When Renee Matthews-Cooper turned up in her truck at one job, she was asked when her man would be arriving to do the work.
She's frequently asked by male farmers if she's okay and what they can do to help her. But Matthews-Cooper is in her element operating her hole drilling business by herself.
Matthews-Cooper and her father, Ted Matthews, bought a purpose-built mobile rig last year and set up Mac Hole Drillers, offering offal hole, soak hole and post hole digging services. It is a subsidiary of Matthews' business Balgownie Truck & Cranes.
"Dad and I bought the truck, not realising we would have the only offal truck in the region," Matthews-Cooper said.
"The nearest ones are in Wairarapa and New Plymouth."