The "helipad" is simply an adjacent red tussock swamp that was heavily infested with old man broom.They gave it a tickle up with a power saw. The issue with the hut deterioration is encroachment of beech regen blocking air flow, nth sunlight.Hence the rotten t&g flooring and canvas bunks,walls weeping dank condensation.This a result of zero DOC maintenance in the last 2 decades. Since you're flying in, howz about doing some long overdue aggressive scrub clearance to create some airflow & light into the hut.Couple of tanks of gas should do it & you,ll generate a cord of f/wood.Hell you wont even need a candle burning inside @ midday.
I've got happy snaps of the hut siting on its maintained cleared site from the swamp down to the water creek without a scerret of regen within 2 chain of the site.Hard to believe now!
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