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As the day came to a close the Amish use a single garden hose to wash the sweat and dirt of the day off themselves.

The Amish are considered an oddity in some places in Pennsylvania, so a local took full advantage of their visit to capture the moment on video tape.

Not use to working with ready-mix concrete an Amish youth covers his mouth to keep the mixture out of his face as it is pumped into his wheel barrow, to make a new floor for the dairy barn.

Three Amish workers take seperate measurements on the framing of a hay barn they are working on for farmer John McDonald. His barn was also burned down.

All the young boys dig into the corn on the cob that was cooked up by the farmer's neighbors for the Amish for lunch.

At lunchtime the Amish toss their hats off and head for the food. Here they say grace before lunch, with all their hats sitting in the foreground, mixed with a baseball hat of one of the farmer's neighbor.

The young men, who still aren't accomplished carpenters take direction from the foreman on how to nail the sheet metal roof to the trusses.

An elderly Amish farmer heaves up a large piece of 2x4 for the trusses on the roof.

The Amish are not lazy people, they swarm over the top of the dairy barn they are rebuilding to get it ready for a sheet metal roof.

The Mennonite Disaster Relief organization is dedicated to helping others for very little cost. Several barns in the Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania area were torched by an arsonist and about 60 Amish farmers came by bus to help rebuild them.