Red marks concrete vaults, yellow marks the older metal clad vaults, orange marks wooden caskets with no vaults, blue marks the graves where the contents have decayed away leaving only a void, white marks the ones whose identity is known (even though I have them temporally marked unknown because I ran out of stakes)
I use a spring steel probe and a Ground Pounder, which is really a device used for driving in ground rods that I converted. It has a 19 pound weight, and when you thump on a grave you can actually feel the vibrations trough your feet.
Not yet . That will be the next phase on a 3.5 acre section where all the stones were intentionally destroyed by a fool on a dozer years ago. Probably start that in the spring should I live so long.
Yup .. mine has a tubular tee handle on it as well. Even if the ground is hard, once you break through the top layer, things go pretty well, so long as you don't bend the probe in the process. For the real hard areas, I use a probe with ½" diameter solid steel construction with a sharpened tip. My spring probe is only 3/8."
Well done on the previous and this project going forward.
Thank you. I have one person helping with the research, but I am the only one working in the cemetery.
Yup .. I have spent many years with probes. First started back in the early 1970's. I, too, have used a plethora of different probes, some I made, some I had made, and some I bought. The one I used on Civil War sights actually had a pseudo-stethoscope that could be attached to the tube. It was amazing what you could hear!
That is what I have in size as well. Mine has a wooden handle 3/8 brass tip 1/4 rod. They work well on finding many things including privy holes and such. Nice work you are doing.
