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Posted: 7/14/2018 12:03:54 PM EDT
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Lancaster pa here. Our Amish still ride scooters. No hover boards yet. But I do pass a buggy every once in a while on the way home from work at night that has blue underglow lights.
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Posted: 7/14/2018 3:39:02 PM EDT
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Lancaster pa here. Our Amish still ride scooters. No hover boards yet. But I do pass a buggy every once in a while on the way home from work at night that has blue underglow lights. The Country is going to Hell. |
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Posted: 7/14/2018 4:06:31 PM EDT
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Amish rules are set locally. Local Amish to me use some solar.
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Posted: 7/14/2018 4:44:40 PM EDT
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Mid Ohio here. I live smack in the middle of an Amish community. No solar here.
I have noticed they are very strict about things like that. No electricity, no gas powered anything, no lights on their buggies, no shoes on the kids and women. Must be one of the stricter groups. |
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Posted: 7/14/2018 5:12:14 PM EDT
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Not Amish, but serving the community:
Smucker's Energy in Kinzers, Pa From the "About/Contact" page: Beginning in 1979 with Smucker’s Sales & Service, the Smucker Family provided and serviced diesel power generation equipment and sold products such as wind turbines, inverters, and solar panels. In addition, they designed and installed off-grid solar systems for local Amish farms and businesses, establishing an early background for complex solar integration well before the surge of grid-tied solar that happened in the late 2000’s. |
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Posted: 7/15/2018 10:18:33 AM EDT
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We have four different groups around us. I think all of them have solar panels here and there. Headlamps are widely used. I think all the groups have a 'telephone shack' at the end of one driveway. The ones that are contractors usually have a cell phone.
One family has a really nice greenhouse with a wood boiler, solar panels, and fans. One of the close neighbors and friend has a night vision scope and goes pig hunting in Texas. He also has a building on his property with electricity that an 'English guy' operates  . And since it has electricity he decided to get a chest freezer.I think most try to get away with as much as elders permit. |
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Posted: 7/25/2018 4:27:14 PM EDT
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There are many different sects of Amish. The ones that my wife and I barter with are "old order" Amish. No power, no solar, no telephone shack and no buttons on their clothes. They do however use gasoline engines to power saws and threshers, things that can't be hand or horse powered.
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Posted: 7/25/2018 8:44:06 PM EDT
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We have four different groups around us. I think all of them have solar panels here and there. Headlamps are widely used. I think all the groups have a 'telephone shack' at the end of one driveway. The ones that are contractors usually have a cell phone. One family has a really nice greenhouse with a wood boiler, solar panels, and fans. One of the close neighbors and friend has a night vision scope and goes pig hunting in Texas. He also has a building on his property with electricity that an 'English guy' operates . And since it has electricity he decided to get a chest freezer.I think most try to get away with as much as elders permit. |
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Posted: 7/25/2018 8:54:45 PM EDT
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The Amish in my neck of the woods still use gas generators for power.
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Posted: 7/25/2018 8:56:12 PM EDT
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The community rules are set by the local bishop(s). One community may allow barn doors to open vertically only while the next community may allow horizontal or horizontal opening doors. They set limits on which outfits may be used in marriage ceremonies etc... Can cause friction amongst some of the congregants that want to utilize more modern conveniences such as battery operated buggy lights that they will move out of the area to a more relaxed ruled community. There is a 3 man "steering committee" that rules out of Pennsylvania concerning major conflicts.
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Posted: 7/25/2018 11:15:36 PM EDT
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My area is more lax than some other areas.
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Posted: 7/25/2018 11:28:54 PM EDT
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I'm pretty much a hypocrite and make up my solutions to fit what I want to do.
If I don't like doing something, then I'll ban it from my thoughts. If I REALLY want to do it, then I'll figure out a way to rationalize it ---so I can. Fooling myself [Americans' Favorite Pastime] comes in handy a lot of times too . 
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Posted: 7/26/2018 11:20:09 AM EDT
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I'm pretty much a hypocrite and make up my solutions to fit what I want to do. If I don't like doing something, then I'll ban it from my thoughts. If I REALLY want to do it, then I'll figure out a way to rationalize it ---so I can. Fooling myself [Americans' Favorite Pastime] comes in handy a lot of times too . |
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