.......dealing with headstones....

[T33eco]

Straw bales topped with ply and a good climber / rigger

[Arbocop]

Have used Harris fencing to build a quick and cheap cage around them to protect them on the past. 6 pannels a cage 4 wall 2 for the roof.

 

kev

[hedgesparrow]

We do a lot of grave yard works for the local council and tbh by rigging carefully and often small we rarely have any issues. I certainly wouldn't advise moving them as the old stones are so brittle you'll break more than you save.

Tucky

 

+1 they have to be at the correct depth and now headstones have to have a plate underneath to stop them going over. lot of work moving them. as other posts protect them with bales of straw or plywood.

if you did move them and they were not put back correctly and one fell over hate to think what it would cost in insurance.

part of my job maintaining cemterys is checking the helth of headstonesand reporting back. if they are leaning then the family have to have them secured which is taken out the headstone putting in a stone plate with rods and headstone s then slotted onto plate and glued. big job and not cheap