“Friction” thats when you wind somebody up isnt it? 
Evil8Beezle:
As obviously a lot of planning has to come into these abnormal loads, does the driver get a chance to rehearse the route, or does he just roll up relying on his previous experience and knowledge?Or does that only come into play when obstructions, are having to knowingly be removed in advance…
I assume a trial run is what was being done when I saw this.
What’s the betting Johnnie Cyclist will try to squeeze up the nearside when it’s turning left? 
Glen A9:
Evil8Beezle:
As obviously a lot of planning has to come into these abnormal loads, does the driver get a chance to rehearse the route, or does he just roll up relying on his previous experience and knowledge?Or does that only come into play when obstructions, are having to knowingly be removed in advance…
I assume a trial run is what was being done when I saw this.
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Cheers, that appears to answer my query!
There’s a house on the A714 near Newton Stewart that’s been demolished and rebuilt and effectively moved back to enable wind turbine vehicles to get over the narrow bridge. There’s talk of plenty of cash changing hands too, the lowest mentioned is 40k and the highest is 400k. Makes you wonder how much money these wind farm operators are making. Some of the companies are American. Makes you wonder
Happened near my house (loads of these turbines round here). They were installing some new ones but the recon discovered they couldn’t get round one particular turn without the back wheels crossing the corner of a piece of land owned by local farmer.
They asked for permission to take the fence down on the day saying they would repair it afterwards - local paper reckons he said no but you can buy the land - so they did! So they bought this little bit of land just to drive over the corner, dug it up and made it flat with the road but with removable fence for when the loads came through. Paper reckons they paid thousands for the land. (not even big enough for a house)
I noticed the other day it’s all been landscaped and pretty flowers put in now along with a nice sign with the turbine company group name on it.
Evil8Beezle:
Don’t go there!!!(I beg you…)
The radian speed is almost equal to the velocity of the grunt hammer on the overhead knacker shaft. The reason it’s not actually equal is that the thatcherites decided that ollie cromwell was wrong and it should all have been sold off to the chinese and the leftie, sandal knitting tree cuddlers. On the other hand, if the ira had become involved we could have had the ss on our side in the war cos they were sympathisers and then we wouldn’t have needed windfarms because there’rd have been plenty of slaves to pedal the bikes that turned the generators for electrickey the chinese would have sold us said bikes in return for a few factories and a load of cheap labour.
Having said that, if you read the snp’s manifesto, you’ll find that the lib dem proletariat along with saddam hussien would have sorted out the balance of payment problems by putting hollande to the guillotine.
Let me know if I’ve missed anything out and 'll have another google.
mick.mh2racing:
There’s a house on the A714 near Newton Stewart that’s been demolished and rebuilt and effectively moved back to enable wind turbine vehicles to get over the narrow bridge. There’s talk of plenty of cash changing hands too, the lowest mentioned is 40k and the highest is 400k. Makes you wonder how much money these wind farm operators are making. Some of the companies are American. Makes you wonder
SSE closed the A822 at Dunkeld for several months so they could lower the road under the railway bridge to provide sufficient headroom and widened the bend with grasscrete turning areas, more grasscrete was put in at the junction with the A826. None of that would have been cheap.
As part of building the Beauly to Denny transmission line SSE were required to widen some bits of minor roads with extra passing places, but some landowners refused to sell the land just because they objected to the project (presumably these people also object to having electricity to their houses) , so they had to get compulsory purchase orders for little strips of land to widen the road slightly - which of course the locals now benefit from.
What’s ‘grasscrete’ ■■
raymundo:
What’s ‘grasscrete’ ■■
Concrete with gaps for grass to grow though.
mick.mh2racing:
There’s a house on the A714 near Newton Stewart that’s been demolished and rebuilt and effectively moved back to enable wind turbine vehicles to get over the narrow bridge. There’s talk of plenty of cash changing hands too, the lowest mentioned is 40k and the highest is 400k. Makes you wonder how much money these wind farm operators are making. Some of the companies are American. Makes you wonder
The house seems to have grown in size too. The folk have been out of the house for ages now. Cost will wildly expensive. I’m sure the bridge would have been easier and cheaper to replace.
Its all about subsidies, take away the subsidies and the wind farms will soon be history.They are a very expensive luxury.
mick.mh2racing:
There’s a house on the A714 near Newton Stewart that’s been demolished and rebuilt and effectively moved back to enable wind turbine vehicles to get over the narrow bridge. There’s talk of plenty of cash changing hands too, the lowest mentioned is 40k and the highest is 400k. Makes you wonder how much money these wind farm operators are making. Some of the companies are American. Makes you wonder
SamCams farther reportedly receives £350,000 per year in rent for having a few of these on his country estate.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article … -farm.html
isn’t it reassuring to know our leaders are just ordinary people
One of the blades , being transported towards the site above Old Hutton, ■■■■■■■ , about 4 years ago.
These turbines are visible on the horizon , east of the M6 , between Junctions 36 and 37.
Hope this is of help to you , but I do not know the length of the blade .
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
It’s all bent in the middle. 
Bluey Circles:
raymundo:
Each 197 foot long ■■? is that not the diameter of the ‘fan’ when assembled ?the bigguns now are 120m diameter. so yes 200’ for each blade.
A little while ago I was watching one of these monsters gracefully turning, 12rpm. I was curious how fast the tip was going, I was thinking 30 or 40 mph … how wrong could I be, at 12rpm the tip is doing a 170mph, so marginally faster than the tip of a 9" grinder.
In case anyone wondered how Bluey worked it out:
Speed = distance divided by time.
Distance is the circumference; for a 120 metre windmill that would be pi x 120 = 377 metres.
At 12 rpm, that means the tip travels 12 x 377 per minute.
That is 4524 metres per minute.
A Google search says to convert m/min to mph, multiply by 0.0372, so 4524 X 0.0372 = 168mph
That is pretty much mach 0.5, so the speed of sound isn’t the problem.
Bluey Circles:
raymundo:
Each 197 foot long ■■? is that not the diameter of the ‘fan’ when assembled ?the bigguns now are 120m diameter. so yes 200’ for each blade.
A little while ago I was watching one of these monsters gracefully turning, 12rpm. I was curious how fast the tip was going, I was thinking 30 or 40 mph … how wrong could I be, at 12rpm the tip is doing a 170mph, so marginally faster than the tip of a 9" grinder.
could we not just plug 9 inch grinders into the grid and use the energy coming from them then? they would look like a flower box if you planted them and would save all the skyline getting ruined by the big blades…
You do realise that OTHERS are now on google, and will be along shorty to dispute your statements!
And before long we will have wheeled off into dynamics, masses and relative forces…
Until everyone wants to kill themselves!!!
Sorry, politics, religion and history modules are mandatory! 
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Don’t be shy Evil8, we know you’re missing Carryfast. 
■■■■■■■ millions of the ugly bastarts now in Scotland, spoiling the views, killing the birds. I hate them with a passion. That M74 has more windmills than it does trees now.