| Posted by Turd Furgusen |
8/20/2005 2:10 AM | remove |
Considering the huge initial cost of these complexes it seems almost trivial for the military to salvage what they did.
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| Posted by autowitch |
8/20/2005 4:46 AM | remove |
The military does suprisingly little salvaging when the sites are abandoned. They basically take their missles and go home. Most of the salvage comes later when the site reverts back to the property owner.
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| Posted by Turd Furgusen |
8/20/2005 9:35 AM | remove |
So you're saying the individual owners pulled up the floors and removed the pipes/cables, crib structures, and the diesel engines? I was under the impression it was all the military
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| Posted by autowitch |
8/20/2005 5:35 PM | remove |
I'm not so sure if the military removed the generators or not. But, the floors, tanks, pipes, quite a bit of the control room were all left behind.
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| Posted by statik |
8/20/2005 9:41 PM | remove |
In the case of the 6 T-I's in CO, the military intended to rip them completely out, but bargain-basement contractor who got the bid went bankrupt. The military got the deisels and the rockets, and that's it. Everything else was ripped out by farmers and stoners...
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| Posted by Turd Furgusen |
8/21/2005 12:18 AM | remove |
Seems odd farmers and stoners would rip up 1/4 mile + of floors!
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| Posted by autowitch |
8/22/2005 4:13 PM | remove |
Not really. The owners will try to make what they can out of salvage. The owner of this particular silo was unusually into the salvaging. The story is that he lost his search after extracting the diesel tank and then found that there were no buyers for it.
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| Posted by Turd Furgusen |
8/23/2005 5:08 AM | remove |
Poor guys, we think it'd be cool to own something like this. Probably left many a farmer really scratching their heads though.
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| Posted by hjstom |
12/1/2006 4:47 AM | remove |
awesome gallery good job
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| Posted by SkaSkank |
6/2/2007 9:48 PM | remove |
great gallery, really enjoyed all of the pictures.
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| Posted by Blackbird |
10/9/2007 11:36 PM | remove |
If I had a place like this I'd probably leave it as is and just use it for storage or something alone thoughs lines.
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| Posted by IDChris |
11/8/2007 10:45 PM | remove |
Many of them were purchased by private individuals or firms for the purpose of scrapping. Can you imagine all the copper wire?
The one I explored in Chico (Beale site 1C) was salvaged out and partially flooded, but some of it was still intact when I visited it in '91. Light fixtures with intact bulbs were still in the equipment rooms and utility tunnels and many of the bath fixtured were undamaged.
The owner at the time bought it for salvage.
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| Posted by Bryan |
4/11/2008 8:02 PM | remove |
Such a shame. If I had the money, I'd buy it for restoration, as a musem. You could probably make some decent money (after all of the money you put into it) from tours.
Pipe dreams aside, I'd just buy it, and let it sit there and rot. No scrapping, just natural decay. I love it.
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| Posted by Dee Ashley |
11/10/2022 12:09 AM | remove |
Love the aesthetics of the decay contrasting the military fatigue design. It would look better without the face blurring, but that’s understandable. Still looks really cool to me in black and white (and yes, I know I’m over a decade late to the party).
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