We'll be going back to both museums this morning.
From through-the-fence the Hedric Museum looked to be a good one, and the Taber Museum had the end-pieces of a rope-walk on display.
So I'll go back armed with a tape measure.
NZ farmers finish a winter season with almost literally miles of waste nylon bale twine and no real way of utilising it.
So why try to reinvent the wheel when the critical measurements are just four miles down the road?
I'll go get them and make myself some handy heavy duty ropes.

The road where my stupid boy reckoned he'd missed the gateway was a quiet two lane rural road. A U-turn was as close as the next driveway..
He was just trying to be a smart-ass.

And it didn't go down well.