1/13/2003: Amish barn move

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Tip o' the hat to Slithy Tove.

Dateline rural Iowa. A couple buys a load of farmland to put up a new cookie-cutter housing development. They buy the buildings on the land too, but they don't need the 160-foot-long turkey farm so they auction it off.

At 9:30 ayem the Amish folk arrived, divided the building up into four parts, then "on three - 1, 2, 3", they picked up part number one and marched down the highway.

And they steered it, too - "on west, brother" and all 150 of them turned right.



Hup, hup, hup. With only human power, they get the job done. How did they know it would work, or how many man to bring to the task? Who knows?

But four hours later, the barn was moved, one mile west.

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