Opinion: A few months ago, my grandad died.
I spoke a bit about it back then. He was 92 and he was a legend.
Gordon Burr was his name, and he and his wife Avis, my nana, were my neighbours for pretty much all of my life.
We lived in Te Puna, just outside of Tauranga, and his property and my parents’ property were smack bang in the middle of a proposed motorway.
That motorway is being built - the old farms are now a big construction site.
Grandad was a pillar of the Te Puna community and most days over the last 10 years, the local kindy kids would walk up to his orchard and learn about fruit and veges and avos and bananas and just generally run around being kids.
They called him Farmer Burr. He loved the kindy kids and the kindy kids loved him.
In the months since he passed away, Waka Kotahi - which is building the road - asked the kindy kids to name the two big cranes building the big bridge on the old Burr farms.
They've just released a video of what the kids have named them - and Grandad Gordon will be so stoked.
Find out what the kindy kids named the cranes above.
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