Thread: People don't listen.

Originally Posted by Ranger 888

Back in the days just after the Tongariro Power Scheme was finishing, and you could drive up the Waipakihi River a considerable distance, I was wandering on foot upstream, and was passed by 4 schoolboys in a brand new Landrover that Daddy had bought for one of them. About a kilometre above that, I noticed an oil slick coming down on the current. Turned a corner and here was the Landy, the diff. perched on a boulder the size of a dog kennel, with fluid leaking out of it. It was still there 3 days later. I'm assuming Daddy paid for a heli lift out of there.

One of Barry Crump's many wives wrote a book about her time in the hills. She was a true blue bush woman, and whilst walking the length on the North Island found herself walking down the Waipakahi river valley some time in the late 1960's. Came around a corner and found 4 x M41 Bulldog medium tanks grinding their way up the riverbed towards her. Their diff skid plates ran at about 2.5 inches of rolled homogeneous armour, so experienced no similar difficulties