Registered: Sep 2009
Location: randolph ny
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im just curious to see what other coonhunters are also grave diggers like myself. i am the grounds foreman at lakeview cemetery in jamestown ny. we are the largest cemetery in our county at almost 170 acres and over 45,000 burials. we have many notable people buried there including several u.s. senators, a few olympians, b.f. goodrich (tires),the gooddell family (nfl commisioner roger gooddell) and lucielle ball. we get thousands of people every year coming to see luceys grave. its a dirty job but i like it and just wanted to see who else is in the same line of work as me. dig graves by day and coonhunt by night.

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about 7 years ago i had an opportunity to do it. My sister n laws boyfried at the time had his own grave digging company. I found out about the hours and pay and I declined. He said "we may drive 4 hours round trip but you only get payed for the time we are there digging and you make $5 an hour. So I figured it up an average week for me would have been about 72 hours a week total time away from home at $5 an hour. yall can have that stuff !!! LOL

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Location: Anderson co Tennessee
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i understand people are dieing to get in there sorry couldnt help my self..looks like a tuff job

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i understand people are dieing to get in there sorry couldnt help my self..looks like a tuff job

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your a good sport

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in my line of work you have to have a real good sense of humor and be a little nuts when you enjoy a job like mine!

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Location: Mississippi
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when I was in high school I would help my grandfather dig graves but we hand dug them and we could have one dug in about 2 hours and cover it in 30 min and we got 300 a grave thats good money when you have 2 or 3 a day to dig

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im thankful i havent had to hand dig...yet but im sure we will sometime. thank god we have our john deere 310g backhoe.

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We would dig the ones they couldnt get a backhoe to and some places here dont allow backhoes

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Sometimes I think I'm digging my own

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Location: Minnesota
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I dont dig graves but I do have a pretty awsome 1977 caddy hearse I got just for fun! Its got some cool custom stuff on it and planning to do alot more to it.

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I have dug graves. I started out helping my grandfather hand dig graves at a country cementary. I worked at 2 different cemetaries where we used a back hoe and I hand trimmed the graves. I helped put quite a few to rest. The only real bad thing was when a grave was close to another grave and the vault wasn't sealed, held water which leaked into the new grave. Most graves are only 4 and 1/2 deep, not 6 foot like lots of people think.

The 2 cemetary jobs were hourly wages, so I didn't make much. But, my grandfather was very well paid for the graves he dug and often got tips on top of the fee. The sextons at the cemetaries I worked at got the tips which sometimes could be very generous. Neither sexton shared the tips.

Grave digging is well paid here in Illinois. It was several hundred dollars an opening back 40 years ago when my grandfather dug.

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i work at a cemetery here in northwest missouri. i definitely understand ya about having to have a sense of humor to work in one haha. we take care of about 65 acres where we are and get quite a few people coming through all the time. nobody as famous as what you have in your cemetery thank goodness haha

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the only aspect of my job i dont really care for is when i have to bury babies or children.thats no fun but the rest of it doesnt bother me.trust me i always get some pretty weird looks when i tell people where i work! we have dug up alot of strange things over the years. the madness at my job really gets crazy around memorial day.a huge parade ends there at our soliders circle where several thousand soliders are buried from w.w.1 through current times. we get a big turn out for that but it really gets packed in there because the city has a very large gala days celebrating lucielle ball. all the lucy nuts are out for that! lots of desi and lucy costumes. if i had hair, id pull it out every year at that time!!!!

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I can honestly say my dad had never ever charged anybody to give a grave for these poor folks in eastern,ky some that can scratch a little cash up gives him a little fuel money but they are some folks that make a good living at doing it.

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I dig a few graves. Everytime I get a mean or worthless dog lol

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hi ken im not a grave digger but a vault setter have been for 31 years in ohio so i get to no all the diggers in a 100 mile range. happy hunting j lewis

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hi ken im not a grave digger but a vault setter have been for 31 years in ohio so i get to no all the diggers in a 100 mile range. happy hunting j lewis

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our local vault company is real good. we get the vaults from them and put them in and they come and put the lids on for us.

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IM NOT A GRAVE DIGGER BUT I DID HELP A FRIEND ,,MY SELF AND A COUPLE OTHERS DUG A GRAVE FOR HIS GRANDFATHER IN AN OLD LITTLE CHURCH CEMETERY,,AS WE WERE DIGGING WE KNEW HIS GRANDMA WAS BURIED CLOSE TO WHERE WE WERE DIGGING AS WE DUG DOWN ALL OF THE SUDDEN THE SIDE OF GRANDMAS CASKET FELL IN TO THE HOLE WE WERE DIGGIN SHE WAS BURIED IN A WOOD CASKET MANY YEARS AGO AND IT JUST FELL APART,,YA TALK ABOUT FELLIN BAD ,WE JUST REPAIRED IT AS GOOD AS WE COULD WITH PLYWOOD ,ID BET SOME OF YOU GRAVE DIGGERS MIGHT HAVE RAN INTO A SITUATION LIKE THAT BEFORE,,,HAVE A BLESSED ONE ,,,FROM THE RIVERBOTTOM ,,,RON

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mr whorel baxter vault company from dayton and cinn i have worked with tri state on tranfers.we make wilbert vaults in the plant and i make sure each driver no where he is going and make sure everything is going to be ok for the familys. happy hunting j lewis

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Registered: Sep 2009
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thats what we use is wilbert vaults. we buy our graveliners through them and put everything in the ground they make from the monarch to the bronze triune.

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we use wilbert vaults too. and your right there are some weird things ya dig up as well as weird requests too. haha

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i buried a man a few years ago whose wife came up to me and told me to dig his hole extra,extra deep , so deep she couldnt see the bottom of it and she said she was burying him with his cell phone so she could still call him and scream at him! the funny part was that this man was a preacher! that was odd.

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i helped dig a few graves back in my teen yrs folks helped others out in our little coumminty so when some 1 passed we all get togather and go dig the grave i know a young boy that helps his uncle dig graves they still dig them by hand dont think i would want to try digging 1 now old as im getting might fall in they cover me up lol

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