Giles
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Been past it a few times as my mrs from there everyone is ex sas all her school mates dads etc were brave dating them back then lolstunning couple of days over the weekend .....
Saturday morning was a bit murky ....... down in the valley bottom
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and ended with a great sunset
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was nice to have the sun on my back for a couple of days ...... didn't last long though
been as murky here the last few days as it was down below us Saturday morning
had a few hours out yesterday .... call 'bout ten from Russ, me crane mate ... "you busy Gra?"
he'd already booked me for Wed./Fri. - subject to the trucks arriving ..... damn me they'd turned up early ... from Holland.
he was the other side of Leominster, fortunately doing a 'quicky', so we arranged to meet about ten miles away and I'd follow him into the the job ..... and bring me passport
Local SAS camp .. got checked in and told to "follow me" ... very interesting run in there ... never been in there before .... 30 odd years since Russ had.
so in we go .... past the two Boeing 747 fuselages and assorted smaller 'big white birds, underground carriages, etc., etc., 'til we got where we needed to be.
two 20 ft twistlocks heading our way, loaded .. 5 and 11 t respectively ..... but could we just hop the one there already out the way first ..
just repositioning after that ready for the two's arrival and here they came
light one first for the reach .... got a hold of it and was closer to 7.5t than it was 5 .... hmm
good job we were a lot closer for the 14.7 tonner .... don't yer just love estimates ... and these'd been on a ferry !!
any way ... job sorted, our 'minder' who'd organised it all was well impressed with an ultra smooth operation and having them within a half inch of where he said he'd like 'em .... 'nother lil' job eyeballed once we'd wrapped up ..... and Russ booked for a few more little numbers in the camp.
will keep us both out of mischief for a while to come hopefully
sadly no pix ... didn't fancy getting either bollocked or shot at. There was a lot of that going on all around us .... a low profile was the order of the day ..... and the lower the better with Rus's jib .... had 7 various choppers buzzing around us all morning, while we were there ..... one of which's faces looked very bloody surprised when he swooped around a corner to find this gert yella fing, where he was headed, at pretty well zero ft.
was an interesting morning .... looking forward to the next one.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
It's a huge camp Giles ... won't find it on Google earth or Bing and the likes -- just green fields
... and yeh they're all over the place round here ......... I have a few friends who're ex-SAS, living round here .... disappear every now and then for a few weeks/months and re-appear like it was yesterday .. they rarely 'retire' ..... couple have just never re-appeared .... knew one guy Steve ... ex-SBS ..... brother of a very good mate, vanished and never saw him again .. even Greg, his brother has no idea WTF happened to him ... must be ten years ago.
pettsy
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Must be arkward getting directions to find where you’re working
Maybe what3words will work??
Cyberprog
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So I had a busy weekend following this bugger down the M5 bridge-hopping on Saturday, and then in the yard on Sunday.
Bought by a friend of mine, and he's got some mad plans for it!
Bought by a friend of mine, and he's got some mad plans for it!
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
few bobs-worth of investment there
T whiting
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I'd assume it would've cost more to transport and unload it than the fuselage itself?
Cyberprog
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I, uh, can't say
pettsy
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PYTCHAir - The office in Bristol that's also a plane
PYTCHAirThe plane in Bristol that's also an office (and meeting space, event venue, filming location, and micro-hotel!)People are confused, bemused and intrigued by the story behind our beautiful bird! We get asked a lot about what PYTCHAir is, how it happened and how it ended up making its way...
pytch.co.uk
Cyberprog
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Yep. That's the onePYTCHAir - The office in Bristol that's also a plane
PYTCHAirThe plane in Bristol that's also an office (and meeting space, event venue, filming location, and micro-hotel!)People are confused, bemused and intrigued by the story behind our beautiful bird! We get asked a lot about what PYTCHAir is, how it happened and how it ended up making its way...
TiltyShaun
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I think it was quotes in our local internet online paper that is no longer printer....that he paid £100k for the fuselage. Now I now transport isn’t cheap but Kemble to Bristol I. 8hrs would not be £100k. But I would guess that with planning fees, all those containers and a refit of some description he will still have a better space for £200k than he could have built. Still have no idea what business is is in that demands the creative space he keeps talking aboutI, uh, can't say
Cyberprog
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Lol. They are miles off, that's all I can say. He's had the money spent already back in publicity and brand awareness.
You're right though, for what he's spent he has a ideal space and a quirky one too which is good.
TiltyShaun
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So I guess he has spent less then the quoted amounts!!
Cyberprog
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Couldn't possibly say. But you guys will know what the transport will cost roughly and the craneage
Giles
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There’s a company that does film stuff have one cut in half mounted in two curtain siders just rock up park then back together film away 
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Cyberprog
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That's pretty neat.There’s a company that does film stuff have one cut in half mounted in two curtain siders just rock up park then back together film away
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
so ..... did anyone else have the wildest night they can remember weather-wise last night ...... me anemometer was telling me 58-62mph 'bout 11.30 last night ...... and it just got wilder .... not a lot of sleep had last night with all the bloody noise.
Well pee-ed off this morning to find two of me trellis fence posts snapped off at G/L. ...... it's stood up to everything thrown at it for the last ten years
not been a great deal better all day and have propped the two posts for now ...... they are gonna take some replacing ..... two feet in the deck in concrete with all the panels securely screwed to 'em .......job for a much calmer, drier, warmer couple of days and will put some more permanent bracing on 'em tomorrow if it's a tad calmer.
like a different country compared to Mon./Tues. .... two lovely days and the lawn got its first massacre of the year ..... full dumpy bag of grass off it, which is sat under our big metal table, on the patio, awaiting a trip to the grass tip area .... damned good job it's where it is, or the lot'd have been everywhere last night.
not quite as wild tonight, but still pretty blowy and wet .... doesn't look a lot better for the next few days ....... Bet Stu (@Left hooker ) had a wild ol' night down in Cornwall last night .... was coming from the southwest, so guess he'd have had it first, with no mountains in the way, off the Atlantic
Well pee-ed off this morning to find two of me trellis fence posts snapped off at G/L.
...... it's stood up to everything thrown at it for the last ten years not been a great deal better all day and have propped the two posts for now ...... they are gonna take some replacing ..... two feet in the deck in concrete with all the panels securely screwed to 'em .......job for a much calmer, drier, warmer couple of days and will put some more permanent bracing on 'em tomorrow if it's a tad calmer.
like a different country compared to Mon./Tues. .... two lovely days and the lawn got its first massacre of the year ..... full dumpy bag of grass off it, which is sat under our big metal table, on the patio, awaiting a trip to the grass tip area .... damned good job it's where it is, or the lot'd have been everywhere last night.
not quite as wild tonight, but still pretty blowy and wet .... doesn't look a lot better for the next few days ....... Bet Stu (@Left hooker ) had a wild ol' night down in Cornwall last night .... was coming from the southwest, so guess he'd have had it first, with no mountains in the way, off the Atlantic
Charlie
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hertfordshire here and our forecast was sun with windy showers. Yesterday night heard gusts whilst in bed but nothing that would cause alarm, got up in the morning expecting trees down around the farm but nothing. But then looking closer things that have never moved ever ever ever are on the floor like the solid 70's glass ashtray that was on the bench, now somehow blown off and smashed on the floor! It must weigh a kilo and has survived all weather on that table for 17 years. WTF!?
T whiting
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I cold feel the duck rocking in the wind which was a wired feeling and I got home to find the felt ripped off the shed roof so that will be a job for the weekend
J
Jimoz
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Land gales apparently
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