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shimpaku

Posted: April 10th, 2014, 6:47 pm
by Guy
http://peterteabonsai.wordpress.com/


It's gettin' serious when you need a forklift ---------I have no idea what the end worth of this juniper could be but just the scale of operations is duanting

Re: shimpaku

Posted: April 10th, 2014, 6:49 pm
by Guy
make that-' daunting'

Re: shimpaku

Posted: April 10th, 2014, 7:08 pm
by Jason
Cheers for posting! That picture of him raking the roots out really shows the scope of the job :o

Re: shimpaku

Posted: April 10th, 2014, 7:08 pm
by rodm
This sort of bonsai is basically priceless not only because of the shear size but most importantly the age. Just amazing that the work that was done and it still lives, amazing. :tu:
Cheers Rod

Re: shimpaku

Posted: April 10th, 2014, 7:35 pm
by ozzy
Some people just take things to a whole new level :o

Re: shimpaku

Posted: April 10th, 2014, 7:59 pm
by bodhidharma
I enjoyed that very much, thanks for posting it.Inspiring to say the least.

Re: shimpaku

Posted: April 14th, 2014, 5:59 pm
by Raymond
:clap: not much more I can say really...

Re: shimpaku

Posted: April 14th, 2014, 6:29 pm
by Reece
It kills me that unless I move overseas, Ill never have the chance to be involved with something like this. It might sound un patriotic and negative but our natives just don't cut it for me.....

I guess I need to get over that though!

Re: shimpaku

Posted: April 14th, 2014, 7:20 pm
by Jason
Island Breeze wrote:It kills me that unless I move overseas, Ill never have the chance to be involved with something like this. It might sound un patriotic and negative but our natives just don't cut it for me.....

I guess I need to get over that though!
:o oh no you didn't! ;) haha to each their own mate, I hope our material one day matches this though, it just needs to be found :)

The more I look at this bonsai... the more I realise how hard it would be to work on. How could you do anything without being scared of killing it!? Specially that root work he did on it :| Wonder if he is a smoker too :lol:

Re: shimpaku

Posted: April 14th, 2014, 8:11 pm
by Reece
Jason wrote:
Island Breeze wrote:It kills me that unless I move overseas, Ill never have the chance to be involved with something like this. It might sound un patriotic and negative but our natives just don't cut it for me.....

I guess I need to get over that though!
:o oh no you didn't! ;) haha to each their own mate, I hope our material one day matches this though, it just needs to be found :)

The more I look at this bonsai... the more I realise how hard it would be to work on. How could you do anything without being scared of killing it!? Specially that root work he did on it :| Wonder if he is a smoker too :lol:
Haha... I honestly hope someone proves me wrong!

Re: shimpaku

Posted: April 14th, 2014, 8:54 pm
by eddieperth
That was E.P.I.C.! thanks for sharing

Re: shimpaku

Posted: May 4th, 2014, 11:28 am
by NathanM
Peter enjoys the odd cigar on special occasions, but he isn't a cigarette smoker

Re: shimpaku

Posted: May 4th, 2014, 10:05 pm
by mtarros
I got a chance to help repot a Juniper that was maybe slightly bigger than the one shown but we had to lift it into the work shop, it took 4 of us to get it into the work shop. We also had a trolley with a lift function for most of the way till be hit the stairs.

You know its serious bonsai when you see someone do precision carving with a chain saw on the roots to make it fit into the bonsai pot. :)