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 SPARKY_481
  
Location: Indy
Gender: Male
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< on 1/9/2012 3:58 AM >
|  | | | All wood grain elevator built in 1972. Sorry I don't have more info on this place. More pics on my Flickr if your interested.
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bigXmack
 
Location: illinois
Gender: Male
| | Re: Grain elevator
<Reply # 1 on 1/9/2012 4:05 AM >
| | | | great pics man. that place looked completely untouched from the pictures
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SPARKY_481
Location: Indy
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Grain elevator
<Reply # 2 on 1/9/2012 4:08 AM >
| | | | Posted by bigXmack
great pics man. that place looked completely untouched from the pictures
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Thanks! Yeah after we got in and looked around, I started thinking we messed up and it wasn't abandoned since it was still in such good shape lol
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Ogre Battle
Location: Chicago IL
Gender: Male
| | Re: Grain elevator
<Reply # 3 on 1/9/2012 7:03 PM >
| | | | 1972? I'm surprised they were still making them out of wood that late.
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SPARKY_481
Location: Indy
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Grain elevator
<Reply # 4 on 1/9/2012 9:21 PM >
| | | | Posted by Ogre Battle
1972? I'm surprised they were still making them out of wood that late.
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I found the date searching the internet trying to find more info on the place so I wouldn't say it 100% true lol
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JD
 
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Gender: Male
| | Re: Grain elevator
<Reply # 5 on 1/10/2012 12:45 AM >
| | | | Wow this place looks nice(and pristine)! Is it near Indy by any chance?
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Cor726
  
Location: Saskatchewan
| | | Re: Grain elevator
<Reply # 6 on 1/10/2012 4:06 AM >
|  | | | We once had thousands of wooden grain elevators through out this province. Almost every town had two or three of them. The last wooden ones were built it the mid 1980's. They have been slowly replaced by concrete inland terminals since them.
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jjcoolj
Location: hamilton, Ohio
Gender: Male
| | Re: Grain elevator
<Reply # 7 on 2/7/2012 1:33 PM >
| | | | Grain elevators are always worried about dust explosions. I wonder if wood was chosen as a building material due to the decreased risk of accidental sparks?
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mowthelawn
Location: last one out of michigan please turn off the lights
Gender: Male
| | Re: Grain elevator
<Reply # 8 on 2/8/2012 3:35 AM >
| | | | That elevator may have been built a lot closer to 1872 than 1972. Just looking at the beams in it would put the construction before 1930 or so. As for construction, most are now made of concrete and the bins themselves are steel, just for the factor of cost and that wood would not be practical due to the size of the places now. Virtually all explosions are caused by static electricity in a grain plant, with a small bit caused by sparks from hot bearings. Grain dust is as explosive as dynamite.
That elevator probably is not abandoned, but is owned by a farmer who does not use it full time.
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mowthelawn
Location: last one out of michigan please turn off the lights
Gender: Male
| | Re: Grain elevator
<Reply # 9 on 2/8/2012 3:38 AM >
| | | | Another big clue to the age is by what is missing in the construction...PLYWOOD!
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mowthelawn
Location: last one out of michigan please turn off the lights
Gender: Male
| | Re: Grain elevator
<Reply # 10 on 2/8/2012 3:48 AM >
| | | | This link demonstrates the horrible power of a grain dust explosion.
http://cjonline.co...ain-elevator-blast
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SPARKY_481
Location: Indy
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Grain elevator
<Reply # 11 on 2/8/2012 4:26 AM >
| | | | Posted by mowthelawn
That elevator may have been built a lot closer to 1872 than 1972. Just looking at the beams in it would put the construction before 1930 or so. As for construction, most are now made of concrete and the bins themselves are steel, just for the factor of cost and that wood would not be practical due to the size of the places now. Virtually all explosions are caused by static electricity in a grain plant, with a small bit caused by sparks from hot bearings. Grain dust is as explosive as dynamite.
That elevator probably is not abandoned, but is owned by a farmer who does not use it full time.
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You may be right. I just found the date on a website that had it listed for sale. I would be on edge all the time if I worked in a grain elevator.
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ThreeOneSeven
Location: Indianapolis
Gender: Male
| | Re: Grain elevator
<Reply # 12 on 2/26/2012 8:09 AM >
| | | | Posted by JD
Wow this place looks nice(and pristine)! Is it near Indy by any chance?
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i cant remember for sure but its either A: Fairland Indiana Or B: shelbyville indiana which either way its still kinda close
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radar3321
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 13 on 2/26/2012 10:47 PM >
| | | | That is just a great location. Reminds me of where I grew up in Illinois. VERY NICE!!
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northstar1208
Location: minneapolis/st paul
Gender: Male
| | Re: Grain elevator
<Reply # 14 on 3/11/2012 6:05 PM >
| | | | looks awesome !!
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