How do they dig graves in this cold weather?

[racko]

If the
Great Lakes are frozen you know the ground has to be frozen. I'm in SoCal so this doesn't apply to me but I was just wondering.

[Greyfox]

http://harrisprecast.com/images/01_digging-197x189.jpg

[Jay Trotter]

I believe up here in the "great white North" (did I mention we won both hockey gold medals) they dig up extra spots in the fall and then fill them in with looser dirt and they're ready to go.

I'm sure they still need to dig a few from scratch for the family plots, etc.

[Clocker]

Up dere in Minnesota, yah. (http://rachaelhanel.me/2014/01/06/digging-graves-in-extreme-cold/)

[therussmeister]

If somebody who owns a plot is in declining health in the fall they will dig in the fall. Otherwise, they use a propane warmer to thaw the ground. After the burial, they just do a quick job of covering the hole and then come back in they spring to do proper landscaping, and this causes problems because after sitting around all winter the loose dirt is very, very hard to work with.

Another problem after a hard winter, and a late spring is a mad rush to get all the grounds in shape, and headstones set before Memorial Day, which to a cemetery, is like Christmas is to retailers. The people setting headstones will typically work from 6 A.M. until Midnight in the weeks leading up to Memorial Day. These late hours sometimes causes visits from the police expecting to find grave-robbers.

[DJofSD]

I always thought they just stacked 'em on the back porch until spring.

[Tom]

Around here, we just linger on until April. :faint:

[plainolebill]

Around here, we just linger on until April. :faint:

April 1st or 15th?