MISSION IMPOSSIBLE OR JUST DIFFICULT
He had felled four 80-year-old macrocarpa trees and needed a hand to clean up the area
Back in 2005 a friend in Kaikoura felled two very large pine trees and had them milled on-site for timber. The remaining slabs were destined to be firewood until someone suggested they would make a great outdoor table.
One slab became the table and what remained of the other was shaped for legs. It sat on our patio providing an excellent outdoor table and was certainly unique.
Despite the odd lick of protective sealer, eventually the ravages of time and rot took over and it needed to go.
We’d been on the lookout for a replacement for some time and had reconciled ourselves to the fact that we’d have to make do with something much more modest, when I got a phone call from the farmer across the road. He
