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Happened this morning

https://twitter.com/IwasMeegeren/status/1445765037109374981

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[ Cross-posted, as in OP ]

Mark Carver <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> writes:

Happened this morning

https://twitter.com/IwasMeegeren/status/1445765037109374981

Thanks. Looks like a neat job, with simultaneous explosions at
the base of the mast and two stay points on the same side. Some
debris from the top sections landed across an access track but
... that may make cleaning up easier.

Tyne Tees have a tweet leading to an article and Arqiva footage
from multiple viewpoints. (Search "Bilsdale" because they haven't
used any hashtags.)

--
David

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David Williams <davidw_3@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

[ Cross-posted, as in OP ]

Mark Carver <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> writes:

Happened this morning

https://twitter.com/IwasMeegeren/status/1445765037109374981

Thanks. Looks like a neat job, with simultaneous explosions at
the base of the mast and two stay points on the same side. Some
debris from the top sections landed across an access track but
... that may make cleaning up easier.

Tyne Tees have a tweet leading to an article and Arqiva footage
from multiple viewpoints. (Search "Bilsdale" because they haven't
used any hashtags.)

On YouTube https://youtu.be/AA-fmLFaqAc

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"Mark Carver" <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:is5t9sFbo8tU1@mid.individual.net...

Happened this morning

https://twitter.com/IwasMeegeren/status/1445765037109374981

I wish I'd known it was going to happen - I'd have gone along to watch.
Bloody spoilsports...

I've seen amateur video of the collapse - not the Arqiva video on Youtube -
so I wonder how *they* knew.

Interesting that there's nothing (yet) on the Arqiva Bilsdale page https://www.arqiva.com/news-views/news/update-on-incident-at-bilsdale-mast

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In article <sjkjkp$gm5$1@dont-email.me>, Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> scribeth thus

David Williams <davidw_3@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

[ Cross-posted, as in OP ]

Mark Carver <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> writes:

Happened this morning

https://twitter.com/IwasMeegeren/status/1445765037109374981

Thanks. Looks like a neat job, with simultaneous explosions at
the base of the mast and two stay points on the same side. Some
debris from the top sections landed across an access track but
... that may make cleaning up easier.

Tyne Tees have a tweet leading to an article and Arqiva footage
from multiple viewpoints. (Search "Bilsdale" because they haven't
used any hashtags.)

On YouTube https://youtu.be/AA-fmLFaqAc

Yes that went as I'd expect it to come down, right stays cut and..

You'd think they'd sell off bits as souvenirs wouldn't you?, no
imagination Arqiva;!...

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Tony Sayer


Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.

Give him a keyboard, and he will reveal himself.

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On 06/10/2021 17:56, NY wrote:

I've seen amateur video of the collapse - not the Arqiva video on Youtube - so I wonder how*they* knew.

I wonder if a NOTAM was issued?

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On 06/10/2021 17:56, tony sayer wrote:

You'd think they'd sell off bits as souvenirs wouldn't you?, no
imagination Arqiva;!...

No bits on eBay yet?

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"Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:xn0n3tkicsj99kh025@news.individual.net...

On 06/10/2021 in message <sjkkev$mdq$1@dont-email.me> NY wrote:

I wish I'd known it was going to happen - I'd have gone along to watch. >>Bloody spoilsports...

The Fawley Power Station chimney is due to be demolished on Sunday October
31 at 7am if it's not too far away.

Sadly, the other end of the country. I'd have gone to see Didcot's towers coming down a few years ago if I'd still lived a mile or so from them: I bet Wittenham Clumps (hill nearby with good view) was packed! But we now live in Yorkshire - hence being able to get over to Bilsdale easily. We went for a
walk on Bilsdale *East* Moor (opposite side of Helmsley-Stokesley road) a
few weeks ago and there was a good view of the mast from near the trig
point, so we'd decided that's where we'd go there once it was announced when the demolition would be... But H&S and safety exclusions won over allowing
the public to witness it, even from a distance. Apparently the locals were told, but for some reason none of the locals told the newspapers - I keep an eye on the York Press and the Ryedale Gazette sites.

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On 06/10/2021 in message <sjkkev$mdq$1@dont-email.me> NY wrote:

I wish I'd known it was going to happen - I'd have gone along to watch. >Bloody spoilsports...

The Fawley Power Station chimney is due to be demolished on Sunday October
31 at 7am if it's not too far away.

--
Jeff Gaines Wiltshire UK
The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not
expect to sit.

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On 06/10/2021 21:32, Jeff Gaines wrote:

On 06/10/2021 in message <sjkkev$mdq$1@dont-email.me> NY wrote:

I wish I'd known it was going to happen - I'd have gone along to
watch. Bloody spoilsports...

The Fawley Power Station chimney is due to be demolished on Sunday
October 31 at 7am if it's not too far away.

Yes, we're going to watch from Meon Shore. I suspect we won't be alone,
but at least it's free parking until 10am

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On 06/10/2021 17:56, NY wrote:

"Mark Carver" <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:is5t9sFbo8tU1@mid.individual.net...

Happened this morning

https://twitter.com/IwasMeegeren/status/1445765037109374981

I wish I'd known it was going to happen - I'd have gone along to watch.

You and thousands of others. That's the problem

I've seen amateur video of the collapse - not the Arqiva video on
Youtube - so I wonder how *they* knew.

Probably locals who had been tipped off, and/or noticed lots of drones
suddenly being flown and/or the exclusion zone suddenly being widened

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I wonder why they did not do a live broadcast or publicise it more locally. Maybe they were frightened of the idiot factor of people getting too close
to it, but nonetheless, its did sound a bit like a load of old scrap iron on the audio I listened to, and yet only about three days ago somebody was
talking about repairing it and rewiring it. I guess the bean counters
weighed up the possible danger of collapse in the meantime against the cost
of a rebuild, but still site clearance is not going to be cheap, I wonder if souvenir hunters will be up there in the dead of night for some bits they
can take away?
Brian

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"Mark Carver" <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:is5t9sFbo8tU1@mid.individual.net...

Happened this morning

https://twitter.com/IwasMeegeren/status/1445765037109374981

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On 07/10/2021 08:45, Mark Carver wrote:

On 06/10/2021 21:32, Jeff Gaines wrote:

On 06/10/2021 in message <sjkkev$mdq$1@dont-email.me> NY wrote:

I wish I'd known it was going to happen - I'd have gone along to
watch. Bloody spoilsports...

The Fawley Power Station chimney is due to be demolished on Sunday
October 31 at 7am if it's not too far away.

Yes, we're going to watch from Meon Shore. I suspect we won't be alone,
but at least it's free parking until 10am

I hope it's not going to be too nippy for you... <https://www.walkingclub.org.uk/nudist-beach/Meon-near-Lee-on-Solent-Hampshire.html>

--

Jeff

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On 07/10/2021 09:10, Jeff Layman wrote:

On 07/10/2021 08:45, Mark Carver wrote:

On 06/10/2021 21:32, Jeff Gaines wrote:

On 06/10/2021 in message <sjkkev$mdq$1@dont-email.me> NY wrote:

I wish I'd known it was going to happen - I'd have gone along to
watch. Bloody spoilsports...

The Fawley Power Station chimney is due to be demolished on Sunday
October 31 at 7am if it's not too far away.

Yes, we're going to watch from Meon Shore. I suspect we won't be alone,
but at least it's free parking until 10am

I hope it's not going to be too nippy for you... <https://www.walkingclub.org.uk/nudist-beach/Meon-near-Lee-on-Solent-Hampshire.html>

Ha ha, yes, we stumbled across (literally !) that lot a few weeks ago.
Not a pretty sight !

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Mark Carver <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Happened this morning

https://twitter.com/IwasMeegeren/status/1445765037109374981

"Just cutting the stays on one side should allow it to fall in the >>preferred direction." [Liz Tuddenham]

"Bet you as mucho as you like Liz that they will blow out a bit at the >>bottom!," [Tony Sayer]

Looks as though we were both right.


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(Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply)
www.poppyrecords.co.uk

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On 07/10/2021 09:08, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:

I wonder why they did not do a live broadcast or publicise it more locally. Maybe they were frightened of the idiot factor of people getting too close
to it,

It's a national park, with narrow and poor roads. There'd have been
utter chaos.
The whole reason the replacement etc is taking so long is because of all
the environmental concerns.

but nonetheless, its did sound a bit like a load of old scrap iron on
the audio I listened to, and yet only about three days ago somebody was talking about repairing it and rewiring it.

Who was ? Provide a link please. There's never been any recent
suggestion (from Arqiva or the broadcasters) it was repairable

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On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 16:22:36 +0100
Mark Carver <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Happened this morning

https://twitter.com/IwasMeegeren/status/1445765037109374981

Blaster Bates would have approved!
And if you don't know who he was, then you need edificating.

Davey.

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"Davey" <davey@example.invalid> wrote in message news:sjmj46$pci$4@dont-email.me...

On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 16:22:36 +0100
Mark Carver <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Happened this morning

https://twitter.com/IwasMeegeren/status/1445765037109374981

Blaster Bates would have approved!
And if you don't know who he was, then you need edificating.

Blaster Bates was a legend, alongside Fred Dibnah. I love his story about "a shower of shit over Cheshire" when he blew up a cesspit which showered a lot
of well-rotted excrement into the air; all would have gone well except that someone strayed into the line of fire, started to run away and *nearly*
outran the shower but tripped at the last minute and got covered...

I borrowed a couple of cassettes of his talks from a friend at work many
years ago. There's one story he told which I've never managed to find on Youtube. It concerns Father Christmas coming down a chimney and meeting a nubile lass who invites him into bed. He's a busy man and he's got lots more presents to deliver, so he resists her invitation three times, but
eventually her nakedness has the expected effect on his anatomy, and the
story ends with him saying "Sod it, I might as well stay. With this stiffy
I'll never get back up the chimney anyway."

Another good raconteur was David Gunson, an air-traffic controller who gave
an after-dinner talk which was recorded and released on cassette. He
describes in hilarious terms his work of a controller (and the problems that the French controllers used to cause to British flights when they staged a lightning strike) and ends with a description of how to fly a jumbo jet.

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"Mark Carver" <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:is5t9sFbo8tU1@mid.individual.net...

Happened this morning

https://twitter.com/IwasMeegeren/status/1445765037109374981

Here are a few close-up pictures of the felled mast that I grabbed from the local Tyne Tees report last night, as well as one of the new 80 metre mast which looks *very* small in comparison...

https://i.postimg.cc/BnR9cHFv/vlcsnap-2021-10-07-12h22m08s11.png https://i.postimg.cc/j50TKPq1/vlcsnap-2021-10-07-12h22m11s37.png https://i.postimg.cc/9F8j0vFZ/vlcsnap-2021-10-07-12h22m16s82.png

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On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 12:34:16 +0100
"NY" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

Blaster Bates would have approved!
And if you don't know who he was, then you need edificating.

Blaster Bates was a legend, alongside Fred Dibnah. I love his story
about "a shower of shit over Cheshire" when he blew up a cesspit
which showered a lot of well-rotted excrement into the air; all would
have gone well except that someone strayed into the line of fire,
started to run away and *nearly* outran the shower but tripped at the
last minute and got covered...

"Like gossamer, it were!"

One of his tales involved getting involved in a fox hunt, and his
memorable phrase about the horses approaching at speed was: "They don't
have Ferodo, you know."

Yep, he and Fred were two of a kind.

I might have heard a David Gunson talk, without knowing anything about
him. Your description sounds familiar. I remember somebody talking
about pulling his boots on in the morning, checking that the 'L' and
'R' marks were on the correct feet.

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On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 09:08:14 +0100, "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

its did sound a bit like a load of old scrap iron on
the audio I listened to,

That's pretty much what it is now.

Rod.

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"Davey" <davey@example.invalid> wrote in message news:sjmnai$pci$5@dont-email.me...

I might have heard a David Gunson talk, without knowing anything about
him. Your description sounds familiar. I remember somebody talking
about pulling his boots on in the morning, checking that the 'L' and
'R' marks were on the correct feet.

That sounds like him. I think it was "kid-leather gloves" with L and R on
the backs

He had a laconic Birmingham accent and a talent for telling a story in a
very entertaining way. He describes how to fly a helicopter: (I'm
paraphrasing) "It's all a bit hit-and-miss. You move the stick like crazy,
all over the place, then you hold it steady and you watch what happens,
because if you want it to do that again, *that* is where you put the stick". When he was talking about the French air-traffic controller's strike (on a Friday) he recounts phoning them after several days of pandemonium because flights had to take a long detour to avoid French air-space. He finds that
they are back at work: "Affirmative. We came back to work Saturday. It's
been *very* quiet this weekend" - they'd gone on strike for one day, gone
back to work again the next day... but hadn't told any of the neighbouring countries.

The tape is called "What goes up might come down". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_iTG1CsQBs


Another very memorable (though more serious) talk that I heard was very dramatic account of a helicopter pilot who managed to land his helicopter safely after the tail rotor failed, which normally makes the helicopter impossible to fly, and it spins and crashes. Somehow this guy managed to mentally sift through his memory of everything he had learned and he managed
to work out a plan for getting it down, even if it did land on one wheel and
go sideways down the runway till he tipped it back over and brought it to
rest. The crucial thing was that he had to land it at speed, because it was only the forward motion of air over the tail which was preventing it
spinning. He was one of the pilots who flew the comms helicopter for
Treasure Hunt (there's a photo of the helicopter in the livery that we saw
in TH) and was returning to base after a day's filming. The TV cameraman performed a crucial task in cutting the engines at exactly the right moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNkwk2d_DJ8

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On 07/10/2021 12:34, NY wrote:

Blaster Bates was a legend, alongside Fred Dibnah. I love his story about "a shower of shit over Cheshire" when he blew up a cesspit which showered a lot of well-rotted excrement into the air; all would have gone well except that someone strayed into the line of fire, started to run away and*nearly*
outran the shower but tripped at the last minute and got covered...

Years ago I read a book the founder of the Met's Bomb Squad. He had
been an AT in army and spent time in Libya clearing wartime munitions.
He went to one village where there a bomb in a cesspit. The villagers
were all waiting for him to get into the cesspit to make it safe but he
just blew it up without getting into the tank.

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On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 13:40:15 +0100
"NY" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

The tape is called "What goes up might come down".

Yes, that's the one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_iTG1CsQBs

Another very memorable (though more serious) talk that I heard was
very dramatic account of a helicopter pilot who managed to land his helicopter safely after the tail rotor failed, which normally makes
the helicopter impossible to fly, and it spins and crashes. Somehow
this guy managed to mentally sift through his memory of everything he
had learned and he managed to work out a plan for getting it down,
even if it did land on one wheel and go sideways down the runway till
he tipped it back over and brought it to rest. The crucial thing was
that he had to land it at speed, because it was only the forward
motion of air over the tail which was preventing it spinning. He was
one of the pilots who flew the comms helicopter for Treasure Hunt
(there's a photo of the helicopter in the livery that we saw in TH)
and was returning to base after a day's filming. The TV cameraman
performed a crucial task in cutting the engines at exactly the right
moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNkwk2d_DJ8

When we lived in the US, there was a TV documentary called 'Condition
Black' about a record surfing event off of Hawaii's North Shore.
Massive, massive swells, a total ban on anybody going out there to surf,
which of course was ignored. The helicopter pilot with the IMAX camera
on board was an ex-Vietnam pilot, and he kept on flying so low that the
'copter kept disappearing below wave-top height, with subsequent
stoppings of hearts of the shore-bound onlookers. If you can, watch it, although I have no idea where you would find it. It has to be about 15
years old now, at least.
It was probably a Discovery Channel, a PBS Channel, or maybe a
Smithsonian Channel programme. I have forgotten all the different
channels there now.
I have it on NTSC videotape........marked as about 2003. It is not
transcribed to PC digital file.

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Davey.

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On Thu 07/10/2021 12:38, NY wrote:

"Mark Carver" <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:is5t9sFbo8tU1@mid.individual.net...

Happened this morning

https://twitter.com/IwasMeegeren/status/1445765037109374981

Here are a few close-up pictures of the felled mast that I grabbed from
the local Tyne Tees report last night, as well as one of the new 80
metre mast which looks *very* small in comparison...

https://i.postimg.cc/BnR9cHFv/vlcsnap-2021-10-07-12h22m08s11.png https://i.postimg.cc/j50TKPq1/vlcsnap-2021-10-07-12h22m11s37.png https://i.postimg.cc/9F8j0vFZ/vlcsnap-2021-10-07-12h22m16s82.png

The reason for the new temp mast looking small is because its base is
lower than the big tube, and the picture was taken probably from the
track below the site so the temp will look small.

Have a look at the link Mark put in of the demolition yesterday and you
will get a glimpse of the temp.

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80Mtres is only a bit higher than a 5g telecom mast these days.


Brian

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On Thu 07/10/2021 12:38, NY wrote:

"Mark Carver" <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:is5t9sFbo8tU1@mid.individual.net...

Happened this morning

https://twitter.com/IwasMeegeren/status/1445765037109374981

Here are a few close-up pictures of the felled mast that I grabbed from
the local Tyne Tees report last night, as well as one of the new 80 metre
mast which looks *very* small in comparison...

https://i.postimg.cc/BnR9cHFv/vlcsnap-2021-10-07-12h22m08s11.png
https://i.postimg.cc/j50TKPq1/vlcsnap-2021-10-07-12h22m11s37.png
https://i.postimg.cc/9F8j0vFZ/vlcsnap-2021-10-07-12h22m16s82.png

The reason for the new temp mast looking small is because its base is
lower than the big tube, and the picture was taken probably from the track below the site so the temp will look small.

Have a look at the link Mark put in of the demolition yesterday and you
will get a glimpse of the temp.

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In article <sjort5$65h$1@dont-email.me>, Brian Gaff (Sofa) <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> scribeth thus

80Mtres is only a bit higher than a 5g telecom mast these days.

Brian

Brian the main type of roadside 5G mast now, well around our way, is 20
to 25 Metres!.

80 meters is quite high. We did a coverage plot of the area at that
height and it wasn't that much different in coverage terms But i don't
think they'll be using the same ERP!...


FWIW Nelsons column is only 52 metres!..
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.

Give him a keyboard, and he will reveal himself.

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In article <sjmm7p$c82$1@dont-email.me>, NY <me@privacy.invalid>
scribeth thus

"Mark Carver" <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote in message >news:is5t9sFbo8tU1@mid.individual.net...

Happened this morning

https://twitter.com/IwasMeegeren/status/1445765037109374981

Here are a few close-up pictures of the felled mast that I grabbed from the >local Tyne Tees report last night, as well as one of the new 80 metre mast >which looks *very* small in comparison...

https://i.postimg.cc/BnR9cHFv/vlcsnap-2021-10-07-12h22m08s11.png >https://i.postimg.cc/j50TKPq1/vlcsnap-2021-10-07-12h22m11s37.png >https://i.postimg.cc/9F8j0vFZ/vlcsnap-2021-10-07-12h22m16s82.png

Might be a few odd salvageable panels of that lot plus the Pikey's
scrappies will be pleased they won't have to burn the insulation off the cables;)...

--
Tony Sayer


Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.

Give him a keyboard, and he will reveal himself.

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On 08/10/2021 13:26, tony sayer wrote:

Might be a few odd salvageable panels of that lot plus the Pikey's
scrappies will be pleased they won't have to burn the insulation off the cables;)...

Looks to me that the pair of Siras seen here:-

http://admin.mb21.co.uk/tx/userimages/27471proc20191109024109.jpg

Made it to the ground intact (by virtue of them on the top of the tube
after landing)

I'm sure they'll be repurposed for '107.4 The Lobster' or equivalent
service, and start a new life strapped to the roof of an office block.

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In article <isavj3Fb1tmU1@mid.individual.net>, Mark Carver <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> scribeth thus

On 08/10/2021 13:26, tony sayer wrote:

Might be a few odd salvageable panels of that lot plus the Pikey's
scrappies will be pleased they won't have to burn the insulation off the
cables;)...

Looks to me that the pair of Siras seen here:-

http://admin.mb21.co.uk/tx/userimages/27471proc20191109024109.jpg

Made it to the ground intact (by virtue of them on the top of the tube
after landing)

I'm sure they'll be repurposed for '107.4 The Lobster' or equivalent
service, and start a new life strapped to the roof of an office block.

Yep weighty old things those, well built!..

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Give him a keyboard, and he will reveal himself.

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On 08/10/2021 14:43, tony sayer wrote:

In article <isavj3Fb1tmU1@mid.individual.net>, Mark Carver <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> scribeth thus

On 08/10/2021 13:26, tony sayer wrote:

Might be a few odd salvageable panels of that lot plus the Pikey's
scrappies will be pleased they won't have to burn the insulation off the >>> cables;)...

Looks to me that the pair of Siras seen here:-

http://admin.mb21.co.uk/tx/userimages/27471proc20191109024109.jpg

Made it to the ground intact (by virtue of them on the top of the tube
after landing)

I'm sure they'll be repurposed for '107.4 The Lobster' or equivalent
service, and start a new life strapped to the roof of an office block.

Yep weighty old things those, well built!..

There was one on a pole 'looking' straight into our 6th floor hotel
window in Portugal.
The other side of the street, about 20-30 metres away. Oh well.

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On 08/10/2021 13:26, tony sayer wrote:

Might be a few odd salvageable panels of that lot plus the Pikey's
scrappies will be pleased they won't have to burn the insulation off the cables;)...

Probably find a few bits are refurbished so they can tell everyone how
"green" they are even if never actually re-used,

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On 08/10/2021 14:28, MB wrote:

On 08/10/2021 13:26, tony sayer wrote:

Might be a few odd salvageable panels of that lot plus the Pikey's
scrappies will be pleased they won't have to burn the insulation off the
cables;)...

Probably find a few bits are refurbished so they can tell everyone how "green" they are even if never actually re-used,

 Even the aircraft industry do that, after 'un-controlled' landings

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A section of the mast, more or less the very bottom part, that just
turned 90 degs and fell on the roof of one of the Tx buildings.
The building wasn't demolished by that, and the section (maybe 15 to 20
ft of 8ft diameter tube) is on the flat roof.

On 08/10/2021 16:58, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:

What of the accompanying building, was that knocked down too? Apparently
that Youtube video has seen quite a few views, Many people I know have
viewed it several times. People like to see things demolished I suppose.

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What of the accompanying building, was that knocked down too? Apparently
that Youtube video has seen quite a few views, Many people I know have
viewed it several times. People like to see things demolished I suppose.
Brian

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"Mark Carver" <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:isb1b4Fbc29U1@mid.individual.net...

On 08/10/2021 14:43, tony sayer wrote:

In article <isavj3Fb1tmU1@mid.individual.net>, Mark Carver
<mark.carver@invalid.invalid> scribeth thus

On 08/10/2021 13:26, tony sayer wrote:

Might be a few odd salvageable panels of that lot plus the Pikey's
scrappies will be pleased they won't have to burn the insulation off
the
cables;)...

Looks to me that the pair of Siras seen here:-

http://admin.mb21.co.uk/tx/userimages/27471proc20191109024109.jpg

Made it to the ground intact (by virtue of them on the top of the tube
after landing)

I'm sure they'll be repurposed for '107.4 The Lobster' or equivalent
service, and start a new life strapped to the roof of an office block.

Yep weighty old things those, well built!..

There was one on a pole 'looking' straight into our 6th floor hotel window
in Portugal.
The other side of the street, about 20-30 metres away. Oh well.

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On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 16:22:36 +0100
Mark Carver <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Happened this morning

https://twitter.com/IwasMeegeren/status/1445765037109374981

Blaster Bates would have approved!
And if you don't know who he was, then you need edificating.

I borrowed a couple of cassettes of his talks from a friend at work many .>years ago. There's one story he told which I've never managed to find on >Youtube. It concerns Father Christmas coming down a chimney and meeting a >nubile lass who invites him into bed. He's a busy man and he's got lots
more presents to deliver, so he resists her invitation three times, but >eventually her nakedness has the expected effect on his anatomy, and the >story ends with him saying "Sod it, I might as well stay. With this stiffy >I'll never get back up the chimney anyway."

It's on one of the CDs as I've heard him tell it.

Which one of the 4 I cant' tell you without some digging.

He's a bloody genius but not for the snowflakes, there's probably about
20mins of broadcastable material per cd. And that's including the one where
he kills the dog after the owner didn't secure the site properly... was a retriever... you get the picture...

James

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On 08/10/2021 19:41, James Heaton wrote:

He's a bloody genius but not for the snowflakes, there's probably about 20mins of broadcastable material per cd. And that's including the one
where
he kills the dog after the owner didn't secure the site properly... was a retriever... you get the picture...

<Grin> Trained to deliver to the hand. I remember that one, as well as
many of his other stories.

As for broadcastable now, he would probably not even be buzzed at or
trimmed much for some of the comedy shows on Channel 4 nowadays. I was
watching one a while ago, and they were telling what appeared to be old Morecambe and Wise jokes, "spiced up" for the modern audience by adding
the "F" word to every feed and punch line. A lot of snowflakes would get offended, probably, but that was deliberate and part of his humour.

He used to do talks at the WI, and moderated his act accordingly.


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Tciao for Now!

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On 08/10/2021 19:41, James Heaton wrote:

He's a bloody genius but not for the snowflakes, there's probably about 20mins of broadcastable material per cd. And that's including the one where he kills the dog after the owner didn't secure the site properly... was a retriever... you get the picture...

Seems to be something about people working with explosive. Years ago I
was in the same digs as some doing the blasting on a new road.

He told me that he cleared a harbour in the Channel Islands, blowing up
any projecting rocks on the bottom. The divers surfaced and told him
they had found a large WWII bomb. If he had reported it, they would
have had to stop works for days whilst a RN EOD was sent out. They
would just take it out to sea and blow it up.

So they carried on working as normal and at the end of the week when
they fired the charges in the harbour there was a much larger explosion
than expected. He just commented that there must have been a bomb in
the harbour but the local police were very suspicious!

If you can get hold of any copies, Ragnar Benson's books are interesting!

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Cannot have done it much good though, I'd have thought, its hardly a bit of
old drainpipe after all.

So how did they build the mast in the first place with all that aerial stuff
on the top and cabling inside?

Brian

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"Mark Carver" <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:isb8msFcodrU1@mid.individual.net...

A section of the mast, more or less the very bottom part, that just turned
90 degs and fell on the roof of one of the Tx buildings.
The building wasn't demolished by that, and the section (maybe 15 to 20 ft
of 8ft diameter tube) is on the flat roof.

On 08/10/2021 16:58, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:

What of the accompanying building, was that knocked down too? Apparently
that Youtube video has seen quite a few views, Many people I know have
viewed it several times. People like to see things demolished I suppose.

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