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Are you still doing your engineering work with all the travel you did in the past few years,Clive Regards from Pat

Keep fighting mate

I think I turn 84 next week and these changes had me bebuggared( that’s a Kiwi saying)but I guess we will get used to it so all the best to all and keep clear of CV.

We have proportional representation in NZ and it is the biggest disaster you Could have .You get a bunch of unelected nohopers who if they had to face a First past the post election would not have a show of getting in. We were given a choice of change but we all thought that we were going to...

You got the result you needed and i am sure they will do a good job.

Even the kids don’t like him

Definitely in top form

You’re still in top form,Chas

Lot of common sense in there.Polis are even worse in NZ as with proportional Representation you get useless people who have never accomplished things personally but who have fawned on power brokers for a taxpayer funded salary and perks.

NZ was hurt when an idiot UK prime minister changed the UK from its Leadership role in the Commonwealth to being a vassal state of the EU. The countries that the UK and its Commonwealth Allies had saved from their war wounds and helped rebuild are now dictating to you.Don’t you think the UK has...

Pardon,The rest of the world. Thought it was.

Boris,is a jump ahead of the moaners

Ben ,a lack of your informative posts lately,but the same happened to me with Marriage,parenthood and being steered in a new direction in life,it happens to us all but later on we pick up with old mates and resume contact but without maybe the vim and vigour of youth.Best of luck I am quite...

Your just a bunch of big kids.Wish I was with you.

I hope you all have a lot of fun,Clive.

Upbringing as a child has a lot to do with damage to joints,Kids think they are indestructible.I had to get my Knees replaced but that was because I was aa good Catholic boy and and kneeled a lot and when older was still on my knees asking girls for favours.AH,its a hard life.

Higgy,I’m 82 and today we were milling timber but I sympathise with your bent fingers as I have an appendage that is somewhat bent some say by over use but I am constantly trying with the help of my personal masseuse to remedy the situation.Never give up Mate.

I go to a specialist and he put me on Something called Methotrexate and it has done the trick for me.He is the best in NZ.Take 2 pills once a week.Bang on.

We built heaps of rock walls as our land is steep in places but my darling wife Was pitching in and working alongside me all the way.We both have steelworks in our backs but when you need to do things like other folks You Just Do It.

It is worse in NZ we have absolutely insane health and safety laws and with the Greeny government we have now it gets worse by the day. I took my oxy and acetylene out to get tested and refilled and was told that they no longer test acetylene but you had to hire bottles from one of three...

That’s interesting,I never heard of that before.But we used to use Blood & Bone fertiliser so i guess there must have been a market for cows blood.

In NZ the treatment is Tanalising which is arsenic based but the idiots say Creosote is too dangerous.

What a lot of bull dust!

You are dead right about creosote.It’s the best my father in law made wooden farm gats for many years and he made a bath out of 44 gallon drums and would soak the timber ,then let it drip dry over a few days and make and sell his gates all over the Bay Of Plenty in NZ.We also mill our own timber...

Thank the Good Lord you haven’t got them.

Do you use them?

Do they have that system of retreading in the UK or Aussie?

At one stage I was doing about 25 to 30,000 a year but since being full time back on our land from about 6 to 100,00. But I have a different outlook on tyres than an off-roader as i was a cartage contractor for a good part of my life and used to run new ones on the front and when worn would...

Politicians are that bent they resemble corkscrews.

Congrats on your birthday,hope your lumps and bumps are getting better Clive

That prominent company is now German owned and is squeezing smaller Orcharding farms out of business.Not my favourites.

Got to get those things sorted out.I’ve kept out of trouble since dislocating my hip for the third time while working on my sawmill about 3 months ago. Some reckon I’m mad to keep on working but I love it and i’m Pretty sure most. Of the club members are the same.It’s just repairs & mtce on the...

Twin saw mill working

My twin sawmill in action

I use Coopers and get over 90,000 k’s out of them

don’t be be mean to the poor fella

I might just share a yarn one day about a young fellas exhaust problems,

I’m glad you are not giving up on the club.I look forward to your posts every day.Thanks Chas.

I was in my 60’s and thought I should do something for the community and never knew councillors got paid until after I got elected.I always thought it was A community good thing.My wife and myself were involved in rugby as coaches,my wife looked after jerseys,the shop,the kitchen for after...

I was a local body councillor for nearly 10 years and had a background in earthmoving and roading.At the first meeting I attended the new mayor said well I suppose we should form some committees so I said yes and the most important committee is the works committee and there is only one person...

Thanks Clive,I’m 82 next week but will keep going as long as I can.my dogs love me.

Our high tower David Brown 990 and we have plenty of other attachments ,very handy.

Bob.I keep a small bottle of petrol in my box on my IH B125 traxcavator and a couple of squirts of juice on a cloth under the pre-cleaner and she roars into life summer and winter.Ether is a no-no they knock that much it cant be doing them much good.

Aw Andy it was good

My wife Margaret and I have been looking at your photos and your plans,we admire your work ethic and am pleased to see Sam starting on the same pathway.Keep up the good work,Profit and then get a bigger land holding.Cheers Pat & Margaret.

I think I’m nearly in this position