Ohio Amish Barn Raising - May 13th, 2014 in 3 Minutes and 30 seconds

[adirondacker]

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[marble falls]

1. Nice video. Think I saw some Mennonites in there, too!.

[adirondacker]

2. Power in numbers! It took them 10 hours what would have taken me 6 months solo.

I'm not sure how to distinguish Mennonites from Amish, but glad ya liked it.

[marble falls]

3. I'm from Ohio origionally. My dad hired Mennonites to work for his construction company. There's....

a couple of places where there is a man walking from the camera to the barn wearing no hat. Those guys sure look like Mennonites. Amish and Mennonites work together and they have communities close to each other. Mennonites will own pickup trucks and station wagons or vans.

[adirondacker]

6. Cool. I found the video via Finehomebuilding btw. I'm on their email list.

http://www.finehomebuilding.com

[riqster]

4. A few links.

http://www.welcome-to-lancaster-county.com/amish-and-mennonites.html

http://www.jamesportmissouri.org/jca_018.htm

You'll notice that the two links are not in complete agreement. Part of this is due to regional variances, part from the fact that they were written by "English ", and also because religious matters are never simple.

[adirondacker]

5. Thanks!

We have Amish in our area, but not Mennonites. I think the community lifestyle is appealing sans religion. It's so efficient, but seems to have lost it's appeal to the masses. Everyone for themselves:/

[cyberswede]

7. That was fun!

They looked like little ants crawling around.

[liberal N proud]

8. Note the lack of ladders until they needed to pass roofing sheets up.

Incredible.

[adirondacker]

9. I have a friend that will climb (run) on open trusses over 40ft with fairly steep pitches.

You better have faith that whoever nailed them in, did so in a deliberate manner. I've seen a guy take a fall when someone with a nail gun missed a stretch. Luckily it was on the first floor and he fell into the basement with only a few scrapes and bruises.

I side on caution unless I'm the one that nailed it down.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. They pre-cut everything before assembly....

Insert tab A into slot B, then cry a lot.

[adirondacker]

11. It's still impressive what you can do with a large team.

I didn't see any nail guns or power drills

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. Reminds me of my management days...

It's tough to get a bunch of egomaniacs to set aside their need to stand out in order to get the job done.

[adirondacker]

14. United we stand...

I work in the sciences, and have to say the ego trip that many are on is unlike anything I've ever had to work with in any of the trades (carpentry, restaurant). Kind of a libertarian mindset amongst many (although they mainly vote D). Thankfully, large groups can create critical mass

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. Look at one some time and say, "Do you want a syndrome named after what you're doing right now?"

[packman]

13. Damn those Amish

[Oilwellian]

16. They do quality work

We had Mennonites as neighbors and one day the men in the clan, about twenty of them, gathered to build a home for their daughter. It was a beautiful, well built home that was completed within a few days.

[jmowreader]

17. And on May 14, 2014, they installed the puppy mill equipment

http://www.thepuppymillproject.org/puppy-mills-a-side-of-the-amish-that-you-never-knew/

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=7187712

http://www.crimelibrary.com/blog/2013/02/01/killing-dogs-common-among-amish-says-man-accused-of-shooting-nine-pups-their-mom/index.html

[Brother Buzz]

18. From 2:00 to 2:10, those men partook in a grand meal and packed away some calories

You just know it.