All About Pocket Knives

There is an Amish area in Southeastern Missouri and the highways there have wide fine gravel shoulders so they do not ride on the pavement.

Charlie Noyes

Having a pocketwatch "serviced" these days is an expensive job.

Charlie Noyes

KnifeSlinger#81 wrote:

vikingdog wrote:Some local Amish buggies. Different colors for different sects.

That's interesting. The amish I have seen in oklahoma always drive tractors, never seen a horse drawn buggy. There's a metal building company here that is amish, they use power tools, trucks, the whole nine yards but they still wear amish clothing. I'm honestly not sure how that works with their beliefs, but they sure do great work.

They will use modern equipment in their businesses if needed but they won't own or drive vehicles. They'll pay an "Englishman" to drive them. They don't have electricity in their homes but if they own a shop or business they'll have it there. They have their own schools and speak only German among themselves.

There are 5 colors of buggies, the orange and white ones are only found in Big Valley near Lewistown, Pennsylvania. The Byler sect has the orange ones and seem to do very well for themselves, beautiful homes and farms while their brethren the Nebraska sect appears to live in near poverty.

Vikingdog thanks for the clarification, I didn't know any of that. Interesting that they speak only german amongst themselves.

The tractor drivers may be Mennonites. They're a little more liberal than the Amish.

"There are two types of traditional Mennonites: those who use horse and buggy transportation and those who drive cars. The horse-and-buggy driving Mennonites, who also speak Pennsylvania German, are often confused with the Amish. Unlike the Amish, Mennonite men do not wear beards."

One of my cousin's worked at Jayco RVs and Campers until she retired several years ago. She made a pretty good buck carting Amish workers back and forth to work.

I found this while doing some research on pyralin.
This came from a 1920s DuPont Company magazine.
Anyone want to use this to learn to swim?

jerryd6818 wrote:The tractor drivers may be Mennonites. They're a little more liberal than the Amish.

"There are two types of traditional Mennonites: those who use horse and buggy transportation and those who drive cars. The horse-and-buggy driving Mennonites, who also speak Pennsylvania German, are often confused with the Amish. Unlike the Amish, Mennonite men do not wear beards."

One of my cousin's worked at Jayco RVs and Campers until she retired several years ago. She made a pretty good buck carting Amish workers back and forth to work.

I think your right on Jerry. I grew up Mennonite in southern Minnesota. My however greats ago grandpa on my mom's side came over from Germany and he started the first Mennonite Church in Minnesota. We were modern Mennonite. Used tractors and had electricity. I do have some cousins that live in Pennsylvania that still live the old way. Ive never gone to visit them but would like to one day. I don't attend a Mennonite Church any more. I live in Texas so it's Baptist Church on Sunday

We have the old order mennonites up around Scottsville Ky and the new order down around Elkton Ky. I understand that the new order now are even buying trucks and cars, a few years ago they would make a trailer out of a old truck hook to the back a their tractor and go down the road just a flying. The ones up around Scottsville still use horses as far as I know, don't go up there much any more use to buy a lot of fresh produce from them. They are good people, one I used buy from always had German made knives for sale and usually a few Cases.

rangerbluedog wrote:I found this while doing some research on pyralin.
This came from a 1920s DuPont Company magazine.
Anyone want to use this to learn to swim?
swim collar copy.jpg

So, you want to learn to swim eh? Here, stick your head in this plastic bubble

We had a neighbor that was a Mennonite. He was a transplanted farmer from Lancaster, PA . He was a very interesting old feller, always very gentle and courteous. He farmed with horses and tractors, he owned an old pickup truck, lived with electricity. When discussing religion he always eluded to some differences between the Amish and the Mennonites. He had 80 acres not far from us and it was always interesting to watch him work the land with the horses and the old equipment. He rented a small corn field from us back in 2011. Even though we had known him for 25 years or so, I really got to know him that year. His main agricultural interest was selling the large, trained draft horses, they were his life's work! We have a file full of pictures of him and were surprised to learn that he accepted a job caring for a doctor's horses up in Alabama, he was about 87 at that time. Some months later we were saddened to hear he had been kicked by one of the horses and had been killed. To honor his memory I'm posting these pictures of Mr. Raymond L. Smoker, a Christian gentleman and a Mennonite farmer.
Treefarmer

That's a nice little tribute. Interesting fellow!

Very nice tribute. You were lucky to know a man like that.

One of my favorite buildings, The Flat Iron Building in Manhattan on a beautiful October day.

The Flat Iron Building is neat. In NYC, the Chrysler Building is my favorite, especially at night.

Here is my favorite building.
My home in Connecticut.

jerryd6818 wrote:The Flat Iron Building is neat. In NYC, the Chrysler Building is my favorite, especially at night.

..........ditto, jerry!!!!............ .................

Very nice Joe. I don't know anything about architecture. What's the style and approximate age?

Thanks, Jerry.
Some kind of Colonial vernacular. Original structure was built mid to late 1860s.
It's the nicest house I've ever lived in.

Well good for you. I'm glad for you.

Thank you, Jerry.

Nice home Joe! That's my kind of house.

Thanks a lot, Mike.

Just some guys standing in a piece of the railroad tunnel during construction at Hoover Dam.

My newly arrived great niece.