not too bad the only reason why he doesnt have the 1 grave yard is because that is the other funeral home here in the area. traded his Case & New Holland backhoes in for a New Holland Mini Excavator (not sure of the size but its a bigger one w/ cab,A/C & Radio ,Back fill blade & Rubber Tracks) & pulls it w/ a F550 Ford 6.7 Powerstroke. The Grave digging got to profittable for him & keeps him busy so much that he had septic tank license for as long as i could remember (& im 36) he let those go bout 10 yrs back. Grave digger used to put in septic lines w/ my family years ago & dig footings & do all kind of backhoe work. The Youngest Brother is the UnderTaker for the local funeral home that has 2 locations. & it is 2 out of 3 brothers in a family who i grew up around & are like family to me, that still live here in the Millington area that deal w/ death every day around the Millington & Tipton County area. 1 of the 2 funeral homes has 2 locations 10 miles apart. line there are 2 funeral homes here in NW Shelby & South Tipton Co. Gather up however many pieces I am in at the time and lay me in a cardboard box in the ground so I can add to the tilth of the soil.Īround here in the Millington Area (NW Shelby Co) we are 4 miles South from the Tipton Co. What a joke - what happened to earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust? Good for him - an employee of mine just lost his mother, and to have a wake, a simple funeral, and have her cremated cost over $7000.00 that he and his siblings had to borrow to get it done. I ran a cat 992 a lot in strip mine, dern thing was like driving a house! randyp I like those old loaders of all kinds, but they can sure turn out to be money pits. Needless to say, he was super "old school". A lot of people found out about it and offered to pay for exhumation and buy a coffin and plot and help him but he wouldnt have it any other way. He did it before anybody knew what he was doing. Bout 2 years ago, his wife died, they both still lived at home, poor old man couldnt afford to bury her, just boosted an old backhoe he had sitting out in his pasture and went out back on a hill on his farm and dug a hole and buried her himself. This day in time, they prolly would put him in jail for that now. The blade was super wide and he had to be careful and dodge all kinds of stuff with it. He ran it like that several years, just driving around doing all kinds of odd and end dirt work, even saw him going right through middle of downtown several times. It had a detroit engine with twin stacks and you coould hear him coming several miles away. He coudnt trailer it, just drove it all over the place doing dirt work for people. ![]() When I was a kid, there was an old man round town here who had a big Michigan rubber tired dozer.
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