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I felled a dead tawa tree that was 2 feet in diameter at my campsite in nz, considering I was using my gomtaro 330 I had very little pull and had to go from both sides. Was a bit of effort but had to be done! I misjudged the fall distance and ended up breaking our gaslamp haha.

Nobody has mentioned the most simple method of opening the front vent on all zippered trousers. the difference in having a bit of extra airflow and not is rather substantial. Sure you might have to walk about cautiously when nearing children and clients but give it a go you may be pleasantly surprised.

If you have work where you are -keep it! Good luck, It's Damn difficult! Give me NZ any day over the work scenario here!

This one from Otago NZ

Cleaning up some palms over a large swimming pool in NZ and thought it would be easier to put the ladders in the pool with a scaffold board running between. Job went fine and cleaned everything, packed up and went to the next job. Two days later we got a phone call from client asking if we could come back and seal the holes created in the pool liner as there was no water left in the pool. Had a lowering strop snap and drop a large piece of eucalyptus on to a corrugated iron water tank, it looked like an accordian all consertinad (spelling)

Thinking of you guys back home in Godsown! So glad to hear nobody was killed with very few serious injuries sustained. Seems so strange for Christchurch to get it and not Wellington cause that was always the fear that Wellington was up for the big one! Hope you guys affected can still get stuck in and carry on!

Just bung it in with your work shirts and chainsaw pants, a bit of laundry powder on a low temperature and a easy care cycle. I normally knit/braid my ropes and stuff them in the machine with prussics included. Come out a treat!!

How about Cryptomeria japonica if you wish to go down the conifer route or have a look at Grisilinea littoralis. both will tolerate salt conditions well.

Great looking table!

Just bite the bullet and go for it! It's a cracking country with some of the best isolated places just hours from major centres. Look on trademe for jobs or seek. I found my jobs by just cold calling from the phone books. Good luck!

I love them, but I am yet to find someone here who uses them. We had one on my course and one of the lads was still up the tree at the end of lunch so he got blasted by apples and whatever would splatter on the stem in front of him. Was a good laugh! The accuracy is fantastic and they can come in handy for those tight sites where you don't have a lot of room to swing your throwline.

I found a old canvas sign from a winery sale with ropes running top and bottom worked really well. Plenty strong enough and plenty of room. When I was a wee nipper we used to just use fertilizer sacks with bailing twine.

Come summer time you wont be wanting to wear your type A's in NZ, It can get so hot we were stripping off into shorts at lunch time and jumping in the river to cool off. Not sure on the license thing as I've got the NZ license but will have to get it exchanged for U.K license pretty soon. Gear seems expensive but you will get used to thinking in $ and not pounds. why is it you pay a pound for a beer from the supermarket here and only pay 1 NZ $ for the same thing? Last I heard the NZ dollar was sitting fairly high so you may find your pounds dont go as far as they used to. NZ $1 = 0.48 p Good luck and "Sweet As Bro!!"

Build a frame (pergola) and grow some wisteria and grapes. That way you get fruit and flowers:001_smile: or go for a japanese maple like Acer palmatum -Senkaki or similar.

In NZ you will need permits and gun license. Pretty easy to get though and plenty of places to go stalking. I could go for a walk in the hills behind my place and be on to some reds in about half an hr. Mind you D.O.C (Depatrment of Conservation) are often in the hills culling the pests as they like to call deer! The south island has the wider range of species including Chamois, Tahr if your into that sort of thing. Plenty of goats up on the hills for a bit of target practice, just watch out for the wild pigs.