As some of you know the gorge has been closed for weeks now, a couple of pics I took today looking down at the road.
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As you can see the 80 tonne crane looks tiny.
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As some of you know the gorge has been closed for weeks now, a couple of pics I took today looking down at the road.
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As you can see the 80 tonne crane looks tiny.
Didn't even know it was closed.
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Is that taken from one of the windmills?
YepQuote:
Originally Posted by Ruawai
Nice place to eat your lunch I bet xD
gorge aside what a place to take a photo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bet ya thought of smuggling a few beers up there and soaking
in the view
need them after the climb....?
Not a bad office to work in.
Looks like it might not open for a while if at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shootm
They should just abandon it and invest the $$$ into the other two roads, they will save millions
Funny you should post this.
Manawatu Gorge to remain closed 'for some time' - NZ Herald
Bench that whole ridge back above the road and problem gone....never get resource consent for that tho.
such an awsome photo that top one. awsome work.
That's One Amazing View You've got there . Those Towers are Amazing to stand under . It must be Incredible to be on top of them . I imagine You be able to see Alot of both the Islands from that high up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shootm
Great Photos .
It's about time the MOT put a Decent Highway over the top and stopped playing "Micky Mouse" with the gorge road as that road will Never Stop Slipping , it's Amazing No Ones been killed in one of its land slides yet .
The rust on the hatch cover and the cheap looking hinge and screws holding it together DON'T add up for a Piece of Machinery thats got to withstand Huge Winds Up the top of those Hills . I Remember seeing those Wind Mills on Transporters coming through Southern Hawke's Bay back in 2004 not a transport job I would have liked but To be up the top of one looking at the view Now That Would Be Amazing ..
What is a windmill in aviation terms please?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ruawai
Windmill from the wind farm
Te Apiti Wind Farm Lookout - Palmerston North City & Manawatu
Fences must be down up there @Gibo, bloody wind keeps escaping and blowing its tits off over here...Quote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
I did take a big tree down yesterday, could be letting a bit more come down your way mate ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by 300_BLK
@Shootm my first shepherding job was with Bill Smith who owned the farm where most of the windmills are. Was there for a couple of years - circa 1966. The only good thing I recall about working there was the duck shooting :) By the gate to the woodshed there was a little hut which I shared from time to time with the drover Linc Campbell as he took mobs for the Hurley's through (do you remember him, if you were around in those days?).
Cheer!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
Sounds like the gorge is shut for good
yeah mate she is fuckedQuote:
Originally Posted by Dundee
Know someone who is high up and the hills are moving a shit load atm defently going to be a lot more coming down before they can start working on it again all the engineers are saying
Yep I remember Linc Campbell he was a bit of a local icon. My grandfather knew him well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
Wind Turbine. Windmills make flour;)Quote:
Originally Posted by stingray
I bet they friggen moved after that snow storm and the following flood.Never seen the Manawatu river so high up this end,reckon it was higher than 2004.Quote:
Originally Posted by 199p
Yeah the saddle rd is cutting up pretty bad to, there is lots of patching going on at the moment.
Patching is a broad use of the term....more like building the road again after letting it get so bad!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shootm
Simple really...windmilling is experienced when the RPM is reduced but the airspeed is maintained,which eventually will cause the blade angle of attack to become negative,when that occurs,the resulting force will act in a rearward direction,known as windmilling.We use it in jets as well,windmilling starts occurs,when the engine is started without the aid of the starter,because the compressors are being turned by natural airflow when airborne.To,which I have done several,when the buggars have decided to quit.Quote:
Originally Posted by stingray
Would be interested to find out if those same aerodynamic features are the same for windmills,as they really are only just big props,as in constant speed props,or constant speed unit.
Another slip has come down in the gorge today.
Not looking good for a reopen in the short or long term :oh noes:
Cheers
Pete
Looks like a decision has been made on the future for the gorge.
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Should be good hunting now if there's much in there.
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Used to be a few goats years ago, nothing left in there now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Russian 22.
@Shootm there used to be the odd deer shot around where the big steel slip chute is down your end didn't there?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shootm
went in last night and had a look at the old big slip and it hasnt moved gunna walk upthe road tomorrow night see what we can see
Did they cull the crap out of them and killed heaps of nannies?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shootm
The good ol hunting trainer the humble goat is bloody hard to find these days on public land (at least in this part of the country) and on private the owners like to let them breed untill prices are good and muster them in........there is a high chance my son will shoot his first deer before a goat which seems a bit backward to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Russian 22.
Certainly seems that way. Between hunters and cullers all the blocks around auckland seem to have slim pickings. 4 goats in half a year at dome valley.Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
I'll probably shoot my first deer before my first goat. At least where I live in its cheaper to go to the kaimai's than it is for me to go to king country.
Just bring him to Hawkesbay and send him out with good ol PeteQuote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Yea that sounds like a 10 dollar and couple of hours mission :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Paddy79
If going that far I would be looking for a Sika!
