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  • ForMud
    ForMud Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've seen rigs like this go by the house sometimes.

  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,248 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Was damn near to the bottom of Page 1, @peter4jc would never find it again

    A little dirt never hurt
  • edz
    edz Posts: 372 ✭✭✭✭

    @ForMud said:

    I've seen rigs like this go by the house sometimes.

    See some around here. We are close to a lake and it is legal. Some folks around here have issues with it, mostly because they are not aware of the laws, or false belief of road taxes and other taxes paid.

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,128 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So a motor on a boat is ok but a truck isn’t?

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 10

    @Rdp77 said:
    So a motor on a boat is ok but a truck isn’t?

    I guess so. Amish use balers with gas engines, pulled by a team of horses.

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,128 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You sure that thing ain’t steam powered lol? And he might not take kindly to you speaking of his wife that way.

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • TRayB
    TRayB Posts: 3,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nah, it gas, and his wife knows how to handle a team of horses.

  • ForMud
    ForMud Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bumping this thread before the shut down next week, or it gets deleted....

  • WolfHunter909_
    WolfHunter909_ Posts: 129 ✭✭✭

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,458 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Women drivers!

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,866 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Are we still posting here?

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • edz
    edz Posts: 372 ✭✭✭✭

    @Rdp77 said:
    You sure that thing ain’t steam powered lol? And he might not take kindly to you speaking of his wife that way.

    All gas, and most of the girls/women I know will handle a team of horses no problem,

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,128 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 11

    @edz everything you said made since to me…except this:

    As for the motor in the boat, yes, the motor in the truck isn't the issue, it is the air in the tire, and the fact that owning a truck/car would distance them from each other.

    This I don’t understand. Especially the air in the tire.

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,128 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @edz said:

    @Rdp77 said:
    You sure that thing ain’t steam powered lol? And he might not take kindly to you speaking of his wife that way.

    All gas, and most of the girls/women I know will handle a team of horses no problem,

    That was a sarcastic joke.

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • edz
    edz Posts: 372 ✭✭✭✭

    @Rdp77 said:

    @edz said:

    @Rdp77 said:
    You sure that thing ain’t steam powered lol? And he might not take kindly to you speaking of his wife that way.

    All gas, and most of the girls/women I know will handle a team of horses no problem,

    That was a sarcastic joke.

    I know, and laughed my a^* off, still had to respond. Nicer than some of the things I joke about when I am with them.

  • edz
    edz Posts: 372 ✭✭✭✭

    @Rdp77 said:
    @edz everything you said made since to me…except this:

    As for the motor in the boat, yes, the motor in the truck isn't the issue, it is the air in the tire, and the fact that owning a truck/car would distance them from each other.

    This I don’t understand. Especially the air in the tire.

    Neither am I to be 100% honest. Not sure many Amish are either. The part about being plain I get. But they can't own anything (yes, some exceptions) with air in the tires. Many of rules seem to come from Levitcus in the Bible. Not cutting the or rounding the hair for beards, no tats and such. On a personal level I respect them, but the reasons for it in the Bible seem so different. In Leviticus the tats were due to folks scaring themselves with rocks when someone died. Many other rules for for similar reason. Not a biblical scholar and don't question much of what they do out of respect, but around a few families on nearly a daily basis. Most I can figure is when the boat is on the water it isn't attached to the trailer so they are using the motor to go but not the tires. Not sure if this makes sense the way I wrote it.

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,128 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That boat trailer has inflated tires lol

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,458 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 12

    Not necessarily. Could be full of water. Could be solid rubber.

    I still think it's funny that their carriages have brake lights.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • edz
    edz Posts: 372 ✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    Not necessarily. Could be full of water. Could be solid rubber.

    I still think it's funny that their carriages have brake lights.

    The boat trailer has air in the tires, but the boat on water has no tires
    Solid rubber and all metal tires are becoming more polar on carts.

    Shawn, lights are 2 fold, by law in areas and to be safe. Our local carts and buggies you don't see many of them

  • edz
    edz Posts: 372 ✭✭✭✭

    @Rdp77 said:
    That boat trailer has inflated tires lol

    But the mother isn't running

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,866 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Interesting. A group of Amish just moved in up the road from me. I was having trouble figuring out what was causing the marks in the road, hooves, until I saw the green-ice residue left behind. Then, they came by in the buggy, etc.

    So, I went up the road after awhile to see. What do you know? Motorized farm equipment of all kinds. So, this explanation helps, although it is still a bit confusing as to what's permissible.

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • edz
    edz Posts: 372 ✭✭✭✭

    @Amos_Umwhat said:
    Interesting. A group of Amish just moved in up the road from me. I was having trouble figuring out what was causing the marks in the road, hooves, until I saw the green-ice residue left behind. Then, they came by in the buggy, etc.

    So, I went up the road after awhile to see. What do you know? Motorized farm equipment of all kinds. So, this explanation helps, although it is still a bit confusing as to what's permissible.

    Confusing among many of the Amish as well

  • genareddog
    genareddog Posts: 4,460 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Still very confused