December 1, 2025 • 8 mins
Disaster looks at another tailing weekend which has been and gone for another year.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome back to the muster on Hokernuie Grant Disaster. McMaster
joins us once again, of course, thanks to Batman and
the team at RB Rural Gidde Grunt.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, good afternoon, Andy, Goodraft and everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
How's everything in the basin on this fine afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well, you know, it's a bit of snow at the
tops this morning. We were out last night up the
road at a barbecue and it was bloody cold. And
there's a reason for that. There was a little bit
of rain during the night and number five mills at
ten Mills on Saturday while we were tailing. But we'll
get to that. And I see this morning cross at
Cecil Peak and right along the remarkable is quite a
(00:41):
good skiff of snow which is still there at the moment.
So yeah, that's the reason it's been a bit cool.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's predicted. It is predictably unpredictable the weather at the moment,
really this pattern.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah sure, but I think that and you and I
are speaking of here. It looks as the weather pattern
is very sim of what it was last year. And
you know, I think we've spoken about it, but you know,
rained rained up until just sort of a out now
stopped and then went into Christmas, and that we didn't
get the rain until all the rain we've just got
at the end of August, September, October, November. So it's
(01:16):
looking pretty.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Similar Andy Dennis talking about the ground being too soaked
to get the iron horse out into the paddock. How
are you looking there then? In that respect, oh, the.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Same, Like it's there's still water running off the hill
that I've been banging on about since it first started.
But you know, it's just it's wet. The fact head
Shepherd Brian Dagg the vehicle stuck just going along the
track to the end of a block to mark and
that's that's on the moat Lake Flats, and you know
it's that we haven't had that before. So it's just
(01:46):
it's just pretty wet at times. But the over the
Hell's block we've got ground ready to well. We've had
given the grass the new grass pattic a cup there
a while ago and it's for another one now, so
but it'll be a couple of days before we get
back onto that because I said, we had ten mills
on Saturday and in another four or five last night.
(02:10):
So it and it's been a bit of one at
times it dries up and then it's just sort of
that rain and not heav't wasn't particularly cold over the weekend,
not like this morning. But yeah, just things are ready
to go and it would be good to get that
grass and in the in the raven. So get that done.
(02:30):
But they've locked up a couple of blocks over the
hills that Forbade it is now they're just you know
one they're just getting away. So the feast of family.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So it's a pretty good synergy having the Hills block
running alongside close burn.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, it's really good. And you know it's a sort
of we buy in Lucier and Bayleage each year and
about one hundred and fifty bales and we don't you know,
we don't have any flat land here as such to
make daylas. So we thought, right, well, we've gone the
Bailad's way for about the last fifteen years and with
(03:05):
the with the Hills Bogle, we hadn't had in mind
that we get this new pasture and and a bit
of clover and it might have you and then we
might be able to know use that bring that make
that baylage there and cart it back, you know, so
it was about thirty five k's. So I think that's
what we're going to be able to do this year
because the two two good paddocks are really into it
(03:26):
and we've got other paddocks now coming along with with
new grass that you know. For the main reason was
always to get the hogits going and get them up
to speed. So we've got enough addocks to do that.
So yeah, cut shut up a couple of paddocks there
a couple of weeks ago. Well they did it themselves.
Really couldn't handle the the rotation was getting back quick.
(03:47):
So yeah, we're going to do that. So that'll. That's
sort of the plan we've had, you know, since we've
had the hills five or six years ago, and that
sort of coming to fruish now. So that'll that'll, we'll
see how that goes.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Okay, So tailing is curd. At the weekend, Tubby and
crew were up there. I dare say, you're all drinking
hot chocolate and bed tucked up at nine point thirty.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Tubby's a hard man to get tucked into bed. There's
a fair few blinks to go over, but there's a
bit of attention and the cailing team because you mentioned
and mentioning Tubby, you see, and it's always been Hunty's
Hunting's project to get he invited Tubby up there. Tuby's
taken over, so it's a mute point there, so please
you mentioned it. But no, the usual, the usual team
(04:29):
were there and that was quite interesting.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
This year.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
We've we've always had one of our local girls, Grace Hasty.
She's up studying at the university in christ Church now
and she's been coming since's about seven or eight and
she's twenty or twenty one now, so she and she's
good rugby player, Grace, and he's in on the University's
played for Otago and she's bought it. She bought a
friend pass along and she's in and the Chiefs women's
(04:53):
team Super twelve what do you call it for next year,
So both both forwards and both complaining the front. So
it was quite interesting. We put it. We got a
scrum down and because you know Tubby and Honey great
great hookers in their day and like to tell you
about it, and I'd just like to say that the
few girls just about blew them into Moat Lakes. So
there's a lot they said for that. Having females in
(05:14):
your in your tailing group, well.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It just keeps everybody else in line, does it not?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well, they do, and you know those peoples take a
bit of keeping in line. So no, a good crew,
couple of grand kids again and a couple of son
in laws and then the usual guys that come along.
And so no, we had a good We had a
good run away, got going by sex in the morning
on the Friday. On the Saturday, Brian dag and I
had mustered up a few the day before, but then
we just have a couple of laggy and teaglell just
(05:40):
bring the mobs in and will hold them on the
hell and so yeah, going by six o'clock and a
bit of rain came in about oh sort of about
half us eleven, I guess we and it looked as
I was going to set in. We finished that that
that pin and we just carried on because they had
lambs sitting in the using lambs and a couple of blocks,
(06:00):
so we got to them and whipped them out a stopped,
we had a bit of lunch and it sort of
came out and got round the back and finished a
couple of big mobs there and only left sort of
a couple of hours on Sunday morning, So it was
it was a bit like it was a bit like
a holiday.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You said Tiger was helping Diggy. I'll take it. This
isn't David Tegle Morrison.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Oh no, no, this is this is Tegle the This
is justin Brian Wallace, the headman of Peter's Genetics. So ah, yeah,
so I know we've got we've got very skilled people,
you know, from like the stud masters through to the
guys that run the freezing works and all the hunty
towers as he does, and Tubby that just sort of
runs around south and doing everything.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
You don't know how Tiger Morrison are going and tailor
if you're supposed to be all right, but it's a
beautiful thing about sorry you're going to say.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, well he probably go right because Chris Swale. Swaler
came up a couple of years ago and he was
very good on the gym and he first day but
like when he was playing Ruby went out pretty hard
and topped the shoulder, but he was a bit more.
He was a bit quiet of the second day. But yeah,
you know, so that you know, there's a bit of them.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
First night blues is always a concern, right, yes, but
it's all about Look, we talk about the camaraderie of
the tailing pen and will you talk about it? Every
year disaster and there's always something that occurs. Is a
curve ball get thrown onder the B twelve or the
something gets left at home, the scratch and well that
happened a couple of years ago, didn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah, that was again Hunting, and that's not what he
took over, to be fair, But you know Smithy down there, batman,
he you know, he's living on post ends. All the
stuff I'll get through him. So it was actually Hunting
redeemed himself this year and picked it up, but he
had about fifteen reminders, So no, that that was. There's
always something happening, but you know, it's a it's a
(07:46):
great it's a great job to turn to get out
of the way, but you've got to have a bit
of fun on the way through. And there's certainly plenty
of band and bullshit, so that's why everyone keeps coming back.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
That'd be a great name of a band banter and
bullshit disaster, but we better leave it there, mate. We
always appreciate your time, mate.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
We're doing a bit of singing. The other night we
could go on the road.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The one and only Grant Disaster McMaster thanks to Batman
of the team at RB Rural. Get on your Tabby
and co if you guys are listening. Hap next Josh
Willis out of Tiano Young Farmers
Welcome back to the muster on Hokernuie Grant Disaster. McMaster
joins us once again, of course, thanks to Batman and
the team at RB Rural Gidde Grunt.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah, good afternoon, Andy, Goodraft and everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
How's everything in the basin on this fine afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Well, you know, it's a bit of snow at the
tops this morning. We were out last night up the
road at a barbecue and it was bloody cold. And
there's a reason for that. There was a little bit
of rain during the night and number five mills at
ten Mills on Saturday while we were tailing. But we'll
get to that. And I see this morning cross at
Cecil Peak and right along the remarkable is quite a
(00:41):
good skiff of snow which is still there at the moment.
So yeah, that's the reason it's been a bit cool.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's predicted. It is predictably unpredictable the weather at the moment,
really this pattern.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah sure, but I think that and you and I
are speaking of here. It looks as the weather pattern
is very sim of what it was last year. And
you know, I think we've spoken about it, but you know,
rained rained up until just sort of a out now
stopped and then went into Christmas, and that we didn't
get the rain until all the rain we've just got
at the end of August, September, October, November. So it's
(01:16):
looking pretty.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Similar Andy Dennis talking about the ground being too soaked
to get the iron horse out into the paddock. How
are you looking there then? In that respect, oh, the.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Same, Like it's there's still water running off the hill
that I've been banging on about since it first started.
But you know, it's just it's wet. The fact head
Shepherd Brian Dagg the vehicle stuck just going along the
track to the end of a block to mark and
that's that's on the moat Lake Flats, and you know
it's that we haven't had that before. So it's just
(01:46):
it's just pretty wet at times. But the over the
Hell's block we've got ground ready to well. We've had
given the grass the new grass pattic a cup there
a while ago and it's for another one now, so
but it'll be a couple of days before we get
back onto that because I said, we had ten mills
on Saturday and in another four or five last night.
(02:10):
So it and it's been a bit of one at
times it dries up and then it's just sort of
that rain and not heav't wasn't particularly cold over the weekend,
not like this morning. But yeah, just things are ready
to go and it would be good to get that
grass and in the in the raven. So get that done.
(02:30):
But they've locked up a couple of blocks over the
hills that Forbade it is now they're just you know
one they're just getting away. So the feast of family.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
So it's a pretty good synergy having the Hills block
running alongside close burn.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, it's really good. And you know it's a sort
of we buy in Lucier and Bayleage each year and
about one hundred and fifty bales and we don't you know,
we don't have any flat land here as such to
make daylas. So we thought, right, well, we've gone the
Bailad's way for about the last fifteen years and with
(03:05):
the with the Hills Bogle, we hadn't had in mind
that we get this new pasture and and a bit
of clover and it might have you and then we
might be able to know use that bring that make
that baylage there and cart it back, you know, so
it was about thirty five k's. So I think that's
what we're going to be able to do this year
because the two two good paddocks are really into it
(03:26):
and we've got other paddocks now coming along with with
new grass that you know. For the main reason was
always to get the hogits going and get them up
to speed. So we've got enough addocks to do that.
So yeah, cut shut up a couple of paddocks there
a couple of weeks ago. Well they did it themselves.
Really couldn't handle the the rotation was getting back quick.
(03:47):
So yeah, we're going to do that. So that'll. That's
sort of the plan we've had, you know, since we've
had the hills five or six years ago, and that
sort of coming to fruish now. So that'll that'll, we'll
see how that goes.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Okay, So tailing is curd. At the weekend, Tubby and
crew were up there. I dare say, you're all drinking
hot chocolate and bed tucked up at nine point thirty.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Tubby's a hard man to get tucked into bed. There's
a fair few blinks to go over, but there's a
bit of attention and the cailing team because you mentioned
and mentioning Tubby, you see, and it's always been Hunty's
Hunting's project to get he invited Tubby up there. Tuby's
taken over, so it's a mute point there, so please
you mentioned it. But no, the usual, the usual team
(04:29):
were there and that was quite interesting.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
This year.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
We've we've always had one of our local girls, Grace Hasty.
She's up studying at the university in christ Church now
and she's been coming since's about seven or eight and
she's twenty or twenty one now, so she and she's
good rugby player, Grace, and he's in on the University's
played for Otago and she's bought it. She bought a
friend pass along and she's in and the Chiefs women's
(04:53):
team Super twelve what do you call it for next year,
So both both forwards and both complaining the front. So
it was quite interesting. We put it. We got a
scrum down and because you know Tubby and Honey great
great hookers in their day and like to tell you
about it, and I'd just like to say that the
few girls just about blew them into Moat Lakes. So
there's a lot they said for that. Having females in
(05:14):
your in your tailing group, well.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It just keeps everybody else in line, does it not?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well, they do, and you know those peoples take a
bit of keeping in line. So no, a good crew,
couple of grand kids again and a couple of son
in laws and then the usual guys that come along.
And so no, we had a good We had a
good run away, got going by sex in the morning
on the Friday. On the Saturday, Brian dag and I
had mustered up a few the day before, but then
we just have a couple of laggy and teaglell just
(05:40):
bring the mobs in and will hold them on the
hell and so yeah, going by six o'clock and a
bit of rain came in about oh sort of about
half us eleven, I guess we and it looked as
I was going to set in. We finished that that
that pin and we just carried on because they had
lambs sitting in the using lambs and a couple of blocks,
(06:00):
so we got to them and whipped them out a stopped,
we had a bit of lunch and it sort of
came out and got round the back and finished a
couple of big mobs there and only left sort of
a couple of hours on Sunday morning, So it was
it was a bit like it was a bit like
a holiday.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You said Tiger was helping Diggy. I'll take it. This
isn't David Tegle Morrison.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Oh no, no, this is this is Tegle the This
is justin Brian Wallace, the headman of Peter's Genetics. So ah, yeah,
so I know we've got we've got very skilled people,
you know, from like the stud masters through to the
guys that run the freezing works and all the hunty
towers as he does, and Tubby that just sort of
runs around south and doing everything.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
You don't know how Tiger Morrison are going and tailor
if you're supposed to be all right, but it's a
beautiful thing about sorry you're going to say.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, well he probably go right because Chris Swale. Swaler
came up a couple of years ago and he was
very good on the gym and he first day but
like when he was playing Ruby went out pretty hard
and topped the shoulder, but he was a bit more.
He was a bit quiet of the second day. But yeah,
you know, so that you know, there's a bit of them.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
First night blues is always a concern, right, yes, but
it's all about Look, we talk about the camaraderie of
the tailing pen and will you talk about it? Every
year disaster and there's always something that occurs. Is a
curve ball get thrown onder the B twelve or the
something gets left at home, the scratch and well that
happened a couple of years ago, didn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah, that was again Hunting, and that's not what he
took over, to be fair, But you know Smithy down there, batman,
he you know, he's living on post ends. All the
stuff I'll get through him. So it was actually Hunting
redeemed himself this year and picked it up, but he
had about fifteen reminders, So no, that that was. There's
always something happening, but you know, it's a it's a
(07:46):
great it's a great job to turn to get out
of the way, but you've got to have a bit
of fun on the way through. And there's certainly plenty
of band and bullshit, so that's why everyone keeps coming back.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
That'd be a great name of a band banter and
bullshit disaster, but we better leave it there, mate. We
always appreciate your time, mate.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
We're doing a bit of singing. The other night we
could go on the road.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
The one and only Grant Disaster McMaster thanks to Batman
of the team at RB Rural. Get on your Tabby
and co if you guys are listening. Hap next Josh
Willis out of Tiano Young Farmers
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