yoeddynz Posted January 18, 2016 Author Share Posted January 18, 2016 100% manual. We wanted it gone fully before using poison later on. Mainly because it was so nice to see it cleared and gone as we went rather than looking at old brown gorse everywhere. Plus fresh gorse is much nicer to move about than old dry stuff. After a few months when it started to come back (which will be forever....) I did the first round of Tordon. That stuff is fantastic. Really deals to the blackberry too but leaves the grass fine. If the previous owner had not been anti poison he'd not have spent 20 years constantly chopping down gorse. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickJ Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 100% manual, sit down and have a beer! We had a massive problem with gorse where we cleared a scrappy pine block. Now we have a granule dispenser in the farm truck to deal with any that pop up, battle near to won in 3 years although there were a few knapsacks carried around in the first year! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 but how is Kevin? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yoeddynz Posted January 18, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 18, 2016 Being very Kevin in life. Has his summer coat on and hence doesnt look so fluffy. Suffers with the heat here so often found hidden away under a fern in the bush somewhere. He has grand plans to take out a pigeon or a tui but they just laugh at him. We once watched him as he carefully and slowly climbed up a tree and along a branch towards a pigeon. The pigeon just watched him and then when Kevin was almost there it hopped onto another branch. Kevin had the best 'WTF! you cant just do that!!! That's not sport mr Pigeon' look on his face. Since you ask you can have some photos of his latest exploits.. doing what he does best.. sleeping or chilling.. In the Viva on way over to Blenheim for Xmas... (white fluffy cats and red carpet do not mix) 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_esKYmo_ Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Epic dude truly epic. My dream to have the land time and motivation you guys do. Love the before and afters. Look fwd to more updates as things progress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted January 19, 2016 Author Share Posted January 19, 2016 Cheers man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxted Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 awesome before and after photos! so impressive what you have achieved, very cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f100_dreamin Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 This place is what dreams are made of!! Awesome work, it's great to be able to see such change in such a short time!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted January 22, 2016 Author Share Posted January 22, 2016 cheers fullas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xsspeed Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Shit just read all the latest. Well done man. Bathroom is a+ gid jerb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footey Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Wow just read this whole post, well done to both of you stella job 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted February 13, 2016 Author Share Posted February 13, 2016 Shit.. that is a big read in one go. How many cups of tea? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shukran Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 I think it is time for an update here sir. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajg193 Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 1 hour ago, Shukran said: I think it is time for an update here sir. I visited him last weekend, the place is coming along mighty well. Nice tracks all through his bush. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted November 3, 2017 Author Share Posted November 3, 2017 Gonna take more update photos when all the foxgloves have popped up. I'll even do the lawns. Its coming along very nicely indeed- the change from when we bought the land is pretty awesome Will be building another cabin on wheels very soon too.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shukran Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 How are the foxgloves doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shukran Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Surely those suckers are blooming by now - the ones that were not washed away anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yoeddynz Posted October 11, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2019 Wow- its been bloody ages since I visited this thread. I may well take some photos, before and after spec, if folk are interested. Trees and landscaping growth has been mental. I'm loving it. The place has such a different feel now. Anyway- I went for a stroll up one of the gullies where I new there had been some damage from that Cyclone Gita. I had never gone up for a look siince the event due to the amount of thick mud and caranage to climb over. However the cyclone was two years ago and stuff has settled. I wasnt expecting to find such a massive slip. Its mighty impressive. I could not actually walk up the top half as it was too steep. I had to clamber through the bush up the sides. Perched at the top looking down- Wow! There are some huge trees up there. This we knew but now the bush has been taken away from the bases and you can see them.. phowarr! We have started poisoning all the large pines. I wish we had done this 5 years ago as suggested by so many more onto it folk. The trees are way too big to even consider dropping as they'll take out massive swathes of very very old tree ferns. The trees we have so far poisoned have already dropped their needles and are breaking down from the top. Its so satisfying. The extra light is amazing, no more needles on the ground to smoother and poison the floor. The growth of natives below is already very noticeable. Poisoning them is easy as, cost bugger all. We are so stoked at the amount of time for other better things in life (like riding bikes and hooning in cars) we have gained by not having to deal with these fuckers now I am sort of tempted to drop a couple of big ones (and get an arborist mate who we both work for at times to help- he has better gear). If landed in the right places there is some real good potential for some North shore spec trails to be had in the gully. Speaking of mtb trails- we have made some more and will continue to do so as time allows. Its a fun thing to do but not super urgent when we have an amazing mtb park full of great trails just up the road. The trails we have made certainly dont suit fatty lazy spec riders or heavy clunky bikes- very steep up and down. Which is what I like. Singletrack. I want to make more flowing fast ones across the property and our neighbours have given me the green light to make some runs down through their pines too. We have new neighbours moved in over the road. Hes into mtbing and is my age within two months , born in the same hospital! Really cool folk and we are stoked to have them join our valley. We want to make secret trails down from the park into our valley I'll get some new photos soon, once I've done the lawns (which look great but fuck me @ amount of lawnmowing in spring.... ) 24 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yoeddynz Posted May 8, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 8, 2020 Update time. Considering we've had several weeks of enforced lockdown we've not done as much on the property as expected. I blame quiet roads and bicycles. But yesterday afternoon we actually started on one of the most important things we've wanted to do which is build a cabin up on the ridge. We had been given loads of old decking from a house not far from us. It was left for us in the yard while we were out on holiday and it got rained on. When the sun came out and it started to dry it started to bow. We promptly stacked it inside with flitches to let it dry slower. There it sat for way too bloody long!!! Its been a pain in the arse moving cars about it and having lost that space but was a daunting thought of moving it again, up to the ridge! But we've done it! Our shoulders and legs are shattered but it was such a satisfying job to get done. Now we are really enthused about building the verandah up there, and want to crack on with it. We have a huge pile of treated pine 12 x 2 and 8 x 2 that we can use for the build so will order the posts next week and get them up there (in the quad for those!) Photos ... I did took the little mower up in the quad first and gave the lawn a tickle. Its coming up really nice considering what it was like up there when we bought the land! We first looked at the ridge 6 years ago, when first viewing the property - well excluding that miserable day we had gone up there for a first look via the main gully in winter and had been totally put off the place until the summer following when this pic was taken. The gorse was already quite rife... a couple of years later we got stuck in- the gorse now even worse.. Now a completely different place that even has a nice lawn to mow... Here's the pile of wet decking complete with nails being removed... Then it was about 20 ten minute walks uphill through the bush with decking starting with the first few on Thursday night... The last drag up what we call the ridgetop runway... not an easy gradiant... each time on the way back down we would grab a log each for splitting later on... Yesterday we finished taking the rest of the long lengths up. I filled the quad for one run with all these short bits and some beers!... Pile shifted. Shoulders battered. Beers consumed in the evening sunshine... Today is a chill out day where we get to shuffle stuff about in the workshop and celebrate all the reclaimed space (until @Tumeke Triumph wagon goes back in that is..) 44 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yoeddynz Posted June 10, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 10, 2020 Did some more pine tree poisoning today. Now dealt with 116. Most of them big fuckers. Found the largest yet. Just wow.... Also after digging a trail tranversing across the top of one of the big slips we found a sweet way down a spur. dug a rought trail and removed a fair bit of Himalayan honey suckle and sussed out a really sweet line down through the pines then off into a big ferny bowl which could then have a track sweeping side to side, big bermed corners. I took a video but 3 mins of walking up a hill his hard to make exciting. So here's some pics sort of showing the ridge through the trees down the spur. Another 20 or so tress to go up this spur then three more ridges to do. Will probably have killed the drill by then. 14 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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