Amish farming - 6-horse power plow

One of our Amish neighbors farms the organic way. It seems very interesting to me how they use a 6-horse power plow ;)
Excuse the shaky images. This was taken with my phone.

[@gregoryyoung8819]

Fascinating video!! I like hearing the sounds.

[@j.d.peppmeier9041]

In the 70s I lived close to the Amish country around Hazleton, Iowa. They are remarkable people !

[@janicebartmess9950]

I sure am grateful for the Amish, that they are keeping these old skills and traditions alive!

[@winstonpoplin]

They do it because their leaders require them to do it or they are banished from their friends and family forever.

[@crazychariotgrabber9085]

@@winstonpoplin problem?

[@winstonpoplin]

@crazychariotgrabber9085 I have no problem, but i was just pointing out that these people keep these traditions largely out of fear of being expelled from their friends and family forever if they disobey their councils rules. It is a brutal and savage way to run a society. Yes many of the "back to earth" methods of the amish are fantastic but you must keep in mind the reasons that they are doing it, aka they have to or they are evicted from their communities and may never speak to their friends and families again. Quite a threat to hold over an entire communities head.

[@crazychariotgrabber9085]

@@winstonpoplin Amish collectivism is why they have way higher birthrates than legacy americans. individualist societies die fast, you are experiencing the death of society.

[@winstonpoplin]

@@crazychariotgrabber9085 Interesting observation. But im not sure what that has to do with the councils (of exclusively men) using the threat of banishment and expulsion from friends and family to get people to continue the set of rules setforth by the council.

[@josephmedlow536]

Thank you for posting, somthing you don't see every day. When there's a will theres a way.

[@hiranath1699]

These horses look well fed and cared.

[@archywiseman]

@toolmanw900l Yeah, they wear them out and then put them up for auction where they most likely will be slaughtered down in Mexico.

[@patriciakimber4312]

@@archywisemanyes why do people not know how bad they treat their horses It’s hell on earth and then dumped , It’s wrong and they puppy mill

[@lancelot1953]

Thank you Blanca for sharing this video with the YT community - it is quite an experience to see the farm work as performed by our "ancestors". Ciao, L

[@Iforgotme]

When I was 8 years old my dad bough a 15 acre farm and taught me to harnes a team of 2 Belgans and drive a 1 moleboard plow. Took over an hour just to harness the horses cause I was too short to reach over their backs. Plowing 2 acres a day then feeding all the other livestock was a days work.

[@billyfincher3958]

When I was a very young boy we use to plow with mules and i can remember moving to a nother farm with a pair of mules thank you so much for sharing brings back good memiores

[@samspade4634]

Hey city dwellers, that is not a plow. That is called a disk. Two very different pieces of equipment.

[@357bullfrog9]

I think the Amish have got it figured out. What a way to live. I'd be tickled to death living like that

[@Cole-xq2tl]

I think the novelty of it would wear off pretty quick to even country folk lol

[@357bullfrog9]

@@Cole-xq2tl we were sort of like that growing up. No electricity or running water. Heated with coal and cooked with wood

[@georgvonsauer2618]

My grandfather had a 240+ acre farm in the same county...farmed with 11 head of horses with 3 hired men for field work...1937 bought an Oliver 66 on steel and made money, after letting the hired men go...still used horses for cultivating...in 2 years bought a new Studebaker, after giving up the 27 T tudor, bought used in 1935 for $75....He paid cash for everything, as you can never depend on the weather or farm prices...as with horses, a part of the farm us designated for the maintenance of horses...as part of the farm is designated to maintain the tractor...nice thing about the tractor, you do not to feed or care for it, while it is not working!...today I was harrowing with 10 sections...working with 10 horses walking, or 11 with a riding cart...rather use my tractor for the 4 month farming, than deal with horses year round!...love horses, but they require too much labor and all of my kids refuse to work, as little as dryland farming yields!

[@cicindelido]

hello friends, greetings from costa rica in central america. What beauty, see those horses, they are beautiful. surely you treat them with love and respect that I like. I like the Amish way of life. I liked the video.

[@joshknight6145]

This is an awesome video of horses pulling a plow they are really strong. Theses draft horses are very beautiful thank you for showing this video.

[@robertheinkel6225]

When I was growing up, our neighbor had a team of horses. He only used them to haul manure out of the barn in the wintertime.

[@user-nz8kt4en8m]

Столько работы проделана......тут иногда две лошади вместе не хотят ходить....а тут целых 6...👍👍👍👍

[@rickmeyers401]

Thank you for sharing, this is so very interesting!

[@nightlightabcd]

I'm impressed how well the eight horse hitch work together and how well he handles them!

[@jeffjahns1974]

There was only 6

[@justincase2830]

Beautiful scenery. Another use for a bucket. The farmer's seat.Just another reason why the Amish do so well financially.

[@haleroofing8150]

Just imagine 100 years ago we all farmed like the Amish do. I guess my family liked the tractor over physical labor, im Pennsylvania Dutch but I work smarter not harder.

[@ladym7129]

How absolutely beautiful to watch. Love the colt following them in the second field . . . Would have made for some tremendous photography moments.

[@parhf1644]

غار

[@donfox344]

Nice video but the plow isn't a plow. The implement is a disk harrow. The soil has already been plowed, the disk harrow is used to kill emerging weeds, break up clods and compact the soil for planting. The team was working well together and they had a load.

[@cowboykody6775]

You dont wanna COMPACT the soil or the planter wont plant deep enough because the soil is too compacted

[@imjustoutforastroll5091]

Cowboy Kody aw come on cowboy, there's way too many air pockets beneath plowed soil to plant without "compacting" it first!

[@inTruthbyGrace]

I get the distinct sense that these Amish _know_ what they are doing. (Thanks for the correction Don Fox! I didn't know a plow from disk harrow... and now I do! Plus the guy in the video @2:49 corrects her "that's its a disk")

[@johnmichael3913]

@@inTruthbyGrace nu bbju

[@micahgrubb6867]

Also disks do the opposite of compacting the soil. Culti- mulcher or culti- packer for that . Actually a better way to beat down clumpy soil and sod

[@raymondcrawford9563]

Love these old time videos

[@Birdsiviewer7760]

This is what you call clean energy...👌

[@Farm_fab]

This is true rated horsepower, unlike many motors and engines today.

[@kirtansinghsangha3385]

Thank you Blanca sharing this video

[@imjustoutforastroll5091]

Love it that the foal runs along! Free training. and probably free snack from his mammy whenever the team stops.

[@bernadettelejeune2337]

I'm Just Out For a Strollfemmenue

[@bernadettelejeune2337]

Femme nue

[@friezawithdrip2593]

Gas prices been going up so now I’m choosing option 2

[@couakelcouako3638]

c'est beau à voir cela rappel nos grands parents à la campagne

[@onillonill5192]

m'étonnerais, a l'époque ils avaient pas les moyen d'avoir 6 chevaux

[@Wottan007]

Amish are a higly respected community , hard working and very honest peoples ! God bless them !

[@KoreanFarM-bj9cx]

You have good farmland. 👍

[@royhoco5748]

when a man rolls his shirt sleeves up above his elbows he is ready to do some serious elbow grease work.

[@sandeepprasad7]

FINALLY, got a chance to see the real HORSEPOWER...YES!!

[@PenDragonsPig]

Kicking pins- universal. Somewhere across the universe is a farming being trying to hook up one of the weird implements, and kicking the hitch pin.

[@marykuttyjohn1149]

Theirs old tradition is beautiful and attractive for me

[@ronmcwhirter3641]

Just think what is required to be a horse farmer. Must be a ferrier, a vet, a nutritionist, . Must grow your own hay. Oats , pastureland.

[@brianangus7459]

When I was a kid on Saskatchewan prairie we still had 2 farmers farming this way. They were Anglo Saxon, Not Amish. This was back during WWII. Most tractors then were steel wheels with lugs.

[@almondbryan871]

Show me the black Gold in a straight

[@calvinpagac5931]

LoL LoL 😅, yea take one of those wheels of and take it to the service station and tell them that it has a flat that needs to be fixed 😆😆LOL LOL😂

[@MrGuy-cp1gt]

We are still out there! The real seed of jacob sees what's coming .a true scotsman knows the real story , and what's to come .

[@johnself6435]

I like it. I just keep thinking safety bars behind that seat and I'm not a osha kind of guy. Also worked in and around ranching and farming most of my life

[@rabahyacobi7161]

Wow!!! Nice video

[@Klwjjj]

Amazing!!!

[@daviemccallum7759]

Nothing better than the old days.

[@Snarky79]

+David M:----That is: ----- in the old days you expired and were retired with a headstone out in the field behind the church. After that ---------progress!!!

[@user-ok5]

Beautiful lifestyle I wish to live with you

[@genefrye3595]

The implement is a disc. Not a disc cultivator. A cultivator is used to cultivate between rows of crops. It is also not a harrow. There are two kinds of harrows, spring tooth and spike.

[@jiritichy7967]

Why do they use six horses when two are doing the job and the other ones are there just for the ride?

[@stranraerwal]

the Baby-Blue hat of the old guy is very Amish!

[@kulwant747]

Beautiful

[@Snarky79]

Would some knowledgeable insider tell me what it costs in a year to feed those big horses? Vet bills?Fundamental financial analysis reigns supreme in the very long run!!

[@bcazz5202]

whut? I have 3 and it takes 1200 a YEAR to feed them. Sorry you worked for idiots who don't know how to get a good deal on feed. And fences? Hell, I've had horses for probably longer than you've been alive and never had expensive wood fences. Invest in a $100 fence charger and some cheap electric fence wire and problem over. They even have Amish friendly solar powered ones these days. And the pregnancy thing? Geez, that's how you replace the buggers, AND make a profit off of them. Can't do that with tractor. You musta worked in some hodytody show barn. I don't know anyone with riding or working horses that pays that much. @Newbie Failmaster

[@stevelangland3924]

Often times the Amish will are experts caring for their livestock and rarely need the actual services of a veterinarian, but they will buy their supplies and medications from a vet, especially now as laws have changed on dispensing antibiotics and so forth. We have a lady vet who works with the amish in this area and they will either barter with her or pay cash.

[@aurelanghelescu2157]

Frumoasa munca de fermier cu cai,dar si grea

[@Bernie5172]

the foal is learning how to plow from mummy

[@seanrathmakedisciples1508]

Thanks 🙏

[@progeneprogeneprogene4130]

Como eu gostaria de levar uma vida assim, parabéns pelo vídeo

[@Guillaume_F]

thank you !

[@coryboyd7958]

God's beautiful creation

[@elephantcompany6061]

Yes, the amish are an attractive bunch.

[@DJAN_ANDI]

In a day, how long a horse can wok to plow?? And in a week, how many days does a horse resdy to work ??

[@calvinpagac5931]

AHHH, 6 hp like my ol cub cadet 60; she's still eating grass today 😆👍

[@RadioRoxx.FM_90.1FM]

Also this horses eat grass TODAY

[@EKEACRES]

Horse power ratings on engines are a joke. No way a Cub Cadet could do the powerful work of 6 Horses.

[@robertheinkel6225]

@@EKEACRES horsepower ratings started based on the amount of work a horse could do in a hour. It doesn’t translate well to engines.

[@bonniesudnick4566]

There are horses in 'training' and not actually hitched to the implement, those horses are on the outside of the ones doing the work and learning. The best way to train your work horse is to give it to a good Amish farmer for a year, he will put it in with his working animals and they will 'learn'.

[@bonniesudnick4566]

Ah ha! Toward the end he hitched all of them up.

[@martinlawn]

SE Minnesota ? Harmony area ? Or, a whole different state ?

[@baltichammer6162]

Reminds me of one of my grandmothers telling me how glad she when the last horse left the farm. Draft horses had a hard life and they didn't live 20+ years like pleasure horses today. My dad still has it stuck in his thinking that a 4 year old horse is about half done with its life.

[@imjustoutforastroll5091]

Baltic Hammer Horrors, what did they do with them? ! Draft horses can work hard their whole life and last till late teens or more!

[@geschichtenschreiber]

All of my horses have lived to 30 or more years. Riding horses, not work horses.

[@thenumerousfew1205]

Video starts at 9:00

[@MrSanteeclaus]

The foal in training.;)

[@perrycrozier8805]

My dad grew up operating a team of horses on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. But obviously, a tractors is much more efficient.

[@thomasbyerly4305]

I believe efficiency is a mater of fact

[@rachidboutoughmas7642]

Fantastic super goode job 👍👍👍👍👌👌👌💪💪💪💪💪🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿

[@ronmcwhirter3641]

City slickers. Its not a plow. Its a feild disc. Or disc harrow . Still a great concept.

[@willemschurer2131]

very nice

[@yankdoodlediesel2574]

2 0f them are the wrong color

[@avamalcomson9936]

Aw the foal

[@domongofaustinosarmiento140]

Que. Bueno. Caballo. Paisano

[@estebanpina5931]

Me acuerdo cuándo estaba en México

[@treyward4480]

So many expert farmers on this thread.

[@ianbetts4435]

Respect to the Amish

[@theword139]

Real horse power

[@Farm_fab]

The foal is following behind the disc harrow because mom has to go to work, and the baby doesn't want to be left behind.

[@jacobplank]

The first challenge is to handle that many horses all tied to each other, glad them days are over for me!

[@josiahgodwin2933]

A quadriga, like Charelton Heston did.

[@stevelangland3924]

I agree a plastic bucket isn't safe to sit on at all. I'm guessing in some other districts the man would be walking behind the disk, based on the beliefs and thoughts of the bishop and the community at large

[@chanrith2426]

Where is your country ?

[@raycity1234]

It’s a art just to work that many horses.

[@geschichtenschreiber]

Actually it isn't art. It's training.

[@raycity1234]

@@geschichtenschreiber true but you always have one horse. If you ever worked with horses it’s a pain in the ass it’s an art.

[@geschichtenschreiber]

@@raycity1234 True that I only work with one at a time. And they are bitches too. LOL

[@berdanruscova4706]

God bles yu

[@piotrmad3294]

jakie spokojne koniki nieczułe na wachania cen paliw

[@kirtansinghsangha3385]

To which country it is place...... Nice video

[@sagi2827]

This is really life natural life

[@vanderleimundel2422]

muito bom ... brasil

[@shandillashenamere7856]

The trick to taking steady video is to get in a position and hold the camera still. Also remember you have a camera in your hand. Otherwise, this is what you get.

[@JudyJudyJudy44]

Yes. Poor camera work. Couldn't watch very long. Annoying talking ...

[@andy6043]

I'm gettin motion sickness but I liked the vid anyway, seeya

[@hairymanonetwo]

Hydraulic cylinder on the disc ? Or air cylinder ? Hmmmm I guess an air cylinder... a horse fart raises the disc !!!!

[@ericlakota6512]

Shold hook the cult up hes wanting to work like the bigs

[@thekekronomicon590]

Is Michel j Fox holding the camera shaky

[@timh9407]

lmao

[@vasylvasylenko9796]

I heard som V8 disel background sound at the end of video )))

[@fubukifangirl]

The Amish would survive the zombie apocalypse.

[@mircofranz9295]

Da würde ich gerne arbeiten

[@ericlakota6512]

Even though it rolls its not heavy its got to be pulled the faster the better so big hitch is good

[@lulutileguy]

Give the ploughboy the phone it cannot hurt outcome

[@gopinath2180]

Which country?

[@plattforminternationalismu1690]

Weiß jemand die eigentumsverhältnisse bei den ....... ? Eigentum an land, an pferden, an ackergeräten? Ich habe den eindruck, dass es privateigentum am boden gibt, bei den pferden und ackergeräten ..... genossenschaftliches eigentum oder gegenseitiges leihen. Wer will und kann mir helfen? Lg.ff.

[@mapita1952]

interesting thought Simon. I wish they had thought about that when they started working me to death on the farm at 5 years old. Maybe I would still feel like a teenager like I did when I was 60.

[@helenbrown6612]

Hard work just isnt for everyone, even from an early age. It's not the situation, it's your character mojo gojoe (unless you actually had abusive parents and then in that case I apologise!). My 3 kids, the oldest and youngest LOVE and I repeat LOVE to work hard and graft (same as me and their Dad)...the middle one, nope... whingey, full of self pity and is a very lazy person in all that they do (apart from gaming 😔). They weren't raised that way, they were raised well, with love and a good diet! Character is character and so like I said, hard work isnt for everyone...

[@nps3252]

Country name????

[@user-rd2bg9yt6d]

Удивлен этими людьми!

[@charlottebonnie5320]

18th Oct. 2020: Glad to see these Amish horses with their natural tails. I just have watched a video clip of Belgian draft horses competition with their tails docked - terrible!

[@rodneywroten2994]

I would have watched the whole thing but the camera shook to much for me

[@imdadullah1226]

Where is this type of agriculture.

[@toms641]

LancAster County , PA has loads of Amish, who farm likis.

[@oscarbanuelos7041]

Nature powered.......

[@azmimercan3881]

Bizim köyde hiç kalmadı atlardan 🙋

[@kevingaraway6494]

Technically speaking a draft horse is 15 hp so more than 60 hp plough

[@agroetop10parana76]

No Brasil esse serviço era feito com uma junta de bois