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  Mitchel ingham February 9, 2016 at 8:47am

  Can't you use a mini digger?
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  Colin Hunt February 9, 2016 at 9:57am

  If you have no experience, I would think that grave digging is something to steer clear of! It's not as simple as 'just digging an 'ole and filling it up again!'.  As Billyboy says, it can be a 'drop everything' commitment, with some occasional nasty experiences. I have heard of gravediggers 'dropping' into the box below on a double plot - they get out of the hole pretty sharpish!
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    Seth Burgess > Colin Hunt February 9, 2016 at 11:08am

    Or the grave next collapsing in when you've gone to meet the family for the burial, only to walk them over to the grave and show them the coffin next door has taken up residence. Oh and the smell!
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  Philip Blair February 9, 2016 at 10:16am

  I look after the grass cutting etc in a large local grave yard but take on part in the grave digging. The guys that do it have a 1.5ton mini digger and it does most of the hard work though there is access problems in some areas with grave surrounds etc. They have said the same as mentioned above, body parts, collapsed coffins and doing stuff at short notice. Over here the funeral is nearly always 2 days after the death so you might get notice at 10am that there will be a funeral the next day at 2 pm. It might not be for everyone.
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    briggsandscrapem > Philip Blair February 9, 2016 at 5:29pm

    Sounds like a dead end job to me.
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      Gary RK > briggsandscrapem February 9, 2016 at 5:30pm

      ..hey but it's in the dead centre of town....
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        Gavin Gray > Gary RK February 9, 2016 at 5:37pm

        folk are dieing to get in there...
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          Harry@VWGS > Gavin Gray February 9, 2016 at 5:49pm

          Suddenly gone dead quiet on here....
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    Andy > Philip Blair February 10, 2016 at 9:08am

    Gentlemen, Gentlemen show some decorum. It's a dead serious job.
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  Mitchel ingham February 9, 2016 at 6:06pm

  Over my dead body would I by doing that kind of job I'm deadly serious.