The reserve champion Chicks Ute was this entry by Ranfurly duckshooters (from left) Amy Hope, Kelly Cron and Amanda Docherty. The women's portable maimai featured decoys, recorded ducks calls and camouflage netting all on the back of a ute.
The reserve champion Chicks Ute was this entry by Ranfurly duckshooters (from left) Kelly Cron, Amy Hope and Amanda Docherty. The women's portable maimai featured decoys, recorded ducks calls and camouflage netting, all on the back of a ute.
Staying on the mechanical bull was harder than it looked, according to Rohan Kinraid (8), of Dunedin.
Geoff McAtamney (left, of Patearoa) offers some words of wisdom to Gordon Gummage, of Mt Maunganui, Matt Weir,of Ranfurly, (white T-shirt) and Kevahn Stringer, of Ranfurly.
Middlemarch volunteer firemen Dave Thomson (left) and Blair Dale powered away to a win in the early rounds of the tug-o-war.
This 1948 Chevrolet pick-up, owned by Vanessa Power of Dunedin was judged the overall winner.
Ryan Campbell (15 months) of Dunedin was fascinated by the sheep racing.
Torsten Sandmark (subs all correct), of Dunedin successfully defended his Rural Fear Factor champion title. His tasks included ating a pie containing offal...
...and shifting dog catches on an electric fence.
Tony Somerville, of Kaka Point, munches through a pie containing ox heart and liver, among other tasty morsels, during the Rural Fear Factor competition.
Shearer Kevahn Stringer took about 10 minutes to shear one of two sheep that had "got away and stayed away" for between four and seven years. Ray Tapatu (Ranfurly, left) lends a hand. The combined weight of the two fleeces was 36.6kg.
Shearer Ray Tapatu took nine minutes to shear one of two sheep that had "got away and stayed away" for between four and seven years. Ali Murphy (right), of Naseby, lends a hand. The combiend weight of the two fleeces was 36.6kg.
700 people attended the Waipiata Country Ute Muster this weekend. Photos by Lynda van Kempen; photo prints are available from Otago Images.