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Uploaded by on Jun 18, 2007

The Amish aren't just cheerful people in nice costumes who ride in horses and buggies. They're also capable of incredible feats of engineering. Observe.
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  • How did you make the release mechanism, can you make a close-up of that plz?

  • @meinefresse94 sorry, i don't live close to this thing at all, you'll just have to squint :O

    from what I remember, the release was just two bent metal rods that were attached to the wooden balance beam—the one that catches the marbles as they fall—one attached to each side of the nail you see. the beam pushes each rod up just enough that it lets the next marble though (and stops the next one).

  • 100% Amish made you say?

    Since WHEN do the Amish make marbles?

    huh? Huh? Huh?

  • @bRadicalmagic1 i dunno, go ask em br0

    seriously though, marbles are glass, and glass-blowing is really old technology. i wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the things the amish were allowed to use

  • Amazing feat of engineering? come on its

    a marlble toy not the space shuttle.

  • who knows... if a kid plays with this, he might grow up to work for NASA.

    ...well, ok, maybe not if he's Amish, but still.

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  • hes not Amish hes just filming!!! get it threw your tiny heads, unless you are Amish and you've broken the rules of your people.

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  • @thedumbasschannell lololol

  • i had something like that when i was a kid yet it was all out if plastic

  • I have always found it a little disturbing that amish people consider bicycles fundamentally different from pocket watches. At what number of gears or springs does an object go from being a tool to being a sinful luxury.

  • fuck that, i'd rather play xbox.

  • since when do amish has computers and youtube accounts?

  • I mean, it's ok, but I wouldn't call it amazing. I'd be proud of it if I made it, but other than that I don't think it's anything spectacular.

  • "this is the most amazing... game". ok... what's so "game" about it?

  • wow. i have one EXACTLY like that. Amish, my ass!

    the colors are the same, the paint on the animals is the same, it cost a lot of money.. the SAME O__O

  • @popl43 Get it THROUGH your tiny head it's "THROUGH" not "threw"!

  • lamest marble machine ive ever seen....

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