memories. My dad owned one of these binders and I drove the tractor to pull it when I was a teenager. During my last year in high school, my brother and I bought our dad a welder for Christmas. One of the first repairs I made with that welder was to "build up" a worn chain sprocket on our corn binder. I can still remember the look on my dad's face when I handed him the rebuilt sprocket; he had never seen it done before.
Thanks so much for watching and the awesome story. Much appreciated.
One winter, my dad removed three feet of our gutter cleaner, chain, and welded the chain links back to original size. He would reinstall the repaired chain each day, and repair another three feet.
Brought back memories for me too.
these are some of the most interesting and relaxing videos on youtube, with just enough commentary to explain but you let the beauty of it all to speak for itself.
Thank you so much Jon. I do appreciate your kind words.
You Amish should be proud that you live the life that our forefathers lived hard work ,good values ,great families and a love for God and what he's given us. In a way I wish our whole country could go back to what we've lost for progress. It's been so enjoyable remembering how I was raised on our farm .thankyou
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We just visited Lancaster County and got to see some of this in person, but from a distance. I've never seen the whole process. It amazes me that the Amish are still doing things the old way. I love it! Can't wait to share this with my dad. We go to the Amish country every year from NC. It is so beautiful!
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That was awesome. When I grew up I helped my grandfathers haul hay with a team of mules. I was young and ambitious to be like my grandfather. Love every minute of it. Dang we were tough. Loved that life. Wish my 3 boys could have experienced what hard work was, really.
Thank you. I absolutely love the older equipment and to see it still being used is a real treat.
Thanks so much for watching and the kind comment.
Brings back memories, mostly good..although I wasn't Amish we didn't have much so most of the farm work was done by hand or what would be considered today as obsolete. I sure didn't have problems sleeping at the end of the day for sure...
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When I was little I would always tell my aunt to let me know when she baled hay. The joy of looking at the hay mound at the end of the day and saying I did that.
Thank you for a walk down memory lane when my dad would open the field with his corn binder being pulled by his 1950 WD Allis. Once opened a custom cutter and his crew would make short work of filling our silo for another season. Love the smell of that fresh silage!
Thanks so much for watching. I love the smell of not only fresh silage but fermented also. Both bring back fond memories of childhood.
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we a 56 ford Major lol we had open pit silage, I loved the fermented smell on a cold winter morning
Die Gerüche (Heu, Silo, Kuhschweiss, Erde, Kartoffelkeller etc.) waren der Hauptgrund, dass ich Bauer wurde.
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I've never seen anything like this before. It was very interesting to see all the work that goes into this process on a farm. Thank you for sharing this.😊
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Wow- been watching midwestern combines harvesting!! In comparison-- This Amish harvest is a ton of work!!! As a very young kid I lived in Gap, PA and my Uncle had a church in Paradise- don't remember a lot, but I remember the Amish and the Gap clock.
Watching this I was reminded of how hard we worked in the 50's&60's at the farm I was raised on ,and LOVED every minute. Our horses could be a handful towing sickle bar mower ,then single horse pulling rake.Of coarse then using pitch forking hay on to wagon.Then a neighbor came along with a baling machine.With that it was necessary to have pails so we could run to creek for water to put out fire from spark the engine kicked out. Oh! ,boy have things changed.It was all good healthy work!Loved it! Thank you for video........
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You better get the horses and the horse-drawn equipment ready cuz things are fixing to go backwards.
What a great video, brings back memories in 1948 i used to help out on the farm with only horses and humans doing the work !
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I’m 45 years and I remember similar af this I. Mexico an I never forget this
Amazing folks ! True hard working folks that were left behind in time. they put to shame Americans who can't tie their own shoes without a cell phone showing them how. God Bless those people.
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Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful video! What a terrific chance to see something that I would never have gotten a chance to see in my life. They were so kind to let us see how this gets done. ~Sharon
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The skills demonstrated by these farmers are absolutely incredible. Thank you for sharing.
Pretty neat job! Keep doing that and this world may look better for our Children. Thank you.
People forget what it is like to work! I grew up on a small dairy farm a lot of back breaking work but honest work. Thanks again for the video great job
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same, alot of small square bale stacking on wagon. then hay loft im talking few thousands. hand shoving cow manure. we had a front loader. but was broken 99% of time. hand milking for a few years then we went electronic or computer.
We milked 60 cows twice a day, and could bale 1200 square bales a day, when the weather cooperated. Long hard hours, but I enjoyed it back then. Now, it would kill me.
I grew up in Lancaster Co, PA, just a fer piece over the hill from a couple of Amish farms. My first memories were with a belt driven wooden framed chopper and blower to fill a 40 Ft. tile silo but soon graduated to tractors and engine power. It's about the most beautiful land there is.
Thanks so much for watching and commenting. It surely is a beautiful area.
Me too. My mom used to catch a ride home from the bus stop with an Amish guy and his wife in Strasburg.
There is no place more beautiful!
I live near many Amish south central Kentucky. I am amazed by their pristine houses, farms, landscaping, etc. Just awesome! Glad I found your channel to see more of the way of life from the inside.
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Been around work horses and Mules most of life, they just love to work, and I love seeing do what they love. Our silage blower was run off a flat belt with a twist in to revers direction .
Thanks so much Opa. To read some of these comments about the draft animals and how they are abused and overworked is laughable. The world seems filled with opinions from ignorant people though. I appreciate you watching!!
No farmer would abuse their animals. They were his bread and butter.
This is wonderful in all regards. I love it. THX. Its great how they combine the new with the old.... A 3 horse team with a 3.5 HP Briggs motor to
help with the harvest.!! Much respect from Maine.
Very interesting video to watch. The horses do an outstanding job working together. Great video!
Great vid
Gotta appreciate the old ways
One EMP and we all go back to this way of life
Thank you
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Matthew 5 : 5
_"Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth."_
The Amish will be the only man remaining after we destroy ourselves with technology - hopefully we'll pump the brakes when we get too close to building "The Terminator".
... but I'm not at all certain we will.
This generation of kids we have today would not last 30 minutes if they would even try and do this kinda work today!!!!
I love how the corn rows aren’t gps perfect.Alitle swervy and cross over each other from time to time.thanks for the video love it
As a Berks Co. kid I witnessed the Mennonites doing this 50 years ago. Left when I was 18 and yes I miss the simple ways but North Carolina winters are kinder and gentler. Great video, thanks for the memories.
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I so admire the work ethic of these people. I've often thought of living near a farm like this in hope of being able to acquire non GMO food for healthier living.
Thanks for watching. Many of the crops grown here are GMO especially with the prodding to go no-till. There has to be some way to control the weed population. “Round-Up” ready GMO seed is the usual choice. Tilling can be used to control weed population but then there’s the problem of silt/fertilizer runoff pollution. There’s no perfect solution. There are organic farms here but they have their own set of environmental problems…plastic to control weeds, tilling and runoff,…. A huge waste of crop that isn’t high enough quality to be sold to organic buyers….
Jesus has all the ethics you need everything else is flesh.
Funny. They do actually use Chemical Pesticides & Roundup. Each year I visit a particular farm to get 4 or 5 50lb bags of potatoes 🥔. It was then I noticed it. And they acknowledged it.
What an awesome video; I could almost smell the silage. When I was a youngster, I recall dad would hook up the corn binder to our Allis WD and open the field in DuPage County, IL. Thanks for the memories.
Amazing. When I was a kid and worked on the farm. We had a tractor that pulled the chopper down the corn field. We followed the chopper with the truck. Once the truck was full of chopped corn, we would take it to the sileage pit and dump it.
I absolutely Love the Amish People and the work ethics they instill in their Children is nothing short of phenomenal. I live close to an Amish Order in Northern Michigan and I also drive them to many places they wish to go like shopping for things they need. It is amazing to see them all get together to help one another get bigger jobs done in hours or days that would take the individual days or weeks to finish. I have seen them doing this corn silage many times. Thanks for sharing this.
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I always thought amish werent allowed to use gasoline engines
@@MsErikdeking The use of any type of engine can be different in different Orders of Amish. There are some Amish that won't even ride bicycles and others that own big tractors with metal wheels so they cant
actually be driven on roads. The majority do actually use gasoline or diesel engines that generate power for their tools such as saws but don't use any electricity at all. There are many false believes about Amish out there such as only married men are allowed to have beards. This is true in many Orders but some do allow it. I have been driving them for close to 3 years and they are without a doubt some of the nicest most loyal friends anyone could ask for. I had a medical issue 2 years ago and had 8 cords of firewood delivered and 8 Amish men showed up one morning and stacked it in my basement before noon and refused any payment other than the breakfast my wife fixed them.
great looking farm and
what a fantastic horse
My family settled in Lancaster county in 1840s. before going to Logan Cache in a wagon train 1860-s
Did their slaves pick all the corn or did they help any?
@@jimmydean5663 they were too poor to own slaves .Momons are anti slaves and war
@@jimmydean5663 Lol karen
I guess many of the old skills are kept alive by these good people, great to see horses working. thank you.
Thank you!
Absolutely love watching & knowing about the AMISH way of life
New subscriber. Thank you so much for filming this! It was wonderful to see how my ancestors worked the fields. My mom grew up in an Amish/Mennonite/Brethern community in western Pennsylvania until she was 6 or 7 I believe, then they moved to town. The farm that they worked on has since changed hands and become a working farm/bed and breakfast. Much love from Oklahoma. ❤
Edit to add- I appreciate the care you took to not show anyone's faces when possible. ❤
Thanks for watching!! As long as they don’t feel like they are posing they are good with it.
Sounds like Somerset county.
Absolutely amazing and I wouldn't ever imagine how fast and the actual progress along the rows they are making. Thanks for your videos and thanks to those farmers too.
You know you sound like that Mike fellow who does the big tractor channel. Haha. Thanks again dude.
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Thank You for taking the time to share your video with us
We growed up like that too.one mule one wagon pulled fatter tied tops,pulled corn took out it in corn crib after shucked .took corn to a mill with water wheel..we done it all by hand too.grandpa built the wagons ,plows he was a blacksmith.. thanks for vedio.plus I ant Amish.lol.
Always love watching Amish work. the efficiency they have and the hard work they do is amazing !
And even if they work hard, I guess they don‘t get „used“ or depressif.
I couldn't even imagine, they still have to chop it and put it in a silo or pit. We used to do silaege for the whole winter in 2 or 3 days
The fields are very neat and The pastoral scene is very attractive what with the machine's work. I've always loved horses and enjoy watching them pulling the equipment.
An honest video with a different perspective.
Great job capturing simple hard work!
Thank you.
With a name like Garden Spot Acres reminds me of the time we lived in New Holland, where the name of their High School was Garden Spot High School. A local cheese maker sure made the very best Swiss Cheese ever made and sold in the US - made right on the farm. (My maternal heritage goes back to Mennonite families from Lancaster County in the early 1800s)
I believe the school is named for Lancaster County…The Garden Spot of America. I’m in Paradise, just a bit of a distance south of New Holland.
Most interesting. Coming from a fishing community, I have never seen this done in such detail. Thanks very much.
Thank you very much for watching. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Very impressive coordination. It makes me appreciate the food I purchase at the produce market near .
Honestly was surprised to see a tractor powering a chopper blowing silage up into a silo. I guess I knew they used engines to power their machines, but never knew they were allowed to have tractors. But I suppose that tractor is just a stationary engine to them. thanks for the video!!
Grew up farming and I gotta say, that silage chopper is one of the most appendage eating implements that I’ve ever seen…reminds me of the old ‘ Eat Your Arm ‘ haybaler we had ! Be safe !
Yeah, the hired teens don’t go near that part of the operation. That’s why you’ll see them driving the horses. Too dangerous.
@@LancoAmish Wise and caring individual you are.
We lost a neighbor to a silo filler in the early 1950s, no one knows how it happened just that the tractor ran till it was out of gas and the farmer was in the silo that's all folks.
@@frankdeegan8974 Complacency, and loose clothing. That usually does it. I knew a guy that lost an uncle to a corn combine. My dad got caught in a PTO once, but his brother was there to shut it off.
Also, there are people that are just risk takers and always have to flirt with danger.
I've been milking cows for almost a year, there's more to a dairy farm than I thought. Thank god for Amish for preserving traditions.
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Wow so cool.. gotta say the Amish are hard workers... And they also make beautiful and strong furniture... Hats off to the Amish 💯💯💯👍🏼👍🏼. Hey nice video.
Thank you very much!
Love your way of life from the north of Ireland.
Thank you so much for giving us this insight into farming. We owe so much to farmers! -Curt Kuhns
I know I'm getting old now....we harvested our corn this way when we first moved on the Farm in 1957. Good gravy. Thanks for sharing. Jim.
Thanks so much for watching. I’m sure one day in the distant future the Amish will be harvesting corn the way it’s done now. 🙂
Some machines are ok, some are not. I find that perplexing. Still great videos. Thanks for sharing them!
It all depends on how the machines may affect the family and community. Too much mechanization leads to too much free time both of which can negatively affect the closeness of both.
I have the greatest respect for this way of life. Amish and Mennonite farmers keep their farms in pristine condition and are great stewards of the land.🇺🇸🚒🐄
Love to see the Amish way being done. These families are amazing
those are not true amish
you saw tractor and skid steer along with the woman on left of screen with bag of chips ?
Also the first machine had an engine on it
@@tobypoje2082 they use engines
Have done this many times in my teen years. Best to wear a long sleeved shirt if loading and unloading no matter the heat. Heavy breakfast, heavy snack at ten, full course dinner at noon,heavy on the mashed potatoes, another snack at three and a full course supper. Exhausting work but much worse if there is no bundle elevator and one has to load from the ground.
I don't see how you done anything but hold your stomach eating all that food. Light breakfast like biscuits and sausage gravy, or sausage biscuit, pack of nabs at 10. Sandwiches for lunch and bag of chips. Then you eat until you can't anymore for supper. But your really suppose to do it opposite I've read. Eat a king's breakfast, a princes lunch, and a peasant's supper. Either way I normally skip breakfast, and depending on how hot it is sometimes lunch, or just a chicken salad sandwich at most in hot parts of year. Then I'm starving by supper and eat to much. Your stomach is suppose to be your bodies natural alarm system if you eat right. I'm more of a water and powerade drinker instead of eating. I feel it slows me down to much. But then again ive never walked behind a team of mules or horses so there's that.
Loggers in Oregon eat the same, when you burn calories you must replenish.
These activities were major social events for the neighborhood. The food was fabulous. Grdandma even made home made donuts, lemonade, coffee . i loved thesse stories.
This is my first time seeing how thy Amish harvest their crops and I am enjoying it thanks for showing this video.
Wonderful! Its so neat that these farming practices are still relevant today! I collect and operate antique farm machinery myself! I have 2 McCormick-Deering pto driven corn binders, one has the unloading chute. Got it in the field at a friends one year, but the knotter didnt work right. Still got that to line out. Also have a Case belt driven silo blower. I have done belt driven hammer mill demonstrations at show. I also have a youtube channel😊 keep up the great work!
When I was young, I had the stamina to work the Amish life, but not the appreciation. Now I'm old I have the appreciation, but not the stamina. What a shame.
Such is the way of life
Youth is wasted on the young.
Work smarter not harder.
Appreciation is wasted on the elderly, that's the rel shame
@@cpt8424 At least we can spell. Have a nice day.
That's cool . I got pictures of my Grampa and his Uncle swinging Sickles in the corn fields . Before the sun went down everyone had to help load the corn onto giant wagons and the horses pulled the wagons to barn and the corn was stored in a loft next to hay .
Thanks for watching Erwin. Farming was definitely done a lot different in your Grampa’s day that’s for sure.
Much respect, I bet them men are in great shape!!
The most incredible thing I've seen in a long time. What men can do. Wow.
A lot of hard labour going on there!! All the best,,, Scotland
Thank you so much for watching.
Thank you,for the beautiful video the real hard working man in this country,God bless you all..
Your videos are wonderful and full of learning tools.
Thank you for sharing, I never have seen this before. I found it to be very interesting and educational.
Thank you so much for watching.
Love the way they have the rear wheels on the tractor.
No tractor
No puncture repair and if you don't use it on road it is a better way to have it!
@@rogermorrill4700 there was a tractor
@@lookingglass9175 when I saw comment was seeing steel wheels on binder, no tractor in sight
Very interesting video. Interesting to see a small part of the Amish life and horse skills. Thank You and the Amish people
Have a blessed week everyone amen.
Music was a bit loud for my taste, but really enjoyed the video. Thank you!
Thanks a lot for watching. It’s often very difficult to judge volumes when making videos. I hear you because my wife says the same sometimes.
If more people lived like this the world would be a much nicer place
I say yes and no because if they lived the truth of the word of God then they are doing it right. Awake Amish and search it out in the word of God of your follies.
There are other communities around the world doing it the modern ways and still are beautiful honest loving people which makes the world a better place.
The Amish behind the seen have their problems also, so no different to the modern farmers who are good people also.
Maybe you should ask the horses about that. I have seen and heard over and over how the Amish, who people like you are always touting, mistreat their livestock. Horses that show up at auction houses are barely alive and usually not even worth the slaughterhouse.
@@GeekRex Yes I have heard of some abuses toward some Amish owned horses. There are far more abuses in the non Amish communities toward animals. But you are way off point and in left field somewhere because that is not the issue. The issue is the sale of butchered meats. If you think that a USDA inspected meat is actually inspected well you are mistaken. So you are against the private harvest of meats? I live on a Farm and the meat product is of a much higher grade before the livestock is sold to those that pump them up for slaughter
The products are half of the quality of what they were upon slaughter. How about the feds stripping your means of life and the manner you support yourself
@@davidpotts3844 You are the one that is way off base. I simply stated that the Amish are not who they are made out to be. Taking care of their God's creatures is supposed to be a priority. They don't live up to it.
@@GeekRex The issue is that the Feds raided and shut down a family's livelihood to further and Agenda that want us all to be dependent on a failing Government system of total control. This is an infringement on our right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. It is a violation of our Constitutional Rights. Our Government is over reaching of their Authority. They want us to be solely dependent on their Authority only. This is them telling the people we don't have the right to produce food to feed ourselves. This Family wasn't selling their products to the general population it was a members only and was not in violation of the Laws/ Regulations. The point is the over reach of Government against the people. The Farm they shut down just happened to be Amish and that is not the point. Today it's that Family tomorrow it's you and your Family and then it's the total extermination. How we soon forget what Hitler did and we are replaying that same playbook
great to watch old ways of doing your work . Thanks
Love this video. I'm in sanilac county Michigan near Brown City and I never seen them use this type of equipment. Very interesting and everyone has to respect the hard work Amish people do every single day. Respect and I do admire their work ethic.
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i was just thinking that, the price of milled timber from those big stores in towns and citys are going sky high. because people dont know that they should buy timber from the amish communitys, we should all be thinking of buying local produce.
I’ve purchased a lot of lumber from the Amish in Pulaski, NY. I think they’re charging 52 cents a board foot for pine and hemlock!!
@@LancoAmish that is a cheap price per board foot for pine and hemlock lumber. I love to go salmon fishing in Pulaski, NY. Every fall. Such an awesome experience and a beautiful area Central New York is.
@@smn39 , we just sold a camp we owned on Lake Ontario just south of the Salmon River. It was, as my brother called it, Camp Vicious. Mexico Bay is an absolute monster when the wind comes out of the west. We couldn’t keep up with the constant damage.
They can sell it cheaper because they pay no taxes.
@@jeromestrange9 , my goodness, the “no taxes, is such a bunch of BS. Why would the owners of these sawmills write out receipts complete with quantity, price per board foot, total sales, and state sales tax? Kind of weird to create a paper trail when they are supposedly breaking the law don’t you think?
Awesome video. My utmost respect to the Amish. I noticed they seem to use 2 horses and a mule on many teams. Is there a reason? The young man can sure handle driving the wagon and handling the teams. The fellow doing the stacking sure works hard. Grinding or chopping the green stalks seems like it might be moist and mold in the silo. The tires on the old Farmall are very unusual.
No reason for the mix of horses and mules. The ones you see here just seem to work well together. Stacking is a hard job. The jobs are rotated regularly except for the young boys and girls who do not stack nor unload. The high moisture silage ferments in the silo. Properly done silage should be mold free.
@@LancoAmish Thanks for these answers. I used to watch the Amish doing their work in Lancaster County when visiting the Strasburg Railroad. I'd walk the 5 miles of the line and that way could see them at work. I always admired their way with horses and their hard work.
@@LancoAmish silage only molds if it the silage get air during and after the curing process..
in the 1970s i worked on a goat farm in northern norway.. we made silage even right after rain,, wet grass just ment we needed to add a bit more formic acid to the gras if it was a wet summer, by changing the nozzle of the formic acid sprayer mounted on the harvester.. here is a pic of the type of setup we used::
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@@rogerhuber3133 It is sauerkraut for cattle.
I would like to see more of the videos of other crops like potato crops sugar beets and other crops that they process and this is something that a lot of people should watch and see where our food really and with these Farmers go through to give us what to put on our plates
You seem to be a person who loves agriculture very much. Have you ever worked on a farm?
An excellent video on Amish silage harvesting. Thanks for putting it together.
Thank you for watching and the nice comment. Much appreciated.
When I was a kid in Ohio we pulled a ground-driven binder with a Ferguson tractor
My grandfather taught me how to hook up a work horse and use a single row corn binder. (it was the late 1970s)... I barely remember it all, but 40+ years later I wish I could have filmed it. We didn't have an external power supply, if I remember it was about 16 stalks to the bundle.
Yep my uncle had a mule that would snake logs without a bridle he pulled from the woods to the truck to load the logs
The horses are very intelligent throughout the job at the farm
They are well trained that’s for sure. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thank you for sharing your heritage
I was expecting to see a belt-driven silage cutter at the farm
Thanks for watching. The Amish do March ahead just a bit slower than many.
@@LancoAmish Here in NJ in the eighties, when I was a kid, belt driven cutter-blowers would occasionally show up on farm estate auctions, pulled out of the barn where they sat unused for 30-40 years. They always ended up on a truck to Lancaster County. I suppose since they've all been worn out, the Amish had no choice but to advance a bit.
So the bailing twine gets chopped up too and the cows eat it I guess.
Thanks so much for watching!! Yes, they eat it. It’s chopped up pretty good. It doesn’t harm them.
I don't think there is any twine
Ernie, oh yes there is, it's also binder twine NOT baler twine, smaller diameter.
@robert.h: yeah, I was wondering the same thing.
It’s grass twine
Wow never seen a corn binder like that! Thank-You for the video! Interesting rear tires on that 966 IHC!
Very impressive and we thank all farmers
Лицемеры!!!!!! Зачем трактор используют??????
Yeah, a gasoline engine + horses, so strange a combo. Not religious, so what do i know.
Ребята не судите других....
Pls quit with the annoying music.
Ok. Thanks for watching. I just assumed everyone knew they had a volume control on their device.
Thank the magic deities of RUclips for giving us a mute button.
@@LancoAmish Fair enough. Your videos . . . . your decision.
🤙enjoyed this video. Thank you. Looking forward to see more videos
I love this! And it doubles as great background noise 💚🌽
Thanks for watching…and listening! 😀
I'm amazed at the way they work together to cut and haul the corn.
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Great video. Alot of people don't know what work really is anymore. Thank you
Thanks for the upload that’s really wholesome to watch 👍🙏
It’s a great video, showing so much teamwork, planning, and thoughtful use of resources. The appropriate use of technology is essential for community survival. It also works. Here in Ontario ‘old order’ Mennonite and Amish (not sure of all the distinctions) are succeeding in farming as young families are still buying farms and expanding slowly into new areas. While it’s impossible for someone to start farming these days with big tech. Commenters who say why not use a combine or modern (i.e. mega) tractor have obviously never checked the prices for this equipment. ‘Successful’ use of it requires continuous expansion and buying out your smaller neighbours’ land. The Amish are farming for their children and the survival of their community. Unfortunately for technological North American farmers, it’s the banks and equipment manufacturers that benefit most from their work.
Silo is HUGE! Lots of happy animals. There wasn't automatic unloading when I was a kid. Every day sombody had to climb up the ladder and unload the daily dose. Usually me. Open top silo and in winter we used an ice pick to break off the frozen layer. It took around an hour every day to have enough for 2 feedings. I am very glad that part of my life is gone. Very hard work. Comparable to picking rocks.
Thanks for watching and commenting. Hard work indeed!
we put up 180 tons of corn silage this year. we feed a ton a day plus dry hay. we start feeding silage in January until mid April. cattle love silage.
Hard workers for sure. Much admiration!
Always a great work out on an Amish Farm. Keeps you fit an young. Thanks.
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