Grave diggers (shovels)

Yes. Both are excellent ghrit. I bring them with me to new crews and of course I get the eye rolls. Soon I’m a genius though. Every time. Lol.

 

if you're going to be digging a grave or a latrine hole or a veggie/fruit cellar >>>> better have a few different pickaxes to go with the shovels ... in addition - not alot of need around here dealing with rocks - but a good pry bar will save some grief along with a few shovel handles ....

 

Interesting to note.
An older friend of mine as a kid, 1910- 1920 worked for has dad in a coal mine , actually his work was top side, handling the elevator and steam equipment and sharpening the tools as they came up with the load during the day .
One of the reasons the pick ax has a handle that easily comes off is that it was not sharpened on a grinder but re forged using the boiler's Furnas and anvil to sharpness, quenched and sent back down in the empty cart .
In those days you did not waste any thing ,especially the metal from sharpening.

 

My mawmaw said she would like to be placed in an open field and let the buzzards eat her.
That way she maintained she could fly over her enemy's heads....and crap on them!!!

 

All I’d like is a pyramid.

 

I think that in my last days, I'd rather be killed and eaten by a grizzly bear ,up in Alaska some where in the far north .

 

Hey good news, your governments already got ya covered!

 

Buzzards are efficient, but terribly slow. I watched four of them working on a relatively fresh cat kill. They left at sundown and returned in the morning. Took four of them most of the morning and into the afternoon to finish a ten pound cat. They can also be fickle, and abandon a carcass or not touch one at all. Pussums are more thorough, and I've never known them to leave anything from a cat carcass. I've never seen them try to tackle a bigger meal, and who wants to be slowly picked over by a possum.