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A few years back I was delivering to and collecting from White House Wind Farm, just past Kennacraig, and as I have various bits of paper that say I can wear a harness and do things which quite frankly would frighten the bejesus out of me, I was given a chance to climb up the inside of one of the turbines and admire the view from the top. I politely declined as I would have been a gibbering wreck and might have embarrassed myself
.Had to go into the "back entrance" of the wind farm via the B road that overlooks Arran and goes past the Claonaig ferry to Lochranza a couple of times and that was always mighty good fun
, although driving an artic over the tiny wee bridge that spans Claonaig Water was definitely not for the fainthearted 
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daughter worked for orsted for 5 years on the offshore wind turbines. they have a lift in them but she used to climb them every day to keep fitA few years back I was delivering to and collecting from White House Wind Farm, just past Kennacraig, and as I have various bits of paper that say I can wear a harness and do things which quite frankly would frighten the bejesus out of me, I was given a chance to climb up the inside of one of the turbines and admire the view from the top. I politely declined as I would have been a gibbering wreck and might have embarrassed myself
Had to go into the "back entrance" of the wind farm via the B road that overlooks Arran and goes past the Claonaig ferry to Lochranza a couple of times and that was always mighty good fun
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There is a pretty horrific story of two guys trapped on a wind turbine, when the generator caught fire. It was in Deltawind’s Piet de Wit wind farm in the Netherlands. It went up in a hell of a blaze, one guy jumped, the other burned up.A few years back I was delivering to and collecting from White House Wind Farm, just past Kennacraig, and as I have various bits of paper that say I can wear a harness and do things which quite frankly would frighten the bejesus out of me, I was given a chance to climb up the inside of one of the turbines and admire the view from the top. I politely declined as I would have been a gibbering wreck and might have embarrassed myself
Had to go into the "back entrance" of the wind farm via the B road that overlooks Arran and goes past the Claonaig ferry to Lochranza a couple of times and that was always mighty good fun
I delivered quite a few loads of steel pipe to Manchester airport and it was offloaded next to the fire training compound.
One particular day saw a group of firefighters from Nigeria being trained by the Mancs, and a more delightful bunch you couldn't wish to meet, so I made full use of it and spent a lot of the day teaching them how to swear in a Yorkshire accent
Childish, undoubtedly, but I still crack up at the thought of the black lads in Lagos airport shouting "Nar then that t**t, wot's tha think tha' dooin??"
