When Michael Andersen’s mother wanted to straighten her grandparents’ leaning cemetery monument, his father came up with a simple solution. Andersen saw something more — and turned that family project into a business.
Today, Andersen’s Tombstone Jack has been used to level more than 1 million monuments, giving cemeteries, monument companies and independent contractors a safer, more controlled alternative to heavy equipment.
“We have the ability to lift and level small tablets and large monuments up to 12,000 pounds with the same system,” Andersen explained. “We wanted to do that in a way that is not intrusive to the environment or surrounding monuments or graves.”
The complete lifting system weighs only about 300 pounds. It allows one person —although Andersen says two people are faster — to safely raise a monument, add gravel beneath the base and lower it back into position.
But Andersen’s story goes well beyond the equipment. It’s about cemetery preservation, a growing monument-restoration specialty and one entrepreneur’s belief that behind every repaired monument is a family that cares.
Read the full story on CemeteryVision.com.
