2016 - Volume #40, Issue #4, Page #23
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Tractor-Mounted Grave Marker Lift
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“Before we made this it was all manual labor with a pry bar, shovel and two-wheel cart,” says the maintenance man for his Louisville, Ky., church cemetery.
He used scrap iron and purchased square tubing and 4-in. angle iron to create the lift on a 3-pt. hitch for his 20 hp Kubota tractor.
“You set it over the stone and, as you pick it up, it tightens because of the angle of the arms,” he says. He bored several holes to make it adjustable for headstones from 16 to 24 in., and he uses rope to open the clamps to release the stone after it’s placed.
“We made it for ourselves, and it makes the job much easier,” Herren says, adding it can also work for setting new stones.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, John Herren, P.O. Box 72069, Louisville, Ky. 40272 (ph 502 741-7521; jrherren31@yahoo.com).
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