ride through the windfarm this morning...
#33
12-08-2010, 03:18 PM
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I used to work for Vestas (the company name printed on the side of those turbines) as a technician. Got a few pics to share myself, although they don't include my bike. I traveled around the country for a few years working on them:
Here's one taken from the top of a turbine just outside Palm Springs, CA. Seriously the windiest place I've been in my life:
Awesome sunrise in Dodge Center, MN:
Doing a gearbox pick in Carnegie, OK:
About to do a gearbox pick in Fowler, IN:
From a man basket while doing a main rotor bearing change just outside Bloomington, IL:
Standing tall on top of one in Bloomington, IL:
Here's one taken from the top of a turbine just outside Palm Springs, CA. Seriously the windiest place I've been in my life:
Awesome sunrise in Dodge Center, MN:
Doing a gearbox pick in Carnegie, OK:
About to do a gearbox pick in Fowler, IN:
From a man basket while doing a main rotor bearing change just outside Bloomington, IL:
Standing tall on top of one in Bloomington, IL:
#35
12-08-2010, 10:43 PM
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Here's a video of a bunch of nutjobs out in Europe base jumping off them. Crazy dudes. I've been skydiving a few times, but base jumping off a fiberglass blade on a windy day when there's other turbines spinning around it seems extra nuts to me lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzEgkr4eJQQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzEgkr4eJQQ
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12-09-2010, 05:03 PM
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Here's a video of a bunch of nutjobs out in Europe base jumping off them. Crazy dudes. I've been skydiving a few times, but base jumping off a fiberglass blade on a windy day when there's other turbines spinning around it seems extra nuts to me lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzEgkr4eJQQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzEgkr4eJQQ
A function at that altitude... BOUNCE!
#39
07-21-2012, 07:39 PM
yeah thanks bro, went riding through there again yesterday, I was trying to ride slow checking them out but my mates were racing so had to gun it too lol
oh yeah, your pictures are unreal, i hope i get the chance to get some the same of my own, I'm a fitter, welder, crane driver so have some good ones from baskets hanging off cranes but those on the turbines rock!
oh yeah, your pictures are unreal, i hope i get the chance to get some the same of my own, I'm a fitter, welder, crane driver so have some good ones from baskets hanging off cranes but those on the turbines rock!
Last edited by Tat2u; 07-21-2012 at 07:43 PM.
