Taupotreeman
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That's seriously addictive
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He we are all extracting the Michael but if he really has sold as many as you guys state, who are the mugs? We all are in the wrond trade and should be selling decorative logs for fire places. Yeesh, what is the world coming too?
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To be fair, I think I'd have taken one look at that tree and run the other way. Nice work.
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Nice find but I think my brain just melted
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Give the Eucs a chance. They are amazingly resilient and may well start putting out new shoots when they feel good and ready. I've seen them in Oz having been hit by forest fires and still resprouting. Unfortunately a lot of them in NZ are being hit by the Gum leaf skeletonizer.
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Same here. I refuse to take money until the job is done but then I wish some people would cough up a little more promptly when the job has been completed to their satisfaction. Unfortunately it isn't always a two way street. Still, I'll hold firm to my principle of not accepting payment until the job's one.
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tree work on watchdog/rouge traders BBC 1 now!
Taupotreeman replied to showoffsummer's topic in General chat
For real? I didn't crticise your post I asked the question as to what was wrong with taking your old man or lady to site. Fair enough if they're faffing around underneath but they only need to be told to keep out of the way and watch. As for your statement about it not being a woman's job; I'll treat that with the contempt it deserves! -
Whoa! How the heck did we get here from a thread about a fallen Oak tree?
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Ha! A certain Council member in Taupo has had Pin Oaks planted EVERYWHERE!
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There is definately the A horizon ( all new to me) but you can see in places that it is only a couple of inches deep. There are several layers of Ash deposit which can be seen along several parts of road cutting. It depends how far away from the major eruptions you get and in which direction you travel but you don't have to dig far to reach it. Most of the ash deposits run right out to the coast and in some places the Waikato river has carved its way through the same deposits. The King country is well known for its good crop land but it still needs to be limed to keep the soil PH up. The ash deposits themselves look like sedimentary rock with distinquishable layers visble from each eruptive deposit.
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Well a quick search seems to indicate Ph levels of around 5.6 acorss the areas farms.
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Sorry Hama, off the top of my head I wouldn't know. I'll do some sleuthing and get back to you on that one unless Drew knows. The Pumice here can be up to 100 feet deep in places from eruptions from Taupo caldera and the other volcanoes in the area. Apart from the top soil the rest (sub soil) is just grey pumice in most places. seems to make good farming but it's easy for water to wash it away. The local rivers are dirty grey after good rains because of the wash off. Auckland is built on a different type of volcano (about 52 of them I think) but still has issues with poor soils in many places with much of the city being built on old lava flows.
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Same problem down here, especially around Taumarunui. Pumice gets washed away really easily and undermining occurs where trees are anywhere near a water run off. The water will usually scour away under the roots (which never seem to form properly either) and then over she goes. Everytime it rains down here there's slips and trees over.
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You'd have to count me out being on this side of the world and all that but a most excellent idea it is. Anything to help catch some of the thieving gits. Good sales pitch for Gotek too.
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You have to wonder if it's anything to do with the volcanic soil up on the Domain.
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Good info onetruth; clear and concise. Some of the gangs here (such as The Mongrel Mob) have taken up debt collecting. They charge a standard fee from what I understand of X amount of dollars plus a percentage. Works out about the same as some of the bigger collection agencies such as Baycorp. Hell, if a couple of tattood hairy ass patched up mob members turned up on my door step to collect an outstanding debt I don't think I'd spend too long arguing.
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tree work on watchdog/rouge traders BBC 1 now!
Taupotreeman replied to showoffsummer's topic in General chat
Slightly derailing the thread for a minute but I think it's great that you can take the old man out to show him what you do. I spent ages during the school holidays at my Dad's garage and now he likes to come out and spend time with me. The more time I can spend with my old man the better. -
Nice nice
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tree work on watchdog/rouge traders BBC 1 now!
Taupotreeman replied to showoffsummer's topic in General chat
Your point being? I haven't seen the video as apparently we can't get it in our area (no idea why not) but I took my Dad out all the time with me. He had steel toe cap boots and hi viz vest and would potter about moving wood and dragging branches. He didn't want paying he just did it to keep fit and spend some time with me. Nowt wrong with that in my opinion as long as he does as he's told so he doesn't put himself in danger. -
Is that Auckland Domain Drew?
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Not really, only one or two jobs out of it. Most of the rest is being done by roading contractors or utility company crews. Most of these have their own in house crews along with heavy machinery so I don't really get a look in.
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Agreed there Lancsmike. Thought about branding but decided against it as it wouldn't stand out under the body hair. The wife's looks choice though. It changes colour depending on her body temperature and that of the surrounding air. Blue, pink, red, allsorts.
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A little bit of Ta Moko for ya. Took 4 hours per calf. The second picture is the wife's. A dragonfly tatt on one forearm with the mirror imagage on the other but branded. She reckoned it was way more painful than being tattood. You have to look carefully cos it doesn't come out that well on photos.
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Jammy bugger. Weekend in Sydney sounds OK to me. Mind you, if I was competing it'd take me all weekend to get up the first tree.
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Bro, not sure which was worse (probably the earthquakes in all fairness) but it sure did blow. Strange thing was at the top end of the lake you could have surfed. Halfway down the lake was flat calm. Way wierd. Still blowing a bit but it came with a vengence yesterday.
