Phil Pascoe
Established Member
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It would be such a shame if Tane Mahuta amongst all of them died. (even if it has apparently aged 1,100 years in the twenty years since I saw it.
) I saw (touched :shock: ) it and I saw Te Matua Ngahere. At the turn of the 19th/20th century they were logging kauris way bigger and thought to be up to three times older. Many they bled to death for the resin.
It makes stunning furniture although it is rather soft. There is a large amout of it in the kauri museums at Matakohe and Kaitaia - in the former there's a log with the eight foot bar from the single handed chainsaw that was used to cut it, in the latter you go upstairs via a spiral staircase - carved through the centre of bole.
It would be such a shame if Tane Mahuta amongst all of them died. (even if it has apparently aged 1,100 years in the twenty years since I saw it.
) I saw (touched :shock: ) it and I saw Te Matua Ngahere. At the turn of the 19th/20th century they were logging kauris way bigger and thought to be up to three times older. Many they bled to death for the resin.It makes stunning furniture although it is rather soft. There is a large amout of it in the kauri museums at Matakohe and Kaitaia - in the former there's a log with the eight foot bar from the single handed chainsaw that was used to cut it, in the latter you go upstairs via a spiral staircase - carved through the centre of bole.
