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S1E1 - The First Tour of the Launch Control Center- Owning a Titan II Missile Silo
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2019
- This was the first day we had access to everything except level 3 (Lower Level) of the launch control center. Level 3 contains a equipment space which is shown in another video.
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So yeah..... we bought an LGM-25C Titan 2 missile silo. The site was on alert from 23 November 1963 - 20 June 1985. After decommissioning the Air Force and Army Corps of Engineers exploded the top of the Access Portal and Launch Silo in 1987. The Access Portal and Launch Control Center were opened again around 2012 but were reflooded and abandoned after a pump failure. Beginning in May 2019 we have begun the task of renovating the complex and bringing new life into it. Wont you join us in the Atomic Underground?
Just hit 1,000 subscribers. Thank you all for your support!
wow that was fast congrats
Thanks for the content
The link is to Death Wears Bunnyslippers
ua-cam.com/video/YyclGmRHMQw/v-deo.html
I linked back to this content in their last video too.
Hows it going?
@@aquila7762 Over 6,000 now. I think UA-cam likes us
I've done a lot of chemical clean ups, for government and civilian, its amazing the wildest places I've seen and 99.99 % of population fish theres any dont have a clue as to what's been under their feet, I'd like to relocate and get involved with you on that, take have a good holiday season
This is what UA-cam is about, total random interesting shit.
Correct
When I was stationed at LRAFB I worked security for the missile field from June 1981 until the wing decommissioned and shut down. As Security Supervisor I had six two man teams that were in the field at the same time I was. We all had a home complex and stayed down stairs with the crews at different missile complexes as we all worked 24 hour shifts. When the silos were active there were bundles of copper cables running from the Launce Center down the long cableway. No telling how many dollars worth of copper would have been there when they were active. I have spent many tours underground in one of those. Might have been in that one depending on which one it was. Brings back a lot of memories. Thanks for sharing.
That is one heck of an ambitious project. I admire anyone who can take that thing on.
why the hell take it on?
@@jomgelborn Hell if I know. This place is pretty trashed to be honest.
@@jomgelborn Could you imagine a 3 story underground house? Built by the military to possibly withstand nukes?
@@jomgelborn really big bunker.
have you seen SV seeker channel?
Worked as a fuel system engineer on the Atlas , the Titan I and Titan II. Brings back a lot of memories. We worked seven days a week, twelve hour shifts. The company would fly you home one weekend a month. Was a real education for a farm boy from the sticks.
I was with the 381st SMW at McConnell AFB from 9/66 through 2/69. I was in the Comm squadron in the wire Comm shop. We took care of things like the maintenance intercoms, the private line phone circuits for access control, and the PAS.
Thanks 4 your service veteran, I was computer repairman 33rd Comm. Sq, March AFB same time frame as you...
I was just waiting for a Mirelurk to show up.
Omg! I was just fixing to say that this looks like some Fallout 3 stuff! Where's the glowing ferel gouls? Deathclaws?
@@twatdidusay304 haha I know, right?
I can only imagine what it all looked like when it was brand new and shiny.
Nick Twaddell I was an Air Force cop at DMAFB in Tucson. I worked missile security and lived in those, the place had its own “hum” all the beeps and noises and knowing there was a nuclear missile just a few feet away was very interesting. Air Force from ‘80 to ‘86 was there and watched them being decommissioned.
No need to imagine, there is still an intact T2 silo outside of Tuscon that you can tour. We ended up with one of the original duty officers as our tour guide.
SittingMoose Shaman went Yoda on that comment buddy hehe
I just watched a tour video of the one at Tuscon after watching this and it looks the same layout - interesting to see how clean this one gets!
I wasn't there when they were new & shiny, but I did serve alerts under Kansas. This was a cool video, and you mentioned it was cold. They were when they were operational too...
Don't forget to buy the missile. Oh, and don't drop the wrench
RIP those poor dudes
Before this video I thought it would be nice to own one of these missile silos. You changed my mind.
not all look like this though. This ones only like this because of it not being sealed
Right this place looks disgusting, I've been in flooded basements and the smell is horrendous.
It's still nice to own one... just not to clean one that wasn't properly sealed up. ;)
I have been down a Cole mine that I think would take less work to live in , better yet a salt mind would not have the water problem. You need a town full of people willing to volunteer cleaning up in exchange for a spot if shit goes south.
Nice little death trap you have there, so homely warm and inviting.
Growing up in Tucson the Titan Missile sites always intrigued me. Seeing military vehicles driving to the sites on a regular basis always reminded you of the potential of nuclear war as well as the weekly sirens being tested. When I started working for the phone company and regularly visited sites because our lines would be handed off to the sites from a communication hut just inside the missile site property. Later I was involved with the decommissioning project in that we had to disconnect all equipment housed in these huts. Being in close proximity of the silos I was able to speak with the contractors that were dismantling the silos. At that time they were literally blowing them up after they removed anything of value. The lids to the silo were cut up into small car size pieces and hauled away. I used to visit many of these sites out of curiosity after decommissioning was complete. Many of the sites had the large tube that connected the silo to the command center sitting on top of the ground so the Soviet’s could verify the Air Force was in fact making them unusable. While inside one of them I ran across blueprints for the communication wiring. I thought this was pretty cool finding them still in excellent shape. As years passed these sites have been bought up and built on. As mentioned in another post one is still for sale but i think the silo is completely filled up. That to me would be the ultimate part to have since its so massive. To bad they couldn’t have just sold them as is but you know how governments work. So much waist. Our aircraft bone yards remind you of that. Thanks Atomic Underground for sharing your silo and look forward to seeing your progress!
Looks easier to build a silo from scratch.
@FacePuncher wtf am i reading here
It's almost always cheaper and easier to but from scratch than to refurbish
@@tmarcus988 hardly think of it this way if you have even a 60 or 70 year old silo. Yes it's going to cost several hundreds of thousands of dollars to refurbish it but the cost to make it even if you don't account for inflation will cost minimum close to a billion dollars hell I'm being modest but even if it costs a few million dollars and you dumped just guessing here but 3 million dollars your still coming out ahead granted it takes years to do that but even if a doomsday comes early you still have a major part finished in that you have it mean while your still building but your not being taxed on it you have free labor and it's mutually beneficial to have everyone with you help with construction since they're living there to
@Respectable Man the NVA having an active sanctuary, unrealistic rules of engagement, and a corrupt government in Saigon lead to that loss.
@@brucepraska7781 It's no longer a target, so it doesn't have to be built to take a near hit from a nuke.
My first training in the USAF was as a Missile Electrician on Titan IIs. I lasted just long enough for them to find out I was accident prone... In short, I never made it into a silo...
bobw222 - interesting insight into military . What did you do after ?
psychiatry is eugenics neurosurgeon
@@psychiatry-is-eugenics I presume he healed, given electrician + accident prone....
@@psychiatry-is-eugenics he ded
UA-cam likes you, no idea why this was recommended to me but im glad it did!
My Dad was senior project manager for the Air Force for all the silos in the Little Rock area. He was in the silo next to the one that exploded with the missle in it. He also was Senior Project manager for all the silos in the Denver and Cheyenne areas.
How To Salvage A Vault-Tec Vault: Volume 1 O.o
[Slaps hood]: "The rust in here is very minimal."
*Hand goes through rusty hood*
*Whole thing literally falls apart*
Literally turns into dust
Appreciate the non-vertically filmed video ! Thanks for the tour
Seeing what I'm seeing... I just can't imagine the amount of work to save the place. I can't wait to see more!
I honestly love history, read articles, watch videos, documentaries and simply anything I can get my hands/eyes on. I sit and watch this video and simply cannot help but think, what a waste of taxpayers money. Millions of dollars spent and abandoned by our fearless leaders, as long as they have dollars to waste, we will learn more about their stupidity and greed. I admire this Gentleman for his work and dedication to possibly renovate this “blunder” into something useful. Thank you for sharing your video Sir, I appreciate it.
Reminds me of the Nostromo from “Alien”.
So, what are your plans for this bunker? The ultimate man cave?
There is a Titan ll launch site museum outside of Tucson Arizona. It is amazing, something for this gentleman to aim for . Like others have commented there is so much work needed here. Like restoring a mothballed Navy ship
As a former launch crew member of the Titan II it was shocking to see how bad everything looked in the video. Brings back memories as you walk through the area. Very interesting video. You've got a lot of work ahead of you.
I can not say how i know this but when they built these the equipment never left the hole. Somewhere you will find a connected cavern with all the equipment to dig the hole, and more. Happy hunting.
Mike Mac well I’m sure it would look much like everything else. Absolutely fucked
thats quite common for major underground infrastructure projects, not just ballistic missile siloes. The cost of getting the diggers to the surface is more than the diggers themselves are worth, so they leave them underground.
Sewage pipes, mines, foundations for large skyscrapers, and road tunnels, are good examples of projects where the diggers are typically left underground.
I just came to see this mans impressive silo buy...didn’t know there were so many “experts” in the comment section.
Is whining about whiners really any better?
Samuel Rs sure it is. Much.
There are 3 Titan 1 sites here in Idaho. Back in the early 80s there was one that was accessible, and I explored it many times. I had a unique connection to those sites, as my father was one of the fellows manning them. My parents divorced when I was 11 and I never saw him again, a pity because I had a LOT of questions about the facility. It was dry for the most part, only the lower part of the silos were submerged. There were three launch silos per site, with two additional blast doors opening on the surface for the radars and radio required to guide the missile for the first portion of it's flight. My father was the guy running the radar. The site near Mtn. Home Idaho is the only one I visited, but I went there dozens of times, probably breathed in enough asbestos to end me 7 times over.
I ended up working as an armor instructor on a tank range not more than 3 miles from the missile silo where my father once worked. I have always found that to be a weird coincidence.
I'm only posting this because of the whiskey. Yay whiskey!
BTW, that site was purchased by someone back in the 90s sometime. The other two launch complexes were turned into toxic waste dumps. The one at Mtn. Home may well be intact, but they have repaired the old fences and gates, and it is festooned with No Trespassing signs.
I pulled over 400 alerts with a Missile Combat Crew in the early 80’s, both in Tucson and Little Rock. In my early years, it was a great job.
When they began decommissioning Davis-Monthan’s sites first, I transferred to LRAFB. The Air Force, in their corporate mindset at that time, RIF’d over half the officers out of the three Titan wings, so unless you played golf with someone important, hundreds of us didn’t make rank. The culture in SAC at the time was a strong one of CYA, especially for those above the rank of captain, and it got pretty ugly in the early to mid-80’s.
I was told the Air Force spent In excess of a $100,000 training each officer, but in the end, just like these silos were expendable, so we’re the people who spent many a night in them defending freedom.
I really liked the job, and we felt like we were doing something right and good with these missiles. I have many fond memories of my 400+ days underground over those 4 years, and mad a lot of excellent friends, but the way they treated a LOT of really fine people left a horrible taste in my mouth. I got out in ‘85, and I’ve never looked back.
Sorry to sound doom and gloom, but most us us love those old missiles, and were greatly saddened by the decision to bury them. I’ve visited the museum site in Green Valley AZ - a site I actually pulled a few alerts at. It sure brought back memories, as did this video.
With love, hard work, and some money, you could have a wonderful home at this site. All the original paint was a pale mint green, but you can hardly see that now. Sad to see it so dilapidated now, and like you, it would have been nice to see the control center equipment still in place. I don’t believe the deputy’s key went in that small table you showed us. I think it went in a console on top of a table that originally sat in a different location. The table you showed I believe was originally attached to the commanders console and held the decode books for incoming emergency action messages.
I have a lot of information on these sites if you’re interested.
I wish you luck with this project and am subbed now, as I want to see the progress you’ll make!
iI was stationed there from nov 1972 to april 1974.Our kc-135s were tdy so everyone worked missle field.Little rock was a great assignment. I was 308th sps. hard to think i probably stayed at that site.
"Wonder what these springs were for Dave."
"Who cares, it's metal, cut it and throw it in the salvage pile!"
Moments later: "JESUS CHRIST!"
Allurade that’s what I imagine happened.
Those spring things in the access way are called shock isolators.
yeah, the entire cheyenne mountain complex was also build on giant shock isolators
Crews manning the silos would “ring the bell” occasionally by rocking the silo on the springs
wow, just bumped into this, brilliant I am on for the ride. I look forward to where you are going to take us on this mad adventure. thanks
With the right amount of money that place could be amazing. It could be so futuristic down there. Multiple levels of cool shit. This place is awesome.
This is like a tour of a nightmare. Maximum anxiety levels.
That is an impressively large amount of work ahead of you.....
The bent stair is front the turd the guy that cut that spring dropped..... let's do math.... 60 tons of steel, hanging from 4 linear movement isolators, cut one out and bammo.... 3 linear isolators support the entire structure that is why they have 1/2 spring compression. Kudos to the designer and builder of the spring sets though unintended load, supported for an unintended amount of time and no failure. .. if government contractors were so diligent today.... good vid, crazy amount of work and I am sure you will find things to stain your shorts as you work! Thanks for sharing!
I pulled 400+ alerts on a Missile Combat Crew at both DMAFB and LRAFB in the early 80’s. Have a real soft spot for the Titan II and those missile complexes. Memories!
To the owner of this channel, I still live in northern Arkansas and would love to tour this site in exchange for some stories and information on these sites - if you’re interested.
The part where you talked about the flooded silo was terrifying
Yea nothing like knowing there’s 100000 gallons of water on the other side of a rusty old bulkhead that would flood and drown you instantly if it ever gave way. You couldn’t pay me to go in that place.
uh, "youtube will only allow a 15 minute video" they removed that like 10 years ago. you can go well over 10 hours
The 15 minute rule still applies if you haven't verified your youtube account. If you have verified, the limit is then 12 hours or 128GB
good luck with the silo , its a shame things have been removed but its a vital part of history & should be maintained to some degree for future generations to see . good luck i really hope it pans out so to speak .
Damn you've got a lot of work ahead of you. Hope you have a crew.
Looks like a lot of sandblasting needs to be done. But all it is, is just good old fashioned work. Nothing to it, but to do it.
it will buff right back in pristine condition with a little sand blasting and some spray paint :)
would be interesting to convert the bunker to a datacenter. would be quite solid and should possible to keep cool uding geotermal :)
@@patricklegault6383 AT&T used to own several underground bunkers that maintained relay and switching center, later on servers. Perfect place to keep things cool and safe from EMP.
I was stationed at McConnell and Little Rock and went through the deactivation sad to see the site in such bad shape I was in the pneudraulic shop I'll be waiting for more video's thanks for sharing
Duane I think I remember you I was at McConnell from 82 to 85
you need to check out Death wears bunny slippers he doing a silo in Kansas but he wont tell me which one
Is there a association? Need to find a place where you can all talk. When this place is done I will be happy to host you all.
I was there from 80to 85
I'm thinking about going out to Tucson to go through the museum out there just to see again trying to get the kids together for that trip
I find this old decommissioned missile silos so interesting. seeing these things uncovered after years of being destroyed, buried, and neglected. Its so interesting how they still hold up even after all of the crap they go through, flooding, burying, decay. I want to find out how many of these are out there that are so far gone they can not be salvaged. Kinda sad actually to think about these incredible relics of 60's engineering going forgotten for so long in the state they were left in.
This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen in my 55 years
Just hope you're not still on some enemy nuke's targeting coordinates system.
Yeah I would be emailing all the world nuclear powers and giving them the coordinates and a video LOL
@John Collins Yup, he sure did. Republicans are hypocrites who have mastered the art of projection. Their orange god is leaking classified intelligence on an almost daily basis. They're 100% guilty of every rotten thing they've ever accused a Democrat of doing.
Ugh-Fudge Bwana calm down liberal. It’s just UA-cam
@@stokesseegers5012 In America you can buy a decommissioned silo.
In Russia, you can buy a decommissioned nuclear sub and they will throw in a reactor for free. I believe the Chernobyl class subs aren't selling too well.
You Americans are funny arguing over Dems and Reps, Conservatives or Liberals like it actually matters lulul. If only people voted for the best person, not the political party that they identify as lol
Had it not been flooded and was in good condition this would have made the ultimate apocalypse bunker. Damn shame. Also looks like the silo bunker from FarCry 5 New Dawn.
I'm not really a prepper but it will once again be a really cool bunker in a couple of years. They are hard to do but they are doable. So far 1 out of 54 is done with at least 4 that I know of being worked on including mine
In Tucson AZ, there is a Titan II silo you can tour that is intact, pretty cool. In fact, it was used for the beginning sequence of the movie "War Games".
investing in a laser rust remover is the most efficient way to rid of all the rust in the facility.
Could start looking for that missing support spring on the local craigslist.
They destroyed and filled in the one by my house here in Faulkner co,
But my great grandfather's brother did die by suffocation while one was being built due to fire and the automatic doors closing during construction.
Good luck sir with your restoration efforts.
My grandparents felt the blast over in formosa when the missile blew
@@niterider0629
When did that happen?
I've heard rumors about it
Thank You!!! Finally someone doing a PROPER walkthrough. Your the hero we needed
This is pretty neat, not everyday you get to see the inside of an actual silo
if this becomes a one owner house, they definitely won't be saying "I wish our house had more room." Should be able to have every kinda room they could ever dream of. Personally I would love to have a very large library.
So weird to see one in disrepair after only having ever visited the Titan II missile Museum in Tucson. Good luck on all your repairs!
My wife and I went there last year, she got to sit at the launch table. I felt the same as you about seeing this one. I knew exactly where they were when he was walking around at the launch level. The only thing that puzzled me about this is I swear we went down many more levels to get to the same spot but I very well could be wrong.
that water behind that bulk head if a natural spring, that's awesome, a source of fresh water
My father helped build Titan1, Titan 2 and Titan 3 holes,, aka silos all over Arizona and California. I've never been inside any of them. But he told me that at the very bottom, where the blast room is/was always filled with water. Even after turn key.
back in the early 90's, some friends and I explored an old missile complex a few times up in Chico, Ca. Place was pretty much cleaned out except for a vintage forklift and some trash and debris. We gained access near a huge in-ground freight elevator and took the stairway down from there. Saw all of the 1st level, large domed rooms with rubber gasket joints and light fixtures on springs which we guessed was the Ops Center. The lower levels were flooded, but the water was so clear we could look down the shaft of where I believe a platform lift had been installed and see the floor of the level below. Small corridors led off of the main tunnels to the silos, filled to about 2' of where we were standing with black, stinking water, pigeon carcasses, trash, etc. For some reason all of the silo launch doors were left open. On the last trip I made there I checked out an old Quonset hut on the property and found a nearly full 5 gl. can of military degreaser. It was well worth the haul back to the truck...to this day I have yet to use anything that worked better than that stuff. Good luck with your project...subscribed...thanks!
m20j_pilot I’m from Chico. I know where those are. Heard plenty of stories about them. Never went there myself
@@robertmartin6180 // Thanks for the reply. I moved there from So Cal in 90 and left in 96. Spent the first year in Paradise where my g/f lived at the time but it was too far to commute for school and work everyday so I moved down the hill. I worked for Miller Glass the entire time I lived there and it was Floyd Miller who first told me about the place. It's absolutely massive...fascinating and very cool...and a little eerie with the bottom levels flooded. I remember reading in the ER a girl was nearly killed out there in 92 or 3...fell into one of the silos at night IIRC. I guess it's all closed up now, a friend told me awhile back there is a house on the property now. Anyway..my heart goes out to you over the fire. Having lived there it's still hard to imagine. Wishing you guys the best on a speedy recovery. Take care..
m20j_pilot That’s actually funny I am moved here from Southern California in very late 89. I lived in paradise for about six months then move to Chico. I am a landlord and Miller Glass does all my work. Still live here, my house was OK and all my properties in Chico.
@@robertmartin6180 // Good to hear all is ok. You arrived at the perfect time. You could pick up a piece of property over in the 'streets' area for next to nothing, the 'aves' area (by Enloe) were more expensive on average. In Chapmantown they were practically giving them away. I'm sure all that has changed. I hear downtown is a completely different place now.
Not sure who's running what now at Miller's, but if you run into Bruce (I'm sure Floyd doesn't go in much anymore) tell him hello for me. My name is Ian.
Thanks and take care...
You need a crew of ship painters from India to wash and blast all that.
Wow, so much work, but this could be a really neat project...although it is going to be expensive. Looking forward to watching the progress.
I'm a history buff, and yes this kind of endeavor is well above my financial ability, but to own a piece of history like this is amazing. To think how much money the US government spent during the cold war is mind boggling, and still we managed to bankrupt the Soviet union! Chimes of freedom 🇺🇸.
if you have 15 psi of water at the valve shown, that means you have 34.7 feet of water on the other side of that valve. Just an FYI
That's about right for the water table. Its only a small area on the other side of the bulkhead that has actual standing water. The total volume is relatively low.
@@atomicunderground9971 is the rest filled with dirt?
Are you tempted to build a normal looking house on top of the entrance and call the silo "the basement"
totalutternutter yes I am
I’d restore it to its former glory then give tours for $15 a pop
@@Boobtubeus There is already a fully maintained silo in it's former glory in Arizona. My wife and I took the tour and she was selected to sit at the launch table. It even has a titan missile. I highly recommend going if you're into that stuff.
I would do that too lol
That basement idea would be so awesome.
It TOTALLY AMAZES me the amount of money & RESOURCES wasted on creating these launch facilities!!
Life is too short but I am happy that you are happy .
This looks like an endless money pit.
It's a literal pit to boot!
William Funes - Weirdly maybe not, LOL! Some of these have been converted into survival shelters and sold as condos for millions each.
Chad Klaren - When I was young, and they started selling these, and I remember watching a news story about someone who had bought one in Oregon. The garage was a underground loading dock that had room for like a half dozen semi’s, the ‘rooms’ and hallways were spread out, the owners had to use a series of bicycles to navigate the long, and I mean LONG hallways to get between the kitchen, bedrooms and other living areas. And they were using one of the silos as a pool, another as a basketball court. But clearly they had no water issues like this one has, they got lucky! I thought it was so cool!
@@Erin-Thor If fixing an old house cost thousands, I can't even imagine what fixing this up would cost. As is, I honestly think this would be a great setting for a horror movie! I guess this is going to be a mixture of investment/hobby for this guy.
William Funes - There actually was a B grade film filmed inside one! I’ll try and find the link... A sweet girl gives an excellent tour of her family’s silo somewhere in the midwestern USA if I remember correctly. And yes, outside my budget too, but it’s nice to imagine.
Curious timing! One of these things just came up for sale in Southern Arizona. The ad says "Needs work" which may be a gross understatement.
desert climate would be a prereq for me if I ever bought one, which I wouldn't
is it the one on the way to florence? off the side of the road 100 feet?
No water tho 🤔
@@davelee3725 That's my point, seems like half these things are flooded
@@reallyhappenings5597 the one in the Arizona just might be flooded with tarantulas tho lol
Amazing seeing what we built over 60 years ago.
I have a friend just outside of Tucson AZ who has a retired titan 2 missle silo as well. His business is built right next to it (Acacia Nursery). Anyways his looked about the same condition. Their was water trapped in it and he was able to fab up some stuff to get some of the hydraulic locks to activate/deactivate
You need a ten man pressure washer/sandblaster/paint sprayer team.
Geeze I can't wrap my head around where to even start or what you would want to make each room into.
I toured the pristine silo in Arizona. It was incredible.
We are surrounded by them in Heber Springs. One in Pangburn and one in Damascus had major accidents. The history guy has an episode about Damascus. The Soviet Union had three I.C.B.M.'s dedicated to each one ! To top it off, those three were all M.I.R.V.'s. !
So that's what I need for my toilet, spring shock isolators. I only say that because my wife says my farts are nuclear.
I'll bet if you look through the debris, you can find the relays that were used to sync the silos with the WOPR at Cheyenne Mountain, once they took the men out of the loop.
That looks like a lot of exhausting work
If that silo is full of water, no doubt the blast pit is full as well. I spent time in the blast pit at the silo where I gave tours and it's an awesome, dark and quiet place..
awwww man, looks like its straight outta fallout
Lorenzo Matheny going to take a lot of micro transaction to fix that bunker.
do you intend to drain the actual silo at any point?
Kind of pointless as long as the wall holds. And as far as repairing one would go, the cost would be huge (they blew the top off and threw the debris into the silo when it was decommissioned) for basically just a big hole in the ground.
If we had the right interest and investors it can be done but not in the serious plan at the moment
Excellent walk-through! I visited the Titan Missle Museum in AZ a few years ago and this place has held up remarkably well even compared to that well-maintianed site. I can't wait to see more!
Sorry to see it was flooded excited to watch the videos.
If anyone has questions I am here to answer them. I am in some training at work so I won’t be working on the silo again until August.
Are you building remodeling this as a house to live in???
Levy Koon maybe
Jack Hammer the same way you just did! UA-cam. Found a channel called death wears bunny slippers and it progressed from there. Despite some naysayers on here and reddit it has been a really fun project and so far on budget.
Jack Hammer If you Google it you’ll find one for sale right now in Arizona. You can also Google 21st-century castles. They have a website that sells all kinds of underground facilities
You should see if Eastwood would like to sponsor you with a pallet of rust encapsulater paint.
Single Source Industrial Coatings out of Tulsa. They supplied all of the paints for SV seekers boat. That channel has everything you need to know about blasting and painting steel on a budget.
No such thing, tried them all, theyre all scams.
Oh that would be so awsome snd hilarious at the dame time. Great idea
@@DarkLinkAD POR15 works fantastic, we use it quite a bit here in the rust belt.
@@BrianEssersGarage Doesnt work at all, NY. The rustbelt..
Your newest video S1E11, showed on my feed and i thought Death had put up another video, nope a whole new series to watch !!! Thanks
He’s posting again too
And check out Atomic Rancher's site too! :)
Not sure what your plan is, but that silo would make one hell of a fabrication shop. Level 2 could be for metal work and Level 3 (once pumped out, obviously) could be reserved for woodworking. Level 1 could be just a materials\stock storage area.
id love to come tour this when you get it done.
I'm sure I pulled alerts at that site..as well as the others....Crew BMAT, Little Rock AFB 1978-1987.
The trash can with a 2nd pump in it was a genius idea! Awesome video.
Just found this series, looks like I've found how I'm spending the rest of my day
Then go check out Death Wears Bunny Slippers channel. You are welcome!
Well, at least the asbestos is already wet.
Yes it keeps it from getting airborne. It will be sealed in plastic shortly then removed so I can stop hearing about it ;-)
I worked for a grocery store and buffed tiles unbeknownst to me turned out to be Asbestos, I think I'm goin to get a Doc and lawyer cuz if I sucked any down, when it hits the fan it's fast and I'm not gonna be able to handle then so gonna do it now.
@@nicke1903 If you were buffing tiles that were coated with wax, then you had pretty much zero exposure. To put it simply, asbestos is only an issue when the loose fibers become airborne.
@@nicke1903 good luck dude, pretty sure they'll argue that you got it somewhere else but you can try. keep in mind most ppl with asbestosis did the work for years in the field so you might be ok.
Nick E speaking of that a good rule of thumb is 9x9in tiles are always asbestos and 12x12in are safe
So cool! Reminds me of the Fallout game.So cool! Reminds me of the Fallout game.
A nice project. Once the water has been pumped out and some ind dehumidifiers installed grit blasting and repainting as you go along will get the job done.
Thank you for posting these! I have wanted to see one of those ever since I heard they had decommissioned and sold them.
Gentleman, turn your keys !
Hmm, I was a Missile Electronics Tech stationed at LRAFB 80-83, I didn't realize that more than on site had been excavated.....this must be 3-6
fasteddie4145 yes sir you are correct. Only two Little Rock site opened so far.
@@atomicunderground9971Jealous of your good find! Is "Death Wears Bunny Slippers" YT site (forget the designation) the only other? Was really chapped he was able to buy the site before I could. The price was ridiculously low. Went as low as $75k and last I saw it was $115k; sold for $90k. Still interested in the LRAFB sites if I could find one. I have a kmz file (Google Earth) of all the site locations of Nike through Titan 2, but just a tease if can't find one "reasonably" priced. The "prepper movement" really jacked the prices...
@@TexasVeteranPatriot Well I'm glad that they're going to preppers---they can utilize the sites productively, rather than wasting them on silly nonsense.
Owning a silo.... How friggen awesome !! I hope you fix it up and paint it back to as close as it was when it was used.. Id love to come see it sometime.. I love the history behind the silos !
Finally UA-cam comes up with interesting recommended videos
What a mess! I was there when they worked in ‘76 - ‘79, what an experience!
Have you seen the Titan Missile Museum? I'd like to hear a missile man's thoughts on the site. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Missile_Museum - Anything you would add to this thread would be appreciated, eyewitness account.
here's hoping that the Russians have redirected the nuke meant for that silo.
Its a american silo...
@@Theydotheharlemshake Are u really that dumb?
I can tell the comments dont understand what your meaning, so I'll explain. The russian probably had American missile silos like this all mapped out from spying, thus why he said he hopes there redirected.
Good sweet lord baby Jesus, are people getting stupid these days.
I understood what you ment by that comment.
I believe someone has taken the time out of their day to explain the joke to these dip shits.
To bad society is so fucked.
Sir Dick Little Too*
Radical project. Subbed, will watch closely. One thing I have never seen anybody with a silo do is dedicate a floor to a simulated natural outdoor environment with bushes, grass and so on. Might be cool to see if you can spare a floor. If not better to have an aquaponic setup with tilapia
Excellent work guys. Would love to see it finished. You should definitely keep the toilet facilities, maybe after a deep clean tho.