When you picture one of the cemeteries in Hamilton Township, NJ preparing a burial plot for a person’s casket, you might imagine a couple of guys with shovels digging a grave. That is, after all, how many cemeteries used to get burial plots ready for people’s caskets. But these days, there is more advanced equipment that can be used to carry out burials at a cemetery. Here are a few pieces of equipment that you’ll find used in most cemeteries.
Digging a hole that is deep enough to bury a casket can be very challenging, especially during the colder months of the year. Using shovels to dig graves just isn’t effective enough anymore. It’s why the average Hamilton Township, NJ cemetery will keep a mini excavator around for digging holes in burial plots. It allows a cemetery to dig a hole in just a fraction of the time it would normally take to do it with shovels.
A mini excavator can remove dirt from the ground to create a place for a cemetery to bury a person’s casket. But what should they do with all that dirt to prevent it from turning into an eyesore during a person’s graveside services? They can actually use what is called a dump container. This piece of equipment can be used to haul dirt away from a burial plot so that it doesn’t have to be around for a person’s services. It can then be brought back later to complete the burial process.
The average casket is extremely heavy. And when you put a person’s body into it, it can get to be even heavier and make it hard to get it down into the ground once a burial plot is prepared. To make it a whole lot easier to bury a person, most cemeteries will use casket lowering devices. They can be used to slowly lower a person’s body down into the ground at the conclusion of their burial services. Many cemeteries will even let families watch casket lowering devices in action so that they can see their loved ones being buried.
After a person has been buried in a cemetery, their family will typically put together plans for a permanent memorial that will be placed on top of their burial plot. More often than not, this permanent memorial will be a headstone that will weigh too much to be picked up by cemetery employees. Instead, they’ll rely on a compact crane to pick a permanent memorial up and move it around. It’ll make it so much simpler to get this permanent memorial into place.
Our Hamilton Township, NJ memorial park cemetery has all the equipment that it’ll take to successfully bury your loved one on hand. We’ll put it to good use to ensure that things go according to plan when you decide to bury a loved one in our cemetery. Give us a call now to discover how we can help you and your family to carry out your loved one’s burial services from beginning to end.