Re: [Cz-L] Man with chain saw.

My question was not a technical but an organizational.
 To my knowledge there are now following groups cleaning the cemetery :
   The German volunteers
    The Swit volunteers
     The Ehpes -Bursuc hired team
     The municipal cemetery upkeep.
      Private visitors clearing a path to their enterred.
     I understand that only the municipial workers can use chainsaws.
       Who spreads herbicide ?
       Is somebody coordinating this operation ?

Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Wiznitzer" <markwiznitzer_at_gmail.com>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Cc: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Man with chain saw.

> Some explanation of cemetery clearing and upkeep.
>
> I was in the Cz cemetery in May and met the crew (using chainsaws) that
> was
> working on continued clearing in the NE corner near my paternal
> grandfather's grave. They burn the cuttings in nearby parts of the
> cemetery, although I don't believe it is done carelessly. However, by the
> time I returned in October, almost the entire cemetery, including that
> same
> area noted above was already overgrown with weeds and brush about 2 meters
> tall, including saplings from previously cut trees. I believe that there
> is
> a plan to begin applying herbicides in Cz, because it's size makes weeding
> alone fairly hopeless.
>
> From our own experience in Waschkoutz, where we attempted to leave tall
> trees for shade and to inhibit the growth of vegetation in the much
> smaller
> cemetery (about 800 graves), this is a continual problem. Out lead worker
> (we also relied primarily on chainsaws), who had also cleared the cemetery
> in Vyznitsia, (6000 graves) said that after cutting saplings for two years
> the roots will tend to rot. We hope to confirm his prediction. Weeds are
> a
> different matter and require weeding 3-4x/year or application of
> herbicides,
> maybe both, to control the problem.
>
> For the near future we will stick to weeding in Waschkoutz, perhaps
> planting
> more tall trees, because of concerns about the possible impact of
> chemicals
> on the sandstone markers, which are already brittle and prone to
> blistering
> and peeling. My concern was heightened after a recent visit to the old
> Sephardic cemetery in Curacao, located downwind from the island's oil
> refinery, where my maternal grandfather is buried. Although the chemicals
> to which they are exposed there are probably more caustic, in higher
> dosage
> and persistent for almost 100 years now, the much tougher marble stones
> used
> there are nonetheless illegible in most cases.

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