That's AWESOME!!

Would be a head-turner around here for sure - folks would have a conniption trying to figure out what to make of it

I was visiting customers up in Ashtabula and one of them has an Amish hired hand. We got to talking about how he can't ride a tractor cuz his bishop disapproves. But other bishops at different churches are OK with driving tractors as long as it's for work, using cell phones as long as they're for work, etc. He said one of his buddies who's allowed to use a cell phone was pulled over by the sheriff for texting while "driving" his buggy. Guess he kept dropping the reins while typing and the horse would wander back and forth across his lane and the sheriff thought there was a medical problem. Evidently ole Josiah was carrying on quite a text conversation and it ended up getting him in trouble with the law

Bob

So you don't want him to ever drink, so get him sick right off and he'll never touch the stuff ever again! Good thinking

That Amish guy I was talking about left our area to one that could use a vehicle for deliveries. He built custom cabinets. A lot of our Amish at that time left, the sect. Some moved to other Amish areas and some became Plain -or simple people like Mennonites. Now we have a different group.

Tomorrow it comes off ............................
and will be heading East some time soon (when we come up with a date) to another state after I help them install it.
Who's getting it? ......................

[quote="tahoe]That Amish guy I was talking about left our area to one that could use a vehicle for deliveries. He built custom cabinets. A lot of our Amish at that time left, the sect. Some moved to other Amish areas and some became Plain -or simple people like Mennonites. Now we have a different group.[/quote]

Its funny how some can't have any connection to modern things that the English uses
Some can use a tractor but it has to have steel wheels, can have gas engines to power a hay baler but has to be pulled by horses. I've had them help me do some work down home on the farm, they'll use say an electric saw but can't own one. Different groups have different sets of rules as to what they can do. Like mentioned some have cell phones but only to be used for business or they have the little building with a community phone. Would be difficult to try and keep ones religion and beliefs intact and live in the year 2013 though.[/quote]

So what's going on in its place? Can imagine the Kilimanjaro Edition with a stock bumper

Bob

STOCK BUMPER No way
Well I do have the Matrix sitting here on the workbench, have some ideas for it to try out
Just breifly looked at it but two 26 inch pieces of 2 inch round mandrel bend pipe needed along with two pieces of metal 4 inches wide, 26 inches long, then ...............
Not a "real " bumper and won't stand up to all the abuse the ARB has taken over the years, but will play with it until something shows up on the doorstep

Most of the Old Order Amish around here are gone except for a couple of older families. The rest are now Mennonite or have moved to either Missouri or Canada - more land to grant sections to family members when they're old enough to farm their own properties.

Even this guy I was talking to is confused by the rules in his sect. He used to be allowed to drive a tractor at my customer's farm but not any more since a new bishop was installed.

They're great craftsmen aren't they?

Bob

weird!!!!! just not used to it........but

I was wondering how you were going to do the turn signals

I've got extra stock turns laying here so the ones in the ARB will still be there for ya.
But trying to see if this will work for a few days until I order something else in

...Yes very good craftsmen for sure, I like to work with them cause I see it as its almost like working with some of my Great Uncles/ Grandfather etc. Two of my Great Uncles were stone masons and traveled around cutting and laying stone, couple of them were farmers/carpenters , Grandfather was a good carpenter as well and shunned most power tools if a good hand saw was close by. So its cool to work with them and see how they do things, plus their work ethic is great.