[TheForge] Speaking of benders...

[Loyd Craft]

At 09:48 AM 3/15/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>         Some folks have claimed they use water power, or generators to
>produce power to run their machines.............. it's not that they
>shouldn't use electricity, I think it is they are not to be connected to the
>rest of the world or "grid" as it is called.   This theory brings to
>question the purchase of fuel oil, but I don't know enough about their
>believes or foundations to comment on what they are allowed or not to do.

Some groups are a bit more permissive.   While backwards when it comes to 
modern conveniences, they are right on top of things when it comes to 
earning money.

ie: The power grid can come to the barn/workshop but not the house.   and 
some seem to allow a plain truck or car with no chrome or fuzzy dice 
hanging from the rear view mirror.

There's a group of Amish nearby here that do seamless gutters.   They have 
a very plain older 3/4 ton 4x4 truck and a Pace enclosed cargo trailer with 
the gutter machine and every cordless product known to man.

They plug in at your house to power the gutter machine, and as an aside, 
they power up all their cordless batteries.  When they were at my place 
doing gutters I wasn't sure what was worth more.  the gutter machine or the 
banks of chargers and cordless batteries.  It's a tossup.

Their wives bicycle in sandwiches and refreshments to them at lunch time if 
it's close enough to home.  If not, then one travels with them and sets up 
a lunchwagon.