Thread: What Do You Look Like ?

Originally Posted by HNSB

My actual head:

(I forgot to bring lunch while ice fishing, cooked this snoot over my sunflower heater.)

Bon appetit

Originally Posted by kalerolf

Bon appetit

I must have got my wres crossed. I thought HNSB was referring to the fishes head as his!


Mick

Some pictures of me, yes folks I actually dress like this everyday, my job also has me wearing the grooviest in Victorian fashion! I like to smoke a pipe once in a while and certainly love wide brim hats! the pic of me with the horse was when I was demonstrating horse drawn ploughing at the Royal Norfolk Show last year, the horse is a Percheron called Trumper!.

I want your job!


Mick

Sherborne:
Your first pic looks very much like one of the Blues Brothers.

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

Sherborne:
Your first pic looks very much like one of the Blues Brothers.

Hahaha a Blues Brother, I wish I could sing that would be a good start, some time back I was asked to model for a friends photography portfolio and so I obliged him, he loved my eccentric dress and asked me to come in black and just be me. I love my job as an Undertaker but I also like the horses and getting to grips with old farming techniques and giving demonstrations with others of the old ways.

Old ways are the best ways!

I agree. The old ways are the best ways, but having to dig a grave by hand is not high on the things I want to do in life . I think there I'd stick with the backhoe.


Mick

My mother used to manage a small country cemetery when I was growing up. We used to have an old grave digger who would dig graves by hand, through six feet and more of solid clay. He did this up until he retired at sixty something. The next guy to do the job had a bit more sense and used a back hoe.

I thankfully do not dig the graves, phew! but back hoe versus Hand is a debate that still rages in the Funeral trade, both have pros and cons but the back hoe does have its limits: in the UK especialy in my neck of the woods the churchyards are quite small and have lych gate entrances which inhibits the passing of a back hoe, also the weight of the back hoe can split buried coffins resulting in the ground dropping in certain places etc.

The grave digger, it might take him all day but the job is tidier then if done by the back hoe and when filled in the digger will thump the ground with a hand compactor which tightens the soil around the coffin, this is somthing the back hoe cannot do effectivley without smashing the coffin to bits! lol.

The back hoe can eat its way through the most stubborn of ground whilst the grave digger would if he got stuck would have to bring in jack hammers etc, so all in all both have their ups and downs.

Both the back how and the Gravdigger cost the same, so really the only winner is the chap who owns the back hoe because he can do a grave in under 2 hours and can move on to the next job whilst the poor chap doing it by hand would be at it all day!

Go figure.

Byron

Fortunately for the poor chap, he doesn't have the capital invested or the upkeep that the hoe owner has.