september rural lifestyle magazine

Rodney's

SEPTEMBER 2012 iSSuE 57

A solar power system update: grid-connected systems p.6

Tree management: when trees can take over p.3

Landscaping: back to the border — 2010 revisited p.9

Livestock: buying and selling p.12

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As rural landowners we all love to have large trees but over the years they can become a liability. That certainly became the case with trees lining our driveway, so when a Trim Notice came from Vector I followed up to find out how we could tackle them without huge expense. To our relief Treescape, the company contracted to carry out the work, confirmed we could declare ‘no interest’, which meant they would take care of the ongoing management as the trees encroached on power lines. After talking with Helen Martin about this and her experience, we decided it would be timely to feature tree management in this issue.

Since our article on solar hot water heating featured last issue (56), it seems hundreds of readers visited our website to view the full article online. We have

continued that theme this issue with a

story on grid-connected solar power

systems based Helen Martin’s interview

with Jeroen Brand of Alphatron Pacific.

Grant McKechnie explains the finer

points of border control – I can’t believe

Grant wrote about that last in 2010. We

all want fast growth, so how can we help

the plants along? It’s been 6 years since we

planted our border and back then the urge

for fast growth was there in spades. We

planted too close and now we are having

to take some trees out to give others

breathing space.

Lastly, livestock broker Duncan McNab

shares with Helen Martin how he

handles the stock buying process. As

part of this feature I also caught up with

Lowline cattle breeder David Clee to

hear about the big impression these wee

Angus beefers have made on farmers and

lifestylers.

Our new website will be up and running

in the next few weeks – we’re going to

make it easier to access past articles online

and help our readers connect and share ideas. More on that topic next issue.

Rodney’s Rural Lifestyle ©2012. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form without permission of the publisher is prohibited. No responsibility accepted for any direct or indirect consequences arising from reliance on any content within Rodney’s Rural Lifestyle.

Editor: Neville Walker. Sub Editor: Helen Martin. Writers this issue: Helen Martin, Neville Walker, Grant McKechnie. Cover photo: The Wood residence, Dairy Flat (courtesy Alphatron Pacific). Designer: Dan Stenhouse, Bgraphix. Printing: PMP maxim.

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When it comes to dealing with dangerous trees, Bryson explained, problems can arise when people opt to do the job themselves or use unauthorised arborists, who are often untrained, to do the work. By law, it is the tree owner’s responsibility to keep trees clear of power lines, but the actual clearance work is best done through a well-established company such as Treescape, which works with Vector on keeping the lines safe. So, if you have a tree you consider a danger you contact Vector, who then organise Treescape to carry out the work.

The good news is that Vector is obliged by law to pay for the first cut. At that stage a property owner (this can be an individual or a council) has the option of having a tree either removed or trimmed. If they choose to have it trimmed, they must pay for any ongoing trimming needed in later years. If a tree owner declares “no interest” in a tree (because it was self-sown, for example) any further decisions about its fate are made by Treescape.

Having watched our poplars run rampant it was no surprise to hear Bryson say that there’s no point in trimming a poplar tree because it’ll be back in the power lines within a couple of years.

Avoiding tree troubleWhen it comes to chopping down trees, the tree protection rules in the Auckland region are complicated, to say the least. Formerly, the district councils all had their own tree protection rules. Under the new Auckland City Council, from 1 January, 2012 a lot of those rules have been revoked, but it still depends which part of the city you’re in, for example in the Rodney area most of the rules are still in force, while in Waitakere about half of them have gone.

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decreased considerably. To sort out fact from fiction, I caught up

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panels among its many energy products.

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Initially, solar power systems involved the owner bypassing the

national grid, installing panels that feed into a large battery bank,

and installing a diesel generator as back-up for when there is little

sun. That system is still available, Jeroen tells me. It might be

chosen by home-builders who want to be independent of the grid

or who, because of their remoteness, have no access to it. Others

may be within reach but would rather spend their money on an

off-grid system than pay the costs of grid connection. On the

negative side, a battery bank can cost as much as $35,000 and has

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As Jeroen explains, if you’re in a house that is, or can easily be,

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New Zealand’s uptake of solar power systems is very small on an international scale, but it is very fast growing.

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system where the total cost is buying the equipment and having

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can sell excess power back to the grid. Further clarification from

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The system: The photovoltaic panels which capture the sun’s

energy and feed it by cable to an inverter come in various forms,

including varieties that are integrated into the building. The glass

crystalline panel system, while not integrated into the building,

has the advantages that it is cheaper and that it needs less area for

the same amount of power. The PV system is connected by cable

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meter, and converts the power from DC to AC power.

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will be granted if the installation meets the NZ standards. Lines

companies are generally very supportive of the technology because

it provides relief for the network. You also tell your power retailer

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selling your power back to the grid. But there is a possible catch.

If the power retailer doesn’t pay you for it, or pays a lower price,

it becomes harder to make a financial case for solar power. At the

moment Meridian still pay one for one but they’re hinting they

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A prime objective of the planting was privacy from the road as we had recently taken out some 25-year-old pittosporums which had got a bit tatty. But another aim was for the border to eventually become part of the extended garden.

This month’s article was prompted in part because of frequent customer comment in the nursery along the lines of “we want them to grow fast”, followed by “the ones I planted last year have hardly grown at all”. The sentiment is the same, of course

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In this issue I’m taking a look backwards. My article for the July 2010 Rural Lifestyle was on the layout and planting of a mixed border across our roadside paddock.


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are ticking along quite nicely, but you don’t notice it when you’re looking at them every day. The proof of this is in our border, two years on.

It has exclusively NZ native plants but is not a re-vegetation planting. In the mix I used many cultivars, as opposed to solely seedling grown varieties as you would use in a re-veg project, and the inclusion of plants such as coloured flaxes, coprosmas, and pink and red-flowered ornamental manukas adds interest and variety.

We planted in June 2010, using around 100 plants in a curving border 40m long and varying in width from 2m at the narrowest point at one end to 20m wide at the other end.

We’ve lost a few plants, some to the mower (operator error, no

names will be mentioned) and a couple to natural causes, but

mostly they have done well. If you compare the photo from June

2010 when the planting was new, to the latest photo, you can see

the volume of each plant has increased three or four-fold.

For some, their measured height might not have increased much,

but their overall size has. Some have increased in height quite

spectacularly. The swamp flaxes (Phormium tenax), so small

when first planted that they aren’t visible behind the existing puriri

in the 2010 photo, are today 1.5m to 2m tall and 2m wide. Now,

though, they’re hidden in the 2012 photo by all the growth the

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June 2010: the newly planted border. August 2012: two years on and the plants are going well.


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In 2010, I regaled you with the puriri’s tale of woe, battling frosts, horses and cattle over the years. In 2009, it was hit by 26 frosts in succession, followed up by a steer trying to ring-bark it. As you can see in the present-day photo, it has recovered amazingly well. And to think, I nearly chopped it out.

The kahikateas have also surprised us with their turn of speed. They’re a classic case of a plant commonly thought to be slow growing, but the three in our border have put on 1.5 to 2m in height, and doubled their trunk diameter.

Since we planted the border, our maintenance has consisted of regular release spraying to keep the weeds and grass off the plants, and mowing or weed-eating in between the plants. As well, in the last couple of weeks, I’ve gone around and trimmed (with hedge-clippers) plants such as the coprosmas, flowering manukas, pittosporums, hebes and any others inclined to get a bit leggy if you let them go.

I have to admit, at one stage we let the maintenance lapse a bit, and 12 months ago the plants were in danger of disappearing under rampant kikuyu. It was noticeable

that as soon as we got the kikuyu under control, the plants’ growth accelerated. It was a reminder that kikuyu is a real plant-inhibitor, and can smother young plants if given free rein.

The original plant spacing was quite wide, as I wanted the individual plants to be visible so we could see their shape and form. In practical terms, this means the medium-sized plants (coprosmas, big flax, manukas, griselinia and pseudopanax) were 1.5m to 2m part, the smaller growing

plants on the edges (coloured flaxes, grasses, dianella) were 50cm to 1m apart, and the big trees (kauri, kahikatea and titoki) 5m apart. If I had planted closer they would be starting to grow into each other by now and smothering the weeds in between, reducing the on-going maintenance.

As you can see in the 2012 photo, there is still space between the plants, but two years down the track, the objective of blocking out the road is closer to being achieved.

Coprosma 'Plum Hussey' adds colour in the border.


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As a city slicker I always thought that cattle and sheep are bought and sold at sale yards. Is that right?

Well that’s one way of doing it. There are sale yards all around

the country and there are sales every week or every fortnight,

except when there are public holidays. In Rodney there are yards

at Kumeu and in Wellsford. As well as having regular sales they

also have special fairs, for example there are ewe fairs where sheep

are sold for breeding. The down side of this method of buying

and selling is that the livestock have to be transported to and from

the yards. That can contribute to their losing condition, especially

For the newcomer to country life the business of buying and selling stock can be something of a mystery.

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Last year, when I interviewed local cattle breeder David Clee, I commented that his paddocks must look a lot better than ours as he runs the lighter Lowliness. Now spring is here his enquiry rate is up, with farmers and lifestylers looking to re-stock with a quality breed that creates less mud and pugging.

He pointed out another benefit of the breed, which is that farmers looking for quality bulls to put over their herds for next year should consider Lowlines as they produce low birth weight, fast growing, beefy calves with all dairy and beef breeds. David has a number of high quality 22-month old bulls ready to go now. As Lowline herd numbers are small, the good bulls are sought after. Crossing Lowliness with other beef breeds produces compact, 100% beef (see our September issue 48 via rurallifestyle.co.nz). Whether you want to use them as mowers, breeders or home kill, David can supply rising 1 and 2 year registered and commercial purebred Lowline and Lowline Cross animals.

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when they have to be kept overnight in yards with concrete floors. Sometimes I buy from a yard for a client if I can’t find what they want elsewhere. For example, if someone wants 50 in-calf Angus heifers I might end up buying them from a sale yard.

So how does selling process work when you use a broker? We have a client base, with new clients coming on all the time. So a farmer or lifestyle block owner wanting to sell some livestock will call me and I’ll find a buyer. I assess the animals’ weight and condition and work out a fair price according to the breed. Occasionally they’re weighed using a weigh truck, but mostly the assessment is done by eye, which is a skill you develop over years of practice. Then I draft the livestock in the yards (single out the ones that are to be sold) – if any have a defect, like an undershot jaw, or eczema, I don’t buy them. I always have a team of 4 or 5 dogs for rounding up the animals. When the stock need new micro chipped ear tags I’ll spend a few days putting in ear tags. Then I organise for the stock to be trucked to the buyer.

Do you ever buy livestock on spec?Never. We do have our own livestock I buy and sell, but I’m not a dealer, I’m a broker.

Are there times when the work dries up? It’s hugely seasonal and the weather can have a big effect. Last summer, for example, people hung onto their stock because with all the rain we had they needed the animals to keep the grass down. If there’s a dry summer people will get rid of their stock and have a break from buying until the rain starts again. Spring is always the busiest time.

What do you enjoy about brokering stock?I really love cattle. I love the variety of the work, and it’s great being outdoors. We’re about to expand the business by taking on more staff and we’ve just re-branded – our new name is Shut the Gate!: Land Use Consultants. It’s a competitive business, so you’ve got to stay on your toes.

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