Wait......an amish man with a credit card? xD

Yeah, sounds kinda odd to me too. I guess they're 'Fancy' Amish without going so far as the 'Black Bumpers'*.

* - 'Fancy' Amish can and do use some modern conveniences so long as they're not too disruptive. 'Black Bumpers' are Amish from an order that letds them own a car, but if the car has chrome bumpers they have to paint them black.

Those are called Menonites.

Not camera friendly but they are debit machine friendly? Hmmm.

Cue scene of Peter Griffen filling up a Mustang breed horse at a gas station? Anyone?

...immediately followed by Peter lying on the ground with two hoof-shaped bruises on his chest. :)

Even the Amish have credit card debt in this economy! XD

hehe Amish people are fun :p

Well, got to fill up that John Deer that helps bring in the harvest somehow.

Very dangerous, dispensing inside a closed vehicle; where I live it's illegal to even fill a can in the bed of a pickup truck.

Oh yeah, two hazards in one:

1) fumes escaping into the enclosed cab are an inhalation risk.

2) filling a portable container which is not grounded is a spark hazard, and gasoline has a flash point of -40F. That's not a typo, gasoline can ignite from a spark whenever it is warmer than 40 degrees BELOW zero Fahrenheit. To put it another way, if you can stand to be in an area for as little as two minutes, it's warm enough for gasoline to be dangerous.

I guess our Dutch Friend there likes tempting fate and faith.

Or getting high inside the buggy

Nah, only Aborigines sniff gasoline. The Amish drink Sterno!

I did not know the difference. One learns something new every day on FA.

I don't think there is much risk of either being a problem. Carriages are not air tight and since there made of wood there is no risk of a static discharge.

It does not need to be airtight, You can place a pail of gasoline in a two-car garage with the big door open and you'll get enough fumes to cause an explosion.

Static charged can be built up by tribolectric forces, rubbing things, like rubbing a balloon on your hair to make it cling to the ceiling, contact of an object with a static charge (like a Friend who has been shifting in his seat to stay warm) coming into contact with a grounded piece of metal (like the nozzle of a gas pump) will produce a static discharge.

I'm an Electronics Engineer, I know all about the ease that static charges can be built up, and how damaging they can be to sensitive things like circuit boards, or fume-filled coaches.

They have wood and rubber wheels the carriages are not grounded.

Which is the problem, the carriage is not grounded, therefore the container inside is not grounded. It's no different than filling a Jerry can in the back of a pickup truck, if the can were on the ground, preferably in contact with the metal skirt around the pump's concrete pad, then it would be grounded and there would be no spark hazard.

It's safe to fill a car's internal gas tank because the nozzle comes in contact with the vehicle before the gas is dispensed, any sparks will occur in the relatively safe pre-pumping conditions, and the nozzle stays in electrical contact with the vehicle the whole time. With a portable container, there is no fill tube designed specifically to hold the nozzle in the right position, and there is no vapor-return system in the portable can.

Trust me, even filling a portable Jerry can properly has a lot of risk involved; doing it improperly is like playing Russian roulette.

I love Russian roulette!

I always use an automatic pistol when playing Russian roulette. Here, you go first.

I'm just curious what he has that requires gasoline.

Most likely a tractor.

Some of the Fancy Dutch allow tractors to be used as portable generators to light an area for late night work, or to run a rare piece of equipment that requires electricity.

Gasoline can also be used in white gas lamps. When I was in Boy Scouts our troop had quite a few gasoline burning camping lamps.

Their beleifs do allow the use of internal combustion engines as long as it's not used to propel a vehicle. I saw a photo of one of 'em using 4 horses to pull a gasoline powered mower deck.

Wow, lol.

Wowzer!

were surrounded by hutterite colonies here, they are the more shifty liftless almish with less of a tech fobia.

This is so rare a sight as to look staged, but I know it was a genuine shot. Quite a treat to capture such a juxtaposition of cultures like that. I like the Amish, even though I'm not religious. Their hard working, austere lifestyle always garnered respect from me.

That was an awesome shot.

Oh yes it was "one in a million shot."

This made my day; thanks for sharing this bizarre and rather wrong image that is just so right.

"We've been spending most our lives
Living in an Amish paradise
I've churned butter once or twice
Living in an Amish paradise
It's hard work and sacrifice
Living in an Amish paradise
We sell quilts at discount price
Living in an Amish paradise"

yet again, we have win. XD maybe that horse has a small exhaust pipe stinking out its hiney hole?

The old amoco gas was called white gas,even now under bp it is still the same,that is the only gas that could be used in coleman ecquipment,as lead made the coleman lanterns and catalitic heaters die young.

Permission to send this to FailBlog

Yes.

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Awesome shot thanks for sharing :)

Glad you enjoy it, check out my Camp Woodtick photo too.

I remeber visting them back in 2011. Very interesting life they had. Makes me wonder why we need text phones. 9_9