My brother and I went down early last month and mowed and trimmed, and I will be heading down this weekend for the same. It’s been 4-5 weeks, so unless someone else has gone down to mow, I expect it will be a jungle. Other than that, nothing new. If you know someone in the …
Tag: maintenance
Oct 19
Maintenance 2018/10/13
This past weekend Josh, I, and my daughter Elsa headed down to do the monthly maintenance. We chainsawed out the lowest-hanging branches, and Josh and his kids hauled off the brush. Elsa personally tackled thinning out all of the dead and overgrown branches from the tree in the downhill corner of the cemetery: Here is …
Oct 05
Maintenance 2018/09/22
I finally got the headstone for Preston Bradshaw repaired. I scrubbed out all of the moss that was growing in where the stone had cracked, and then epoxied the stone together and ratchet strapped it while it cured. Unfortunately while the stone is glued back together, there is still a large crack that could allow moisture …
Aug 28
Maintenance 2018/08/25
It’s been a while. Saturday me, my brother Josh, and our friend Dave went down to do the monthly maintenance. I wasn’t able to make it down in July, but Josh had gone down and took care of it, as well as placing a cross in the cemetery . When we showed up Saturday we …
Jan 29
Maintenance: 2018/01/27
This weekend we (Dan, Josh, and volunteer Jesse) spent several hours getting the cemetery cleaned up. We chainsawed several branches, hauled out brush, pruned out small trees that were growing over the graves, mowed the entire cemetery, and placed marker flags for every grave we could find, which brings the total grave count from the …