Thread: How are ya

Originally Posted by Rushy

Welcome to the forum hilz77. If 7mmsaum points you toward a spot, go there and wait.

Cheers rushy, te whetu ay. We take the horses up there now

Originally Posted by hilz77

Cheers rushy, te whetu ay. We take the horses up there now

What is left there these days? It was a vibrant timber town sixty years ago. The first real job my dad had as a boy of fourteen was herding the wild horses out of the hills up the back of Te Whetu so they could fell the trees and one of my grandfathers drove the locomotive that pulled the logs out to the mill and the other ran the cookhouse in the single mans camp. My roots run deep there even though i haven't been there in decades. Do you go in from the Tokoroa or Lichfield side?

Originally Posted by Rushy

What is left there these days? It was a vibrant timber town sixty years ago. The first real job my dad had as a boy of fourteen was herding the wild horses out of the hills up the back of Te Whetu so they could fell the trees and one of my grandfathers drove the locomotive that pulled the logs out to the mill and the other ran the cookhouse in the single mans camp. My roots run deep there even though i haven't been there in decades. Do you go in from the Tokoroa or Lichfield side?

From the Lichfield end, off Ngatira. I dont think theres much of anything. Theres an old tower of some sort. That must have been awhile ago! Its ready for harvesting again now

Originally Posted by hilz77

From the Lichfield end, off Ngatira. I dont think theres much of anything. Theres an old tower of some sort. That must have been awhile ago! Its ready for harvesting again now

I wouldn't mind a look one day for nostalgia's sake. It has been a couple of years but I am sure I could sit a horse for a few hours if needed.

Originally Posted by Rushy

I wouldn't mind a look one day for nostalgia's sake. It has been a couple of years but I am sure I could sit a horse for a few hours if needed.

Sure thing, it's pretty thick in there now. Popular as with pig hunters. Some good days have been spent through there

Originally Posted by hilz77

Sure thing, it's pretty thick in there now. Popular as with pig hunters. Some good days have been spent through there

Does the tower look like the one in the back of this photo? That was my paternal grandparents place on the other side of the swamp. I am the young fellah with the curly hair on my grandmothers lap.