Nice! I was actually working on the same type of turbine (but the version with electric pitch system) today, I like these types of videos where I can show people what I do for a living
@@saasch_baasch no it's in northern Germany, but I'm not sure if there's 1300's with it, the one I worked on was a 1000 but they're essentially identical aside from the weaker generator 😄
@@falco3471 yeah the an bonus hydraulic hubs are usually very messy from my experience, the electric ones are much better (still some grease from the lubrication but at least it's not covered with hydraulic oil)
@@KiRiTO72987 I'm pretty sure they know that. It's an over exaggeration. But could you imagine climbing 100 miles via a fucking ladder? That would no joke take you about 6 weeks. Imagine getting to the top only to realise you forgot something. It's like with these jobs with climbing up something that takes 20 + minutes to get to the top, what happens when all of a sudden you now need a piss? I've had that at work, and I've only ever been a 3 minute walk away from the toilets at most. I can't imagine being 300' up and now my body decides it need to get rid of fluid or solids...
@@jonnywilson9117 Not that there is any amount of money you could pay me to go up in one of these things but if you did manager to get me up there I am tied to 3 things at all times even with the hatch closed and no visible route to fall.
That's what gets me about people complaining about the internet. While there's bad, there's far more good imo. And shit like this, even 20 years ago we'd never be able to see unless you did the job. Being able to be up a few hundred feet in the air from the comfort of my bedroom is pretty fickin cool
I love how you can touch the machine and tell from the vibrations if it's doing what it's supposed to. I could do that when I worked at the Sugar factory. I could tell if something was spinning the way it was supposed to be doing by just taking my shoes off and touching the floor
Very interesting. I used to repair the electronics from these things . Never got into one though. Wouldn't have minded doing that. We used to also repair the pitch sensors for the blades. Must have been coooold up there., nice video. Thanks for sharing.
I was just about to comment that this looks cozy for an apocalyptic scenario. Zombies in particular would have a rough time getting up there, and people would ignore it... until they realized it could be good for scrap, or power if they knew how to harness it.
RUclips's algorithm thought I might like this video. RUclips was correct. And the funny thing is that I was sceptical at first, and fully entertained at the end 😊. As if RUclips knows what I like better that I do.
Many thanks for this video. I am intensely interested in wind generators but as all the sites are posted and gated off for obvious reasons I can’t even get close to any. What a job. Amazing machines.
As a person who spent a long time, years, climbing ladders for commercial property maintenance, you develop "buns and legs of steel"...some of the best exercise there is for lower body😊
Fascinating video. I'm wondering if this kind of service is done solo in North America - I would think the confined space work in the hub would sensibly require a second person.
Excellent video my friend. You climbed down that turbine alot faster then you climbed up 🤣 big snag list 🤠 Refurbished annometers and wind vanes are the worst. Bearings always fail. Heater on wind instrument is probability cracked? . Iv never heard noise that bad from hub? Blade bearings are leaking plenty grease. I wonder would it be a blade bearings or pitch ram problem? I like this turbine.looked Easy to lock rotor . 😉
Hey👍🏻, finde es auch interessant, mal einen Einblick in so eine Anlage zu bekommen. Von dem Typ stehen bei mir in der Nähe auch noch 4 Anlagen, wovon eine aber immer mal steht. Danke und grüße aus Thüringen/Weimarer Land!
Man, I’d love to have this as a profession. I’m a hardware guy and these wind turbines always mesmerizes me. You get a great view, and probably get fit as well climbing all of those ladders
Thanks for this very nice and detailed video! That would be my dream job! Unfortunately, I have fear of height so I will continue to see other doing that 😂
Great video, very interesting! With the anemometer not functioning properly, does it have alternative means of determining windspeed? I would it assume it critical it knows windspeed at all times for protection against high wind conditions?
The wind speed is a necessary value to ensure the safety of the turbine. Unfortunately, this turbine has no redundancy. This anemometer needs to be replaced.
@@saasch_baasch I would suspect the turbine to the left or the right would give a damn good estimate wind speed, Is there any cross communication back to a central control room?
Hast du welche in deiner Nähe? Frag einfach mal beim Betreiber an, muss eigentlich immer eine Nummer außen an der WEA stehen. Die sind da meistens kulant, wenn nicht gleich eine ganze reisegruppe hoch möchte 😄
Frag doch einfach mal nach wenn du jemanden dran stehen siehst , bisher keine schlechten Erfahrungen gemacht auch wenn es unterschiedliche Firmen sind 👍
The first time I saw a wind turbine I thought "man that's kinda cool looking" and then years later driving through central and northern Illinois I witnessed "farms" and all I could think was how dystopian and what an eyesore they all were.
The whole time the main hatch doors were open I thought he should be tied off. Also going into the blade yaw mechanism through that small hatch looked sketchy and needed tie off.
You know, I'm not normally afraid of heights. I can stand on a mountain ridge and look down into a canyon with no problem. I can fly at 9500 ft with my son all day long, gawking out the window and enjoying myself. But when you popped that top open and climbed out to fiddle with the weather gear, I started getting a squirrely feeling in my legs. Never mind the fact that you used your PPE effectively and were very careful, and never mind the fact that I was sitting on my couch in my front room, I was feeling every second of it. Whew.
as someone with severe vertigo (höhenangst), everything was A-OK right up to 4:37 ... shudders 😖 still forced myself to watch it all the way through and while i could never do something like this, was still interesting to watch 👍
I'm getting chills through my body & vertigo feeling like I'm going to pass out just watching this video never was that way as far as heights are concerned until my late 30's
Locking the rotation of the hub was done with a manual locking mechanism before entering the hub. The rotation (angle of attack) of the blades themselves was not locked, as he tested them while in the hub.
is there a reason that they don't just put witness marks on the nuts and bolts when they're originally torqued? makes inspecting for loosened fasteners a simple visual test.
Yeah, I was thinking that finding a loose or out of torque spec nut, it could be marked on the casing beside it with date and either T or L to keep track for next inspection.
I need to climb one of these now, and I have fear of heights. No seriously, doing something like that would help me succeed in life by overcoming a greater fear and making everything else less scary.
Depending on where you are located, there are plenty of jobs, especially in Europe. You can either choose manufacturers, service providers, operation management or other like inspections or specialized repair companies. I suggest you visit a fair, for example "Hamburg wind", "Husum wind", the fair in Bilbao and so on. I am sure you will find a job ;-)
I think the best place for that is central and west europe, as for a brit person in Poland Im going to have to either move to the northern side of Poland or to Germany.
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This is significantly less scary than replacing light bulbs on top of radio towers.
Yeah this looks like something I could do. Light bulb guy has a terrifying job near the very top.
Not me. My hands were sweating as soon as he was walking on top of the motor with the roof opened up.
@@VideoManDansame here
its almost kinda cozy up there
And that is an older, smaller turbine. Todays turbines make this look like a toy.
Being able to hammer those bolts at the speed you do is no joke. Hats off, sir.
It's called Benny Hill speed.
lmao
@Filho-slw So I just wanna make sure - you are joking, right?
Course he's joking. Think he cant tell the guy is climbing a ladder in fast forward?
Nice! I was actually working on the same type of turbine (but the version with electric pitch system) today, I like these types of videos where I can show people what I do for a living
This type with electronic pitch systen?🤓 I didn't know that this even exists. What a shame 😄! I guess these types are located not in Europe?
@@saasch_baasch no it's in northern Germany, but I'm not sure if there's 1300's with it, the one I worked on was a 1000 but they're essentially identical aside from the weaker generator 😄
Ah ok, I heard from that, but the next smaller one I was on is the 300 or 500/600 kW an bonus, which is so cute on top😄
I thank an electric hub is much cleaner right
@@falco3471 yeah the an bonus hydraulic hubs are usually very messy from my experience, the electric ones are much better (still some grease from the lubrication but at least it's not covered with hydraulic oil)
Nothing like a combo of claustrophobia and being 100 miles up in the air! 🤣
Yeah... the air's a little too thin up there for my taste.
@@WellReadRednecklol its worse for me tho I have asthma
Ummm there's no air 100 miles up that's in space.
@@KiRiTO72987 I'm pretty sure they know that. It's an over exaggeration. But could you imagine climbing 100 miles via a fucking ladder? That would no joke take you about 6 weeks. Imagine getting to the top only to realise you forgot something. It's like with these jobs with climbing up something that takes 20 + minutes to get to the top, what happens when all of a sudden you now need a piss? I've had that at work, and I've only ever been a 3 minute walk away from the toilets at most. I can't imagine being 300' up and now my body decides it need to get rid of fluid or solids...
100 miles, you dork 🤣 (your comment made me smile)
Wow I didn't know you were able to just hop inside the hub like that😮mad respect for what you do!!
He wasn't even wearing his harness for the transition!
@@CriticoolHit To be fair I'm not sure it would be any safer
@@CriticoolHit Well, where's he going to fall? Or how would he fall and how would the harness be of use?
@@jonnywilson9117 Not that there is any amount of money you could pay me to go up in one of these things but if you did manager to get me up there I am tied to 3 things at all times even with the hatch closed and no visible route to fall.
Cool perspective on something most people don't get to see.
That's what gets me about people complaining about the internet. While there's bad, there's far more good imo. And shit like this, even 20 years ago we'd never be able to see unless you did the job. Being able to be up a few hundred feet in the air from the comfort of my bedroom is pretty fickin cool
I love how you can touch the machine and tell from the vibrations if it's doing what it's supposed to. I could do that when I worked at the Sugar factory. I could tell if something was spinning the way it was supposed to be doing by just taking my shoes off and touching the floor
Women are experts on that ...
Scotty could do that on the Enterprise!
That's partly how I set the timing on my OBD0 1990 Honda if I want it in economy or sport mode. 😂
Very interesting. I used to repair the electronics from these things . Never got into one though. Wouldn't have minded doing that. We used to also repair the pitch sensors for the blades. Must have been coooold up there., nice video. Thanks for sharing.
Actually pretty warm in the Nacelle after the turbine has shut down and the gearbox radiates heat a good time after the turbines is stopped.
That looks like a nice place to live during a zombie apocalypse
I was just about to comment that this looks cozy for an apocalyptic scenario. Zombies in particular would have a rough time getting up there, and people would ignore it... until they realized it could be good for scrap, or power if they knew how to harness it.
Best part is, if you could get it running then you'd have electricity.
RUclips's algorithm thought I might like this video. RUclips was correct. And the funny thing is that I was sceptical at first, and fully entertained at the end 😊. As if RUclips knows what I like better that I do.
please more videos like this! Great one!
Many thanks for this video. I am intensely interested in wind generators but as all the sites are posted and gated off for obvious reasons I can’t even get close to any. What a job. Amazing machines.
3:02 you blurred us out. Secret stash
We noticed . Wouldn't care if he just clipped off that moment.
This is so cool! It's great exercise for mind in my retirement years. Appreciate you sharing this with us!
Great video! Thanks for sharing! Awesome equipment on that Wind Turbine/Generator and the control system is superb no doubt.
I appreciate the comments, explanation and notation throughout the video!
0:50 And so the LEGEND of the "EISENSPECHT" was born
As a person who spent a long time, years, climbing ladders for commercial property maintenance, you develop "buns and legs of steel"...some of the best exercise there is for lower body😊
I like how you have to stand in the hub to check the bolts that hold the hub on!
Fascinating video. I'm wondering if this kind of service is done solo in North America - I would think the confined space work in the hub would sensibly require a second person.
Very cool/interesting. Thank you. It seems having the wind instruments working would be very important.
Really interesting. First time I've seen inside a hub. And the generator section.
Going into the hub was the scariest part. What if the brakes failed and it started spinning with you in it?
That's why he put the pins in and then locked those into place.
Meat spin I guess
Lmfaooo shut up
Ain't no way you just said that lmfao
That’s what the rotor lock is for
This looks like work that pays a Gazillion dollars an hour. Much respect!
if you are claustrophobic and have a fear of hights. this is one of the worst jobs you could ever get!
That's why I ran for president in 2024 and won.
@@TheEgg185 wow, you're the president of 2024? :o
@@93ndani I'm president of a 3rd world country.
That was incredible! There is a lot going on up there that I never suspected. Thank you for servicing this beautiful beast!
Excellent video my friend. You climbed down that turbine alot faster then you climbed up 🤣 big snag list 🤠 Refurbished annometers and wind vanes are the worst. Bearings always fail. Heater on wind instrument is probability cracked? . Iv never heard noise that bad from hub? Blade bearings are leaking plenty grease. I wonder would it be a blade bearings or pitch ram problem? I like this turbine.looked Easy to lock rotor . 😉
Moin, super interessantes Video 👍da bekomme ich gleich Lust mit hochzukommen 😁 war das letzte mal ca. 2002 auf einer AN BONUS 1300
Grüße ✌️
Ja, das ist ja ein Stück her, da war die Branche noch überschaubar 😄
Hey👍🏻, finde es auch interessant, mal einen Einblick in so eine Anlage zu bekommen. Von dem Typ stehen bei mir in der Nähe auch noch 4 Anlagen, wovon eine aber immer mal steht.
Danke und grüße aus Thüringen/Weimarer Land!
Man, I’d love to have this as a profession. I’m a hardware guy and these wind turbines always mesmerizes me. You get a great view, and probably get fit as well climbing all of those ladders
Was für Einblicke in dirsen Job. Danke !
There are days when I just really enjoy watching someone else work :) thanks for sharing.
Thanks for this very nice and detailed video! That would be my dream job! Unfortunately, I have fear of height so I will continue to see other doing that 😂
😄 that's why I am making this Videos
Very cool! Pretty neat to see the inner workings like this. seems like a fun job!
Thank you for uploading this as there are hardly any videos of techs actually working. I'm sure it's a company policy thing, though.
Great video, very interesting!
With the anemometer not functioning properly, does it have alternative means of determining windspeed? I would it assume it critical it knows windspeed at all times for protection against high wind conditions?
The wind speed is a necessary value to ensure the safety of the turbine. Unfortunately, this turbine has no redundancy. This anemometer needs to be replaced.
@@saasch_baasch I would suspect the turbine to the left or the right would give a damn good estimate wind speed, Is there any cross communication back to a central control room?
@@saasch_baaschDoes the wind farm facility have the capability to perform the anemometer's job for a failed unit? Or is it all per windmill only?
now this was an education! thank you very much for letting us see. really a long long way all the way up. amazing. thank you again.
why the pixelation between 3:00 and 3:10 when you were working on the yaw brake? were you able to fix the chatter in the blade pitch actuator?
Was taking pictures with his phone and didnt want to show it.
A very nice introduction about how wind turbines work, learned a lot in just 24 minutes, and not much was even said about it!
Thank you for giving us insights about your job. ;)
Ich würde auch gerne mal auf eine drauf aber nur im Sommer haha. Bis jetzt hatte ich noch nicht das "Glück"
Hast du welche in deiner Nähe? Frag einfach mal beim Betreiber an, muss eigentlich immer eine Nummer außen an der WEA stehen. Die sind da meistens kulant, wenn nicht gleich eine ganze reisegruppe hoch möchte 😄
@@saasch_baasch Alles gut ich arbeite ja in dem Bereich nur fahre ich fast nur Vestas und Neg Micon. Aber ergibt sich bestimmt mal
Frag doch einfach mal nach wenn du jemanden dran stehen siehst , bisher keine schlechten Erfahrungen gemacht auch wenn es unterschiedliche Firmen sind 👍
Ja cool, ich war erst auf einer M1500, also die 500kW Neg Micon mit dem Blechturm, Immer wieder ein Erlebni👍
@@saasch_baasch ja auf so alten bin ich nicht drauf. War bis jetzt nur von NM60 bis 82 drauf
Absolutely Fascinating - thank you for making it and posting here, much appreciated
New fear unlocked: inside of a windmill
Wind turbine
Is hard to believe that these things are strong enough to keep the world spinning. 😮
It is crazy to see the differences between the old AN bonus machines and the 101s i am used too.
Wow. Thank you for the tour!
The fast forward climbing was hilarious asf
Fascinating. What a great job! Respect to you.
Surely someone stands at the bottom
also the teeny control console was cute.
Why do the 2x speed ladder climbs sound so goofy😂😂
two of my pet peeves, high places and tight spaces, would have to pay me a whole a lot of money to ever get me inside one of those tincans.
Great video! I really enjoyed going down the ladder in fast forward! 🙂
THANK YOU SO SO MUCH for providing such an interesting insight to these beautiful devices!!!!!!!! LOVE THEM! LOVE YOUR JOB!!!!
The first time I saw a wind turbine I thought "man that's kinda cool looking" and then years later driving through central and northern Illinois I witnessed "farms" and all I could think was how dystopian and what an eyesore they all were.
I didn’t realise the tower had separate sections.. makes sense, for safety reasons. These would make awesome multi roomed apartments 👌🏼😄
Much respect for a dangerous job..well done
What an amazing job, what an amazing machine!!!
The best 24 minutes of my life
Very nice video ! What old turbine around 1000kW in your opinion have a best reliable ?
Good question, in this range the enercon Turbines (e.g. E58) are further ahead than all the others. But you may have also luck with others.
@@saasch_baasch Thanks for you answer. I will ait for next videos :) maybe with E58 E53 or other Enercons !
Fantastic thank you for the insight into the workings and your job 👍🇬🇧
One of my favourite videos keep up the good work! 😊😊
as someone who is facinated by these mashines this is such an incredible video
5:18 he ties off to … the hatch mechanism… not what I would call a safe anchor point
Its just his first anchor before he ties his second line to the real anchor point.
@ sorry but it’s not a proper tie off point..regardless of if he plans to tie off to something else .. that’s not strong enough
The whole time the main hatch doors were open I thought he should be tied off. Also going into the blade yaw mechanism through that small hatch looked sketchy and needed tie off.
It feels like the Dead Space game. Even the machine sounds
You know, I'm not normally afraid of heights. I can stand on a mountain ridge and look down into a canyon with no problem. I can fly at 9500 ft with my son all day long, gawking out the window and enjoying myself. But when you popped that top open and climbed out to fiddle with the weather gear, I started getting a squirrely feeling in my legs. Never mind the fact that you used your PPE effectively and were very careful, and never mind the fact that I was sitting on my couch in my front room, I was feeling every second of it. Whew.
Klasse, bitte mehr davon💪
Is the oil/grease on the propellers from leaky seals, or just from normal wear and tear.? Great video. Thanks for the share!
You should see the Palm Springs wind farms along I-10 in California. They're hideously covered in oil
Very nice video. The “setting the rotor lock” process reminds me of the self destruct sequence in Alien.
You definitely want that rotor lock in place before climbing into the nose cone....
Cool, modern day equivalent of "wheel tappers and shunters" Thanks.
Reminds me of the good old lighthouse keeper days
Looks like a good workout climbing all the ladders.
Hard worker, Good man. Cheers!
as someone with severe vertigo (höhenangst), everything was A-OK right up to 4:37 ... shudders 😖
still forced myself to watch it all the way through and while i could never do something like this, was still interesting to watch 👍
How do these instruments at the top keep operating in icy conditions, do they freeze and seize up completely?
They are usually heated. In this case the fuses of the heaters were damaged. In addition I had no permit to do any repairs.
I sped up the video alongside OP's fast forwarding.
Am now laughing my ass off😂
Really cool video. I'm glad the majority of the tower is illuminated for you Be safe!
What a cool job for a living!! I can only dream about having something like that...
Wow those are serious pieces of equipment inside!
I'm getting chills through my body & vertigo feeling like I'm going to pass out just watching this video never was that way as far as heights are concerned until my late 30's
Is there a way to get better audio of the beautiful machinery sounds instead of the wind? More videos please
Any recommendations for a good Bluetooth microphone with some furr cover?
Hard and responsible work... At least it pays well? Is the camera used to monitor the technician's work?
Before entering the main hub, do you have to lock the blades to a fixed angle? Is the fixing done by bare hand or some electrical power?
They showed in the video how they did it.
Locking the rotation of the hub was done with a manual locking mechanism before entering the hub. The rotation (angle of attack) of the blades themselves was not locked, as he tested them while in the hub.
10:14 soo you basically have a remote up there?!!?! I wanna have one 😂😂😂
I miss transporting those components. It's fun to see them up .
So, for the other turbines you turn the GoPro off and have a little sleep on the fifth floor?
Reminds me of the good old lighthouse keeper days
is there a reason that they don't just put witness marks on the nuts and bolts when they're originally torqued? makes inspecting for loosened fasteners a simple visual test.
Yeah, I was thinking that finding a loose or out of torque spec nut, it could be marked on the casing beside it with date and either T or L to keep track for next inspection.
@@JefferyTheriault They can shear and stretch as well as turn though.
I need to climb one of these now, and I have fear of heights. No seriously, doing something like that would help me succeed in life by overcoming a greater fear and making everything else less scary.
why contra nuts around 2:37 are not tighten?
Wow that made me scared just watching. Especially going out to wipe snow off the wind vane. 😮
so.... what happens if you fumble and drop that access hatch lid to the blade hub....
I'm surprised that there wasn't a tether.
Impressive and very intersting. Thanks for sharing
Vraiment bien, c'est agréable de voir tout ça ❤❤
Mr.S.B. :cleaning the wind sensors
Control center : Oh no! We‘re having a tornado ！
Didn’t know they had such technologies in the 1300’s… impressive !
I found this really interesting actually. Thank you!
Really cool. Thanks for sharing.
How do i get a job like this?
Addendum: the turbine's head looks cozy af
Depending on where you are located, there are plenty of jobs, especially in Europe. You can either choose manufacturers, service providers, operation management or other like inspections or specialized repair companies. I suggest you visit a fair, for example "Hamburg wind", "Husum wind", the fair in Bilbao and so on. I am sure you will find a job ;-)
I think the best place for that is central and west europe, as for a brit person in Poland Im going to have to either move to the northern side of Poland or to Germany.
That looks like Mason County, MI.
That's where I live!
now I can see what it would be like to climb a wind turbine, except without the constant fear of it collapsing
How tall is that and how fast do they spin? I've heard people say different things. Never from someone who works on them though.
It’s not an ‘AN’, but a Bonus/Siemens 😊 They were sold via AN in Germany, though. I’ve worked a lot in those in the beginning of my career.