Some Amish do remodeling or specialize in restoration work, such as Amish in Lancaster County who do work on historic barns prevalent in the area. Like Amish furniture, Amish carpentry and construction has achieved a high reputation in the field. Carpentry crews are common in some Amish communities, offering young men an opportunity to earn a living without the capital demands of purchasing a dairy farm. Some Amish create and sell wood flooring, molding and related products.Īnother important Amish industry is that of home construction and carpentry. Lumber products also find their way to Amish pallet shops or truss makers, where they are turned into raw materials used in the construction industry. In recent years growing overseas demand has seen Amish sawmills sending product to China and other Asian destinations. Sawmill work is simpler compared to custom-crafting furniture, thus is often seen in more conservative Amish communities. Sawmills are common among Amish, especially popular with groups which don’t permit the highest levels of technology. Some Amish deal in hard-to-find varieties of timber. Amish loggers harvest hardwoods for furniture producers and other end-destinations. Other Amish do high-skill custom furniture and home carpentry work.Īmish furniture makers typically work in conjunction with other Amish, in some cases purchasing raw materials or furniture parts from other Amish dealers, which are then crafted into “heirloom-quality” furniture pieces.Īmish are involved in a wide range of wood-related businesses, including: Logging, sawmills and carpentryĪ number of Amish businesses process wood on the front end of the chain. Amish sawmills, for instance, convert raw timber into lumber and other wood products for other industries.
Please remember to keep all those folks impacted by the hurricanes, the tornadoes, the droughts and now the flooding along almost the entire Mississippi River basin in your thoughts and prayers.Īnyway, great story.Turning natural resources into a diverse range of productsįrom tree to finished product, Amish process wood all along the journey from forest to furniture. In fact, that is one of the reasons we have decided to relocate to another part of the country. You don’t win when one of those things comes a callin’. When the sun goes down and virtually NO lights came on in an area with over 4 million residents it makes you think. One of the most vivid memories of my life was being in a 70 something story office building in Houston two days after Ike hit and looking down on all kinds of damage & that area was on the “clean” side of the storm, probably 60 or 65 miles from Bolivar. She called it scary and if you have seen it I think you will agree. My daughter said the same thing after seeing some of the areas in Alabama devastated by the tornados recently. Television coverage, extensive as it was (especially inside New Orleans) does not do justice to it. Unless you see it yourself you just can’t understand how bad it really was. It is all very similar in the degree of devastation those poor folks experienced on Bolivar. I have also traveled extensively through areas of SE Texas / SW Louisiana hit by Rita, which was just three weeks after Katrina and the areas of Mississippi directly hit by Katrina. That is a hard way to go through renewal though.įlorence is also right, the devastation was extreme (and BTW extremely under reported). While I hated to see all of that wiped away, the Amish gentleman is correct … when it is all said and done it will be nicer than it was before. Never went back after that time, until after the storm.
From the time I was an early pre-teen until my brother was seriously injured in an auto accident during my senior year in high school (MANY YEARS AGO) we fished there at least once a week, sometimes two or three times a week. I grew up fishing the East Bay / Bolivar area. Swiss tend to be more conservative on the whole. But in the field he uses a non-Amish person’s power tools.Īlso, I would guess by his last name that he is from a Swiss Amish group (there are at least a couple in Missouri). In his shop, his tools are driven by horsepower using a contraption that resembles a merry-go-round, allowing up to four horses to turn steel shafts that are geared to saws and planers. Though computers are taboo, he hires non-Amish to do three-dimensional pictures of his hand drawings.
Amish timber framer in maine driver#
He says he has a driver but has also used taxis and gets rides from clients. Schwartz works out of El Dorado Springs, Mo., he has built houses as far away as Colorado and Montana. Schwartz, the Amish builder who erected Mr. “There’s no question it is harder to get in touch with me,” says Mr. I believe this is the same Danny that was featured in a Wall Street Journal article back in 2008:
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