#barn moving

Hundreds of Amish men move barn using only their hands in an impressive show of teamwork

YouTube We bet you’ve never seen teamwork like this one. On a chilly March morning in Ohio, roughly 250 Amish men gathered for a special mission: to move a barn from one place to another. Since 1808, the Amish have been moving to Ohio from their original settlements in Pennsylvania, making the state home to the country’s highest Amish congregations. A major facet of being Amish is cooperation, so…

In 1981 Donna and Herman Ostry bought a farm in the small town of Bruno, Nebraska, about 60 miles outside of Omaha. The farm came with a big barn that had been built back in the 1920’s and also had a nice little creek that flowed through their property. The creek was both a blessing and a problem for the Ostrys. It was great to have readily available water for their farm animals but it also…