Just now reading about this new machine Grizzly sent me. Well they didn't actually send me one with out first laying down the 2495.00 or what ever that price is. Another play for you young uns.

So you bought one of those mystery making machines I've read so much about?

 

Funny I got the email and just deleted since most of what I buy is lathe related. Guess I will have to look at least.

No I didn't buy one.. I have enough goooodies to last me until the end....and not going to any cemeteries for they are all full.

So now I got a question of all you smarts out there,,, which is, do they put you in feet or head first. Or does it make any difference?

Don't know but I have this vision that when I arrive at Heaven's Gates St Peter will greet me and take me to meet a group of severely disfigured Guardian Angels that would like a "word" with me.

 

No cemetery for me, either. Waste of money and space. No urn, either. The ashes will join our dogs'. Someone once said if there are no dogs in heaven, I want to go where they are. I'll have a head start.

Edited June 12, 20206 yr by Gene Howe

1 hour ago, Smallpatch said:

So now I got a question of all you smarts out there,,, which is, do they put you in feet or head first.

I guess from which end they start shoveling ashes determines that.

Well I went and looked at Grizzly tonight, lots of good stuff.  Saved it to my wish list.  It came to a total of $34,621 

 

Now I just need to win lottery to pay for it all.  

About the direction of your head and feet, most tomb stones face east.  The idea is predicated on a Christian teaching that Christ will descend from the east, therefore, when you rise, you face Him.  My dad taught me that if you get lost at night, just look in the cemetery and find which way the stone faces.  It faces east, so you can determine the other directions for yourself, except, that is not always true.  It depends largely on the culture.  One cemetery over here in Alabama, the stones face east on one side and the other side of the site faces west.  Where my dad and his family are buried, all the stones face west as does the hillside.  Today's history lesson.  

Edited June 13, 20206 yr by FlGatorwood

8 hours ago, FlGatorwood said:

Today's history lesson.  

 

Steve, I am going to make a special trip to the local cemetery to check this out...

Any cemetery that I've been in the head stones face any & every way. Depends on the way the road was laid in.

The foot stones however all face the same way----up!

 

IIRC, when being cremated you go in feet first, same way they would carry you if you were being carried into a church for the ceremony. 

38 minutes ago, smitty10101 said:

Any cemetery that I've been in the head stones face any & every way. Depends on the way the road was laid in.

The foot stones however all face the same way----up!

 

IIRC, when being cremated you go in feet first, same way they would carry you if you were being carried into a church for the ceremony. 

Exactly. That is how we do is all funerals in the USMC.  Some 200+ funerals all the same.

Had never thought on this but The two cemeteries I remember  are facing East. I just cannot remember Arlington and the Vicksburg National Military Park.

Gerald, the older parts of the national cemeteries have the stones face east, but since about 1980, they are turned to face the streets and roads.  But, especially, in the south, most of them with a few exceptions, they face east.  Visit one near the end of the day and while you are reading them, you will be facing the setting sun.  Sometimes, they are off just a bit, depending on laid out the site, but they are close.  When Pensacola was initially laid out by the Spanish in 1559, they did not realize that the north star circles about 15 degrees during the course of the year in relationship to earth.  When the English came, they adjusted the additions to the city 15 degrees from what the Spanish had set.  So, if you come to this town, you will find that some streets going parallel to lattitude, some will be on par during the summer and the Spanish streets will be pointing to the north star in the cooler months.  So, there is that variance.  But, the national cemeteries have changed and I don't know why.  I suppose it does not really matter.  

 

BTW, when we carry a coffin to the burial site, we take it head first.  I guess it must depend on your local customs.  Ok, I am finished with this morbid subject.  

35 minutes ago, FlGatorwood said:

BTW, when we carry a coffin to the burial site, we take it head first.  I guess it must depend on your local customs.  Ok, I am finished with this morbid subject.  

And to think, we've gone from CNC routers to coffins and grave yards in less than 24 hours. 

For anyone wondering what this thread started about here is link to Grizzly.  Computer assist router

 

And ended up here. No wifi or blue tooth necessary.

Edited June 14, 20206 yr by Gene Howe

19 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

And ended up here. No wifi or blue tooth necessary.

but is it real wood?

Possibly some veneer but I doubt it.