Thread: Old huts

man that photo of Sids takes me back Did a number of 3 month stints in there and Tewaiotukapiti culling for FS in early seventies

@JessicaChen Carey’s is such a small block that there’s really no need to overnight in there. No idea why anyone would bother building a shelter in there. Hunted it heaps over the last 7-8yrs.

Here’s a cool wee hut I’m sure some of you know. Built in 1920. Bunks are made of Manuka. Has a hefty hut book that goes back to the mid 1980s, even with people writing several pages per entry.

Originally Posted by Pixie Z

@JessicaChen Carey’s is such a small block that there’s really no need to overnight in there. No idea why anyone would bother building a shelter in there. Hunted it heaps over the last 7-8yrs.

This shelter is not far from a road (within 200m). So I would hazard a guess it was just for fun, and not for any practical reason such as an overnight stay.
But yeah I like Carey's. Got a few goats in there, but feels a bit difficult sometimes due to thickness and steepness.

Looked through this thread again, and felt pleased I started it 4 years ago. Huts seem to be a trigger to many of our memories of areas and places we have hunted or been. Long may the venerable FS hut and its offspring live!

Originally Posted by Pixie Z

Here’s a cool wee hut I’m sure some of you know. Built in 1920. Bunks are made of Manuka. Has a hefty hut book that goes back to the mid 1980s, even with people writing several pages per entry.

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Almost as interesting as one of its builders Alex Shute, who lived there for some years. When it was built Alex was not long out of hospital after being wounded in WW1 when the hut was built. Alex (Alexander) was a thoroughly interesting chap who was likely most at peace at the hut. Lester Masters talks about him in Back Country Tales and wrote this about him.

Old Alex Shutewas a rabbiting man,
In the high lands of the Bay,
He'd pull your leg and drink your grog,
And yet you would want to stay,
With that old coot of a toughie Shute,
In the high lands of the Bay.

Regards Grandpamac.

Stayed here last saturday, Trig hut on the summit of the Hunua Ranges, awesome fireplace build into the natural rock, only two beds though....

Anyone know if this hut in the Stafford still exists. Flew in around forty years ago and I think, from memory, it had a notice of destruction on it back then. Shot my first deer there and picked up a fawn so bit of a special memory for me.

Originally Posted by Pixie Z

Here’s a cool wee hut I’m sure some of you know. Built in 1920. Bunks are made of Manuka. Has a hefty hut book that goes back to the mid 1980s, even with people writing several pages per entry.

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And here it is "back in the day" long before DOC cut down Alex's pine trees and fruit trees

Originally Posted by NIMROD

And here it is "back in the day" long before DOC cut down Alex's pine trees and fruit trees

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You need to start writing a book……..

Originally Posted by NIMROD

And here it is "back in the day" long before DOC cut down Alex's pine trees and fruit trees

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When "Bullers" were the norm.

[QUOTE=Sidetrack;1352626]Anyone know if this hut in the Stafford still exists. Flew in around forty years ago and I think, from memory, it had a notice of destruction on it back then. Shot my first deer there and picked up a fawn so bit of a special memory for me.

No its been gone for a few years now, replaced by a flash doc hut... Have fond memories of that ole hut, so dark inside had to burn mossie coils for mossies 24hrs a day there....

Seeing this is about huts , do any of you gentlemen have any photos of shark tooth rock bivi up the Douglas River and
the rock bivi lower Horace Walker , thanks ,

Originally Posted by NIMROD

And here it is "back in the day" long before DOC cut down Alex's pine trees and fruit trees

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Greetings @NIMROD,
What fine young gentlemen, no prizes for who the middle one is, I am reasonably sure who the one on the right is but the one on the left has me stumped. Looks familiar but?
Regards Grandpamac.

Reading throught this is really neat and got me thinking about old huts I'd been to. First to come to mind is Cone hut in the tararuas, shot my first deer on the way there in 93 or 94. Spooked my first deer in the dark that trip to, scared the shit out of me. Dad sent me down river to check the flats in the evening by myself, would of been 13-14. Nothing seen but stumbling back in the dark walked straight in to a deer. Will never forget that trip.

Quick Google says the hut is still there in its original totara slab construction.