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The Apprentice wrote:
Not seen this film before, but many others, I know a guy who teaches these fellas to make their own shoes and boots, they leave a barrow at the road end and he has to take all of his hand tools down the valley and leave his truck out of the boundry.
These are a very kind people who cherish new skills or bring in skills after someone dies out, if they called for me I would go tomorrow and never leave, my kind of lifestyle in many ways we are now.
I cannot watch the links yet because our snail speed internet won't allow, but I have heard about the beard trimming.
It's not a film it's TV show on the Discovery Channel.
The Amish sell great food and products, they come down from Lancaster Pennsylvania to our local Farmers Market.
We can't get Discovery, no sky or Tv here in our house.
I have seen some of their products, another freind of ours uses their horse collars for his plough horses, I have slsomade some of their wooden wheel barrows from drawings I was given, best design I have ever seen.
Many of the best made items came from the era 1850's, a time warp many of their items today mirror, built to last a hundred years.
Their hand to eye coordination is in the trim and on the return, demand for anything high quality has increased in the last ten years, while the modern ways drive things the opposite way.
Our food is very much Amish, hand made.
This is why many are finding those with such skills, looking in through such windows.
