Thank you for this inside how amish people harvesting their corn. i am actually from friesland in the Netherlands and grew up in a farm area as well. i have much respect for the amish in the way how they are farming and harvesting their crops, Regards from Holland

I'm a framer and worked next to a crew on Amish Mennonites for a couple houses, nicest group of men that you would ever meet. always dressed nice (jeans and a dress shirt. it was summer) didn't swear called you sir and anytime they asked for help afterwards you felt like they were generally grateful, unlike most other crews on the sites that iv worked (including my own)

love your site-no Amish myself but knew and went to school with Mennonites. I have Amish neighbors in northern Minnesota, good neighbors!

It surely is possible to have eyes, and still not be able to see. To have knowledge, and lack understanding. It seems to me, a lot of folks just see what is on the surface, and don't look any deeper for the hidden purposes, as regards ways to do things. Many on here blast the Amish for the way they choose to work. First it is their, choice. There is no right or wrong to it. Second, there is a practical side to it, and a service. It takes a life time of training, skill, animal husbandry to breed, train, and work, animals singly, and especially in teams like this. This knowledge, which I think is valuable, is priceless. There are breeds, breeding techniques, and knowledge that would be completely lost, if it were not, for the Amish doing things this way. But there is more to it. There is a purpose for everything, and everything has a purpose. On these farm, there is a job, and everyone has one to do. Work, is good. And that goes for animals, and not just humans. These horses are specifically bred and trained for this purpose. People go to workout in gyms. Why? To get in shape, yes, but also, because it feels good. These horses, well treated, well fed, well cared for, and just like a person, they can and do, enjoy this. If you noticed, they responded as much to voice command, as the tug of the reign. There is no coercion. The teams are well cared for, and they respond. Additionally, if I want to breed, train and raise horses, which is an expensive proposition, would it not be better if they contributed to the cost of doing so? In a sense, the horses are contributing to their own continued need and existence. These animals do, contribute. There is in fact, many breeds of animals today, that if it were not for humans, they would not exist. They would go, extinct. Chickens, turkeys, many breeds of cattle, dogs, pigs, the list goes on and on. Yes, the Amish could use tractors, for everything. Why should they? On these operations, there is a job for every person, regardless of age, to learn, and do. Little idleness, responsibility, and discipline is instilled in the process. It is not just, or only, about religious faith. It is also to keep the best of what keeps families together, working together, building community, while incorporating technology only, when practical demands dictates. I could go on...but really writing all of this, is an exercise in futility.

Outstanding video. I'm always amazed at how the Amish can position those Draft Horses to enable them to work together so efficiently. Definitely "Team Work" is getting the job done, very smoothly.

God Bless the Amish for their dedication to doing the job well and doing it right. 15 year old kid backs up a 4-horse team up to the exact spot to hook up a trailer, THE FIRST TIME! If I back up my Massey Ferguson to the exact right spot the first time, it's pure luck. These guys absolutely know what they're doing and apparently so do the horses. GodSpeed and Amen

Oh, these horses are wonderful!! I always wondered how huge a Belgium was. I had Welsh/ Quarter as youngster. I use to have him help pull logs.

Having the choice to do things as you wish is what makes the freeworld great !!

This is so cool thank you Amish people for sharing your working lives with us.

The mix and adaptation of technologies is great to see. Thanks for the education. Love the video. Thanks for sharing.

Как бережно сохраняя прошлое , по новому слаженно организована работа !!! Честь и хвала таким труженикам !!! С глубоким уважением с Чечни 👍👍👍

I like this 4+ horse arrangement. The horses don't appear to be overworked, or even taxed by their task. bravo.

Easy to see they are working so hard. Great training and control.

Very VERY nice teams of horses! Thanks for posting this.

I agree with bmwelch320, " I don't understand". But I also remember my youth before we got tractors, at least we rested the horses at the end of the field, had a chance to check the equipment and horses and smell the roses. We got a tractor, then got another with lights, then another and soon we didn't have time to eat let alone smelling the roses, the old ways have a lot to be said for them. I am not criticizing anything, I just don't understand the power unit and not a tractor. I kind of wish we had done it that way I could have still caught a smell of the roses at the end of the field.

I like the way they use a petrol engine to drive the chopper. We saw the Amish working in the fields around Lancaster, PA and they work hard including all the kids.

Appreciate your work brother, don't give up the fight we are all with you keep strong never bend to those who don't understand 😀👍

That’s so amazing to see how well those teams of horses are trained. Very satisfying and cool!!

muito bom, muito interessante

we pull our draft horses at county fairs and my pair wieghs together 3600 lbs and we one the contest with a load of 11.500 lbs pulled 12 feet ! so eight horses can pull more then most people think . ty steve Hatfield

Its amazing how smart horses are.

I believe the point is to not create as many compaction problems that big tractors create. At any rate, both my parents grew up farming with horses. They always said that one of the nice things about horses was you could only push them so hard. If you were plowing, seven rounds in the morning, seven rounds in the afternoon with a short rest at each end of the field after each round. As a teenager I spent so many hours on the tractor I found myself falling asleep which was dangerous in fact, I once hit a high line pole, luckily no damage was done.

Those horses are all in excellent condition. Well trained and cared for. And the horses don't pack the ground like the heavy tractors of today do.

More than 50 years ago, my friend sold a brand new Ford farm tractor to a Mennonite farmer near Elmira, ON. He delivered it to the farm where the farmers raised it up onto a pile of strategically piled railroad ties. The four wheels were then removed and returned to the dealership. The farmers in that particular family / community saw the benefits of the power train (PTO = power take off and belt drive wheels) but their beliefs did not allow them to actually drive the motor vehicle (tractor). They compromised and took full advantage of that wheel-less tractor for many years. I learned a lot from those incredibly happy, innovative, generous people and have never lost my admiration for them and all people and communities like them who do NO HARM to anyone. I certainly endorse their lifestyles.

This is like danse , so relaxing ! 💜💜👍🏽

This is quite calming and relaxing, actually. I wish I could be in the field, working WITH them.

I live in a Old Order Amish community and think this is pretty damn cool. Does it make sense? Hey if it works for them so what. Here a lot bring their hay loose up to the barn yard and hand feed it thru a small square baler ran by stationary power so they can fit more in the barn.

This will be farming across the world in 50 years time, if it survives that long! One of the most rewarding things I’ve seen in a long time….the way forward 🙏🏻

This is really wounderful i can watch for hours

Keep up the good hard work.

Horses looks beautiful and field looks healthy. not smashed by heavy machinery.

Very cool. I enjoy seeing how resourceful the amish can be. Thanks for the upload

They've got those horses well trained! Most would bolt with that dust and noise right behind them.

The Horsemanship in this is amazing,An Art that needs to be kept alive :)

Also it’s interesting how the Amish allowed this to be filmed as I’ve heard they do not like to be on camera .. no hate on this video tho as I am very fascinated by how they get there crop in ! Very nice!

I love horses but what’s the point in using them if you need an engine to run the chopper?

Those work horses are strong to pull that equipment. They take their time and get it done. Amazing

It’s briljant ..horses are on cruise control, and so every one has a good job managing the horses. A small engine to power the one row chopper.. yes they use engine and tractors but very wisely.

I'll givem credit they got a very good stand of corn when they planted.

I have a lot of Amish friends and there are a lot of different communities. I know some who can't use tractors and some who can, it depends on the community. Also I hope you got permission to film because that is against their rules to be filmed!

I love the times I worked with my Mennonite neighbors , a great kind soft spoken people, I enjoyed greatly working with the work horses names were Pet, Bill, Ponch and Jerry. Pet and Bill were Belgian.

It’s interesting. The Amish work on my barn, outbuildings, etc. they cut ice off my pond in the winter. They use all sorts of modern tools. They have drivers. They have cell phones. When they put the metal roof on my barn about 20 years ago, they used a generator to run a compressor which ran air tools. They told me that they weren’t permitted to use tools which ran directly off a gas driven shaft. Kind of crazy to me. They have since progressed to battery powered tools. Dewalt, Milwaukee, etc. Very unique rules. Each sect or group has a bishop who sets the rules for the group?

Makes more sense to use what's available. In the circle I grew up, they took the harvester, removed the head and put a bed on it to feed the corn into the harvester.

I've seen Amish farmers around here using draft ponies as many as seven or eight abreast. Ponypulls are popular around here and that means a lot of draft ponies who never make the grade so you can buy them cheap. Amish women and kids use them as cart horses too.

Incredible! Love the horses. Thanks so much for sharing. But isn’t using a gas powered silage chopper and a tractor, against the rules of the Amish?

Great under environmental aspect. I respect their work and the respect they have for the nature we have all lost in our modern life.

You can take up for them all you want. You aren't fooling anyone. That's the same damn principle of a tractor.

At 8:28, hitching up that Gehl chopper box, made in West Bend Wisconsin

The wagons ought to have brakes on the wheels so that the horses don't get run over headed down hill. It is amazing to see the "willingness to serve" in those horses. The Amish here don't have to go to the equipment dealers to acquire new model tractors. Some Amish do have tractors-with steel wheels. Other groups have regular cars and tractors and electricity.

Beautiful horses. Don’t work them too hard. My grandpa had horses like this. 👍👍

I can't believe the stupid comments people make. Just because you Dont agree with how the Amish do it, doesn't make them wrong. Especially the farmers making the comments, these Amish probably live a better life than you by not being deeply in debt trying to out technology your neighbor and putting on a show for the local rubes, keep your high stress life to yourself and leave this guy alone..... he's happy

That is awesome, figure about 20k on the high end for all the horses... No compaction, probably a lot more traction as well, and very little to never break down. I would definitely rather fix a shoe than a flat tire.... Maybe we're doing something wrong.

What is the engine powering the power take off (PTO) called if they can not use tractors in the field ? This is very interesting and they work really hard

must be pretty liberal Amish order to allow rubber tires on the equipment.Steel wheels are the norm up here in Wisconsin,unless they are Menonite.

Now there is a team that jells together, good to watch.

He must be deaf after clearing that field. But very interesting use of old and new. Can they use steam power?

-leaning tower of Pisa - that Silo tower! does it still stand or topple over like that other one?

I have to say , the longer i watched this video, the less sceptical i became.. to get a team of horses trained to this level takes a lot more skill than driving a tractor and thats for sure... the satisfaction from it must be very rewarding.. and i drive modern machinery every day..

Wait, do they use fuel or something.

Horse power & reversing better than manual labor. Where did the little dog get to? On my uncles farm in Galway in the 60’s in Ireland,horse power was used. Lovely memories of a then childhood.

Amazing! Did they build the grain elevator? That would seem impossible.

Nothing like pulling a diesel kicker engine. with a team of horses. Ahhhhhhhhh, the good ole days.

4 Belgians pulling a loaded silage wagon is a beautiful sight, but how does the operator brake while going downhill? Just wondering, didn’t notice any braking on the loaded wagon.

I am corn-fused, they won't use a gas-powered tractor but they do use a gas powered harvester.

As always thanks for posting. It does seem a little early to be cutting corn for silage. A question: Do all the church districts around the Arthur area permit the use of rubber tires on farm machinery?

Draft horses have to be worked. If you don't, you have one HELL of a big energetic problem on your hands. Drafts love to work.

If 4 horses can pull a full silage wagon, how come I need a 50 horsepower tractor to do the same thing?

I love it !

Does anyone know at what point it is OK to use powered implements, or what determines the degree of modernization?

Great video! Thank you soo much.

do they have modern hay equipment that,s pulled by horses also? what about tilling the soil? i jist love ta watch the horses werk,, havent seen that since i was a kid,,thank ya fer the videos

That is really cool!!!

Danke Amish-Farmers. So sind wenigstens die Pferde beschäftigt. Ob das aber rentabel ist... sei dahingestellt. Die Denkweise der Amish-Leute war /ist eben eine Andere !! Schönes Video und....gesunde Pferde.

It makes turning a tractor with silage chopper look easy the way these men do it

Completely pointless they are still using engines and fuel. The power pack in front of the forager just needs a drive to one axle. Then it's a tractor.

+Ernest Bontrager Great video; it's always cool to see how others live their lives, so thanks for posting. I noticed at the end that the silo was really leaning. Would this seem to be the same guy whose silo fell over in your other video?

These are true peoples who are not afraid of hardship.

I respect them.because they are hard workers.if people be just a one percent like the amish world would be a better place.no doubt

If you use an engine to drive the chopper, why not a tractor to pull it as well ? 🤔

How much horse power do you need to put out the trailer if its stuck

How do they fill silos a horse on a treadmill running the blower

Very nice. Thanks!

A beautiful sommers day...

it's like owning a car but having horses pull it to town to buy groceries.

Thank you for the very nice video

Like that amish life. But this is crazy.

Nice working team

on some of these comments the ppl making the comments undoubtedly haven't seen a horse pull I mean really PULL.....the horses in this video are not all sweaty like there working, just another day of work to them;-)

12 horses...all the time they have to put in in just the horses before and after...and during...impressive

New Holland Harvester, just like in the book of Genesis.

can they use tractors on steel?

That is sustainable farming. If the greens have their way, we will all be doing this.

Do they changed out the eight so the horses don't get too tired.

it's their attitude that keeps them going. i have too much respect to them,

How do you have a 1.) diesel tractor next to a 2.) diesel corn harvester but then pull it by actual horses?

I saw this very same thing in Ohio- very impressive

Amish is a name for a group of religious denominations that while they share many concepts have LOTS of different smaller sects with different beliefs about what they can use in terms of technology.

Honest question if they're going to use an engine to power the forage harvester why not just use a tractor? What are the rules per se?

Wow that's really something

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