Rock solid job at Simons Pass Station Rabbit netting a fenceline in the South Island’s Mackenzie country added an extra element to a large tenure review job for Tekapo-based contractor Nathan Monk.
The 17km job at Simons Pass Station near the bottom of Lake Pukaki job included 6.3km of deer fencing with rabbit netting. Nathan and his worker, with the help of some casual labour, spent more than three months completing the line. “There was just the two of us the majority of the time, with help of casual labour mainly when putting the rabbit netting on.”
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He also brought in Geraldine-based contractor Ben Haugh’s crew that completed 2.1km of the line. The weather was one of the biggest challenges on the job, according to Nathan. There was close to three weeks of inversion layer and hoar frost, which left limited visibility for getting the work done. Time management and planning was required to get around this.
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