[JohnJ0906]

I happened to see this article in the Baltimore Sun today, and thought it was interesting. Anybody seen this or worked on one? (Marc..:whistling2: )

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.md.amish18may18,1,170307.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

 

[JamesINla]

it says I gotta register & log in first. Can you copy/paste maybe?

 

[MDShunk]

They're a pretty tight-knit group. Most of the power they use is generated by small on-farm windmills to pump the well mechanically, a run a little DC generator to charge the batteries they use to work the flashing lights and headlights on the buggies. Some of them run diesel powered generators in their shops and barns (diesel is okay with some of them, but not gasoline). Never seen an Amish solar system.

I can't pull up the article either.

 

[brian john]

A electrical contractor I know, tells a story of a machinist that wanted to know if he had a use for multiple single phase and 3-phase motors, new never used. The machinist had worked with an Amish family that had a wood shop, he was to retrofit new wood working machines to operate from an existing water wheel.

 

[MDShunk]

If any of you all ever get a windmill job, here's the Amish people that do a fantastic job with windmill power. Windmills are all they do, day in and day out, and they travel for hundreds of miles around:

Yoder's Windmill Service
Business type: retail sales
Product types: water pumping windmills.
Address: 2006 Bedford road , Shippensburg , Pennsylvania USA 17257
Telephone: 717-532-4591