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  1. 07-07-2016, 08:29 PM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by hilz77 View Post
    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?
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    It takes 43 muscle's to frown and 17 to smile, but only 3 for proper trigger pull.
    What more do we need? If we are above ground and breathing the rest is up to us!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rushy View Post
    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
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    Quote Originally Posted by hilz77 View Post
    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.
    It takes 43 muscle's to frown and 17 to smile, but only 3 for proper trigger pull.
    What more do we need? If we are above ground and breathing the rest is up to us!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rushy View Post
    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
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    Quote Originally Posted by hilz77 View Post
    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.
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    It takes 43 muscle's to frown and 17 to smile, but only 3 for proper trigger pull.
    What more do we need? If we are above ground and breathing the rest is up to us!
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