V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
house is built on a detachable subframe with the slew ring and rotary .. clever idea, apart from making it several inches taller with a lot of 'vulnerable' QCs under it
Mogman
What man as done, man can do, what never has,maybe
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Smiffy
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Giles
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Helicopter firm so I guess they can lift it into remote parts
Canal Navvy
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New Zealand seem to use helicopters for everything, must be a lot cheaper to operate over there 
Giles
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Alaska and remote places in states a lot of the helicopters are subsidised or run by govt bodies to make them accessible
Lancs Lad
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Have you ever been? Strongly recommend it.New Zealand seem to use helicopters for everything, must be a lot cheaper to operate over there
And they you'll see why
Roads are crap...and the terrain is something else.
One of the few places I've been where I genuinely feel I could Iive there tomorrow.
Felt like home and landscape Ive grown up in..but better weather and lot...less people. Planning another trip in next couple of years hopefully. Wife's got family there.
Lancs Lad
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TBF even up here once you've got everything setup right the speed a good team can sling 1 tonne bags up the hill is impressive. Used to love watching the hueys as a kid
Be same in the peak no doubt. In fact think there's a gang based there.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
was in Val D' Isere the week before the winter Olympics started in '92 and watching the army build the courses on the mountains, with the choppers flying loads of snow up onto the men's downhill was impressive .. three of 'em shuttling loads back and 'fore with superb precision was some thing else.TBF even up here once you've got everything setup right the speed a good team can sling 1 tonne bags up the hill is impressive. Used to love watching the hueys as a kid
Be same in the peak no doubt. In fact think there's a gang based there.
we ski-ed the men's down hill last thing in the day on our last day .... got a bollocking for it at the bottom but was some experience .. those blokes must be mental, the speeds they come down it at
Canal Navvy
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Not been there but have worked with a few kiwi's over here, one of them was from a family aerial contracting firm. The stories he told of heli-logging in Canada with the choppers that got retired from the North Sea after the rotor failure
Including the friends who emigrated there I must know enough people to think about a visit
Lancs Lad
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Get down thereNot been there but have worked with a few kiwi's over here, one of them was from a family aerial contracting firm. The stories he told of heli-logging in Canada with the choppers that got retired from the North Sea after the rotor failure
Including the friends who emigrated there I must know enough people to think about a visit
well worth it. Flights might be a faff and expensive ATM though
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Smiffy
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I worked in New Zealand for 6 months. Got to go some amazing places that tourists would never get to see.
Beer comes in 1 litre bottles.
The women where absolutely feral. Which as a 21 year old I thought was absolutely great. But then again I don't think age would change my opinion.
But the biggest problem is their sausages are grim. And their idea of a sweet treat is hundreds and thousands on a bit of buttered bread.
Beer comes in 1 litre bottles.
The women where absolutely feral. Which as a 21 year old I thought was absolutely great. But then again I don't think age would change my opinion.
But the biggest problem is their sausages are grim. And their idea of a sweet treat is hundreds and thousands on a bit of buttered bread.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
there are some brahmers in this but my favourite is the front discharge concrete truck
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