Who are you guys?

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Fri 08/04/2005 08:15

hey Jason, cheers for the reply,

Agathis australis is the Kauri tree, I have a small one and would like to take cuttings..

At this stage i'm trying to grow Griselina Littoralis, Pseudopanix lessonii, Sophora micrpophylla (kowhai) and Phormiums and Cordylines.

Andy · Unread post by **Andy** » Fri 08/04/2005 18:37

C-Nimbus wrote:hey Jason, cheers for the reply,

Agathis australis is the Kauri tree, I have a small one and would like to take cuttings..

At this stage i'm trying to grow Griselina Littoralis, Pseudopanix lessonii, Sophora micrpophylla (kowhai) and Phormiums and Cordylines.

Ah the mighty Kauri. Cutting can be grown form the younger plants and is usually the easiest way of propagating this species.

I would take some cuttings with a least four nodes and around 12cm long, making sure to cut just below the bottom node and to reduce most the leaves by at least half. Preferable to select shoots that have apical domominance. Some rooting hormone would be beneficial and would speed up root development. I would stick them in some sharp sand and potting mix 50/50 and place the tray in the shade, donâ€™t over water.

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Fri 08/04/2005 18:44

Hey Andy,

question for you on your region - on the highway between Clyde and Cromwell you can see a large dark coloured structure (looks like a large area of brown bricks or blocks) on the side of the hill on the opposite side of Lake Dunstan to the highway - looks to recently have had some graffiti removed off it... what is it?

I saw it a couple of times but never saw reference to it anywhere.

Cheers,

G

Andy · Unread post by **Andy** » Fri 08/04/2005 19:03

GraemeWi wrote:Hey Andy,

question for you on your region - on the highway between Clyde and Cromwell you can see a large dark coloured structure (looks like a large area of brown bricks or blocks) on the side of the hill on the opposite side of Lake Dunstan to the highway - looks to recently have had some graffiti removed off it... what is it?

I saw it a couple of times but never saw reference to it anywhere.

Cheers,

G

Slip stabilisation for a landslide and was done in the early 90â€™s. The graffiti slogan read â€œ Hands off Beaumont â€œin relation to another Hydro dam planed down stream.The team of environmentalists were never caught, and was well done as it was not an easy task, especially when done at night.

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Fri 08/04/2005 19:17

Andy wrote:Slip stabilisation for a landslide and was done in the early 90â€™s. The graffiti slogan read â€œ Hands off Beaumont â€œin relation to another Hydro dam planed down stream.The team of environmentalists were never caught, and was well done as it was not an easy task, especially when done at night.

Ah cheers for the explanation - I'd wondered if it was some sort of monument or something. I guess the highway and the dam are monument enough!

Cheers,

G

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sat 09/04/2005 15:38

Here's me...

jrj · Unread post by **jrj** » Sat 09/04/2005 15:56

This is me - when I was doing a stint as rock'n'roll DJ at Radio Kidnappers!

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sat 09/04/2005 17:56

Here's me in back 1981 in Dsa 268 at Craigieburn on the Midland Line on a Weedspray unit train on the way to Greymouth

JohnGaul
NZTS

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sat 09/04/2005 18:30

Cant see you John

did you end up in "rotten road"

with the DSA.
Did they send Ds"x" classes on the mainline

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:Here's me in back 1981 in Dsa 268 at Craigieburn on the Midland Line on a Weedspray unit train on the way to Greymouth

JohnGaul
NZTS

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sat 09/04/2005 18:31

Michael wrote:Cant see you John did you end up in "rotten road" with the DSA.
Did they send Ds"x" classes on the mainline.I think DSC's did some mainline shunting at times however in those days
NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:Here's me in back 1981 in Dsa 268 at Craigieburn on the Midland Line on a Weedspray unit train on the way to Greymouth

JohnGaul
NZTS

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sat 09/04/2005 19:07

This thing is useless

I have spent the last 20 minutes trying to send the picture and it comes out as saying Trevor Dawson will not allow you to send this photo?

JohnGaul
NZTS

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sat 09/04/2005 19:19

Whos Trevor Dawson????

Have you got a virus on your PC?

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:This thing is useless
I have spent the last 20 minutes trying to send the picture and it comes out as saying Trevor Dawson will not allow you to send this photo?

JohnGaul
NZTS

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sat 09/04/2005 21:19

Michael wrote:Whos Trevor Dawson????
Have you got a virus on your PC?

T. Dawson took the photo

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sat 09/04/2005 21:25

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:Here's me in back 1981 in Dsa 268 at Craigieburn on the Midland Line on a Weedspray unit train on the way to Greymouth

JohnGaul
NZTS

Another Goe

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Sun 10/04/2005 11:15

1) Whats your real name:- Neill

2) How old are you:- 40

3) Which city are you from:- Tauranga

4) Are you a resident in NZ:- Born & bred here (Originally from Christchurch).

5) What do you do for a crust:- Communications and I&T Technician. Also repair appliance for a friends business when he is too busy to cope on his own.

6) Hobbies:- Geocaching, Amatuer Radio. Possibly going to get very keen on weather watching in the future though.

7) How long have you been interested in the weather:- Umm, only interested in severe events in the vicinity of the BOP. I was the first to get pics out to the media of the Eastern BOP Flooding last year, but the guy I was carting round got lots more out, just not as quickly.

What got you interested:- Being flooded! 3rd time in 5 years occured on Easter Friday. Thank heavens for a phone call from a friend who is a cop and was on duty, his advance warning (only a few minutes) allowed me to prepare for it and minimise the damage.

9) What aspect of the weather interests you:- Storms, storms and more storms, any severe event... Snow, known to take a day off work without warning (tough for the boss) to go grab photo's of low lying snow events. Flooding, known to go into flooded areas to take pictures, amazing how taking a police officer stopping traffic something to eat and drink can usually get him to let you through to take photo's

Tornados, I should have spent Good friday cleaning up the flood damage at home, but no, there was tornado damage to look at! Most impressive too! I was awe inspired, the number of trees broken off in uniform fashion and dumped hundreds of metres away was incredible. Why is it I often don't have my camera when I need it?

10) What is it that you like about this forum:- It was pointed out to me by another member, hopefully I might get a little more warning next time we flood. Still, modifications to the outside garden, a large peice of aluminium over a doorway, and heaps of silicon rubber hopefully will stop it in it's tracks next time. It was me that was outside in the torrential rain with thunder and lightning simultaneously crashing around me, the clap was sufficent to trigger the car alarms in their carports! (and, they aren't very sensitive either). We are still having lightning damaged appliances bought in for repair, more than two weeks after the event.

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Sun 10/04/2005 14:51

May I ask why I can not add stuff like sattelite pics and radar pics from MS or any other weather website now comes up saying it will not allow me to transfer this.
Cheers
JASON

Fujita Phil · Unread post by **Fujita Phil** » Sun 10/04/2005 17:24

Hello tgsnoopy... another gps boy over from the other side (not that I have been over that side for some time)... welcome.

phil

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sun 10/04/2005 20:39

Jasestrm wrote:May I ask why I can not add stuff like sattelite pics and radar pics from MS or any other weather website now comes up saying it will not allow me to transfer this.
Cheers
JASON

dunno?
I had trouble downloading my photo of me in the cab of Dsa 268 on the Weedsprayer train at Craigieburn

JohnGaul
NZTS

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Sun 10/04/2005 20:57

John (micheal?), I assume you watched that program on TV one tonight about trains in NZ. Called "off the rails" I believe.

Quite cool, I didn't relise there were so many rails in the Southland / Otago area. Definately somewhere to go and visit at some point. And some of the lines are still running even though in a touristy sense. Ever been down there John and been on the trains???!!

Looking foward to future episodes.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Mon 11/04/2005 16:50

Aaron J Wilkinson wrote:John (micheal?), I assume you watched that program on TV one tonight about trains in NZ. Called "off the rails" I believe.

Quite cool, I didn't relise there were so many rails in the Southland / Otago area. Definately somewhere to go and visit at some point. And some of the lines are still running even though in a touristy sense. Ever been down there John and been on the trains???!!

Looking foward to future episodes.

Yes there were lots of railways/branch-lines in Southland possibly was the best rail served province in the country?
Lots there for the "Ghost" railway enthusiast

JohnGaul
NZTS

Chris Raine · Unread post by **Chris Raine** » Tue 12/04/2005 21:33

Too right. I enjoy wandering Southland looking at the ghost railways.David Leitch's book on ghost railways is useful too.

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Tue 12/04/2005 22:12

Took this photo of an old train tunnel when down holidaying down in the catlins: think its part of the catlins railway, we bought a book on it, very good read, Seen it John?

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Tue 12/04/2005 23:08

03 Stormchaser wrote:Took this photo of an old train tunnel when down holidaying down in the catlins: think its part of the catlins railway, we bought a book on it, very good read, Seen it John?

Yeah that railway branched off at Balclutha/Finegand and headed towards a place called Tahakopa. closed in 1971. It was built to extend to another branch that extended out from Invercargill towards Tokanui bit it never eventuated. The main railway had a easier route through Clinton/Gore to Invercargill

JohnGaul
NZTS

GreggWard · Unread post by **GreggWard** » Fri 15/04/2005 22:52

1) Whats your real name:- Gregg Ward ( No suprises here ';))

2) How old are you:- 36

3) Which city are you from:- Palmerston North

4) Are you a resident in NZ:- Yes

5) What do you do for a crust:- Software Engineer at Provenco Technology Solutions

6) Hobbies:- Weather, Cricket, hacking on my computers and Beer drinking.

7) How long have you been interested in the weather:- Probably since I was around 5 or 6.

What got you interested:- Experiencing night-time thunderstorms as a child.

9) What aspect of the weather interests you:- Storms of all kinds.

10) What is it that you like about this forum:- The wealth of knowledge about NZ weather that each of the members contribute. It's great having local weather experts in all different parts of the country, who provide up-to-date information when certain weather events arise.

jeffsweather · Unread post by **jeffsweather** » Sun 17/04/2005 09:44

1. Whats your real name:- Jeff Northcott

2. How old are you:- 44

3. Which city are you from:- Christchurch

4. Are you a resident in NZ:- Yes, born in Te Kuiti, raised in Aria, a small dot on the map about 30km south of Te Kuiti.

5. What do you do for a crust:- Tech support engineer at Tait Electronics having done a few other jobs in the past but all involving radio communications. Spent 3 and a half years in the UK from 1987 to 1991 and then about 2 years in the Philippines from 1991 to 1993.

6. Hobbies:- Running my weather station which involves my original hobby of electronics and a newer one, computers. I also enjoy cycling and regulars on the forum will know my occasional comments on the weather when I'm cycling to and from work. Haven't been on a cycle tour since I spent 5 month cycling around part of continental Europe in 1991. My interest in weather has stemmed from cycling and trying not to get wet.

7. How long have you been interested in the weather:- Since about 1970.

8. What got you interested:- I got my Dad to buy a rain-gauge to sit on a post and record the daily rainfall on the chart that was supplied with the rain-gauge. I do not have those records now but as a 10 year old, it seemed that it rained every day, especially in Spring in the King Country.
The river across the paddocks used to flood regularly as it was blocked with willows in those days. In the 60's, there only had to be a black cloud on the horizon for the power to go off. Lightning and loud thunder, heavy rain, rainy weeks and months, good frosts with ice on the inside of the window and squally showers (something we don't see much of in Ch'ch) were all part of the weather to a boy growing up in the country.

9. What aspect of the weather interests you:- Everyday weather is interesting to any cyclist I think. The few thunderstorms we get in Christchurch are interesting but its not the place to live for a lot of thunder activity. I like the changes in the weather, the nor'wester first gusting through, the same with a southerly and some can be heard coming, a roar from the south. The skies over the plains have some interesting cloud patterns, virga, nor'west arch, great sunsets at times too. I also enjoy the cold conditions, (looking out from beside the heater) not just snow but foggy days. I've had some interesting cycling up on the port when it has snowed and the roads are closed.

10. What is it that you like about this forum:- Looking at other peoples weather reports, learning from posts and the comminity here.