"Neighbors helping Neighbors just 400 yrs later." Love that quote!

I have to say...it's very poetic that Jimmy Diresta who works with wood, metal and leather, etc is restoring a headstone for a cabinet maker...pretty damn cool!

watching jimmy simply quietly taking pointers and quietly doing the digging, specially when lifting the obelisk(jimmy has lifted some crazy stuff) is very inspiring. I gotta learn to keep my mouth shut when working with others 😅

A corporal work of mercy is to bury the dead. I think that caring for the memorials of the dead is an extension of that. Thank you for doing this work.

This was not a collaboration I ever thought I would see, but I'm so here for it!!

theres just something thoroughly soothing watching a couple people spend the time to respect long past individuals. it is so peaceful knowing that several hundred years later this family is seen, remembered, and shown to thousands of people across the world. What you guys did here is amazing, and thank you for sharing

Seeing Jimmy always getting deeply involved in whatever he is a part of, will NEVER cease to amaze me. I always love how he puts his name on everything he does, I believe it was his Father who told him something like "if you're going to make something, make it good enough to put your name on it". Great video, and you got a new subscriber.

If you are ever back in the Milford Ct area, I can show you an amazing section of a revolutionary war cemetery. Can’t understand why some of these stones aren’t better taken care of. I’m 71 in in poor help, or I’d start doing it myself. I still clean stones in my area, but mostly Veterans Stones. Thanks for your hard work!

Two great masters working together. In JD’s case, it’s always nice to see a soft, caring side. I particularly love Wade’s way of bringing the dead back to life and sharing some legacy with us. BRAVO!

Have always felt an affinity for cemeteries…this is a wonderful channel!

I’m glad there’s people like yourselves that care enough to keep the memories alive.

First want to say how important and incredible the work your doing is, I’m sure you know that but I just really appreciate and admire it! Second, this would make a wonderful TLC show, I dont think enough people know about this, its heartwarming and interesting. Thank you again, have a good day!

Hanging out with jimmy and Patrick is a blast isnt it? You guys did an awesome job cant wait to check it out! 💪

Jimmy has always been the student before being the teacher, a man of so many talents and only uses as many words as needed. We will forever be Jimmy’s students.

As time goes on, Earth's natural composting adds to the landscape being added too. Sometimes things are not buried, there covered naturally.

first may I just say thank you. from the bottom of my heart thank you. I wish more people like you existed in the world so many bury thier families and then forget about them and the towns either cant or wont hire keepers to maintain the graves. It hurts my heart every time I go home to visit my husbands grave my son and I clean up around our families plots bit there was a time when they just tossed the broken stones in a pile against the back fence and forgot about them. It seems to me like no one ever goes to visit the dead anymore I make the pilgrimage every year at Christmas to visit and my son has just moved home to stay with his fathers family. He's been in Japan since he was five years old so Northern Maine is a new place for him.

Wow!! What a mission!! It is absolutely amazing in so many ways. There is nothing better than a job done right, so impressive by all of you!

Amazing, you guys. I’ve known Jimmy for a few years since his video with Brad Leone. It’s like universes colliding. Love everything about this.

Love the house in the background.

This came on my for you page. I'm so happy it did you now have another subscriber 😊 I love cemeteries and family trees. This is very interesting. Thank you for all your hard work, as well as treating the Graves with respect

Such a beautiful site for a cemetery. I really enjoyed this video so much. Thank you for taking me along.😊

Truly an honorable effort, well done indeed.

Much Respect for Everyone working in this project ✊❤️✊❤️✊🤲

I remember when he first posted he bought this property I left a comment that he should get you or Jonathan Appell out there to take a look. So cool you were able to help!

What a beautiful job. Amazing Angel's on earth. ❤

Awesome, ❤ seeing the old stones have new life. Never forgotten..❤️✝️

You all are amazing to do this for a family once forgotten. Thanks for sharing, very inspiring

Awesome! Good teamwork.

This is probably hands down, the best youtube channel I've watched in a long time, thanks to my daughter. She knows my love for old houses, graveyards, l trucks and tractors etc! What a life!!! I'm just overhere building Ag tires. Someone has too 😊 Thank you Jimmy!!! Nice work 👏👏👏

That was really fun. Nicely done.

Amazing! I've loved your content for the past year or more. It's awesome to see the collaboration with DiResta. He is another wonderful creator I've been steadily watching for awhile. Keep up the great content. Your channel is both entertaining and educational!

As soon as Jimmy put out his first video on the homesite project I said he should get in touch with you. Love the collaboration!

Absolutely awesome work and video!!!!

Beautiful work, I wish I could see all them done. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Absolutely amazing work so much respect for what you do by honoring the dead and making sure that there memories will live on forever God bless you and Jimmy for what you’re doing.

I live in Watauga Co., NC. A few years ago we had a young child who was killed in a cemetery by a stone that fell over.

Absolutely beautiful job and beautiful scenery behind you 😊

Great job guys! So interesting how these are restored.

Gotta ❤ Jimmy Diresta, he is the Godfather of invention.

This video is amazing. So much work and care you guys did. I was in awww at what it takes to reset stones so large. This one and the big cross is the largest reset I have seen you do Wade, and you never disappoint. Thank you all for your care, compassion and knowledge. Now I'm going to watch again.

i worked at a cemetery for a few years. it was mostly gardening which i didnt enjoy but sometimes i got to dig graves or reposition gravestones and clean them. i absolutely loved doing that.

hmmm, I LOVE old graveyards !! such wonderful inscriptions on the face

Really great work & interesting video!

Beautiful work gentlemen.

So excited for another post! What a pretty country cemetery! Amazing that you were able to find all the missing pieces to the son's stone (was it Phineas, I think?). I'll have to take a trip to Jimmy's channel to see how it turns out. And to find out who he is! 😂 It seems like I might have been missing something interesting! Beautiful job on resetting the obelisk. It's like it was never in danger of toppling at all! Have Jimmy take a photo when the quaternary ammonia has done its job and post it here - maybe in Shorts - for us to see, please and thanks! So happy to see activity on a favorite channel again! 🪦

Very cool. Watching from Milford, CT.

Much respect for that work that you do!

As a long time follower of Jimmy, i never even knew he had a cemetery... Nice work.. New follower

Amazed at two.men who could be doing anything else, but choosing to honor history, and it's dead. The skills and in some cases, just chain and pulleys bookends to what was done to erect those tombstones. It is a pleasure to be an onlooker.

Very neat work you are doing and quality content creation. Hearing of family from Durham CT and knowing Jimmy is in Durham NY, wondering if there is a family connection to settlement of both places.

Saying people die in graveyards from falling stones is true! I loved going to graveyards as a kid in England. Not long after we moved to Canada several kids were killed by a falling gravestone. Some of the old gravestones in England are massive, and it doesn’t surprise me at all that children have died.

That small stone with initials on it is a plot marker. They are used usually at the corners of family plots.

Outstanding !!

Beautiful cause. We should always remember those that came before us. Respect.

Gentlemen........Thank You for your Service.

Here from Jimmy's channel. Very cool to watch!

Fantastic. John Canfield appears to be my wife's 4th great-granduncle.

@MillennialStoneCleaning 1st of all I will tell you what I said when I watched @JimmyDiresta I think it shows a truly deep soul that you guys are lovingly restoring the graves of someone you never even met! You guys are awesome! That obelisk looked ridiculously heavy...even with the block and tackle. How much did each piece weigh out of curiosity? If you guys find the local church...they may have a layout for the gravestone and each information....you can try some kind of sonar system to find the stones... Keep up the honourable work kind gentlemen!

Just thinking about the work that went into making the large grave stone and then the horse drawn trip to get it there. Then they had to put it together. Must have had some wealth for sure

Proper respect to the respectful from a respecting viewer.

Very interesting work.

Jimmy sent me…now subbed✌️

Tripod Suggestion -- I noticed that your tripod was bending in the video from all the weight. Have you considered making 'Strong Back' type legs for your tripod? Doing this will greatly increase your lifting capacity. To create a 'Strong Back' you simply attach another 2x4 or 2x6 (size to match leg/s). The newly attached 2x will create a 'T' shaped leg. Adding the 'T' to the 2 outside legs, on the same side and adding the other to the opposite side of the center leg would still allow your tripod to be folded for easy storage. The 'T' will allow more lifting capacity without bending the legs. Hope this makes sense. Thanks for all the great videos!

Your doing a great service to all who passed....one curious question is how does just the cement pushed onto edges going to hold up such a huge stone??

Came over from Jimmy. Great video thanks! New Subscriber 👍

Very honorable gentlemen, very honoable.

Nerve wracking yet enjoyable to watch.

new subscriber here, only just discovered your channel and your awesome work.

Thanks!

Nice work gentlemen. Good lookin' out.

Would love to welcome you back to Peoria, IL- Limestone HIstoric Church! PEACE

Yes, True, an average of 30 people are killed each year by toppling tombstones and other cemetery markers. Of those, about half are children. Wow I would have never believed that would be an issue. Thank you for helping to preserve our history. One stone at a time.

Fowler? I was adopted in 1977, took an Ancestry DNA test in 2015 and found my biological father, Randy Fowler. He's married to the real Little Debbie, Debbie McKee-Fowler. They live near Collegedale, TN where the HQ and main bakery is. This isn't a joke. We met in person in February of 2016, and have texted or talked every weekend since. I even lived with them for 6 months, but that's a story for another time. They flew with me to KC in February 2016, and took me to the Black Sabbath The End tour. We were front row, and I was in seat 5, 20 feet from Geezer. What a blast and great way to meet! Aside, my adoptee family is Page, on my fathers side. We have a family Bible showing that John and Phoebe Page came from England with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 on the Mayflower, 11 years after the first, and landed at Salem, MA. One notable person in that history is the Governor of New Hampshire, John Page. He was my great-great-etc grandfather. Seeing these graves is really interesting to me as a result. Nice work! Edit: BTW, I grew up in Denver, but because I joined in the Marines in 1999 and 9/11 happened, I traveled the world. Eventually living in Florida, Mississippi, California, New Orleans, Tennessee, New Orleans again, Denver again, and now Charleston, SC where my wife and I own a new home. It's interesting, to me, that I'm back in the area of the country where both families of my adoption started. There are no coincidences.

Leave it to Jimmy to put his name on it, I'm surprised he didn't spray paint stencil it 🤣🤣

Our motto - “The only thing better than level is finished”.

The stone at 7:15 looks like it has a face and upper body, wearing a white shirt. The head is leaning against the shoulder, upright. It’s on the right side of the stone.

❤❤graveyard detectives great job 😮😮🎉🎉😊

I think canfield has a son named john as well and hes the creator of the book the chicken soup for the soul

Very interesting to see the drystone wall around the cemetery. A skill possibly brought over by someone from England a couple of centuries ago and still standing after all this time. Somebody put a lot of effort and care into that wall.

You’re just amazing 😊 it would be my dream job to do this….

I'm sure this graveyard needs more work. You should consider going back out for another collab. Jimmy is probably one of the most creative wood workers here on KZfaq. He had his own TV should with his brother back in the day. Needless to say the man definitely has incredible talent. Maybe something to think about. I feel when you are around someone doing creative things you are only as good as your team and with Jimmy you can't do any better.👍

Without giving away locations, the cemeteries that are all over the county many people, upon first sight, seeing many broken headstones immediately think vandalism, however that is not the case as the breakage is caused by frost heave.

I just found your channel this morning and I’m fascinated! So, the obelisk is simply stacked one upon the other? There was no pinning or other way of attaching the pieces when it was originally constructed?

DiResta in peace

What a confluence of channels I watch!!

Jimmy is the goat 🐐

Best

Honestly, I thought Jimmy knew how to do everything. Great job.

❤️

My cousin was killed working in a cemetery fixing a large stone like that, it fell and hit him in the head

I had a cousin in Germany killed playing on a monument that fell over on him. Cemeteries can kill you. Thanks for this video. I just found your channel.

If you have the money, the best way I think to repair those broken stones is to bond them to a support stone, mounted to the rear.

Silly question: Do you ever worry you will run into the vault when restoring some of these old headstones??

@MillennialStoneCleaning how do you decide how to strap such an odd shape as the obelisk? Another question I have is once the cleaner has a chance to work...can you cover the whole thing with a clear epoxy to help protect it? What is the cleaner you are using? I'm trying to learn more about restoration of antique objects...I'm wondering if it would translate on other surfaces. Please and thank you.

What was holding the obelisk together originally?? Only Gravity? Nice work

How do I get started In restoration of tombstones?

A job well done

Where is this cemetery? I grew up in Milford Ct, and you mentioned it a couple of times, but this doesn't look familiar.

I always want to know how is it you know so much about the person that you are cleaning their head stone.

You could probably clean some of that black stuff off with acid, like muratic acid. If you can take the stone somewhere where you can safely use the acid without killing the grass. Just an idea.