It has been a few months since I have posted on my blog. There has been a few things that have developed over the last few months since I have posted. The Wilber Atlas F site has been sold. The owner of the Palmyra site has decided to take his site off the market for the time being. The new owners of Avoca have been working hard at getting there site cleaned up. I have visited the site a few times in the last few months and even though when I have been out there I haven’t done to much to help them out cause of time constraints and well…me being lazy sometimes it is good they are still glad to see me and leave me an open invitation to come out and visit when it is possible for me. They had got the culminator site tube concrete base removed from the escape hatch and started cleaning up the LCC and had started sealing the concrete in the entrapment area and started painting. The stairs have been finished and look really good. There are some issues with condensation with the weather and needing to seal up the site to let it start drying out in places. All in all progress is going really well. I was also contacted by the new owner of the Wilber site and will try to make a trip down there to talk to them. I am planing on going out tomorrow and see how progress is going at Avoca and am planing on staying out there a full day and to actually do some work this time and take some more photos.
Cleanup at Avoca
I went out last Saturday again to help clean up the Missile Base some more. We tried to get the piece of concrete moved that is covering the escape hatch, but didn’t have much luck since it weights a few tons and was impossible to drag it even a few inches.
There were a few left over pieces of heating duct and some charcoal filters in the entryway tunnel and we used a saw zaw and grinder to cut up the pieces to get them threw the doors and up the stair.
The floor for the most part wasn’t to bad to clean up there was a lot of mud probably about 1/2″ deep in spots and we got that removed.
We grilled some hamburgers for lunch that were so delicious. It was another good day working at the missile base.
Where the heck have I been?
So it has been a little while since I have posted on the blog. Mostly because there hasn’t been to much to report or anything going on really. There was almost a possible sale of the Palmyra site but things just didn’t work. Instead the people ended up buying the Avoca site here in Nebraska and I think that it was a good deal for both the previous owner and the new ones. I have spend a few days the last couple of weekends and have been helping the new owners out when I can with some stuff. Not working for a few months can make you a lazy person and I am not afraid to say that. It is good though that I have been able to do something that has to do with this hobby of mine with missile silos and to be able to help others out. My first visit to the Avoca site the new owners had moved there trailer onto the site and had been living there for about 2 weeks and have been getting the kinks worked out. They have set up a solar panels to power there camper and last Saturday I help with the installation of a small wind turbine to help with the power when the sun isn’t out. It was a fun experience and am glad that I could help them out. I have also been trying to do a little update to the website as I have plenty of time to do stuff like that now. Although I didn’t make a lot of major changes I wanted to make it look a little different that it has been for the last couple of years. I have added some new photos of the Avoca site and a lot of links as well to some of my social sites that I hang out at. I have purchased a little mini HD cam that records 720p HD @30fps and have taken some video as well of the Avoca site and have been uploading it to my youtube account. It is a tedious process as anyone that does any work with video HD video takes up alot of space and a long time to upload. Just 9 minutes of video is around 600 megs. I know some of the videos may not be that exciting but hey its not like I am getting payed to do this stuff. I just hope that everyone enjoys it. My video cam is a Kodak Zi6 and after doing some long research on the internet I found that is was the best value for the money I spent. I can use rechargable batteries for it and it has a SDHC card slot for extra memory. It has its flaws but it is what I have been needing to take basic video of stuff that I am doing here or there with the Missile sites.
I thought about posting links here but all the links are on the web site so head over there and click on all the new stuff. I have also added a fan page for my web site on Facebook and the link is here if anyone wants to go there and sign up as a fan. http://companies.to/nebraskasilos/. I continue to get emails from people that say they love the Nesilos website and I want to say that I appreciate all the emails and comments that I have been getting. I hope to continue to bring new stuff as much as I can to the website and will try to post more on the blog. Thanks
August Updates
Oh my what a semi busy month. I did a 3 Atlas f showing to some potential buyers, Was a long day but was so much fun to get back to some of the sites. I missed visiting with the owners of the Tecumseh site I was hoping to get out there but work was so hectic that i was unable to make it there. Added a little google widget thing to the web site on site locations. Seen that google has some kewl features on there Google Earth. You can actually see some of the roads that take you directly to the Atlas F missile sites on GooGle Earth Street View.
Busy Busy Busy
It has been a moderatly busy few months since my last post. I have received a few emails of people thinking about buying a Atlas F site. I will be showing one of the sites next weekend to a couple that is interesting in purchasing. I heard that the Glasco site in Kansas has been sold. I would be interested in talking to the new owners so if anyone knows them give them my info or vice versa. I believe that there is a titan 2 site for sale in Arkansas also but am not sure of the price. I hope to visit with the owners of the Tecumseh site again here in the next couple weeks. I hope to take some more photos with my new camera. Heard also that a tornado trashed one of the Atlas E sites in Colorado surface structures I heard were gone.
Palmyra Revisited
I visited the Palmyra site again yesterday. It was a fun time. We took the potential buyers down into the entryway which was muddy from all the rain lately. The water level down in the entryway was pretty much the same as when the water raises it overflows threw the stairway leading to the lcc. The lcc was damp as usual. When we went down the stairway to the silo tunnel we noticed about 2 feet of water at the tunnel level which meant that the level of water in the silo had raised considerably
since out last visit. The water level in the silo was about 35 feet below the silo ledge on our last visit and seeing the water that high was quite a view. We moved threw the water in the tunnel to the silo ledge just to get a view of the silo area for the buyers to see. Think we might need to take a small boat next time we visit the site to take a stroll in the silo.
Revisiting “Atlas F in Palmyra”
I will be going to the Palmyra site again tomorrow to show it to a potential buyer. I am looking forward to the visit and hope that they people are interested in it. It will take a lot of work but it could be a really nice site if someone want to take the time to work on it and fix it up. Most of the sites are that way for the most part. It has rained a lot in the last week so I am wondering how the entryway is going to be besides really muddy and if the water levels are up in the silo and entryway. I guess that I will know more tomorrow.
Communications Vault Cont.
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I just wanted to add these photos from my friend Clint of a communications vault he visited 5/17/08.
Communications Vaults
I was suppose to go with my silo exploring buddy today to go to a telephone convention located in one of the old telephone communications vaults here in Nebraska. Didn’t have a baby sitter so I couldn’t make the trip, but I told him to get a lot of photos for me and to get some information on where the vaults are in Nebraska and so forth. I am still updating the blog with links and stuff. I know there are tons of them. I just tend to put the ones up there that I visit. If there is one that you would like added then let me know.
Blog Technology
After spending most the morning trying to figure out WordPress I am finally understanding and learning the layout. I wanted to make this blog to talk about things pertaining to the Nesilos web site, thoughts and Ideas. I often have a lot of emails and comments about the site and am planing to do a revamp of the site here soon to make it look more modern. I just need to learn some more about web design and that is always fun since I don’t have time to do many of the things with the site that I want.
