Thread: Dustoff for Willie Peters

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

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

Originally Posted by Dundee

Dwarfs have a tendancy too keep low in shit like this

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

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.

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

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

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.

+1

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.

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.

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???.

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???.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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