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Farmers could face quad-bike shortages as manufacturers scramble to find parts in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake.

While Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki’s factories were unscathed by the earthquake, supplies of Scooter Engine Parts had been disrupted due to damaged subcontractor factories, ports and airports.

Blue Wing Honda group marketing manager Martin Wylie said farmers could face a two-month delay later this year. Although the ”parts pipeline” was full, farmers who waited to purchase a new quad-bike until September or October, after the winter peak buying period, could experience delays, he said.

”We have up to a couple of hundred sub-suppliers for each ATV (Kids ATV, Sports ATV) that is manufactured,” he said.

”At this stage we are all OK . . . all our plants are fine, it’s just the subcontractors we don’t really know about. The parts pipeline is full but two or three months down the track there could be some shortages. We just don’t know.”

He had not received notification from Japan of any significant delays.

”You only need a brake component factory to be affected and the whole manufacturing process could stop in two months time. We suspect there may be some problem with parts.”

Due to long lead-times in ordering from Japan, Suzuki New Zealand general manager marketing Tom Peck did not expect any quad-bike delivery delays this year.

”At this stage the factory hasn’t indicated delays,” he said. ”Basically what we are getting has already been ordered and allocated. If we are going to be affected it will be early next year.”

Mr Peck said the earthquake had not affected prices. Suzuki Motor Corporation has six Japanese factories, including a foundry and car assembly plant.

Yamaha Motor Australia communications manager Sean Goldhawk said the company was largely unaffected by the earthquake. ”Some suppliers have been affected,” he said. ”But they will take a long time to work out what parts and products will be delayed.

”There will be minimal delays on some ATV parts, but not on the actual ATVs.”

He said parts stocks were sufficient in New Zealand and would last until suppliers’ factories had been rebuilt.

A Suzuki spokesperson said quad-bike import numbers were not publicly available, although the largest distributors in New Zealand had an agreement to share figures among themselves.

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If you like to smoke tobacco and you are sick of the traditional forms of smoking, then you obviously have never smoked out of a tobacco water pipe. A tobacco water pipe has a reservoir that you place water into. The bowl, the object you place the tobacco into, is attached to a stem that is then submerged into the water.

As you light the bowl with the tobacco, you inhale through the hole that is designated for your mouth and the tobacco is then filtered by the water as it flows into your lungs. This makes smoking safer than using a regular tobacco pipe and the experience is much more enjoyable, according to the many people who regularly enjoy smoking from tobacco water pipes.

Hookahs
For centuries, people have smoked from tobacco water pipes but they called these hookahs. Middle Eastern countries such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are well known to use hookahs. These tobacco water pipes have long, ornately carved stems from which many hoses emerge. The idea is that when the bowl is lit, several people can enjoy the smoke at once. This makes the hookah a truly unique smoking experience, something enjoyed by several at once rather than being just a solitary activity.

Most hookahs are lavishly decorated and it’s not unusual to see gold and even jewels used in the decorated of the tobacco water pipe. In some countries, it’s seen as odd not to own one and the popularity of hookahs has even encouraged the opening of hookah lounges. These establishments sport several hookahs where customers can come to sample different flavors of tobacco. Sort of like a bar, it’s a bonding experience where many people can come and relax and smoke off the hookah.It is important to clean your tobacco water pipe regularly. If you don’t clean your tobacco water pipe, you could affect the taste of the tobacco you use and it can also hinder your experience in other ways, such as making you sick. Change the water regularly and make sure you use a pipe cleaner on the hoses as well as the stem. Keeping your tobacco water pipe clean is seen as etiquette, especially if other people will be smoking off it.

Tobacco water pipes can be made from different materials. There are glass water pipes, plastic and even metal. The different materials can be cleaned but you must be careful of the cleaning agents you use to prevent damaging your tobacco water pipe. It’s best to just use warm water if you can get away with it as certain chemicals can damage your tobacco water pipe and that would be a shame, especially if you owned a beautiful, elaborate hookah.

Owning a tobacco water pipe is a special thing, as many people can become attached to theirs. Once they smoke from their tobacco water pipe, they would rather not smoke out of anything else. If you like smoking, and you like pipes, get a tobacco water pipe and you’ll likely never stray again.

Several years ago, Burringbar artists Julie Ward and Evelyn Jones had to deal with the loss of family members and the subsequent grief.
Julie dealt with it by painting a local panorama to sit near her dad’s <a href=”http://www.cardboard-casket.com/Pet-Coffins-c9.html”>coffin</a> at the funeral while Evelyn painted her mother’s <a href=”http://www.cardboard-casket.com”>casket</a>.
‘It was really nice and brought a personal dimension to the whole grieving process and helped both of us in our healing,’ Julie said.

At the time, the pair were running an art gallery/studio in Burringbar and when the building was sold, they wanted to continue with their art work and create another business so came up with the idea of designing <a href=”http://www.cardboard-casket.com/”>coffins</a>, preferably environmentally-friendly ones.
‘It was an economic decision at first, as six years ago when mum died I went to a funeral home to choose a casket and saw the <a href=”http://www.cardboard-casket.com/”>chipboard coffin </a>which looked awful so I decided to paint it with the family crest, angels, flowers and more… I turned a really ugly coffin into something beautiful and special and relating to mum,’ Evelyn said.

‘The reaction from mum’s friends at the funeral gave me the idea later to do this because they all just loved it.’
Julie said that when her dad, a fisherman, died five years ago, she painted a large panorama of Fingal Head, a place he loved, complete with a huge eagle soaring off into the clouds which was placed on an easel behind his coffin at his funeral.
‘They were both major losses for us and we realised these paintings worked for us and our family,’ she said.
‘Participation in the whole process of death has been taken away from our society over the past 100 years, people don’t see the bodies or are not involved in the process.’

Evelyn said dealing with funeral homes made grieving for family members harder and more expensive ‘with chipboard coffins and all the extras’ so they decided to start their own funeral-wares business after undertaking a New Enterprise Incentive Scheme program.
Calling themselves The Rose and Lily Funeral Wares, the women converted a shed on their property into a factory and started designing and painting environmentally-friendly <a href=”http://www.cardboard-casket.com”>cardboard coffins </a>from mostly recycled paper or cardboard which can be hand painted with a range of designs.

The <a href=”http://www.cardboard-casket.com”>cardboard caskets </a>weigh about 15kg but are strong enough to hold up to 120kg.
‘The straps are hessian, the lining is cotton, they’re completely biodegradable and we use only non-toxic glues… we encourage people to decorate their own coffin or get family members to get involved,’ Evelyn said.

‘We’re trying to empower people to be pre-organised and get involved in the process from a financial and spiritual point of view because people don’t need a funeral director involved at all,’ Julie said.
The two are also involved in educating people about burials, including home burials, addressing seniors groups about what options they have for their funerals.

‘They’re quite fascinated by it, many of them do not want to burden their families with the cost of their funerals and we provide options to buy a more personalised, inexpens-ive product.’

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