In the grand scheme of things, the 16 million trees in question seem like a bit of a loss, but since the majority of them were conifer plantations, many of which were, and are planted in questionable locations and cause degradation of the already fragile soils on many of Scotlands hillsides, I'm in two minds about this. If they are replaced with mixed deciduous woodland, of the sort that *should* be covering these hillsides, and still *would* be covering these hillsides, had generations of land owners not decided to chop them down in order to make "grouse moors" and "deer stalking estates" and indulged in other similar Victorian era style eco vandalism, then this might actually turn out to be a win in the long term.
@auldfouter8661
Жыл бұрын
Well who needs timber anyway ? Actually we need huge quantities and it's got very expensive.
@Peter-xx6tz
Жыл бұрын
@@auldfouter8661where did you learn to double space? Ive seen people do it everywhere and cant wrap my head around why anyone would bother with the extra space lol
@noisemaker0129
Жыл бұрын
I love the internet
@jammin023
Жыл бұрын
@@Peter-xx6tz Probably on a phone using predictive text which adds the space after each word, but they don't realise and are adding their own spaces as well.
@robinwells8879
Жыл бұрын
Why are people so anti conifers. The widespread coniferous plantations are for industrial timber production and are responsible for the explosion of the red squirrel population in Scotland once again. They were planted after the war after hundreds of merchant navy men died in the attempt to bring timber across the Atlantic for us in the uk. They do not destroy soils and indeed can significantly improve them considerably and prevent their erosion
@Purple_Banana_69
Жыл бұрын
Can we take a moment to mention the epidemic problem effecting Scotland of blue Saab's parked in every lay-by and on the side of every road. I didn't realise how serious the problem was until I saw your aerial footage 😔
@AutoShenanigans
Жыл бұрын
Bloody nightmare! I had nowhere to park...
@Tommi-C
11 ай бұрын
Blue car. Classic.
@247Trains
6 ай бұрын
@@AutoShenanigans❤
@robtyman4281
2 ай бұрын
Down in England, I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a Saab on the roads. Probably pre-pandemic. The English simply don't drive them anymore. There was a time when Saabs were 'in vogue' in England.....though that was about 30 years ago! Now you can't move for Hyundai's, Kia's, Skoda's, and increasingly, Tesla's.
@robertmcelroy3015
2 ай бұрын
Its a real challenge - something we Scots struggle with daily.
@Decrepit_biker
Жыл бұрын
I love the roads in Scotland! Much better than the straight boring roads in England! Dual carriage way A roads? Snoresville.... twisty up and down A roads .... love it! ❤
@LeeSmith-cf1vo
Жыл бұрын
Silly question: why not just go the wrong way around the roundabout? They probably have the road closed anyway (as is normal when moving unusual loads, late at night, like this) and it looks like there would be space, given the tightness of the roundabout itself. (but I admit that is just an eyeball guess)
@kenbrown2808
Жыл бұрын
it is the dynamics of getting something long and rigid around the corner. they'd most likely still have to remove obstructions no matter which way they crossed, even though those extreme overlength rigs do steer at both ends. interestingly, for US wind farms, they haul the same components at motorway speeds with just a pilot car front and back.
@LeeSmith-cf1vo
Жыл бұрын
@@kelticd5397 so they do go the wrong way and they still had to make alterations anyway? OK, fair enough then.
@FrankFurther
Жыл бұрын
Too tight a corner
@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t
Жыл бұрын
@@kenbrown2808 Yeah, but - at least after they landed in Scotland - these never got close to a motorway. Somewhere with less shit roads, maybe they do manage higher speeds.
@Einveldi
Жыл бұрын
I'd add that roundabout entries tend to have a much bigger splay than exits to allow for more vehicles to stack at the stopline. Hence, the angles are not so severe.
@derekheeps1244
Жыл бұрын
The railway may be deduced , but it has not been dismantled and indeed is still ( just ) home to the heritage railway at Dunaskin Ironworks , which sadly is due to close soon . However , the track is still present all the way from Ayr to Dalmellington , and a look at Google Earth shows that track still runs right down to the harbour . so the railway could have been a viable option .
@dandann8237
Жыл бұрын
Spot on with the Hermes/Evri reference, entertaining as always
@gavinminion8515
Жыл бұрын
To be clear, many of the trees being felled were planted as crops shortly after the second world war - they were reaching the age where they would have been felled anyway. The wind turbines just happened to come along at the right time.
@davefb
Жыл бұрын
I assume the felled trees still got transported down some insanely small road at INSANELY high speed.... Those things are terrifying :D
@malcolmyoung7866
Жыл бұрын
Yep Forestry Commision land started after WWI due to the loss of woodland to make pit props and trenches. A valuable cash crop.
@davefb
Жыл бұрын
@@malcolmyoung7866 Its kinda interesting how much more 'forestry' the uk as a whole has compared to the low point of around ww1. I mean, a lot of it is 'cash crop' stuff or another massive monoculture, but without that, I guess it would have been open grouse land? They are supposedly rectifying this when they replant, but its a long term thing, you can't just stick some trees in.
@WeeShoeyDugless
Жыл бұрын
Not really clear at all since there will be few, if any, plantations left from the post war years. Sitka Spruce, and (to a lesser extent) Larch, are felled in a rotational cycle of approximately 40 years. Many of the trees removed for the wind farms around the country were not even 20 years into their cycle. That aside, the devastating effect on the landscape of our countryside here in Scotland is beyond reproach and the main beneficiaries of these developments are the Lords & Ladies on the huge estates..... (and possibly those who receive a brown envelope or four😉😉)
@rdouthwaite
Жыл бұрын
@@WeeShoeyDugless you should see what they've done to the Shetland Islands....
@nightwolfMKT
Жыл бұрын
There's a crossroad in my town in Scotland that was changed into a mini-roundabout because it was a bit too big, everyone hated it, then a few years later they mostly changed it back (but kept the road narrowed somewhat). It was a whole weird sequence of events.
@baejavan_267
Жыл бұрын
what town is it?
@groovytirma2409
Жыл бұрын
I think my water just broke...I'm a man
@robertdewar1752
Жыл бұрын
I think that a lot of this is to do with the fact that, weirdly, the road planners have no interest in vehicles or roads. Sure they are probably highly qualified, but they have no interest in making roads actually usable.
@CrusaderSports250
Жыл бұрын
@@robertdewar1752 these days if the traffic flows freely then you have to lower the speed limit, add speed humps, narrow the road and do everything in your power to clog it up, then justify it by calling it environmental safety measures!.
@robertdewar1752
Жыл бұрын
@@CrusaderSports250 Agreed. I've never understood the logic behind making traffic slower by making the road more hazardous. All that happens is that people go out and buy bigger, heavier vehicles (SUVs) to cope with the speed bumps etc. So we're all back at square one but with more road damage, potholes etc.
@_Madfly
Жыл бұрын
Vattenfall is the Swedish state-owned energy company. Its name, which means waterfall, comes from the fact that it started out by operating hydroelectric power stations.
@SiHadlington
Жыл бұрын
And Vattenfall did deals with Scottish Power… Scottish Power are the least green energy company I know….purchasing some of the old coal fired power stations in the uk before they hit issues….fiddlers ferry and ferrybridge
@andersholt4653
Жыл бұрын
Vattenfall was/is also involved in German energy with questionable pedigree.
@ovekarlsson777
Жыл бұрын
Strange world we live in! Swedish Vattenfall build wind farms in Scotland and the biggest wind farm being built in Sweden is largely owned by the Chinese.
@TestGearJunkie.
Жыл бұрын
@@ovekarlsson777 Along with everything else 😔
@gordonmackenzie4512
Жыл бұрын
@@SiHadlingtonScottish Power is owned by the Spanish company Iberdrola. Are you thinking of SSE maybe ?
@ChakatSandwalker
Жыл бұрын
I learned about Scottish roundabouts being partially flattened to allow for turbine blades from Tom Scott's 'Lateral' podcast. Nice to see an example at last.
@Nigel4
Жыл бұрын
I used to work in Ayr and saw a lot of the convoys moving through the town at night. The clips in this video don’t really show the sheer size of the turbines, they were massive!
@glenjones6980
Жыл бұрын
And once again Jon manages to feature a few of my old haunts, just off the A77 roundabout are 3 car dealerships I used to deliver cars too regularly. A dead end road that where just a single car in the wrong spot could make it impossible to turn a 60 foot transporter around, reversing blindside the wrong way onto a bit of dual carriageway exiting the roundabout was a regular shenanigan, not one that was fun either given the racing speed/racing line many like to use leaving the A77. Ah the memories.
@PhilReynoldsLondonGeek
Жыл бұрын
On the subject of road alterations in Scotland, in Livingston part of the Houstoun Interchange was dismantled by the summer of 2005, with rumours of similar plans for Cousland Interchange. These two were two of the three full cloverleaf interchanges in the UK - the other being at Headless Cross, near Redditch. Nothing has happened at Cousland and I'm not sure why they bothered messing about with Houstoun.
@IAMPLEDGE
Жыл бұрын
It must have been a real pain whilst trying to film that some tosser kept turning up and parking his blue car in your shots.
@SportFury1966
Жыл бұрын
AND waving like a maniac.
@michaelmorgan9289
Ай бұрын
I was that tosser as I had my Drone to take photos before & after & survey the route.
@Gribbo9999
Жыл бұрын
The trees were mature plantation trees that would be cropped for timber in any case, with the preserved wood products, say for use in construction, holding carbon out of the atmosphere for many decades after felling. So really quite a good conversion of land in terms of reducing green house gasses long term.
@graememckay9972
Жыл бұрын
My mates mum was on the road crews working the tamper machine. I'm surprised you never mentioned her. That's 3 videos she's been part of and you've never given my mates mum a shout out. She's had a long a varied career so I wouldn't be surprised if she stars in future videos.
@AndyHullMcPenguin
Жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure your mates mum helps keep the Cock bridge to Tomintoul road open in the winter too. She is a veritable whirling dervish with a shovel in the snow.
@conorf8091
Жыл бұрын
Honestly can’t tell if troll
@itstheterranaut
Жыл бұрын
We've all heard about your mate's mum tampering, Graeme.
@graememckay9972
Жыл бұрын
@@Calvi36 No she was at Lancaster services last week. Polkemmet the week before.
@graememckay9972
Жыл бұрын
@@AndyHullMcPenguin She only does that for pocket money when her husband doesn't give her her full "house keeping" money.
@Endurorodzndubz
2 ай бұрын
Somerset council, have just spent £10mil building a by-pass in the wrong place, so are now having to spending £76 mil on a new motorway junction.
@janice506
2 ай бұрын
They piss peoples tax away when we work our arse off it .
@KindredBrujah
2 ай бұрын
By comparison, this seems like decent value then, really.
@robertfullard5646
Жыл бұрын
The best thing in that video.... "You could see that this wasn't a job for Evri." My question is, given their propensity for losing (ahem... Stealing) parcels... Where the hell would they hide the turbine blades. If anyone could lose them Evri could.
@IstasPumaNevada
Жыл бұрын
"Oh these? These are our really long horse trailers for our really long horses."
@ccooper8785
2 ай бұрын
Evri said in their defence that they left the turbine blade behind the blue wheely bin as requested. Can you go and check as my missing parcel may be there as well...🤔
@notapnala
2 ай бұрын
Why didn’t they just close the roundabout for 10 minutes while the lorry’s went the wrong way round for the one exit required, instead of facilitating the madness of going all the way round to take the third exit?!
@malphadour
2 ай бұрын
I was thinking exactly the same thing - the road was going to be closed anyway - so why go around the roundabout??
@user-vs5kg2ue3w
Ай бұрын
Because the inmates are running the asylum 👍
@user-lq2zk9dw3s
Ай бұрын
Going the wrong way round on a right turn makes it a tighter corner which makes the problem worse if you have a longer vehicle.
@tumshie1960
Ай бұрын
That roundabout is 4 lanes wide so gives plenty of space to go round the correct way, to go round the wrong way is a tighter turn due to the angle the A77 from the south is to the roundabout.
@mykswappedescortmk2
Жыл бұрын
The hard surface I believe is called Grasscrete. Great vid as usual 👌🏻
@SProtheroe
Жыл бұрын
Grass cell blocks is another term, used to make a hardened verge.
@s777esl6
Жыл бұрын
There were a few roundabouts from canderside toll to strathaven that were halved to allow the truck to get around with wind turbines
@itstheterranaut
Жыл бұрын
The Stonehouse one at the petrol station in particular. How I'd love to drive right across that some night.
@ryanmitcham5522
Жыл бұрын
Loved the hermes joke, it's the first time a video on youtube has made me actually laugh out loud for a long time. Cheers.
@AutoShenanigans
Жыл бұрын
Cheers mate, thanks for watching!
@PhilipMurphyExtra
Жыл бұрын
It's kind of strange to see Auto Shenanigans not on a weekend, Through I can get used to it soon enough.
@paulsengupta971
Жыл бұрын
Wait, does that mean I should have been working today?
@oliverghunter
Жыл бұрын
I'm very happy to see a new AS episode on any day of the week! 😀
@GPOTOM
10 ай бұрын
“Sub optimal” is a very polite way of describing the roads in Ayrshire. It’s been well known by the authorities that the Ayr A77 bypass has needed to be a dual carriageway since the 1990s but it still hasn’t happened. Meanwhile, new build housing estates keep springing up all around the area, adding more traffic to an already overloaded road system. It jams up every day and disrupts the flow of traffic to and from the Irish ferries at Cairnryan.
@thhc1744
Жыл бұрын
When you see them up close, the blades for those turbines are so much bigger than you'd think. They are also surprisingly intricate
@IstasPumaNevada
Жыл бұрын
I do lots of road trips in the U.S. and I love seeing them on the roads or walking up to them while they're parked at rest stops.
@Odysseuss.
2 ай бұрын
And completly non recyclable.
@farmerslim8837
Жыл бұрын
It's nice to see the company I work for feature in one of your videos, Collett Transport. The wind farm drivers certainly earn their wages and have to spend many months away from home while the weather is good. Keep up the great work with the videos dude.
@richardwebb5317
2 ай бұрын
The trucks that lift the blades to get around some corners are very impressive. The movements around Selkirk in the past year were the ultimate KLF JAMM tribute.
@MrGreatplum
Жыл бұрын
I was in Luxembourg last week and was ushered off the road by police to allow for a wind turbine blade to come down the very narrow valley. The whole thing was controlled by a guy walking alongside with a radio control!
@KindredBrujah
2 ай бұрын
Yeah, they're called SPMTs and are sometimes needed those for particularly difficult sections as they do away with the cab at the front (and sometimes back) and can therefore navigate much tighter bends.
@MrGreatplum
2 ай бұрын
@@KindredBrujah - thanks - it was a clever bit of kit!
@nigelnightmare4160
2 ай бұрын
Short answer: They didn't spend that amount on altering the road, most of it went to backhanders, bribes and motorhomes.
@user-ho4rv6kg8u
2 ай бұрын
Operation Branchform?
@sambarker7930
Жыл бұрын
There’s one corner near me, which is on the side of a hill, and at the point two lochs/glens meet called Strone Point. This used to be a bit of an accident hotspot (several deadly accidents, over many decades), but no real improvement work was carried out. When the wind farms started to appear though this bend needed some attention, and it got some much needed attention (reducing the sharpness of the corner). It’s still a bit of a slow corner, but given the wider carriageway and extra camber, if you go in too quick you should be able to come out of it. I can’t recall an accident there since it was reworked for the wind farm traffic
@lp9280
Жыл бұрын
So let me get this straight - tax payers paid for road widening, so that private company can transport wind turbines and sell the energy for profit?! Are they paying back £67 million? Or am I missing anything?
@flyingpanhandle
Жыл бұрын
Yes, through taxes. Windfarms already pay more tax than oil and gas exploration, yet get a fraction of their subsidies.
@RichardWatt
Жыл бұрын
It's the Scottish government- they're officially off the rails.
@Malc180s
Жыл бұрын
If that's the case it's about the best deal the SNP have ever struck.
@lp9280
Жыл бұрын
@@flyingpanhandle taxes from oil, even if not exploration itself, raises 28 billion a year. So at least from tax perspective oil pays a lot.
@KindredBrujah
2 ай бұрын
No, the company building and operating the wind farm will have paid for the public road improvements required to get their turbines to site.
@dazzwsmith
Жыл бұрын
I did a similar abnormal loads route plan for a site in North Northumberland off the A1. Let's just say the AutoTrack required some specialist vehicle models to get it to work. Also, never forget abandoned scheduled monuments (1800s mile posts) lost to time in foliage.
@John...44...
Жыл бұрын
Very few people here are going to know what autoTrack is lol
@juncusbufonius
Жыл бұрын
I agree with @AndyHullMcPenguin those 16 million trees have very little value both environmentally and economically. There was a big push post WWII to plant conifer plantations. The problem is in the highlands they replaced Caledonian forests which have a high environmental value with timber that is likely only good for pulping (paper & mdf). We planted trees that will not compete on the market with Scandinavia or NW USA trees. Remember these were planted with grants so the incentive was higher than their value. In effect the wind turbines are a win win scenario since the conifer plantations are dead places on the ground unlike native Scottish forests or broadleaved hard woods lower down and of course the reduction in CO2 benefits everyone not just the Scots. There is a lot of restoration work to be done in the UK as a whole. I've been an ecologist for 30yrs and only now is restoration happening where before it was a Canute like holding back of destruction as much as possible. The Wildlife Trusts are aiming for 30x30. That is 30% of the land in a good state for wildlife by 2030. Support your local wildlife groups to help. In my county we have somewhere in the region of 15-20% to go to get that result but it is achievable and whatever we do is better that losing it.
@richardwebb5317
2 ай бұрын
There is value - we have a problem now with the forestry cycles having a dip with fewer plantations at harvest time - and house building is at a high level. Sitka is a valuable timber, houses are built using it. Very few old growth Caledonian forest was replaced. Most of it had already gone centuries ago. Having said that, a fair bit of Dumfriesshire heads to Chirk to make chipboard and windthrow ruins many coupes.
@brucegoatly
Жыл бұрын
A couple of months ago Tom Scott did a Lateral Highlight on why some roundabouts in Scotland got chopped in half. (Spoiler: same reason.)
@AutoShenanigans
Жыл бұрын
Originally, That's what the video was going to be about.. however, I'm not sure Mr. Scott was entirely correct ;-)
@brucegoatly
Жыл бұрын
Wouldn't be the first time...@@AutoShenanigans
@meditationwithjake
Жыл бұрын
"it's now a racing bridge" gave me all the lols.
@AutoShenanigans
Жыл бұрын
Cheers mate, thanks for watching!
@weesketchyhaggis5392
Жыл бұрын
And in Dundee we just built roadways through the middle of roundabouts to get wind turbine parts transported from our docks.
@John64125
2 ай бұрын
That’s actually quite practical. Saves dicking around with entrances and exits like they did here. This chaos will continue for many years unfortunately.
@BeanoMark
Жыл бұрын
Aerial drone super footage of widened roads with a parked Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab!
@matthewpike7811
Жыл бұрын
This is a fantastic short video Jon, find this really interesting around enabling works for other infrastructure projects. Another project that you could look into is the support road network for HS2. They are building a road the length of HS2 Phase 1 so not just a new rail link but also a new road to support this. May not be completed for some time though!
@AutoShenanigans
Жыл бұрын
Cheers mate, thanks for watching!
@neilshirley
2 ай бұрын
Great video. That sounds like an awful lot of money for a couple of small road widening projects!
@weebolddavy
Жыл бұрын
Spare a thought for us in Wales where we would die for roads as good as Scotland's. Our 'government' are about to spend £32 Million changing EVERY 30mph road into a 20mph limit in September. They're spending that money despite local authorities having to make huge spending cuts because of a £340 Million deficit. If you're visiting Wales you better allow more time for your journeys!
@itstheterranaut
Жыл бұрын
Something's gotta pay for all those dual-language road signs. (I'm in Scotland, and jesting of course)
@paulsengupta971
Жыл бұрын
Yep, as a Welshman, it's stupid and unnecessary, and is just part of the Labour power trip.
@IstasPumaNevada
Жыл бұрын
Reducing the speed limit through built-up / residential areas to 20mph sounds like a great idea to me.
@paulsengupta971
Жыл бұрын
@@IstasPumaNevadaBut not on main roads.
@jonevansauthor
Жыл бұрын
That's crazy and irrational. Cars are heading toward self driving, and even if that takes ten years, we simply won't need low speed limits anymore. Thankfully they aren't about to spend £1.5 billion on trams of all things.
@ianross225
11 ай бұрын
I worked for Babcock’s in Renfrew in the 80s. Back then they had to modify roads to get huge sections of boiler components on to the motorways to build Drax Power Station. 40 years later and we’re doing the same thing although the trees we’re destroying are for green energy in the guise of wind turbines. Not just that, thought. Drax is now being subsidised to destroy North American trees to supply power to the grid. But not to worry, they plant new ones which one day (not in most peoples’ lifetime) will balance out the CO2 emitted. The fact that burning coal would produce less CO2 and the trees could still remove it are mere details in this odd eco world we live in.
@TheTomco11
Жыл бұрын
I don't know about this specific project but a lot of these windfarms are being built on monoculture forestry land so the ecological impact is relatively small, and the trees were going to be cut down at some point regardless. Also wind turbines reduce carbon output from fossil fuel power generation significantly more than the trees absorbed so it's still a net benefit in carbon emissions
@DaveFiggley
Жыл бұрын
Show us your working for the CO2 figures created during manufacture, transport, road works, construction and then maintenance of these windmills x50 and get back to us.
@cullercoatswebsite
Жыл бұрын
16 million trees lost....but the "green energy" dreamers don't care about the environment do they ?
@musuko42
Жыл бұрын
@@DaveFiggley Does fossil fuel power generation not require those things?
@AndyHullMcPenguin
Жыл бұрын
@@DaveFiggley "Tree offset calculation is based on a tree planted in the humid tropics absorbing on average 50 pounds (22 kg) of carbon dioxide annually over 40 years . Each tree will absorb 1 ton of CO2 over its lifetime; but as trees grow, they compete for resources and some may die or be destroyed - not all will achieve their full carbon sequestration potential. This calculation assumes that 5 trees should be planted to ensure that at least one lives to 40 years or that their combined sequestration equals 1 ton." - This is one of many ways to calculate CO2 in trees, but it is close enough for the purposes of this debate. Generally speaking a tree growing to maturity equals about a metric ton of CO2 give or take. In the case of the millions of Scottish trees chopped down, this CO2 is going to be turned into "pencils, toilet rolls, Ikea furniture and magazine blow in adverts". This was always going to be its fate, but perhaps the trees reached the Timber Particle Board factory a little quicker than they might have done otherwise. So in summary, the conifer plantations of Scotland are a short term carbon sink anyway, since they are destined to be "consumed" and a fair amount of their CO2 is going to go back in the atmosphere. Hence my comment above about planting mixed deciduous trees rather than pencils and toilet rolls. Deciduous trees grow over much longer periods and tend to keep their carbon locked up. As to the amount of CO2 used to build the turbines, it is not even within an three orders of magnitude of the amount released by gas fired or coal fired plant of similar capacity over their life time. Arguably nuclear energy is as green as wind power, but it has proven rather difficult to sell this idea to the public.
@Sam-es2gf
Жыл бұрын
@@DaveFiggleyburning fossil fuels produces far worse pollutants than co2. The main reason co2 gets mentioned is because it's the one most people recognise so industry shills pretend it's the only one that matters.
@southcalder
Жыл бұрын
My road to work takes in the A704 and A71, which recently had to have some minor modification works to allow a small wind farm extension to be constructed. But rather than widen the worst corner on the road, they simply built an almost straight line cutoff across a field. They removed several traffic islands, cut weird notches in roundabouts (including one which decimated a habitat for what seemed like hundreds of bunnies) and removed so much signage I thought the Nazis were coming back. However, I often encountered the oncoming turbine parts at just after 5am. I’d be driving along and see that someone had flattened the little traffic island bollards with a sandbag. That was my clue that somewhere ahead was a massive load taking up 80% of the road width and coming towards me. I took some interesting detours those mornings.
@micrashed
Жыл бұрын
Possibly the best visual representation of Evri ever.
@AutoShenanigans
Жыл бұрын
Cheers mate, thanks for watching!
@oliverwilliams3572
Жыл бұрын
The Evri sequence made me laugh far harder than it should have 😅
@stusmith1074
Жыл бұрын
Why not just have a gated road straight across the roundabout like they do around Stoke on Trent area for transportation of massive turbines built by GEC Alsthom.
@danielmarshall4587
Жыл бұрын
How splendid to have this mid week video many thanks AND the heavy haulage specialist in your vid has a depot here in Happyfax.
@AutoShenanigans
Жыл бұрын
Cheers mate, thanks for watching!
@NeilCuthbert
Жыл бұрын
They did a similar thing with the A822 when the Griffin Wind Farm was built near Aberfeldy.
@drewwithey7326
Жыл бұрын
I instantly "liked" this video for your Evri short! Classic!
@billy4072
Жыл бұрын
I'm impressed , your Gaelic has come on. You got Ayr ..bang on . ✅😂
@auldfouter8661
Жыл бұрын
I was disappointed with his rendition of Dalmellington though. What's wrong with Da'mel't'n ?
@toxictony4230
Жыл бұрын
I had the misfortune getting stuck behind one of those blades destined to be part of the Walney wind farm and can confirm they are bloody massive. I think the technical term you are looking for at 4:10 is Rumble Strip.
@Dr.Ian-Plect
Жыл бұрын
not rumble strip, grass blocking
@GlensTransport
Жыл бұрын
It's grasscrete, or a similar product with a different name.
@toxictony4230
Жыл бұрын
You do realize I was been a bit 'tongue-in-cheek' with that last statement.
@ericjames9475
2 ай бұрын
Good information,good speedy presentation.
@typhoon2827
Жыл бұрын
There's no fucking way that lot cost £67m but I'm not surprised. Money goes missing in Scotland, willy-nilly since devolution...
@janice506
2 ай бұрын
Probably funding Hamas remember all them secret meetings Humza had with foreign ministers without the foreign secretary there.
@saintuk70
Жыл бұрын
Lol - love the "not to scale" ;)
@charliebadger
Жыл бұрын
"A racing Bridge". Love it :)
@qwertyTRiG
Жыл бұрын
This was a question on Lateral with Tom Scott recently.
@badabing8884
Жыл бұрын
Put them up near Trump’s golf course. It’ll drive him mad.
@barrieshepherd7694
Жыл бұрын
Great idea - can we start a Crowdfunding for that - and add a Solar Farm as well.
@richardwebb5317
2 ай бұрын
He's already there.
@metropod
Жыл бұрын
This was a question on Tom Scott’s “Lateral” podcast a while back…
@rikardottosson1272
Жыл бұрын
Vattenfall is a Swedish state-owned energy company. The name means "waterfall", so yea, they mostly did hydropower, but clearly they've branched out to destroying ecosystems in Scotland.
@heroinwithease
Жыл бұрын
The Swedish are trying to drag us down with them
@FortuneZer0
Жыл бұрын
Strange. I was under the impression the scottish were perfectly capable of doing that on their own.
@anperson8329
Жыл бұрын
I'm guessing they had an itch they felt they needed to scratch after having to sell those coal plants in Germany.
@4879daniel
Жыл бұрын
And Norwegian companies have taken over the coast for fish farming.
@flyingpanhandle
Жыл бұрын
Yeah screw em. Lets burn coal instead. At least trees can be replaced.
@johnpaterson6112
Ай бұрын
Most of the trees in Scotland are grown commercially (silviculture). When they are cut down, they are a crop to be used. They are destroyed only in the same way that wheat is when harvested.
@IAMPLEDGE
Жыл бұрын
Isn't that additional surface grasscrete, ie the stuff used to create parking space that allows grass to grow through it?
@samuelhitchcock6219
Жыл бұрын
Yep, grasscrete 👍
@dalriada842
2 ай бұрын
Evri delivery drivers must be the same everywhere, then. I laughed at the fragile parcel being kicked. It's so true to life. That and parcels being abandoned on front doorsteps in full view of any passing thief.
@PenryMMJ
Жыл бұрын
I'm not convinced that work would have cost £67 million if it was paid for by the companies building the windfarms. But when it's being paid for by the green energy levy that's added onto everyone's electricity bill, then I'm a bit surprised that they didn't charge even more.
@England58
Жыл бұрын
The Green levy is yet another example of making ordinary people pay through the nose to support this Globalist ideology along with Ulez's, heat pumps, car scrappage, gas boiler scrappage, oil boiler scrappage etc etc.😡
@WeeShoeyDugless
Жыл бұрын
You don't get a whole lot for 67 million nowadays when it comes to road/rail construction. It wouldn't surprise me if that wasnt a rather conservative figure.
@551moley
Жыл бұрын
The job cost £1 million, the heath and safety B/S cost £66 million, including a few brown envelopes to grease a few palms.
@katrinabryce
Жыл бұрын
Replacing a mini roundabout with a set of traffic lights near me cost them £950,000 15 years ago.
@MummaBear
Жыл бұрын
Turbines use energy from the grid to get them going🤦♀️ Government are chucking money at "green" companies because the MP's invest in these latest scams.
@egpx
Жыл бұрын
Nice to see the Whitletts Roundabout on Auto Shenanigans. It really is a barrel of shite. There's four narrow lanes going round it that are poorly delineated with traffic light control both on and off. Locals, like me, find it hard enough to get into the correct lane once the light goes green, those who are only visiting have no chance. It's a shame the £67 million wasn't all spent on ripping the whole thing up and starting again.
@missbitch67
Жыл бұрын
Totally agree there, I'm positive that roundabout would flow much better without the lights. Especially as most don't know how to use a roundabout with bloody lights.
@egpx
Жыл бұрын
@@missbitch67 what should have been done was to continue the dual carriageway south of Whitletts to the Holmston roundabout rather than have that stretch of single carriageway which was a notorious accident blackspot until they realised three lane roads were a bit stupid. They could then have routed the entire thing through and underpass or flyover with sliproads to a normal roundabout junction.
@D_B_Cooper
Жыл бұрын
It's a disaster
@neiljones5772
Жыл бұрын
Trying to fit these components along roads is the kind of thing I do most every day so I really enjoyed the video and I couldn't be bothered to trawl all the comments but £67M is for the whole windfarm project - the public road improvements would be a significantly lower figure.
@andy2200a
11 ай бұрын
Dont know how ive come across this channel, but i can't stop watching them. Ive travelled these roads a lot the last 2 years and was unaware of this til now.
@sylviodante619
Жыл бұрын
16,000,000 trees That’s some wood
@damiendye6623
Жыл бұрын
he hasn't said that they have removed non native specie and replaced them with native ones which is better for the enviroment overall.
@frmcf
Жыл бұрын
Worth noting that it is all man-made managed forest. These trees are a cash crop, not pristine forest, so not such a big deal to clear them
@paulsengupta971
Жыл бұрын
A lot of pallets.
@richardwebb5317
2 ай бұрын
@@paulsengupta971 And houses!
@corroded
Жыл бұрын
"So it's now a racing bridge" ... you're lucky I finished my tea!!
@Galerak1
Жыл бұрын
Excellent job tracking down that £67 million Jon, I didn't realise the SNP were that keen on keeping records about where the money was spent 😁😂
@alanginger7636
Жыл бұрын
bloody brilliant, love that everi bit
@AutoShenanigans
Жыл бұрын
Cheers mate, thanks for watching!
@tedcopple101
Жыл бұрын
Just had a week in Edinburgh and in all the many towns and cities I've been to I've never known a place where the traffic lights and crossings were so close together. On one section on our way to Leith there was precisely 2 car lengths between two sets of traffic lights. Surprisingly there was a large build up of traffic behind it, completely unnecessarily so.
@nicholasmaycock267
Жыл бұрын
Barely a junction in Edinburgh without traffic lights and separate pedestrian crossings between those Junctions. Traffic light salesmans dream.
@annabelholland
Жыл бұрын
Has it got something to do with the trams? They have been running there since june 2023 (or march 2023 for testing purposes) and trams normally get priority subject to traffic.
@Mick526
Жыл бұрын
"so it's now a racing bridge" Brilliant 😂😂
@mikepalmer8
Жыл бұрын
Complaining about cutting down conifers that were planted as a crop is like complaining that they cut down wheat to make bread
@IstasPumaNevada
Жыл бұрын
Indeed. Plus this windfarm takes up less area than the combined floor plans of the houses they power (per house, it's about 75% of the floor area of the average U.K. home), and produces 1/50th the CO2 per power generated of natural gas power plants (Scotland's largest power source in 2002).
@WeeShoeyDugless
11 ай бұрын
You don't cut wheat before its ripe and it shouldn't happen to conifer plantations either, many many of which these were. No excuses, it was wrong and it will prove itself to be wrong when the windmills go out of fashion in a decade or so.
@brokengirl248
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant video again. Thanks John Wishing you well hope your OK xx
@AutoShenanigans
Жыл бұрын
Nice one, thanks for watching! :)
@blah7956
Жыл бұрын
Just bite the bullet and build nuclear.
@RichardWatt
Жыл бұрын
The SNP don't like nuclear - they'd have to be voted out in favour of a party that would build nuclear power stations.
@barrieshepherd7694
Жыл бұрын
@@RichardWatt So double benefit then 😂
@sputumtube
Жыл бұрын
3.26 - "so now it's a racing bridge". Spat my beer out laughing...!!
@user-ug8wx5er1w
Жыл бұрын
My council spent £600k on one bus stop 🤷🏽♂️
@rogersimmons8788
Жыл бұрын
Blimey, my brother and I could have done it for half that!
@Scientist538
Жыл бұрын
government is the best at spending other peoples money
@richardwebb5317
2 ай бұрын
@@Scientist538 Never needed a school, hospital or road then? Well done!
@Scientist538
2 ай бұрын
@@richardwebb5317 government sucks at funding these, they just give out the contract to 'private companies' their pals run and leak the auction data to them so they always win then they overspend and deliver late. Much better to let the public self organise.
@rigamortice
2 ай бұрын
They need to fix the bloody potholes
@thesuperknot_
Жыл бұрын
I first heard about this on Lateral with Tom Scott and was hoping someone would come along with details. Thank you!
@paulsengupta971
Жыл бұрын
I was going to mention that. When I saw that episode I immediately thought of wind turbine components having to be transported.
@GlensTransport
Жыл бұрын
Tom Scott doing his usual "one example of a thing means this is everywhere" hyperbole. Like his questionable claims about vinegar and chip shops.
@andrewwmacfadyen6958
2 ай бұрын
Nothing new in the 1940 roads were widened and lamp posts moved back from the edge of the road to enable fully assembled Spitfires being ferried to Malta to be moved from airfield where yhey they landed to the docks to be hoisted onboard aircraft carriers
@ianstewartorr8455
Жыл бұрын
Holyrood and the SNP have been full of wind for years and years
@billybean8859
Жыл бұрын
Another information packed video from the constantly brilliant Johnny two hats
@struanpeat5116
Жыл бұрын
if you ever want to cover a non-motorway with a wild story from start to end (litterally) check out the A9
@skidartist5720
Жыл бұрын
From above on the roundabout at 0.40 you can see the hedges that used to line the lane that existed before the Ayr bypass was built
@adamcowood7553
Жыл бұрын
Is there a special wind turbine blade licence you need to drive that half Titanic length around town? I also read that if one blade is damaged in transit, they have to scrap all 3 blades for that turbine. Due to being balanced to only work with the other 2. Not sure how true that is but sounds plausible.
@cyberleaderandy1
Жыл бұрын
Probably true as blade in a plane engine turbine are definately balanced during assembly to stop vibration.
@Cheezsoup
Жыл бұрын
Sounds a bit like, adding a (postage) stamp to a helicopter blade will destabilise it . Sounds plausible, but more than two seconds thought will illustrate what a heap that idea is.
@paulsengupta971
Жыл бұрын
I wouldn't say scrap - I would suspect they'd be matched with other blades to be balanced. I suspect you can also balance blades by adding or removing material.
@IstasPumaNevada
Жыл бұрын
If they can balance the blades once, they can re-balance them later. (If you have to say or think 'not sure how true that is', maybe the info doesn't need to be shared, or should be re-phrased as a question instead of a statement.)
@eurodaily
Жыл бұрын
You can drive it on a normal LGV 1 licence ive a video on my channel of a ex stobbart driver doing a 32m 100 ton bridge beam
@nigelpickett2471
Жыл бұрын
I remember delivering containers to the Ben A Tuich? windfarm on the Kintyre peninsular. Several of us had to drive 8 miles off road through the forest on dirt tracks with a 45" trailer, it was not for the feint hearted I all tell you. I'm still wondering how they got the big stuff up there.
@MayorofDipshittery-lq7if
Жыл бұрын
Put the wind farms near Holyrood, plenty wasted air comes out of that white elephant daily.
@MyKharli
2 ай бұрын
Just up the road from me , was fascinating watching the lorries get through impossible looking roads , and the wind farm looks fantastic , fo nimbies .
@BunnyKins1970
Жыл бұрын
Play fair now....those trees, like the Whitelees forest, were planted as a crop and were always intended to be felled. The fact they are replaced with windfarms is a happy outcome. They could just as easily have been a massive housing scheme which would require power rather than producing it. 😁 💚🐇🐴💚
@IstasPumaNevada
Жыл бұрын
Indeed. Also, that's about 0.01 acres of land to power a home, or less than the floor area of an average U.K. home, for a power source that produces about 1/50th the CO2 of something like a natural gas plant. Renewable energy _is_ fantastic.
@rdouthwaite
Жыл бұрын
@@IstasPumaNevada you do still need to factor in area of the road built to access each turbine.
@WillCamx
Жыл бұрын
@@IstasPumaNevadaHow much CO2 was produced making the wind turbines and transporting them?
@markfox1545
Жыл бұрын
Brainwashed idiot - no wind turbine EVER produces enough power in its lifetime to even account for the energy used to build, transport, erect, maintain and dispose of it. Every one is a net drain of energy.
@richardwebb5317
2 ай бұрын
Housing scheme - guess where a lot of those trees end up.
@JamesAnderson-fv3yo
Жыл бұрын
Same thing got done in Dundee a few years ago for wind turbine components ended up putting a lane right through the middle of a roundabout (circle for the locals😂).
@gberreta4058
Жыл бұрын
SNP & Greens - embarrassing Scotland every day.
@chrisshelley3027
Жыл бұрын
You are right about EVRI, I've had quite a bit of stuff delivered by them and they just leave it on the doorstep in full view of anyone passing, a wind turbine would stand out quite a lot I'm guessing and the Twatts around here would have it weighed in minutes later if they noticed it.
@Ben_B_Artist
Жыл бұрын
wait, you actually received your packages from Evri?
@chrisshelley3027
Жыл бұрын
@@Ben_B_Artist some items, many I haven't but I don't know if they've been delivered then nicked.
@TCO345
8 ай бұрын
why go round clock wise ?. Just stop the traffic and turn right at the roundabout ffs.
@John64125
2 ай бұрын
Don’t think it would work. It would need more space on the right. The way they approached it the roundabout is in the middle of a really wide right turn. The blades are lifted above most obstacles, height isn’t usually the issue, it’s the length of the things that causes the problem.
@thomasshepard6030
Жыл бұрын
When they came to the roundabout why did they not just go right instead of going left and all the way round all they had to do was altered the carriage way
@Divisibly9610
Жыл бұрын
Not sure if you realised this or not, but trees do grow back. They will also will replant native species which is generally better for an ecosystem. I get that it was an easy jab though, so I'll let you off. Loving your videos as usual!
@smelge
Жыл бұрын
They also tend to build the windfarms in forests that are managed for wood production anyway, so they would have been felled then replanted anyway.
@CycolacFan
Жыл бұрын
The wind turbines last, what 25-30 years? Then they can cut down all the trees again to dig the hole to bury the bits that can’t be recycled 🙂
@Cheezsoup
Жыл бұрын
And newly planted (I.E.young) trees capture more carbon than mature trees . And those miles and miles of Conifers are Forestry commision anyway (crop trees) and should be replaced with geneticaly diverse native trees . A bit of a hobby horse of mine, people go on about "ah Scotland miles and miles of trees", but they are all one species normal trees don't grow like that the trees should be of diverse species and of all different ages.
@Divisibly9610
Жыл бұрын
@@CycolacFan I understand, but what's the problem with burying waste? If it's inert bury it. The earth is huge, we can and should be burying this stuff until it makes sense to recycle. To put this into perspective, the EU will discard about 650k tons of blades between 2044 and 2049, or 130k tons per year. That's less than 300 grams per EU citizen.
@IstasPumaNevada
Жыл бұрын
@@CycolacFan Taking into account manufacture, installation, maintenance, and end-of-life disposal/recycling, wind turbines still only produce about 1/50th the CO2 (or equivalent) per power generated that a natural gas power plant does. Unless you're going to convince people to stop using electricity, wind turbines are a great option.
@catastrophic009
Жыл бұрын
No wonder our energy bills will never ever be low again ! Those days are long gone !
@Scientist538
Жыл бұрын
wind energy, basically its a scam lol
@auldfouter8661
Жыл бұрын
Compared to what?
@stacksmalacks8826
Жыл бұрын
the fuckin irony of you being called "scientist"
@Scientist538
Жыл бұрын
4th gen nuclear fission is my favorite up and coming energy source, do some research about molten salt reactors in particular, sadly whilst the US discovered and developed this technology in the 1960s it was mothballed in the early 70s just when they were ready to scale it up for commercial use because the cycle was unable to produce weapons grade material. These days China is at the forefront of MSR development which can be mass produced in factory assembly line (something not yet possible for fission). I suspect after China has perfected this technology the west will rush to try and catch up so it will be then you'll start hearing about it. These reactors are fueled with 'nuclear waste' aka spent fuel and only produce 1% waste of their own which contains important medical grade isotopes and fuel for deep space exploration. The green racket is a scam designed to give an easy play for the elite and extract wealth from tax payers whilst also reducing freedoms of individuals. A keen set of eyes will notice a trend in these types of schemes, covid was a very transparent racket that we've recently endured that massively enriched the architects of the response. Another older example of one of these schemes was the war on terror. Problem, reaction, solution type thinking designed to extract wealth and restrict freedom.@@auldfouter8661
@barrieshepherd7694
Жыл бұрын
@@auldfouter8661 Hydro, solar, nuclear
@richardwebb5317
2 ай бұрын
@@barrieshepherd7694 They wind the nutters and conspiracy morons up just as much.
@jobbiejew
Жыл бұрын
Yay! Finally my area! A719 - better known as Whitletts Road.
@woden20
Жыл бұрын
The funniest part is it takes more energy to build one than the amount it gives back in it's 20yrs service.
@damiendye6623
Жыл бұрын
lie
@frmcf
Жыл бұрын
Yes, if by ‘funny’ you mean ‘untrue’.
@pietweety7020
Жыл бұрын
Coal an oil are the future, much cheaper and readily available 😊
@stacksmalacks8826
Жыл бұрын
Just blatant misinformation there mate
@pilkipilki4472
Жыл бұрын
not just that they could not be made without oil
@mickmorrison
Ай бұрын
On Wednesday driving from Glasgow to England and not one wind turbine was turning.
@markarnold8160
Жыл бұрын
To think how much is spent on feasability studies for this sort of thing, and there's a man in Northamptonshire wearing a Peaky Blinder cap who could tell them it's a carbon positive situation for much less. Bravo Jon!
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