The Dreadnought Mill Ohakune, North Island, New Zealand
By radionut50 on 25-Jan-21. Waypoint GC95JC6

Great hiding spot!Manaia, Gracie, Sophie Bodhi and Reni

Thanks! Took forever cuz the gang and I wanted to jump a few fences and rivers in attempt to take a shortcut. I loved the lore you gave about the sawmill.

Thanks very cool spot

Heading home today with woolwood9 after a short trip away.*We picked up some good caches along the way - like this one!* SL *tm/ww NZ*Thanks for adding to our fun geocaching trip.

Quick and easy find here while on a trip away with tmann421.Weather getting worse as the morning progressed so only stopped at a few cachesLog signed tm/ww NZTFTC

Found it!

Got a couple of hours in our Cooney just going for a drive looking around at various sites, an interesting one to come to.

Caching the weekend of The Wandering Dragons 60th. Did with BFG in the afternoon. Spotted the OPOR when I walked around the object. Quick find after that. Thanks for the cache.

Fun looking for this one

A lovely walk up from Ohkune. A quick find. TFTC

We are staying up at rangatau in a friend cottage for a week or so and i went out to locate the few caches here that i still did not have a smiley face on so i set out early in the morning before the rain appeared and tiki toured around the 4 caches . i had no probalem with any of them and particularly liked the Rochford station cache . The newish sign over the rail road tracks indicate that perhaps the mill still operates although i saw no sign of life on my visit . It took a few minutes to locate this one as there were quite a few possibly place where it could be hidden but once in hand i had it signed and returned to its hide . all was well with the cache here . I took nothing and left nothing . thank you for this cache here .

Found on our way home thankfully not in the rain cache all in good order. Thanks for the placement.

Cool spot never been this way - thank you

Found after a short hunt, thanks ㊿

Stopped on my way to Mt Ruapehu for the day. Thanks radionut50 for the cache.

We're currently staying at National Park, and popped down this way for the day. Rather interesting route down this road, and we enjoyed finding this one as opposed to the ubiqitous nanos that are so hard to find on machinery like this! TFTC

Took a road less traveled. Interesting history about the mill. No problems with the cache.

Thanks for the history and the hide, enjoyed finding the cache amongst the rusty relics.

Nice spot and it got us going for a nice bike ride too !

This was a cool one to do with the kids, although it was jillopy who spotted it but the kid was able to grab. Lots of history here, thanks radionut. TFTC!

Found with Nutty Nora after a little scrambling over the winch. Cool cache, thanks

I can imagine little me back in the day having an awesome imaginary play on this old machinery! I personally felt like a dreadnought under full steam - so graceful! Finding the cache with support from my trusty sidekick Piwaka54. Awesome rocks nearly had me fooled. Wonderful history thanks!!! A fav point from me!

Very fun took us a while but it was good we left something there too enjoy

I drove along here from the junction, bit of a squeeze getting the motorhome over the one lane bridge crossing the railway line just before here, but made it ok. Certainly an interesting area, no problems today with no one around, TFTC

So much fun. Lots of history. TFTC

A nice break in the weather to head out and grab a few caches. This one was hidden really well, and we ended up going round and around until something caught our attention. Tftc

This one one took us a wee while but persistence paid off. Luckily didn't get too wet. Tftc

Not something you would have wanted to trap a body part in, it would have ripped you apart! At least today it is safe to scrabble around and secure the cache, TFTC

So excited I don’t want to put my raincoat on!

Stop 5 on our cargo bike geocaching tour. And the rain is starting.

Great hide! Thanks- love the local history

Another piece of history as we tour around Ohakune
Many thanks

Interesting old piece of machinery, but they can be so hard to search.

TFTC

Last cache of the morning before lunch in town. Had an impromptu chat with one of the locals, waiting for him to move off before I could grab the cache, then a quick find-and-sign. Thanks again radionut50.

Interesting history. Tftc

Another GC found with Kauriforest navigating and me driving. Another interesting little spot and just enough light to still see what we are admiring. HappyBogan is leading the way today! TFTC

Awesome first find for my bf. Thank you!

Well I have been busy finding your caches today. Lol. Was the last one of the day. Totally enjoyed my walks and drives today. Tftc.

That was trickier!! Lots of broken glass around so take care

Kasyn, Elise and Abbie found in the wheel

Quick find today, and an interesting bit of local industrial history. Thanks for the cache!

Teamed up with Geckoh this weekend to climb to the top of Ruapehu to get the Tippy Top cache. Nice quick find here today after climbing Ruapehu. TFTC

**#15,205**
On Tippy Top cache trip with DavidsonClan, having done the summit cache in the morning there was time and energy left to find some more caches before it was time to head home.
Another RadioNut cache ticked off, the weather has turned out nice afterall.

Intersting history relating to this mill. Loved the old hint item.
+ a large marble, - nothing.

A popular cache today, I'm the third visitor of the day here looking at the log and online. Took the side trip to get this and the next on a road not traveled before. Interesting machinery and the cache was a quick find thanks radionut50.

After a good week away from my new workplace in both Whangamata and then at home in Auckland it was time to head back down the line to Manawatu. Problem is, there's a 'bit of weather' going on outside, In fact the artist formerly known as Cyclone Dovi is weakening over the North Island n=but wow, what winds there were at home before I left with bins blowing over, the door off the BBQ cabinet whizzing across the garden and leaves being distributed all around. The trip South was interesting to say the least with branches down all over the place and even a tree across most of the road South of Te Kuiti. A steady drive back as in no rush and stopped for just the five caches as it was also pouring down for the latter part of the trip. Thanks to the COs for helping me break it up a little.

Another easy find my kids are loving hurting for treasures

Quick visit to Ohakune from Whakapapa just to get a couple of caches. Thanks for the cache.

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Catching up on our logging of finds, another interesting piece of history here. We had stayed in Ohakune many times, skiing and riding our bikes around but never knew about the historic background of this place. Enjoyed our visit. TFTC. PS. Car got flat battery here, will never forget it, stuck out here in the middle of nowhere, rang AA, they were toooo slow so we fixed the problem ourselves.

We have our car back from Smash Palace, we have food for dinner at the Top10 and we have the cache, yippee. Thanks.

A nice quick find thanks. Last for the day.

Time for another trip to the North Island for Ms_KR and me. We had a quiet family day yesterday and today we are hoping to get our repaired car back. It is the first day in a while that we have had to cache in the (light) rain!

Thanks to all CO's for publishing and maintaining their caches. Cheers.

Heading to Smash Palace at Horopito to replace my stolen PWGT geocache there and a new Reach the Peak mountain to climb too.
This was the seventh of sixteen found today, at 10:40
I believe this is the first time I’ve been down this road alongside the railway line. Another piece of interesting history - being the birthplace of Carters / Carter Holt Harvey. This would’ve been a great location for a Pokai Whenua GeoTour. TFTC All good here.

Heading to Smash Palace at Horopito to replace my stolen PWGT geocache there and a new Reach the Peak mountain to climb too.
This was the seventh of sixteen found today, at 10:40
I believe this is the first time I’ve been down this road alongside the railway line. Another piece of interesting history - being the birthplace of Carters / Carter Holt Harvey. This would’ve been a great location for a Pokai Whenua GeoTour. TFTC All good here.

#10,494. I am making my way north to Auckland and Northland over New Year. Stopping tonight at Taumarunui. Last year on the same day I stopped at a friends cabin in Rangataua. There was a heavy frost overnight on 30-31 Dec. Today was a lot warmer than that day. This is a road I have not travelled on previously. An interesting route to Ohakune. Especially that bridge over the railway crossing at the end. Parked and crossed the railway here to the machinery. Thought it was going to take a while but must have got lucky as found the container in the first place checked. Signed the logbook and replaced everything as found. Thanks radionut50 for taking the time to hide another cache in Rangataua and providing some history of the Dreadnought Mill.

It was interesting to read that this mill was one of the origins of Carter Holt Harvey. Although caches hidden on machinery can be difficult to find, this one was a fairly quick find. TFTC

18 December 2021 12:40. I must need coffee, made this way harder than it needed to be! TFTC.

Very interesting piece of machinery. I lived in the area for 6 years and never knew this road existed. Perfect spot for a hide, thank you.

Yeeaaaah love it

Nice quick find In The sleet - interesting area to explore

Cache has friendly dogs that live here.

Rocks swapped!

A bit of a detour before we headed up the mountain. No one around this morning and Mr B had a fast find. Another place we would never have been but for geocaching! Thanks again Radionut!

Yep

What an interesting little piece of history.
Mr rattll had to scurry but to the car in a hurry when a muggle from the property decided to leave and we were blocking the driveway.
Fortunately it was a quick find as we had to leave quickly when a second muggle vehicle started up
We left a pet rock - a swan. Many thanks for showing us this spot

We were wondering about the existence of Rangatau ... Thanks for the history/ explanation and cache!

A nice quick find here and then we couldn't start the car - flat battery. A bit of a wait and the battery came back to life, phew, and back on the road again. TFTC!!!

Out and about in the mountain area for the weekend, riding the sky Waka staying in the National Park and finding the odd cache.
Log signed and replaced as found
Thanks for the smiley and the placement.
Found with emiliyah and xsaveya

A weekend trip was planned awhile ago to venture up to national park with watcache and xsaveya and hopefully up the mountain to have a play in the snow. Having such a fun weekend and caching as well tops the weekend.
log signed and replaced as found TFTC

A weekend trip was planned awhile ago to venture up to national park and hopefully up the mountain to have a play in the snow.
log signed and replaced as found.

Nice cache- little hint. Amazing wood!

Out of site

Got the day off work so heading up to National Park. Collecting some caches on the way. Lots of new ones since I was last here. No problems finding the cache. Log all fine. Thanks radionut for the smiley.

Coordinates changed from:
S 39° 24.680 E 175° 25.900

Coordinates changed to:
S 39° 24.688 E 175° 25.900

Distance from original: 48.9 feet or 14.9 meters.

We noted with surprise the logs suggesting a waypoint error, so an investigation was clearly needed. We always use a real GPS Receiver, and the averaging function to get the best fix possible, so this is very strange.

Today we re-did the averaging, and horrors – a different result! We can’t be sure what went wrong previously, but a human element must have got into the mix, possibly a simple typo, or maybe something odd in the stellar array on that day.
This new waypoint is close to that submitted by the Squirrel in his log, so is probably a reasonable fix.

The cache is exactly where it was laid, and as described in the detailed hint. Like all our hides, there is no intention to make this some form of “hide and seek” mystery, the cache is placed to take you to a historical location, not to frustrate you.

The cache was found by another cacher one day later, so seems to be still in place. Clearing the Needs Maintenance flag.

Yehaaaa....5 kids on the job found
Thankyou

Hi there we went to find this geocache and found that it is missing or has been taken away from its hiding place thank you

Train went past while I was searching. Cool spot

Another interesting place. Were going to have a look around inside the gate, but saw a car there and thought better of it! TFTC

Found with Tramper Ted, we are both enjoying exploring some history around Ohakune. Glad of the specific hint as we both found the coordinates to be about 10m out, or we could have spent some time poking around the wrong machinery. Thanks for your placement and information radionut50.

After parking up the snail shell in the big carpark in National Park I was off down the road to locate a few caches.

An interesting bit of local history.

Cheers for the cache.

pulled up at this abandoned saw mill.
would have liked to have a wonder around but its private property.
than a guy comes along and wants to drive in drive which i'm blocking.
moved vehicle than found cache .a little out in meters.
but logged
tftc

With Gap (of Fap and Gap)... Easter weekend is upon us. We’ve been looking forward to this holiday - it’s a chance to take a big swipe at the PWGT2 caches. We’re also keen to pick off some interesting hides and avenge one or two previous DNFs... Heading home today - clearly, this is the most organised leg of the weekend.

We’ve worked for Carter, Holt, Harvey in the distant past, so it was interesting to note that the company’s origins can be traced back to Francis John Carter... We circled ground zone a couple of times before settling on the most logical site. Thanks radionut50 and TFTC.

March has been such a busy month, but not so much with getting out and about to indulge in finding some caches for myself. So what better way to remedy this than have a few days away in an area not previously cached out?
Cue a weekend of touring around the Tongariro National Park in good company. Exactly what I needed, and a weekend that would see me find over a hundred caches, including getting my 4000th.

It was a 2 hour drive after work today to get to Ohakune, which was to be our base for 2 nights. I didn't worry about caching much on the way up until after I have unpacked my car at the campground, when I decided to grab a few before the light failed me.

In spite of it being a Friday evening, the whole area was very quiet so I was able to search without having to worry much about Muggles. Searched where my GPS took me without luck, and then searched the more obvious location about 10m away after which the cache was a reasonably quick find, and I was able to sign and replace the log without issue.

Thanks for setting up another new cache.

**S 39° 24.688 E 175° 25.898**

#12,216. An interesting spot in Ohakune. Fortunately, GZ was all quiet at the time of our visit. Widened the search, and found well-hidden about 15 metres away. The cache was in good condition, all nice and dry inside.

Took Radionut50's Greetings Tag and Butterfly Lady 2017 pathtags
Left nothing signed log.

Thanks for the placement, and for bringing us to this site, and …

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.M a u r u u r u. .k o e. .n u i. .a t u. .h o k i. .t e. .k e t e r o k i.

GPS distance jumped around a bit but the clue was great. I knew what it was talking about so I persevered and got it. I must remember to carry little keepsakes to add to some of the caches I come across. TFTC

Found while out on a morning cycling ride.
Watched by the cache owner.
Love this area.

Cool relics. Miss 6 had fun exploring but as I was the only one keen to put my hand in dark places, I was the one rewarded with the find. Miss 6 enjoyed swapping SWAG. I've told her that she's not allowed to blow the whistle in the car.. it could be a long drive home. Tftc

Was in Ohakune for work and noticed that there was a new cache

Well what a great spot for a cache

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