Thread: Takapari road

Hi has anyone been up the Takapari road 4x4 track in the Manawatu recently? Is it accessible yet. I think it has been rutted out and had a slip or 2 come down in the last year or 2 but i just want to know if you can get a 4x4 past yet

I'm sure the road has actually been shut at the moment? I heard DOC was trying to get the army engineers involved in the repair etc....

Originally Posted by Sika 8

I'm sure the road has actually been shut at the moment? I heard DOC was trying to get the army engineers involved in the repair etc....

What? Both of them and their one D4

Seriously, there's precious little left of capability with our NZDF at the mo. I assume DoC are attempting to get another Govt dept to pay for what is considered their role, in maintaining access into Public lands.

Originally Posted by XR500

What? Both of them and their one D4

Seriously, there's precious little left of capability with our NZDF at the mo. I assume DoC are attempting to get another Govt dept to pay for what is considered their role, in maintaining access into Public lands.

Depts are good at dodging. The suburb we are in has a dead end paper road that goes nowhere...so the developer connected a walkway to the other end so it could become a loop. He then offered to plant it out as a tree / bird lane ot disimilar to a residential park...Coucil dept in charge of the paper road administration said 'Easy, thats good, we can transfer it over to parks for them to look after" Parks replied "No way...we dont need more work..." so it stayed a paperroad albeit a loop of sorts now....so no one mows it (apart from the neighbouring farmer if it gets long enough to bale...) And the coucil has done it once when they were advised it had becomea fire hazard to the neighbouring properties......No one wanted to look after it so while they could have had free landscaping and planting of trees, they missed ut and have simply got a long narow public access paddock

Originally Posted by XR500

What? Both of them and their one D4

Seriously, there's precious little left of capability with our NZDF at the mo. I assume DoC are attempting to get another Govt dept to pay for what is considered their role, in maintaining access into Public lands.

DOC had a D4 when it first started 1987 - it was at the old Minginui Forest Service Workshop - I wonder what happened to it

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

DOC had a D4 when it first started 1987 - it was at the old Minginui Forest Service Workshop - I wonder what happened to it

It’s parked next to the workshop at the old mill

Or it was in 1987

Originally Posted by 7mmsaum

It’s parked next to the workshop at the old mill

Or it was in 1987

Got one up here, mid repair. Great sized dozer.


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Originally Posted by GlennJ

Hi has anyone been up the Takapari road 4x4 track in the Manawatu recently? Is it accessible yet. I think it has been rutted out and had a slip or 2 come down in the last year or 2 but i just want to know if you can get a 4x4 past yet

I visited a few weeks ago and it’s stuffed not far past the airstrip/DOC boundary. You would need a serious bush truck and winch to get up the huge rutted drop off. There is a side track but huge ruts and guranteed panel damage plus winch needed. The track will need serious digger time and rock to fix.

That photo doesn't do it justice

As above it's practically impassable

Its many moons now, but i took the old WB holden ute up to A-Frame hut one day, was a bit tough with a 3 speed, on the one steep section and we had to hit it with speed, to clear the top after smoking the clutch the 1 attempt.
Also took a couple kayaks, part way up and dragged them down the ridge, to the Pohangina river, and over the waterfall.
Hope they fix it, a great axcess to digger and forks area, and the fricken leatherwood.

That's a shame to see. I push biked that road on a three speed a few years after it was dozed in (1970 ish). It was in beautiful condition, as you would expect. Water tables all lovely graded etc.

This is what happens when you do no maintenance for 20-30 years. DoC: how about laying off throwing squillions at helo and poison businesses, and chuck a grader over these access roads once every three years or so???

Originally Posted by XR500

This is what happens when you do no maintenance for 20-30 years. DoC: how about laying off throwing squillions at helo and poison businesses, and chuck a grader over these access roads once every three years or so???

The road has had maintenance on it over the years fairly regularly, the problem is the 4x4 clubs that go up there on mass convoy and deliberately tear up the road & the surrounding areas along side the road.
A couple of years ago a community group took on the project of doing up the old "A-Frame" hut at the top of the road, all of them volunteers and they did a really great job of turning a structure that was buggered into a nice clean hut that would actually be nice to stay in.
With in 3 months it had smashed windows and graffiti again, and some muppet decided he could drive his quad bike up and over the hut judging by the tyre marks on the iron.

I get that all users of the park have just as much right as any other park user to be there..... but sometimes common sense isn't as common as we'd like and a few will ruin it for the rest of us.

Originally Posted by Sika 8

The road has had maintenance on it over the years fairly regularly, the problem is the 4x4 clubs that go up there on mass convoy and deliberately tear up the road & the surrounding areas along side the road.
A couple of years ago a community group took on the project of doing up the old "A-Frame" hut at the top of the road, all of them volunteers and they did a really great job of turning a structure that was buggered into a nice clean hut that would actually be nice to stay in.
With in 3 months it had smashed windows and graffiti again, and some muppet decided he could drive his quad bike up and over the hut judging by the tyre marks on the iron.

I get that all users of the park have just as much right as any other park user to be there..... but sometimes common sense isn't as common as we'd like and a few will ruin it for the rest of us.

Yeah its been kept reasonably tidy to be fair
I'd have to disagree with the 4x4 clubs comment though.
The 4x4 club took traps up there after being asked to buy Mauri oho, that is all.
The damage has been done buy fuckwits in there lifted surfs and old rangers who think 4x4 drivers
We had the wetest winter on record and still they thought it was fun to destroy the track.
Personally I think the road should be shut.

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Yeah I guess I should replace the word "Club" with "groups" I've personally seen a convoy up there 20+ strong and assumed it was a club, perhaps it was just a large group of muppets.