The Amish: Barn Raising Days

Very few burdens are heavy if everyone lifts. – Amish Proverb
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The Amish: Barn Raising Days | Full Movie | Burton Buller
Oct 1, 2021
The Amish: Barn Raising Day examines how Amish manage to raise a barn in a single day. Both post and beam construction, the traditional barn construction method, and the more modern stick-built construction techniques are displayed. Director: Burton Buller
VIDEO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfKkuZmlx6U

Ohio Amish Barn Raising - May 13th, 2014 in 3 Minutes and 30 seconds
May 14, 2014
Penny M.
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My husband, Scott Miller, shot this video with a Canon 60d Camera using a Pixel TW-282/E3 Wireless remote timer set at 20 second intervals. He shot 1600 pictures from 7:00am until 5:00pm and compressed the 10 hours into 3 minutes and 30 seconds. He even took the day
https://noblewarriors.org/6-lessons-team-work-amish-barn-raising/

A barn raising, also historically called a raising bee or rearing in the U.K., is a collective action of a community, in which a barn for one of the members is built or rebuilt collectively by members of the community. Barn raising was particularly common in 18th- and 19th-century rural North America. A barn was a necessary structure for any farmer, for example for storage of cereals and hay and keeping of animals. Yet a barn was also a large and costly structure, the assembly of which required more labor than a typical family could provide. Barn raising addressed the need by enlisting members of the community, unpaid, to assist in the building of their neighbors' barns. Because each member could ask others for help, reciprocation could eventually reasonably be presumed for each participant if the need were to arise.
The tradition of "barn raising" continues, more or less unchanged, in some Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities, particularly in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and some rural parts of Canada. The practice continues outside of these religious communities, albeit less frequently than in the 19th century. Most frames today are raised using a crane and small crew.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_raising