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Apr 27, 2025
LB takes a look at: The Yorkshire Green Project, Monk Fryston Substation, Leeds, LS25 5JD A look at the ongoing project just off Overton Road. Found it a very interesting place, I'm looking forward to seeing the STGs when they are installed. (Music provided by HearWeGo (https://goo.gl/nDS3zR) Artist: Nomyn Title: Astral)
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hey up and welcome to the channel today
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we're in West Yorkshire again at monk
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fryston
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substation having a look at the
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Yorkshire green energy enablement
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project and it is a significant
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initiative by National Grid to upgrade
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the electricity transmission
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infrastructure in North Yorkshire a key
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component of this project is the
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construction of a new new substation
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adjacent to the existing monk fryson
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substation the new substation will cover
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approximately 80,000 square m 8 hectares
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bringing the combined footprint of both
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substations to 147,000 square
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m and it will house four super grid
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Transformers sgts to convert the voltage
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stop right there
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GTS to convert the voltage from of the
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overhead lines from 4,000 kts to 2,000
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sorry to
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275,000
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kts with an additional 600 M of
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underground cables will connect to the
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overhead line
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circuits so we're going to have a look
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at that we'll uh talk a little bit more
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about it on the walk up to it on the old
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push rod
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again so have a walk up
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we'll walk down the right hand side of
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the road which is the side pedestrian
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should walk
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on I'll do a little bit more info into
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it and see what see what else it comes
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up
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with the works began in Autumn
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2024 with the main construction
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activities commencing early this year
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it's expected to be operational by
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2027 with the final works and site
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reinstatement anticipated by the end of
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2028 the benefits of the new
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project enhan grid
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resilience support for renewable
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energy and environmental
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enhancements
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so that's what the information we found
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out off Google and chat GPT have
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said
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so we'll have a look up around the
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site and then we'll fly the drone over
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the
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top we're not going to go over the
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substation though I am just going to go
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skir on the
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outsides so that's what I'm going to do
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if we're not in a FZ which I think we
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are somewhere near
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one which is the Sherburn
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Airfield but I don't think we are in it
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cuz we are quite near the migrant
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hotel where there's all the fly tipping
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in the wooded area nearby I'll put a
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link to that video in the channel if you
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want to see
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that so we'll carry on up and we'll cut
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to when we are near one of the entrances
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right so we are up at one of the
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entrances
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they got a big
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crane I think that's moving them big
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blue things about which could be
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generators or small
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Transformers and I've got all the what
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looks like welfare cabins or
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generators all the white big white doors
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on they got vents on each side of them
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and they I've
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got the
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big Port cabin office tower at the back
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that we'll head
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down to the next entrance
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and it is just starting to vanin but it
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looks like it's going to blow over quite
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quick it's actually hail
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stoning I think it's about
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70° out at the
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moment sorry I think it's about
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7° not 70
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got the solar powered CCTV
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cameras is a project taken on by
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Morrison utility I
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think yep Morrison Energy
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Services now I've
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got and this is for the monk rice 320
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megawatt battery energy storage
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system five golden safety rules access
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assess risks wear the correct PPE accept
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challenges reverse Park and everyone
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holds a handrail if it's not safe we
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don't do it that is from SSE
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Renewables so we'll carry on in this
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hail hopefully it'll pass over very soon
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it is a bit sore when it's wrapping on
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your knuckles
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help Beau I know it was lovely and sunny
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earlier was
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it must have a sensitive cam L
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him are you doing are you opening on
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this project Are you delivering to this
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project yeah yeah I drove past it early
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in the week I thought I'm going to come
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have a closer look do you know much
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about it or not um I love the guys can
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love
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are but I know anyone there no wores I'm
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going to carry on going down yeah right
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see in a
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bit I think that is just a c pack for
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the other contractors I said as you
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heard me say he's got a sensitive caval
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arm with this
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hill set off
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oh
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dear look at all
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the between at least six and eight 6 to
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8 mil big so they are quite big ones for
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England I got some scuffing PS just left
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here I speak to security I'll let them
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know
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he wanted the bike
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bell all right the hill stop
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now right so we're at the entrance of
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the monk ryson
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4275 kolt
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substation not much building work going
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on just a couple of diggers rent it off
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Sun Belt
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so we'll carry on going to the sight
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exess set the face covering off
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now we have got all the building work i'
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got some welfare cabins with a shower in
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so let's get past them quite
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quick down to the main entrance
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we've got a few Murphy
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Vans we goty in a big forless
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truck then we have
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got the full list of site rules for the
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drivers and visitors rep part to the
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site a agent's office safety helmet High
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Vis protective Footwear must be wor
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first aid equipment kept in the site
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office and the site manager's name and
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parents building sites are dangerous
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please keep your children
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away so what I'll do is I'll put my bike
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up
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here and we'll go for a walk more speak
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to the guy
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he hey hello I'm not I'm not coming on
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that's right I was drove past it and so
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thought it looked quite interesting so I
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come to have a quick look really is
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there anything uh interesting you tell
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me about what's what's going on like
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where the Sgt is going to be placed and
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stuff um I don't know that for sure at
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the moment all I know is that it's going
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to be like another extension of the
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substation yeah like maybe some more
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battery storage maybe like the some
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pylons will be going up somewhere along
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the way um that's pretty much all I know
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at the moment yeah no as I look on um i'
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pass side a quick Google search and on
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chat GPT and said they getting like I
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think was it six sgts somewhere yeah so
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are they going to go on the massive
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thing over there I think so yeah over
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there quite big things yeah I have to
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come back when it's fully built if I'm
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an area again yeah be a few years yet
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yeah it says uh 2027 I think yeah yeah
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be a while no of it yeah I I'd come have
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a chat with you so if you see someone
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stood around with a camera there's
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nothing nothing to worry about yeah
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sounds I'm going to put a drone up at
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some point but I'm going to not go over
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the substation I'm just going to be on
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the outside and above the pylons so I'm
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not going to be anywhere near them right
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so just just get your heads up P today
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yeah yeah right so we're doing it from
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out on road so I'm not on your on your
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land or anything but I'm just giving you
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heads up you see me stood somewhere and
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you see a drone it's just me I'm not
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going to go over the sub station on the
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pylons so I give your heads up so you're
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not going to be like people people
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sometimes panic when they see them yeah
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but it's nothing to worry about it's
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just me having a look I'm been a bit NY
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right fair enough I'm sure that
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shouldn't be an issue nobody's said
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anything against that so yeah no worries
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that's fine then fine yeah but if anyone
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does say anything you know I've informed
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you yeah so I've checked I've checked
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the airspace it's not in a flight
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restriction Zone either the nearest one
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is sh we do sometimes get planes flying
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over here yeah you know yes sh
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airfield's not far away but we are
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outside the FZ of it so right so I'll
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show you as well if you if you
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bulled but it's quite I find it
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interesting to look at
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so we got sherban
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there go
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on if it loads now it won't load now
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will it prove me a
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liar but yeah sherban comes out to about
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Lumber Garden Center and covers all all
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of sherban all right but we're just on
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the outside of it I don't have any
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signal I do I
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um so what is the footage going to be
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used
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oh just my own personal use like I made
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videos of interesting places I find yeah
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fair
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enough there we go there the substation
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here yeah and
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then yeah so I'm just going to be up and
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around the outside but I need to keep it
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in sight all the time anyway so but I'm
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not going to go over the substation cuz
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it's not really responsible is it no not
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no you don't want to hit down the power
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lines no so if anything I'll be higher
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than them but I'm not going to go over
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the actual Sub Station yeah all right
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like I said shouldn't be an issue no
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what I might suggest is National Grid is
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just up the road they're the ones that
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are like overseeing the whole thing okay
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preferably go and speak to them they'll
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be able to tell you whether they are
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okay with it or not you know yeah no wor
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then so I might just crack on if they
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want to come CH me they can chaps me out
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there fair enough but I was tell them
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exactly the same I'm not going over your
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substation it's all safe to do so all
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right no in you it's been pass it's
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bloody freezing it's got caught in that
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massive hail storm yeah it w the best
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like we no right anyway nice chat to you
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see you in a
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bit right they've been
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informed your man's got no issue with
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it he seemed he seemed really nice
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actually so I'll go just over there
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near the site access
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sign and we'll fly it from there so
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we're not in the road we're off
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it on the public Highway it does go back
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a little bit but I'm stood there I don't
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see really what the issue is I'm not
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going to go over the
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substation as I told that
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gentlemen so I will just double check
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drone assist my signals was a bit poor
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there
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and and if it is clear it is time
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to home Point
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updated
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so do have no flight
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restrictions the nearest flight
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restrictions
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start just over that road there which is
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the
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a63 so look at the new substation of the
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building look at the big Footprints of
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built
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we're going to go in a second we're not
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going to go over the top of
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it I think we
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do have
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another big footprint over
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here look at that oh the Hils come back
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bring the door down for a sec
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right we give it about 5 minutes the
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hill seems to have
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stopped so go up quite
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high it's really intermittent so it
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might be quite a short drone flight
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that's the battery
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storage the blue containers and the
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green ones
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Max altitude up 120 M now
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we're away from the
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substation go around have a quick still
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like have a look
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right well we'll bring the Drone back to
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get strong wind
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warnings and we'll take a picture for
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Google Maps
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wa
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