Dustoff for Willie Peters

I met Scribe briefly, he was a top bloke. Hope he returns.

Bugger I took a foto of his old address this morning.

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Originally Posted by TeRei

May see him tomorrow as we go next to your old haunts and look over that famous black hill.You may know there is a road on left to Kuri which is called Contorta Rd. May have to bodgie it to read GS Rd. Remember the dwarf got off his arse and targeted those early velvet stags in October in the tussock crawling on his belly. Hope to walk up to Ohutu in February when we raft the lower 'Tikei.

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Hang on, is the dwarf a real guy? Who is still kicking?

Wonder if Prince Harry should read it before foto opping in Afghanistan. One of Scibe's old Nam colleagues works in Napier. Nothing glamourous about war especially when you listen to him talking about agent orange spewing out of a plane. Anyway the dwarf would have had a hard time around Aorangi today because it was howling and very chilly.

It sure was a cold bloody windy day today,did ya catch up with Scribe ,TeRei? Dwarfs have a tendancy too keep low in shit like this:thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Dundee

Dwarfs have a tendancy too keep low in shit like this:thumbsup:

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Dwarf's are very low at all times Dundee. Has something to do with their distinct lack of height.

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Originally Posted by Tussock

Scribe got tricked by ex-member kiwishooter. Kiwishooter made a new log in and PMed Scribe and told him he was banned over the 10/80 posts/politics

Scribe quit in disgust that we would ban someone over a 10/80 thread .

But Kiwishooter was lying. He was banned because he ripped a member off, taking his money for freight on a package and then reversing the package when he got pissy at the other member.

Getting Scribe to quit was just a way for Kiwishooter to have another dig a us.

I never deleted Scribes membership like he asked. Hopefully he will come back.

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Thanks for the clarification Tussock. Is Scribe aware of the full story? I am sure he would hold a dim view of being used as a pawn by Kiwishooter.

Welcome back Scribe:cool:

Absolutely agree Dundee. He popped in for a short while this morning. Hopefully he will be back in full swing like before.

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Originally Posted by Rushy

Absolutely agree Dundee. He popped in for a short while this morning. Hopefully he will be back in full swing like before.

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Ok Who has the book can you pm me when your done please. i had a good talk with Scribe tonight i wont put words into anothers mouth but i am sure he is reading your comments and will contribute soon.

Great read Scribe well researched and written. The history on the different Maori wars was bloody interesting excuse the pun. Things were looking up ha ha. Mucko send me your address details and I will send it along.

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Originally Posted by Gapped axe

Great read Scribe well researched and written. The history on the different Maori wars was bloody interesting excuse the pun. Things were looking up ha ha. Mucko send me your address details and I will send it along.

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Thanks for the compliments G A. I am really glad you enjoyed the book. It was such an interesting book to write. I spent many hours gazing at this land of ours from our yacht trying to see it through the eyes of an 18 year old American Whaler/Sealer and describe it. It is some land dont you agree???. To have looked at it through a sailors eyes has given it a whole new dimension for me. I hope the members of this forum get a chance to sail our coasts and try to imagine what it was like to make landfall in such an interesting place shortly after Cook. Until this period of my life I was always up somewhere high looking down on the country.

The battles you mention...I became so involved as I wrote about them that at the end of the day my 'patu' arm was quite worn out.
I think it used to be called RSI???.

Now the expression Gapped Axe you dont hear anymore except amoung cullers and old Bushmen are you one of them GA????.

Just Googled that very old expression "Gapped Axe" to see how much use it gets in this modern day.

About the first thing me eyeballs fasten onto is expression....Axe Wound...'Vulva'.......The dirty bastards???.

I just finished the book this morning, fantastic read, I really enjoyed it.:thumbsup:
good to see you back Scribe

who's next for the book, please PM me

Cheers

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Originally Posted by Scribe

Just Googled that very old expression "Gapped Axe" to see how much use it gets in this modern day.

About the first thing me eyeballs fasten onto is expression....Axe Wound...'Vulva'.......The dirty bastards???.

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Hi Scribe good to see you back. Enlighten me as to the meaning behind gapped axe if you will. My old man was in forestry most of his life and was a keen axe man in my youth but the words gapped axe is not something that I am familiar with.

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Originally Posted by Rushy

Hi Scribe good to see you back. Enlighten me as to the meaning behind gapped axe if you will. My old man was in forestry most of his life and was a keen axe man in my youth but the words gapped axe is not something that I am familiar with.

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One of the reasons I was looking it up Rushey is that it never has been in common use and it is hardly ever heard used nowadays.

This is how I have heard it used in the past.... Once one of our boys went out with the axe and took a swing at a Black Maire stump outside the Ohutu Stream hut that over the years had turned as hard as stone. A chip came off of the cutting edge of the axe.
Hence it was said at the time "That boy has gapped the axe"

Sometimes a tree would grow around a sizeable stone which will "gap the Axe"

A hard knot in a piece of wood was known to "gap the axe"

Perhaps the steel of the old often treasured axes like the Kelly mays have been a bit more brittle than what are available now.

That all I know Rushey and like you I would like to know more. I am hoping "Gapped Axe" will come back and explain a bit about his chosen name.

Good on you DAF I am glad you enjoyed it. I think 'mucko' was looking for it a few days back.
But you send it to whoever PM's you.

I am on the last chapter of new book and are now bored witless and looking for mischief.

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Originally Posted by Scribe

Good on you DAF I am glad you enjoyed it. I think 'mucko' was looking for it a few days back.
But you send it to whoever PM's you.

I am on the last chapter of new book and are now bored witless and looking for mischief.

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Cant wait Scribe:thumbsup: I may even buy a copy!

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Cant wait Scribe:thumbsup: I may even buy a copy!

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Thats good Cam. I am afraid the age of books is just about over though.

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Originally Posted by Scribe

Thats good Cam. I am afraid the age of books is just about over though.

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Just like the paperless office of the late eighties Scribe. It will never happen.

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Originally Posted by Rushy

Just like the paperless office of the late eighties Scribe. It will never happen.

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Think Dotcom. And this types ability to flog off half a mill copies for a dollar each. Copyright is under extreme pressure.

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Originally Posted by Scribe

Think Dotcom. And this types ability to flog off half a mill copies for a dollar each. Copyright is under extreme pressure.

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Yes that is true. People are still going to want books in the printed form though. I just don't see a stack of Kindles on a shelf giving the same sense of pride that a collection of books does.

You can't beat going to bed early with a good book and an apple or carrot to eat. When I can, I try to go to bed early 2100hrs as I never know when I might be called out. By going to bed this way I find that I sleep really well, that is untill the pager or phone wakes me. 'Gapped Axe' Term was usually made in a negative term or derogitry comment, some one who is careless. Normally for a new chum around camp i.e Don't let him do it he will gap your axe. I also heard it once about 25yrs ago on A Dogs Show when the annoucer use it when a collie went around the side of a mob of sheep, and one ewe broke and went the wrong way.Well Gap my Axe. Still got my dads Kelly but got sick of putting new handles on it ,so I now use a fibreglass one. There go's the pager now. Back again, I hate alarms that cry Wolf. In the mid eighties I used to be a Rafting and adventure Guide working in the Nth Island on the Motu, Mohaka, Kaituna, Wairoa rivers. Around the same time I worked in the bush Building huts and camp sites in the Urewera's for a firm that had a walking concession in there. Spent alot of time living with my Grandparents at Totara nth In the Whangaroa Harbour, so i certainly enjoyed that chapter of the book. Peach island must of been one hell of a Pa site.Left there in the mid 60s and hadn't been back till 2yrs ago when I swam across the harbours entrance to rejoin a vessel that had anchored under the old Gun placements after dropping me off on the northern side. Strong currents and big fish. My age early 50s. Keen to get hold of Dustoff for Willie Peters. Mucko is picking up the book on Tuesday

Yes I agree, we are certainly lucky to live where we do, and are able to pursue the different recreational oppotunities that are available.

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Originally Posted by Scribe

One of the reasons I was looking it up Rushey is that it never has been in common use and it is hardly ever heard used nowadays.

This is how I have heard it used in the past.... Once one of our boys went out with the axe and took a swing at a Black Maire stump outside the Ohutu Stream hut that over the years had turned as hard as stone. A chip came off of the cutting edge of the axe.
Hence it was said at the time "That boy has gapped the axe"

Sometimes a tree would grow around a sizeable stone which will "gap the Axe"

A hard knot in a piece of wood was known to "gap the axe"

Perhaps the steel of the old often treasured axes like the Kelly mays have been a bit more brittle than what are available now.

That all I know Rushey and like you I would like to know more. I am hoping "Gapped Axe" will come back and explain a bit about his chosen name.

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Killed a few mices in that hut and chopped up a few animals outside.

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Originally Posted by Gapped axe

You can't beat going to bed early with a good book and an apple or carrot to eat. When I can, I try to go to bed early 2100hrs as I never know when I might be called out. By going to bed this way I find that I sleep really well, that is untill the pager or phone wakes me. 'Gapped Axe' Term was usually made in a negative term or derogitry comment, some one who is careless. Normally for a new chum around camp i.e Don't let him do it he will gap your axe. I also heard it once about 25yrs ago on A Dogs Show when the annoucer use it when a collie went around the side of a mob of sheep, and one ewe broke and went the wrong way.Well Gap my Axe. Still got my dads Kelly but got sick of putting new handles on it ,so I now use a fibreglass one. There go's the pager now. Back again, I hate alarms that cry Wolf. In the mid eighties I used to be a Rafting and adventure Guide working in the Nth Island on the Motu, Mohaka, Kaituna, Wairoa rivers. Around the same time I worked in the bush Building huts and camp sites in the Urewera's for a firm that had a walking concession in there. Spent alot of time living with my Grandparents at Totara nth In the Whangaroa Harbour, so i certainly enjoyed that chapter of the book. Peach island must of been one hell of a Pa site.Left there in the mid 60s and hadn't been back till 2yrs ago when I swam across the harbours entrance to rejoin a vessel that had anchored under the old Gun placements after dropping me off on the northern side. Strong currents and big fish. My age early 50s. Keen to get hold of Dustoff for Willie Peters. Mucko is picking up the book on Tuesday

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Well Rushey here we have a good explanation for a piece of colourful language from "Gapped Axe" I will have to see if I can find somewhere to use it in my book.

Well "Well Gap Me Bloody Axe" Those big super calibres are out there mutilating the deer population again. Might do it.

When you were rafting the Mohaka "Gapped Axe" did we fly your gear in.... HKK, Mountain Helicopters

I suspect both books are heading "Mucko's" way but I really dont know.

Whangaroa was our favourite harbour in the North Island and you are right Peach island would have been a stunning sight fully fortified as a Pa.

Thanks for that.

Signed
How dead do you want it.

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Originally Posted by TeRei

Killed a few mices in that hut and chopped up a few animals outside.

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Ohutu Stream. I used to drop into there in the roar or when I had been eating venison to long and wanted a bit of pork. It was a great place to hunt stags under that big podocarp forest. The place used to go mad. The hut only had a dirt floor then and it was always dirty, it was damp in the winter and it was a hard place to get decent fire wood.

Interesting thing my old hunting partner Jim Warren found a Moa skeleton in the stream not far up from the hut. It is the sort of country that gives you the feeling that they are probably still in there.
A friend of mine said he got one of the biggest frights he ever had in this hut. He dropped down from Aorangi and got in after dark, cooked a feed and read for awhile before blowing the candle out. He was lying there contemplating the events of the day as you do when he spotted these two great baleful looking eyes staring at him from under the other bunk and along with that the outline of some sinister creature. His blood ran cold and he was frozen to the spot, mesmorized by these two huge green eyes staring at him. He had in the end to make himself get out of bed and get the matches and light the candle expecting to be sprung on. To his great relief on examination of the creature it turned out to be a half rotten stump that someone had pushed under the bunk and the eyes were two big round patches of Phosphorus in the rotting wood.

Ahh how the mind does play tricks some times. Many a log has looked like a deer and I suspect, many a deer has looked like a log.

Arthur and Christine for the Mohaka and Te Hoe, Dereck lowe for the Hut Building and the Podjursky's boys for the Motu. Have also flown with Helipro for Fire fighting training and the real thing. Have flown with Steve Collins, Silver and a number of others. Also have Good friend who comes down to his Bach in his Raven, and when he arrives we go flying. So Cool

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Originally Posted by Scribe

Ohutu Stream. I used to drop into there in the roar or when I had been eating venison to long and wanted a bit of pork. It was a great place to hunt stags under that big podocarp forest. The place used to go mad. The hut only had a dirt floor then and it was always dirty, it was damp in the winter and it was a hard place to get decent fire wood.

Interesting thing my old hunting partner Jim Warren found a Moa skeleton in the stream not far up from the hut. It is the sort of country that gives you the feeling that they are probably still in there.
A friend of mine said he got one of the biggest frights he ever had in this hut. He dropped down from Aorangi and got in after dark, cooked a feed and read for awhile before blowing the candle out. He was lying there contemplating the events of the day as you do when he spotted these two great baleful looking eyes staring at him from under the other bunk and along with that the outline of some sinister creature. His blood ran cold and he was frozen to the spot, mesmorized by these two huge green eyes staring at him. He had in the end to make himself get out of bed and get the matches and light the candle expecting to be sprung on. To his great relief on examination of the creature it turned out to be a half rotten stump that someone had pushed under the bunk and the eyes were two big round patches of Phosphorus in the rotting wood.

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You should have been there on Saturday because it was howling. Some good solid wind gusts. Some good heavy horizontal rain and hail at times.

Good read, couldn't put it down. Thanks Graeme for your insight into a Vietnam Vet. Skinny as a Gum Diggers bitch. I could actually visulise that, haha. Who's next??

yep ill get it if its free

You can borrow my one Neckshot

Anyone got the forum copy of this book? Really keen to read.

I sent it to happy

Yes I have it Posted a few times that it's ready to go to next reader. Send me pm address and it ll leave Monday

Cheers

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Originally Posted by Happy

Yes I have it Posted a few times that it's ready to go to next reader. Send me pm address and it ll leave Monday

Cheers

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Hi Happy, Did 'Savage 1' make contact about the book. His Father served in Vietnam in Victor Six. I have some copies still and I promised him one.

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Originally Posted by Scribe

Hi Happy, Did 'Savage 1' make contact about the book. His Father served in Vietnam in Victor Six. I have some copies still and I promised him one.

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Hi ya. No its still in my possession along with the other book "Bush Rats " by Neville Tohill. Any one wants to read them let me know and Ill get them away.

Cheers

IM in Happy one if no one else is :)