Thread: Any ex NZ forest service fellas here?

Yeah, I used to frequent the Waipawa chalet when that track still looked a bit like a bulldozer track.

Would have been very early 1970's when the Takapari road was bulldozed in.

I worked with the dozer driver's son in the Manawatu gorge, doing all the blasting and straightening up of the sharp corners, back in the mid 1980's.

His old man drove one of those baby poo coloured Range Rovers everywhere, and would often tow one of those new fangled Suzuki 2 stroke 4WD wagons about behind it on an A frame. Had a 'moment' the first time he did it. Coming back from a job in the foothills of the Tararuas he forgot it was on the back, got up to about 90mph on the way back to the pub in Dannevirke...and almost shat himself when he looked in the rear view mirror and saw a 45 horsepower 4wd fair up his arse!!!