Hi,
The moment I realized I we could climb the Golan Heights wind farm turbines, I knew this something that had to be done this military reserve duty.
The 10 turbines in the wind farm on Mount Bnei Rasan are old and no longer working (there is a plan to replace those with new turbines). The columns are 30 m high and weights 70 ton. There are 3 blades on each turbine 18m long, 1,200kg.
As I wrote to you before there are new wind turbines in Golan heights, higher, bigger which produce more electricity.
Take Care
Gad
The view of the wind turbines from below
The sign on the road to the wind farm
Looking north west from the lookout and the sign (where you can see the new wind turbines of Golan Heights, Mount Bental and Avital)
Syria to the west (and its line of dormant volcanoes)
Looking south east and the lookout sign (here too, you can see the new wind turbines)
It’s one of the wind turbines. We climbed another one as this one has on guardrail on the platform on top.
This is the one climbed, just above the post
A different turbine, but the signs are the same: Danger! High voltage – do not enter the tower; Beware, falling object; a graffiti saying – Stop the occupation.
Looking up from the outside
The anchoring system
The ground floor has the electricity boards
The tower wall thickness at ground level
Looking up from the inside
First landing
Tie up points
The splice connection at the middle
Tie up point for the top part with sockets
Splice connection at the top and the gear for the engines that rotate the turbine to the wind direction
One of those 3 engines
Floda 600 turbine of the Austrian Windetc company
The 18 m, 1200kg blade
The blade connection
Looking east
Looking North
Looking south with the blade
The sunset from Mount Bnei Rasan
The Asnia lookout, both geographical and on a battle fight on Yom Kippor war
This was what you can do after climbing the wind turbines (not me, too scare to do it)
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