Thread: Manawatu Gorge Slip

Looks like a decision has been made on the future for the gorge.

Should be good hunting now if there's much in there.

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Originally Posted by Russian 22.

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.

Originally Posted by Shootm

Used to be a few goats years ago, nothing left in there now.

@Shootm there used to be the odd deer shot around where the big steel slip chute is down your end didn't there?

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

Originally Posted by Shootm

Used to be a few goats years ago, nothing left in there now.

Did they cull the crap out of them and killed heaps of nannies?

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

Did they cull the crap out of them and killed heaps of nannies?

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.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

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.

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.

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.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

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.

Just bring him to Hawkesbay and send him out with good ol Pete

Originally Posted by Paddy79

Just bring him to Hawkesbay and send him out with good ol Pete

Yea that sounds like a 10 dollar and couple of hours mission
If going that far I would be looking for a Sika!

The yanks wanted to bridge the gorge during WW2 as an exercise for the boys, believed the Govt turned it down. They did the conc road from Napier to Hastings I believe?

Originally Posted by Maca49

The yanks wanted to bridge the gorge during WW2 as an exercise for the boys, believed the Govt turned it down. They did the conc road from Napier to Hastings I believe?

Fark I love these urban legends.

There are so many of them
Wainuiomata Tunnel
Rimutaka Rd Tunnel
SH1 welly to Jafa land 4 lanes
Mt Messenger
Transmission Gully
MT Victoria
and of course Manawatu Gorge.

Even if theyre not true they still get repeated as fact

@Reindeer There was a big camp down Andersen road in Carterton, I managed Fletchers mill, the old Booth mill, there in the 80s. When they left they pushed all their gear into a hole and buried it, we had a few 44 gallon drums marked USA in the mill. There was a fuel dump at the end of Greytown where the road forks to Featherston and Martinborough, my old man and his brother in law nearly got caught pinching petrol from there one night, dad drove the Featherston straights with no headlight on to get away. My mum used to tell me of a rolled jeep at pee point on the Rimutakas, where she and dad stopped to assist, the GIs were OK and they helped dad get all of the petrol from the jeep into his Austin Seven before their retrieval gang arrived.

The ironic thought I had is that 50 years ago a County Council Overseer would have been instructed to blast it down no waiting for it too move no Site Safety / Health & Safety site plan. A couple of boxes of gelly and problems solved.

@Bonecrusher, tend to agree, my first recollection of going through the gorge would have been the late 50s early 60s, Thats a long time ago and it was there long before that, The Ashurst end must have been bridged in the Depression? When they did things like that for employment, such as the long bridge over the Manawatu at Foxton, I remember when they straightened the Ballance end, maybe the 70s? Have we just become soft cocks? Tip the slip into the river, dam it and put in another Hydro to compliment the wind farms?