Camphill Village Copake, an intentional community founded to create a life of engagement and dignity with people with special needs, celebrated its 60th anniversary in September 2021. We are the oldest and largest Camphill community in the United States, and we are one of more than 100 Camphillcommunities—called the Camphill Movement—that exist around the globe.
I've never heard of the Camphill Movement, that's really hard to pull off when I've been reading books, magazines, websites, watched tv, movies, and documentaries... and Camphill communities has never come up. Until I asked M Currie why he was transporting 3000 pounds of salt on a VW Single Cab pickup!
That's incredible!
thanks for that! The picture looks like the first of a couple of Unimogs they had when I was there (1968 to 70 or so). For those not familiar with the amazing Mercedes Unimog, this one had a 6 speed transmission, a 2 or 3 speed transfer case, PTO front and rear, differential locks, and along with a three point hitch, the small truck bed, with folding sides, also dumped three ways. That one had the OHV diesel engine seen on the old 180D. There was a huge, nearly historic blizzard in 1969, and after struggling with this as the main plow vehicle, it was replaced with a slightly newer (but still short bed) one with more power now coming from something resembling the 200D OHC engine, and a creeper gear added, with a front PTO snow blower. That one had a fixed cab roof, but otherwise was similar. As I recall that one had a three speed transfer case, and possibly more. ON the highway these could go about 40 mph - a unique vehicle that could be a truck or a farm tractor or just about anything else you need. This was used mainly by the farm department (hand milking and the best organic eggs I've ever eaten). They had a more conventional DB tractor too, but the Unimog was safer on the hilly terrain, and pretty much unstoppable on muck and swamps.
ReplyDeleteThe snow blower was amazing, and could cut through an 8 foot or so drift, but broke shear pins with great frequency on the dirt roads. One of the side jobs we had was making shear pins on a little Unimat lathe. I stayed in touch for some time after I left - my first wife was from there as well, and her parents worked there until her father, who had run the woodworking shop, started another related enterprise making furniture. But that's a story for another time! Long ago in a universe far far away!