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‘Pinetree’ got his strength by cutting down trees

Brendan Gallagher remembers the great Sir Colin Meads who died last weekend at 81
THE iconic image of Colin Meads is of him striding around the wilderness with a sheep tucked under each arm – the epitome of earthly fitness and Kiwi manliness.
But it was the other gruelling work he did on the family’s Te Kuiti farm that was the making of the man. And the rugby player.
Meads certainly did his fair share of strenuous sheep shearing and dipping – and indeed helping out with neighbouring farms as is the way when it gets busy.
The photograph of him with an ewe under each arm was...

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