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Re: Didcot cooling towers demolished
« Reply #15 on: 19 August 2019, 18:03:00 »

Quite how a drone can "short out high tension wires" remains to be seen. ::)

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Unless it was the size of a light aircraft ;D.  You've seen (and flown IIRC) the multirotors I fly, and that couldn't short out an 11Kv wire/pylon, let alone a 400Kv one.

Yeah, the media are full of crap :(

.. and drone=bad, so if there was one there, then it did it. ::)
Pretty much.

Although the media seem to confuse drone and multirotor, and assume that a drone is a multirotor (rather than a multirotor being a drone), so I get earache from the uninformed trailer trash of society when I fly a multirotor, but nobody bats an eyelid if I fly a drone with wings on.
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Re: Didcot cooling towers demolished
« Reply #16 on: 19 August 2019, 20:29:35 »

Apparently, they had a bright idea to use metal mesh to wrap parts of the towers, and it fell on a nearby 33 kV line when the towers came down.

The weakest link in the, now shorted, line was where all the unofficial spectators had gathered, since the contractor did nothing to accommodate them safely elsewhere.

My mate was standing underneath the line as it started to go radio rental. His underwear is apparently in the wash. ;D

This is a guy who repairs valve amps for a living, so not scared of a few volts. 33kV was apparently sufficient, though. :o
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Re: Didcot cooling towers demolished
« Reply #17 on: 19 August 2019, 20:51:59 »

Fred Dibnah would have brought them down without problem!
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Re: Didcot cooling towers demolished
« Reply #18 on: 19 August 2019, 21:47:52 »

Fred Dibnah would have brought them down without problem!

Yes, with a sledgehammer, pit props, and a bloody good fire! :D ;)
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Re: Didcot cooling towers demolished
« Reply #19 on: 19 August 2019, 22:18:01 »

Fred Dibnah would have brought them down without problem!

Yes, with a sledgehammer, pit props, and a bloody good fire! :D ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CV2GuK6CmY Did tha like that?  ;D
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Re: Didcot cooling towers demolished
« Reply #20 on: 20 August 2019, 07:45:59 »

Used to love watching his programmes and have his biography in my book collection.
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Re: Didcot cooling towers demolished
« Reply #21 on: 20 August 2019, 07:49:20 »

Surely, on the day of demolition, if high voltage, overhead power lines are that close, that section would be isolated? Or am I being too cautious?
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Re: Didcot cooling towers demolished
« Reply #22 on: 20 August 2019, 07:53:37 »

Surely, on the day of demolition, if high voltage, overhead power lines are that close, that section would be isolated? Or am I being too cautious?

An Engineer somewhere probably suggested that. Then gave up after trying to wade through 85 levels of management misdirection and 12 Indian callcentres.
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Re: Didcot cooling towers demolished
« Reply #23 on: 20 August 2019, 08:02:06 »

Surely, on the day of demolition, if high voltage, overhead power lines are that close, that section would be isolated? Or am I being too cautious?

An Engineer somewhere probably suggested that. Then gave up after trying to wade through 85 levels of management misdirection and 12 Indian callcentres.
Ah, excellent, great to know its not just our industry then ;D
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Re: Didcot cooling towers demolished
« Reply #24 on: 20 August 2019, 08:21:44 »

Surely, on the day of demolition, if high voltage, overhead power lines are that close, that section would be isolated? Or am I being too cautious?

An Engineer somewhere probably suggested that. Then gave up after trying to wade through 85 levels of management misdirection and 12 Indian callcentres.
Ah, excellent, great to know its not just our industry then ;D

I've come to the conclusion that it's everywhere .. not sure what the implications are for remaining gainfully employed for the next ~30 years prior to retirement without losing my marbles and "going postal", though ;D
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