We have several different Amish communities in our area. Each one seems to have a different set of rules they live under, as to what is appropriate - lighting, and SMV symbols on carrages, for instance. Think the elders of each community make up their own rules. Typically here the Amish don't have motor vehicles, tractors, electricity, phones, etc. They do have powered machines, with gasoline motors, etc. Farm machinery, wells, workshops, all gasoline powered. Other day I saw Amish baling with a JD 14T baler, power provided by a motor on a wooden, steel wheeled cart attached to the front of baler tongue. Horses then pulled cart which pulled baler. Musta been quite a task to keep the baler on the windrow! Had a 17yr old student who worked for an Amish sawmill - he drove the cranes, trucks, forklifts,etc. Amish were allowed to lift with cranes, but not move them on the yard! Doesn't make much sense to me. Amish were pretty well stuck in the horse and buggy age. Although wife who is a nurse sometimes got Amish patients, especially obstetrics, so they're willing to embrace modern medicine. What contacts I have had with them have been very positive, although they stay pretty much to themselves, in social situations, like grocery stores. One of the all time funnies I saw was an Amishman examining an electric razor!
I have had a number of Mennonite students in my driver education classes. They were nice, polite, and very reserved. Their parents had cars, trucks - without radios, and they didn't have radio, tv in the home. Their tractors might be quite modern day, bur always on steel wheels. Farming practices were quite up-to-date. Men typically wore bibs and work shirts, women long dresses with starched gauze bonnets. Other than that, they were pretty modern folk. Again nice people.
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