Silo usage?

[radman1]

Put some grow lights in there and grow things all year long.

LOL. Good one.

 

[DANOCHEESE]

If this is an old concrete stave silo you can use the blocks for landscape purposes. Jut shoot it down. 12 gauge with some well palced slugs. Like felling a tree.

 

[Treemonkey1000]

If this is an old concrete stave silo you can use the blocks for landscape purposes. Jut shoot it down. 12 gauge with some well palced slugs. Like felling a tree.

Oh sure that guy is out there plinking with his shotgun and has a Silo fall on him!

 

[Erik_in_Hoyt]

If this is an old concrete stave silo you can use the blocks for landscape purposes. Jut shoot it down. 12 gauge with some well palced slugs. Like felling a tree.

45/70 works pretty good for this, too -- er, I mean, I've heard...

 

[DANOCHEESE]

We shot down a leaner this spring had to go to town twice for more ammo. Wish we would have youtubes it. There will be one more later this fall, May try and pull the bottom out. If not fire at will boys.

 

[zzvyb6]

There's a place south of here bordering on some State land. They put a hot tub up on top with a telescope to view the features of the woods. They also cut in some turret mounts so they could put a carbide cannon thru the slot. I'm thinking of put up a false silo out of wood off of my barn to accomplish the same thing. What a great view. If its a Smith Brothers, the blocks are very collectable as pavers. Be sure to keep out folks who might be tempted to climb it. Once they look up and see moving clouds, they may get too dizzy to safely stay up there. I happen to know all too much about this. 120'.

 

[tommu56]

gravity fed water tank
cell tower
60 ft deep hot tub

tom

 

[Erik_in_Hoyt]

60 ft deep hot tub

rent it to the local scuba diving club/school if you have one for "clear water" practice.

 

[radioman]

to use an existing silo for a guest house is a great/cool way to go esp. after seeing a few tv shows on people doing this. Even if you convert the bottom half for garage like space and middle as guest house and uperlevel for attic like space and very top as a observatory view. At least this is what I would do with my dream . Otherwise I would just leave it alone and let inspiration hit after living there for a few years.

 

[farmerjim]

what type of silo is it? the old concrete block or is it a newer metal type like a harvastore? i have seen a few that had cellular equipment placed on them, in that case its a win for you as those generate money on a monthly basis. if not the guest house/observatory idea would be something i would consider. the metal harvastore type i think would be very hard to convert into something else, but i believe there is a company from canada that buys thos type silos from you and they re-furb them for parts. if it still has the unloader you could always sell that, although not many dairys use upright silos these days.