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Date Created21st October 2022CommentsRichard Currie
What weight can iu lift please
Reply8h
Kevin Sheehan
Richard Currie 5 ton
Reply8h
Richard Currie
Kevin Sheehan price perhr please
Kevin Sheehan
Richard Currie thats passed my pay scale
Kevin Sheehan
That photo will trigger a few memories for a lot of people
Chris Windley
Kevin Sheehan I watched Wayne Pratt fly in with a Rimu log, with this machine, to a skid near Kumara Junction, and carefully stand the log on it's butt, then dropped down a little to take the weight off the strop, and the log stood perfectly upright. Great skill, not noticed by many of the visiting crowd though. Had the pleasure of taking him and the Russian engineers through the mill at Ruatapu, where the logs they flew out, were cut up. Late 2001, may have been the last lift of Rimu, from crown forests, on the Coast.
Kevin Sheehan
Chris Windley there were a number of us that worked felling for the machine or as stroppers in the 90's when it first started. Have to take my hat off to the stroppers as working under it in the down draft wouldn't have been pleasant. The late Grant Ward was the pilot then.
Tracey Molloy
Richard Currie yes it does
Tracey Molloy
I have memories if this
Phil Olson
The Mil 17 pictured was the 2nd of two helicopters operated by this company. The other a Mil 8 which looked near identical.
Joy Meyer
Years ago there was an Mil8 helecopter working up Blue Spur taking the Rimu out. We were coming back down after getting firewood and had to park up as it was landing. My 2 boys went over to the helicopter and the guys asked them if they wanted to look inside. They were told about the helicopter and how they get the logs etc. I had 2 very excited boys who thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I think there were 2 choppers but one crashed landed killing the workers on board
Brandon Dunn
Your old girl Jamie McGeady
Dean Mundy
Logan Mundy that the one yous use to fly in?
Greg Mait
Sad day when that went down.
Joel Aukusitino
Les Joyce
Karl Barkley
The one working out of Hokitika it Wrecked Part's used to be up at Excavator World's yard Back of Kaniere!
Lee Christie
Chris Heath
Pete De Zwart Murray Hawes… good old days boys!!
Ricky Carter
Got some wicked memory's of back then
Ian Haussmann
Brendon Menzies
Yep stacked logs into certain grades with loader @ T=CROFT
John Tainui
Lee Christie yea remember working with her back in the day mate
Pete Lusk
Is this the chopper the greenies locked onto in Westport?
Grant Russell
Pete Lusk don’t think so
Chris Heath
Pete Lusk you'd know you were there saving the planet!
Tony Hartigan
Did you work under this one ricky carter
Sheri Wright
Hmmmmm did this one actually stay in the air?
Malcolm Gollan
I'm sure that was a challenge for the NZ technicians to keep it in the air. Not a lot of familiarity here I wouldn't have thought.
Paul Heal
I've got some video footage of it operating in the Mackley area.
Brent Gregory
Brings back lots of memories working under this ...
Curtis Currie
Had fun working under this machine Charleston to karamea
Trevor Grant
Well I told them day before that one but they didn't listen did they nope cool machine tho
Leanne Rochford
Stacey Gibb remember our flight in this..
Kieran Kerry Keating
I remember one like this crashed in Hokitika, killing all on board.
Curtis Currie
Had fun working under this machine Charleston to karamea
Pete Lusk
Is this the chopper the greenies locked onto in Westport?
Dave Lyes
Mi8 Afghanistan.
May be an image of 1 person, helicopter and text
Suzanne Theyers
My late Mum cooked for the Russian crews in Dr Bryant's old house on the corner of Brittan and Stafford st in Hokitika. The Russians love vodka and Grapes, and they do not eat pumpkin as in Russia it's feed to cows.
Anne Hines
Show your mum
Jessica Sorensen
Justin 'Horry' McKay
We used one in Canterbury to cart shingle out to sea to bury a pipeline
Dave Lyes
Ive done a hellava lot of hours in those in Africa. Got me and my teams arse saved by a courageous Russian crew once. A great machine in my opinion.
Terry Jenkins
The old man had a bit to do with these
Malcolm Gollan
I'm sure that was a challenge for the NZ technicians to keep it in the air. Not a lot of familiarity here I wouldn't have thought.
What weight can iu lift please
Reply8h
Kevin Sheehan
Richard Currie 5 ton
Reply8h
Richard Currie
Kevin Sheehan price perhr please
Kevin Sheehan
Richard Currie thats passed my pay scale
Kevin Sheehan
That photo will trigger a few memories for a lot of people
Chris Windley
Kevin Sheehan I watched Wayne Pratt fly in with a Rimu log, with this machine, to a skid near Kumara Junction, and carefully stand the log on it's butt, then dropped down a little to take the weight off the strop, and the log stood perfectly upright. Great skill, not noticed by many of the visiting crowd though. Had the pleasure of taking him and the Russian engineers through the mill at Ruatapu, where the logs they flew out, were cut up. Late 2001, may have been the last lift of Rimu, from crown forests, on the Coast.
Kevin Sheehan
Chris Windley there were a number of us that worked felling for the machine or as stroppers in the 90's when it first started. Have to take my hat off to the stroppers as working under it in the down draft wouldn't have been pleasant. The late Grant Ward was the pilot then.
Tracey Molloy
Richard Currie yes it does
Tracey Molloy
I have memories if this
Phil Olson
The Mil 17 pictured was the 2nd of two helicopters operated by this company. The other a Mil 8 which looked near identical.
Joy Meyer
Years ago there was an Mil8 helecopter working up Blue Spur taking the Rimu out. We were coming back down after getting firewood and had to park up as it was landing. My 2 boys went over to the helicopter and the guys asked them if they wanted to look inside. They were told about the helicopter and how they get the logs etc. I had 2 very excited boys who thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I think there were 2 choppers but one crashed landed killing the workers on board
Brandon Dunn
Your old girl Jamie McGeady
Dean Mundy
Logan Mundy that the one yous use to fly in?
Greg Mait
Sad day when that went down.
Joel Aukusitino
Les Joyce
Karl Barkley
The one working out of Hokitika it Wrecked Part's used to be up at Excavator World's yard Back of Kaniere!
Lee Christie
Chris Heath
Pete De Zwart Murray Hawes… good old days boys!!
Ricky Carter
Got some wicked memory's of back then
Ian Haussmann
Brendon Menzies
Yep stacked logs into certain grades with loader @ T=CROFT
John Tainui
Lee Christie yea remember working with her back in the day mate
Pete Lusk
Is this the chopper the greenies locked onto in Westport?
Grant Russell
Pete Lusk don’t think so
Chris Heath
Pete Lusk you'd know you were there saving the planet!
Tony Hartigan
Did you work under this one ricky carter
Sheri Wright
Hmmmmm did this one actually stay in the air?
Malcolm Gollan
I'm sure that was a challenge for the NZ technicians to keep it in the air. Not a lot of familiarity here I wouldn't have thought.
Paul Heal
I've got some video footage of it operating in the Mackley area.
Brent Gregory
Brings back lots of memories working under this ...
Curtis Currie
Had fun working under this machine Charleston to karamea
Trevor Grant
Well I told them day before that one but they didn't listen did they nope cool machine tho
Leanne Rochford
Stacey Gibb remember our flight in this..
Kieran Kerry Keating
I remember one like this crashed in Hokitika, killing all on board.
Curtis Currie
Had fun working under this machine Charleston to karamea
Pete Lusk
Is this the chopper the greenies locked onto in Westport?
Dave Lyes
Mi8 Afghanistan.
May be an image of 1 person, helicopter and text
Suzanne Theyers
My late Mum cooked for the Russian crews in Dr Bryant's old house on the corner of Brittan and Stafford st in Hokitika. The Russians love vodka and Grapes, and they do not eat pumpkin as in Russia it's feed to cows.
Anne Hines
Show your mum
Jessica Sorensen
Justin 'Horry' McKay
We used one in Canterbury to cart shingle out to sea to bury a pipeline
Dave Lyes
Ive done a hellava lot of hours in those in Africa. Got me and my teams arse saved by a courageous Russian crew once. A great machine in my opinion.
Terry Jenkins
The old man had a bit to do with these
Malcolm Gollan
I'm sure that was a challenge for the NZ technicians to keep it in the air. Not a lot of familiarity here I wouldn't have thought.
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