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Te Araroa Trust News

The stuck truck - 29 June 2010

Off to work in the Te Araroa ute yesterday - to the yet-to-be-opened Whangamarino Redoubt - Dragway Road track. The nearby Waikato River is flooded, there's a lot of surface water and . . . oops, a culvert we didn’t see.

Farmer Mike Peters’ Nissan (foreground) tries to haul TA Construction Manager Noel Sandford’s Toyota (background) - nope

Okay. So try 20 tons of Sumitomo . . . Tim Broughton diverts from hoisting grates off a pumping station nearby and rumbles in

One chain attached to the drawbar . . .

One flex of the arm and . . .

Sparky the trail dog has now got a truck to get back into. Thanks all.

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