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Hello!
Is there anyone with jump's experience from Rep@wer wind turbine?
It seems that there isn't a way to access to the roof, is this right?

Please, if someone has any experience, contact me via PM!

Thanks and safe jumps!

Thanks to all for the input arrived in PM!

Sale jumps

You wanna take the fucking exact name and manufacture off this shit???

Turns out these companies kinda care about their public appearance and hire people to search the internet for bad press just like this. Replacing one or 2 letters with one of these readily available puppies !@#$%^&* goes a long way.

Shit like this is the reason we are finally being noticed and in a big way by the industry and, and the reason shit like the photo below recently made it into the orientation material of the worlds largest turbine manufacture. There is more to jumping these things than knowing how to pick a masterlock. There is exponentially more awareness of BASE now than there was when i joined the industry and we need to stop this ball from gathering momentum.

That being said i do applaud you for at least trying to get more information on a jump before doing it. i would have much preferred to see something in there about how to responsibly jump whirly ducks than just wanting to know how to get on top without putting in the effort of climbing.

Not to bash you, but I'm sick of going to check on my crews and hearing about some base jumper doing some stupid at every other sight.

Long story short take that fucking name down.

and whats the current sop when confronted by this situation?

I would guess that it's a "Reportable Incident"

;-)

That pic is from one of our first legal windturbinejumps in germany. I´m curious how that pic found it´s way to them ...
It´s, as you may see, a Vestas.
The Company which operates them is named "Luftstrom".
That event opened us the doors to many more legal jumps, also from different owners.
Owners are mostly not manufacturers, so I do not see why the Brandname should be removed.

For Repower Turbines, they are as well good to go, why not?
We even managed to jump Enercons, which are a little more tricky due to the curved top.

For the question about access, talk to the owners.
We did and got access to a turbine where we could jump as often as we wanted, we just had to follow some rules of operation and had to pay for the loss of profit if the turbine would have produced electricity during the time of jumping.

Thanks brother, I really appreciate how you tried to throw in as many fucking names as you could in there. Things may be all happy and dandy out there with jumping legal turbines, but just going out of your way to catch the eye of any monitoring service these companies may hire is just a dick move.

Don't get me wrong its super rad that you were able to were up an legal situation in Germany, and out there you may have it dialed and no one gives a fuck. Maybe none of this shit will effect you at all out there, but let me tell you a little about how the wind industry works here in North America.

First of all wind farms are considered "Operational Power plants" Making tampering with or disrupting them a very serious federal crime. Which although has not been used yet in prosecution of a base jumper is something we are in danger of crossing over into and setting precedence for. I know 2 months ago at least one major owners group had a series of meeting to discuss just this after a series of events in Minnesota and Texas.

Second the majority of wind farms are operated by the manufacture under a service and operation contract. In fact most major manufactures require a minimum 5 year service contract with purchase of a farm. Few farms are completely "owner operator". This means the manufactures service devision handles all operations pertaining to the wind turbines and their security including guaranteeing non entry of unauthorized personnel (ie. replacing all locks if one is compromised, witch on a large farm can very quickly turn into 10s of thousands of dollars for which the operator is responsible, as well as astronomical bills associated with raised insurance rates after any reportable incident). Generally speaking the devision of responsibility comes at the point at which the power is stepped down or the point at which the power leaves the turbine, so the pad mount is the most common devision point. This means that everything from the moment you touch the first piece of metal on the handrail is the operators responsibility, and the moment you step on to the access road of the turbine leased by the owner group you are their problem. This is not like purchasing a car and a service manual and leaving the manufacture in the dust. The manufacture is heavily involved in most farms for long long after a purchase and is yet still heavily involved with even owner operator sites. All manufactures keep incredible amounts of proprietary information and parts guaranteeing their continued involvement and pay throughout the life of the turbine. Further more it is commonplace for manufactures to be partnered in profit with owner groups. In fact I very recently oversaw on behalf of the manufacture an aerodynamic upgrade project spanning thousands of turbines in north america which was completely paid for by the turbine manufacture in exchange for 50% of increased production profit. Long story short don't think for a moment that the manufactures are just a couple factories thousands of miles away.

I'm not saying anyone should listen to me, what the fuck does it matter to me,and really what the fuck do i know? I have only managed projects spanning over 50 sites and all 5 major manufactures, jumped every major turbine design and quite a few obscure ones, changed careers into wind solely for the purpose of BASE jumping, attend trade shows, regularly attend high level meetings and network heavily throughout the industry.

Fuck it bro you got this!

Thanks for explaining the wind industry of North America and the circumstances of illegal access to everyone here.
Calm down... I know how the industry works, my company produces gearboxes for most of the manufacturers worldwide.
Also it offers maintenance for the turbines.
I´m familiar with the turbine technology for more than 15 years now ...
I also participated in the most important tradeshows since 2002.

And the mentioned three brands are not the only ones on the market, thanks to the internet everyone who googles "windturbines" gets almost every brandname which exists.
Naming brands is for me not the same as sitenaming.

I know what illegal access means and all I want to express is, talk to the owners if they probably let you in. If they say yes, that´s the best way.
It´s possible also in North America.
That guy is from Italy, things are really different in Europe.
But if you don´t know the outcome of stepping into any kind of WT without proper knowledge, I´m with you.
Bad idea ...

I always thought Baseboys are cool, so calm down and read his post. If you have any qualified input to give, which I think you can, why not express this to him in a PM as he wrote?
If you want everyone to step back from illegal accessing WT in the USA, that´s okay for me.