Old huts

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Originally Posted by XR500

I think you will find the Bolkoff is a Messerschmidt product. A mate of mine owned one for a few years. Yes, bloody impressive bit of kit. Entire rotor head is made from one piece of titanium. Fleet wide they have logged something like 13 million hours in the air with not a single rotor head failure.

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Essentially same machine from memory, made under license by Kawasaki.
Awesome air ambulance

Yes, mate was telling me about a crew he knew that were operating in the North Atlantic doing rare species protection or some such. UK Govt dept said "you guys are doing a great job, its time to replace your helo. What new helo do you want?" They said " This Bolkoff, sent back to the factory and zero hour rebuilt." Says quite a bit from a crew that spent an awful lot of time flying over the North Atlantic sea in all weathers a long long way from any assistance.

Obviously there are some helicopter enthusiasts on here that got enjoyment out of the helicopter photos, so I have put some more up here for people to view.

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Another photo of the same helicopter involved in the food drop. In the photo you can see the writings of Helicopter NZ Ltd, for aviation enthusiasts just do a Google search.

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To those that are interested this was the bivy I got to that had a whole pile of food in it. In those days it was surprising this Ngamako bivy seemed to be seldom visited.

One of those galv bins in the food drop would have been full of plain ( & probably weevilly) flour with several lbs of butter buried deep within.Would keep without going ransid right thru the heat of summer while sweating in the tin dog box.Plunge your hand into the flour and the temp would be surprisingly cool 6°

More photos for helicopter enthusiasts out there....

A helicopter taking off from the Pohangina base in the Southern Ruahines.

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I obviously have other associated photos to this area and will put up in due course and other links to other threads / posts etc.


A helicopter in the Hunter Valley Otago region

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I used to work for the NZFS as a carpenter in the Southern Lakes / Otago area.
Most probably put up some more photos for viewers enjoyment etc.

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One of those galv bins in the food drop would have been full of plain ( & probably weevilly) flour with several lbs of butter buried deep within.Would keep without going ransid right thru the heat of summer while sweating in the tin dog box.Plunge your hand into the flour and the temp would be surprisingly cool 6°

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Hah I can smell weevly flour from a mile away, the taste never leaves you.

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Originally Posted by bluebaiter222

Des Trafford.Still alive n kickin.He's not a stretch as it goes.Average build 5'9".Knocked knees and deaf as a post.But then all of them are

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So this isn't @SmokeyJason but the description is identical.

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Originally Posted by RUMPY

So this isn't @SmokeyJason but the description is identical.

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Beat me to it,lol.

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Pakihi heads hut. Went there a year ago had just been cleaned up inside and cleared around the hut . Was pre roar so guessed someone was planning on going back . We camped on ridge above hut another hour further.
Doesn’t get a lot of visitors by looks of hut book

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Originally Posted by video hunter

Obviously there are some helicopter enthusiasts on here that got enjoyment out of the helicopter photos, so I have put some more up here for people to view.

Attachment 228120

Another photo of the same helicopter involved in the food drop. In the photo you can see the writings of Helicopter NZ Ltd, for aviation enthusiasts just do a Google search.

Attachment 228121

To those that are interested this was the bivy I got to that had a whole pile of food in it. In those days it was surprising this Ngamako bivy seemed to be seldom visited.

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Is Ngamoko biv now Toka biv?

Ngamoko hut is down beside the Pohangina river, 6 k downstream from the old Leon Kinvig hut site. Toka biv is up on the edge of the leatherwood above and north of there.

I see that a new Leon Kinvig hut is going in soon. That's good news. It always held good numbers on animals, was just a bit of a haul getting in there.

Yeah been there, just thought that pic was a little biv in the tussock / leatherwood like Toka

Slip Flat. Greenstone.

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Cone door, Tararuas

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Upper Marapea, Ruahines

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