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DaveyLC

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27th Jul 14 at 20:36

I know a few of you guys live in and around Oxford so I thought I'd share the footage I captured at the demolition of Didcot A this morning, unfortunately the light was very low at 5am so its a bit grainy but its still pretty interesting to watch

Edited: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lksoLwJ018

Raw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3W3BphydO0

Cavey

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27th Jul 14 at 21:10

Good work

johnny86

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27th Jul 14 at 21:12

I work for the scaffold company that used to work there.

djgritt

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27th Jul 14 at 22:19

quote:
Originally posted by johnny86
I work for the scaffold company that used to work there.

*tedious link top trumps*

The company I work for provided the Burner equipment used on the Main Boilers...

taylorboosh

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27th Jul 14 at 22:32

I work for the company that provided them with telecommunications

Welly Wanger

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28th Jul 14 at 01:00

I work for myself, who paid electric bills to that company

corsadonk

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28th Jul 14 at 05:48

Gutted I didn't know it was going to happen, I'd of gone to have a look.

DaveyLC

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28th Jul 14 at 08:41

It was a bloody long wait! The roads closed at 2330 so you had to be in before then and the window for the detonation was 0300 to 0600 and after that you had to wait for the main roads to open again before you could leave.

[Edited on 28-07-2014 by DaveyLC]

baza31

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28th Jul 14 at 10:16

So did you have to fly that thing for 3 hours so you didn't miss it?

DaveyLC

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28th Jul 14 at 10:37

They give a 15 minute and a 10 minute warning, then just before detonation they also set of some small explosions to scare off the wild life so there was plenty of warning

To be safe I set a 10 minute timer at the first warning so I was only buzzing about for 5 minutes before it went down.

Aaron

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28th Jul 14 at 14:42

I drove past this 10 times last week between Abingdon and my crappy hotel at the Kassam Stadium

Ste

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28th Jul 14 at 20:02

quote:
Originally posted by djgritt

quote:
Originally posted by johnny86
I work for the scaffold company that used to work there.

*tedious link top trumps*

The company I work for provided the Burner equipment used on the Main Boilers...

Is that like a tenuous link or its more boring alternative?

I would rather lose by a mile because i built my own car, than win by an inch because someone else built it for me.

Robbo

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29th Jul 14 at 09:03

gonna be so weird driving past and not seeing the towers :\

Dr Pepper

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30th Jul 14 at 19:05

quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
gonna be so weird driving past and not seeing the towers :\

Still three of them there for another year or so. Gonna miss them too.... I use them to find my way home on the bike alot lol

johnny86

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30th Jul 14 at 21:09

That footage is the bollox. I want a drone

DaveyLC

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31st Jul 14 at 06:50

Cheers buddy

Check out he slow mo version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw4IwHcTLWw

Robbo

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31st Jul 14 at 12:09

what music did you use...? That's the music arsenal use in their entrance video

DaveyLC

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31st Jul 14 at 12:13

The original video is: Requiem for a Dream (Remix called Requiem for a Tower).

The slow mo video is using: MNSN - Yearning.

Robbo

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31st Jul 14 at 13:02

merci

Graham88

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31st Jul 14 at 14:22

Great vid!

DaveyLC

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31st Jul 14 at 14:29

Cheers

It got used on the BBC Monday evening/night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPvD5nVkTwk

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