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Victrex, Round 2. 💪🏼
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Jul 2, 2025
LB take a look at: Victrex Unit 2, Ginhouse Ln, Rotherham, S61 4QH After a visit at the end of April, not a lot went on as the footage from the drone was basically unusable due to the overcast day and I accidentally changed a setting on the drone. A month or so later I was contacted by the police. Requesting a face to face chat (Not an interview). I arranged this as a South Yorkshire Police officer who contacted me turned up at my address in West Yorkshire and hand delivered a note. After some research on this officer he deals with firearms offences and fatal or serious RTCs, so I got in touch. He couldn't tell me over the phone what the issue was so I felt like I had to get dealt with. From talking to others this seems to be an intimidation technique. When all in all it was for conducting a lawful drone flight. Not only did they cause me alarm and distress , they wasted time and resources tracking me on CCTV over a ten minute cycle ride to find my vehicle. So the next day I went back and refilmed my video. I even let the staff know to show false reports are BS.
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we had an incident not long back i'm the
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manager
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[Music]
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hey up and welcome to the channel today
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we're in Rodam
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having a look at Victrex
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so I did visit here in the end of April
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but the drone footage was really poor
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due to bad weather
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and it was a bit unusable and nothing
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really happened so
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I basically sacked that video off but
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recently
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in the last couple of weeks I had a
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South Yorkshire police officer
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attend my address in
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West Yorkshire
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delivered me a slip to ask me to contact
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him
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and I was quite curious like what's this
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so uh I give him a quick call up and he
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couldn't discuss with me over the phone
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what had transpired
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so I had to organize a meeting with him
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said something it could be just a simple
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explanation
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so I uh went in for a meeting with him
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and it was about filming this site down
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Gin House Lane in Rotherham
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that's a road that he commented on and
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he said that I did fly my drone another
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couple of premises which are about
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thousand meters further down the road
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and they wasted their time tracking me
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down on CCTV
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to where I parked at Park Gate
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shopping area
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which is about a 10-minute bike ride
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away
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so they've got the CCTV from everywhere
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down the road and probably tracked me on
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the way here cuz I didn't go straight
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back to the car after coming here
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so he was asking me what the
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what is it that I do so I explained so I
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just find place I find interesting make
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a little video on them and fly a drone
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over take some pictures or go into
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Google Maps
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and that was that
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so I didn't use the footage and before
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I thought the road that runs right down
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up there was their private road so I
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didn't go down i stopped at the signs
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and just stayed on this bit of public
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footpath but that is a public road which
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links right down the bottom end
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so that's what's transpired recently
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so let me tell you a little bit about
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Victrex
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it is part of the global manufacturing
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network producing PEK
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peak which is a polyethyla ketone it is
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a high performance thermoplastic polymer
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it's heat resistant up to 260° C without
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losing mechanical properties it's got
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exceptional chemical resistance like it
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resists solvents acid and bases it's
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very strong and tough low friction and
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wear and it's bio compatible so it's
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safe for use inside the human body it's
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got common uses in aerospace automotive
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electronics medical and oil and gas
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so in short peak is used where regular
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plastics would fail especially in
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extreme or safety critical applications
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this site houses the DFDPM unit a key
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stage in manufacturing BDF the precursor
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to Peak it was acquired from Leaport in
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1999 to secure raw material supply the
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facility operates under rigorous safety
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and environmental controls and I think
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one of the other reasons why they
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reported it to the police is this is
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classified as an upper tier coma site
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which stands for control of major
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accident hazards regulation
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which means it handles significant
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quantities of hazardous substances and
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aders to strict safety management
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emergency planning and public
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notification standards so that's
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probably why they called but the thing
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that was a kicker with that and the
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reason why the police investigated me is
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apparently security approached me
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and when they was approaching me I fled
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on my bicycle
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and one of my questions back to the
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police was why would I flee i'll film in
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a video if anything I would have stood
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and engaged with them for a little bit
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better content and maybe can explain
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some of the plant to me
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so I'm actually going to start today by
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going to reception
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and seeing what their verdict is on it i
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know where the reception is now cuz I
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came down that way on the bike just to
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have a look at the public road so I'm
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going to go up to reception now
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there's your reception
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right so at the front of the reception
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now
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so they cannot say that I've fled the
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scene
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back there it's not in the way people
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can get past that
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when you bother
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[Music]
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morning morning
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hi i'm just uh in the area just uh
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making a little video for YouTube about
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the facility so I'm going to be out on
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the public road public footpath doing
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some filming and videoing and I'll be
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flying the drone up over the top not
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over the tanks just over the road taking
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some aerial pictures i'll just have to
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tell someone no I'm just going to be I'm
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going to be down the front if that's
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right so I'm not on your property yeah
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I'm not I think someone else because we
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had an incident not long back so if I
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can just Oh really what happened yeah so
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I've just been on the public road down
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the bottom end so they know where I am
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you can just wait 2 minutes okay
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[Music]
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so they had an incident no incident with
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me
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so it was somebody else that's been as
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well
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right so we're not in their place
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anymore we're out at the front
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so when I flew the drone before I did
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just stay over the top of the road so
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there was no danger of me going over any
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of the tank farms or anything
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hurry up
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yeah I just went into reception sorry i
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just went into reception spoke to a lady
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and she says "Can I wait here for 2
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minutes while she goes to speak to
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somebody?" Yeah I'm the plant manager oh
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yeah brilliant can you uh just You can
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sit in their room there the road there
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but you also stopped in here yeah yeah
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did you explain what I was doing no no
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that's fine you can stay on the public
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footpath there but this is a private
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property yeah so I only come on just to
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speak to reception and she said um about
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the what I was doing around the area no
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problem is that all right there's no
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police going to be called or anything no
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no cuz uh say I was up here a couple of
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weeks back doing the same thing but I
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said my footage didn't come out very
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well and I had the police investigating
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me for it so I was wondering if that's
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going to happen again not sure i don't
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know i didn't need to talk with the
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police about that so yeah they said the
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security approached me and when they
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approached me I fled the scene which I
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have no reason to do cuz I'm not doing
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anything unlawful yeah you need to talk
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to the police to understand what's
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what's the case and I cannot help you
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with that i'm sorry no worries yeah with
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the with the drone though I'm I am going
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to be staying over the road and not over
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the tanks
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with the drone I am going to be staying
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over the road so I'm not going to be
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going any over any of the facility okay
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brilliant thank you
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right so it looks like they have learned
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and
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the chat with the police
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went well he was a plant manager he says
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there's not going to be any police
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going to be called which is a good sign
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so I question don't mind saying it was
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me that was here last time so we'll pull
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the camera out now i will
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walk back
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doing some videos of the different areas
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on site last time I only stayed right
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down the bottom end cuz I thought this
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was a private road
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if we see one of the gates we'll do a
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little film on it and see what we can
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see
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so we are down the bottom end
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[Music]
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we have got gate 11 which is just a car
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park so it is just a car park going on
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but they do have the 24 hours signs
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going up
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so we'll carry on walking back down
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so it's fun where I'm going to fly the
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drone from
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it's a lovely sunny day today though so
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the weather is on on my side
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we'll just stop here for two minutes
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we have got gate 9 which is the effluent
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plant
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there's all your tankages
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and your wind sock on top in case the
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gases
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escape so you know which way they're
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traveling
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mouth tanks look better on the drone I
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think and if we turn around
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we've got gate 10 which is a dry waste
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and there's a sign which says HBF4 plant
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just behind that sign there
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so there's not really much to see on
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that one some big towers maybe from when
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they're incinerating stuff so the
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smoke and plumage goes higher than what
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people are it's a lot safer
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right
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so what the main gates now
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with the visitors park and reception
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deliveries
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automatic barrier speed limit signs your
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barriers
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yeah
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your big signages
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and your main reception where I went in
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is that one there
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we got your gate one which I can't see
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what it is
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[Music]
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off roadway
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[Music]
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we've got your gate 7 which is your flow
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rides
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got some more big tanks at the back
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head room on the pipes
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some more buildings there
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[Music]
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outside the main reception though we do
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also have
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the Vic Trex flags
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flying
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[Music]
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so we carry on down
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we have got a way bridge just in there
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we have to weigh the tankers to see how
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much they've dropped off or taken out
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heat
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heat
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and there is your gate 6 bridge and just
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through that fence
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you have got your nitrogen discharge
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point which that big cylinder and
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underneath that canopy is your tanker
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discharge point
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and right in front of us we have got
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gate three the lower tank farm
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like I said we're not going to be going
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over the top of the tanks aquous waste
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loading point bulk product loading point
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exol discharge point
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in the tank farm
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we've got a distillation column buffer
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tank
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so I'm not sure what goes on in there
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i'll get the camera on that in a second
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so there is your lower tank farm
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and there's all your tanks with all um
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items that I just read out
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there all the big structures going on
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we'll head down to this entrance too
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that is gate five there's nothing saying
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what it is on there but it looks like
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it is just
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a car park
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with the barrier gate on and you got
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your speed limit signed the automatic
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barrier it does just have a key card
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point
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and no intercom so you still need to go
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to reception if you don't have your card
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with you
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right so that's everything what we can
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see on the ground
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so we'll check drone assist
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and then it is time to check into the
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skies
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[Music]
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right so Vicex
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see what we can see then get some
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footage
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the video home point updated
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so about 30 m so we're not going to be
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too high
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so I've got all your lower tank farm
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just in there
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you've got your wave bridge straight
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ahead of you
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so we're not going to go
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over the tanks
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and be responsible
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so there's your way bridge your tanker
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discharge point your nitrogen discharge
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point
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[Music]
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there's your flags and your main
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reception in there
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a gentleman coming over to us now
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so I will
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bring the drone back right over our
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heads
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hey you all right yeah
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mate I'm not I'm over the road yeah
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don't Don't bo will you no I'm over the
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road so I'm I'm a responsible pilot i
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stay over the road so I'm not going over
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your tanks or anything yeah it's uh it's
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highly dangerous
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anyway it's a like a high value coma
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site isn't it any reason why you
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Interesting
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interesting i've filmed videos on place
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I find interesting okay that sort of
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thing so yeah but please don't let it go
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over that oh no it's not look it's just
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stood still now and it is and it is just
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over the road i'm not I'm not stupid
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enough to put it over tank so I just I
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just follow the road round and just turn
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left and right so I'm not going to go
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over All right tank is there anything
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you can tell me about the place which is
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really interesting it does like thermal
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polymers doesn't it yeah it's polymer
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yeah I'm not really allowed to uh dulge
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information now now we're under strict I
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would myself but by management I could
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get into serious trouble if I Yeah no
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that's fine if you can't dulge it then
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you got to take it to that place that
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place stinks rotten yeah it's not that
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nice is it horrible no
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okay then see I'm not going over tanks
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it's not going over
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production guys if if management might I
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spoke to the plant management and he
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said he said fine so I went to reception
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first all right okay so all right all
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right mate no worries enjoy right see
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you later
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so the road down nice and friendly
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i could get into trouble for dulging
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some of the stuff what they do
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so we're still over the road
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still see it
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there's your reception
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i'm not going to go too far
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away from here with the drone any
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further forward it won't be as easy to
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see i said there's your main reception
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your car parking
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there is your effluent plant
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there were the other gates that we could
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see
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those IBC's stacked up
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more tanks
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right
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so we'll bring the drone back and we'll
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take a picture for Google Maps get the
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whole site in one shot
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right and there is your picture your
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Google Maps
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looks a hell of a lot better today than
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it did on the rainy overcast day
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before
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so
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we'll land the drone now and then we'll
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go tell the staff
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that we are all done right so the drone
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is down and put away i will just go let
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them know
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that I'm all done with it so if they see
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another one it's not me
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there's receptionist now
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hey up
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hey up i'm just going back to reception
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just to let you know that I'm finished
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with drone everything so it's down all
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right so I'll inform you so we'll have
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to go back in oh yeah it's not what you
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do with me you see I'm just house keeper
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yeah no worries oh well go ring bell
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then I'll let him know if you're
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finished so no worries thank you
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jeez just housekeeper so I will go back
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up and let them know that it's all down
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heat
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heat
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um I just spoke to site manager about 15
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minutes ago right and tell him what we
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was doing i was telling that
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everything's finished so all right
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cristiana I'm not sure what he was
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talking could have been i'm not 100%
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radio i'll tell you that's all it is
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thank you what were you doing just
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making a little video on the site found
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it interesting flew a drone up took some
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aerial pictures radio okay that's it all
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right thank you cheers no worries man
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okay I'll get
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Very
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good
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right so we are now off site again i
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told them we'd finished
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so
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I only came back to prove a point
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and it won't deter people from doing it
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so now all that's done oh it's time to
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see you in the next one thanks for
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watching
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[Music]
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