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noddysyacht
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Registrace 28. 04. 2022
Retirement project, working on multiple projects to fix the place up, including anything to remove dependency on electric and heating costs. How we got here, was looking for a "retirement project" in 2016 and that was to be the "lake house" until daughter suggested a missile base. So that started the project to identify all the Atlas E, F, Nike and Titan 2 check out location - short list - ID owners etc. Results so far, love the place, only down side is the cold.
Atlas F Missile Silo Willsboro NY - Level 3
I was hoping I could use the fill and vent shaft to get the 240 volt pump in, but for now I will have to run it up the stairs then move it to the escape shaft once I cut the welds off later this month. Still not got that focus sorted out, by the time I checked it was bad I was too tired to go back down. Walking up and down those steps a few times is about the limit my knees can take. Getting old really sucks!
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Atlas F Missile Silo Willsboro NY - Silo Level 2
zhlédnutí 2,4KPřed 3 měsíci
Silo Level 2 now clear of water and a win, the blast doors are not welded shut.
Atlas F Missile Silo Willsboro NY - LCC Lower Level
zhlédnutí 2,6KPřed 3 měsíci
Atlas F LCC Lower Level now accessible. As part of the permit requirements I need keep records of the GPD pumped and also for interest I record the water level each day too. So that had been less each day for the past week and last night I realized that that is probably due to the water dropping in the silo access tunnel. A 2 hour trip downstairs added lights to the Lower LCC and cut some more ...
Atlas F Missile Silo Willsboro NY - LCC Upper Level
zhlédnutí 708Před 3 měsíci
Had to replace lights string as condensation was causing corrosion of the lamp caps due to no water tight seals on the lamp holders. Surprised that the escape hatch is welded closed and not just a couple of inches but all around. Pumping proceeding 20k GPD is about 8 to 9.5 inches per day so expect to be in the LCC lower in 2-3 weeks.
Atlas F Missile Silo Willsboro NY- Pumping has started!
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For Tony, the previous owner who wanted to pump out the silo 22 years ago. After testing the new filters over the winter I was surprised on how well they work. Reduced the "phenols" to undetectable at 14 GPM and also undetectable at 2x nominal flow. So no need to reduce the discharge rate as I was expecting. The plan is pump at the daily limit of 20k GPD at much as I can. Interested to see how ...
Atlas F Missile Silo Willsboro NY Office Block Winter 2024
zhlédnutí 196Před 6 měsíci
Winter project to save the office block. I was intending to replace a few joists and had them here ready but as you can see its well past that stage. So new plan concrete block the outside walls, prop up the inside walls with screw jacks, fill in with 130 ton of stone and then cap it off with 3" concrete. Should be done in a week right.
Sol-Ark 15k, Generator with micro-CHP Redneck version
zhlédnutí 269Před 7 měsíci
@noddysyacht Got the propane geny working, Well George at Sol-ark did - thanks 1/ I would like that the geny could charge the battery say at 3KW while at the same time sell to the grid at 3Kw. That would allow me to make KW credits at the same time as I extract ever BTU to heat my place. 2/ It would appear that when off grid the Sol-Ark does not use the battery as primary source with the genera...
Atlas F Missile Silo Willsboro NY Pumping Permit 2024
zhlédnutí 272Před 7 měsíci
Permit went for public comment in December so maybe around April pumping can start. Due to new found issue "Phenols" in the Silo I now have to change the filter type to remove the phenols so hung the pipes to drain back into the Silo which will allow me to work on a solution to that problem. The phenols are not a product of the Silo but appear to be naturally contaminant as they are found in hi...
Atlas F Missile Silo Willsboro NY-Office Floor rotting away
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This is the 6 room office block at the back of the Quonset Huts, I think it was an add on to the link built around 1980. It was all sealed off when we bought the place in 2018 and the wood floor area is unsafe. The rot is progressing and may result in a collapse so for winter I intend to prop up the walls and prep for a insulted concrete floor.
Internet on a Stick - P2P Wireless - Wireless Broadband
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Been in the UK most of the summer so little got done at the base this year
Pixel 7 Pro GPS problem - issue
zhlédnutí 617Před rokem
So for weeks I was seeing photos with the wrong location. Going outside, I would get the correct GPS location. Go back inside and within minutes my location would drift again. Then I opened up maps and watched my location drift around a 30 mile radius of my true location. But being an old guy I can’t risk bad GPS tracking or not using last known good location. What would happen if I had a medic...
Atlas F Missile Silo Willsboro NY Spring 2023
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So pleased the snow has gone, expect the permit to pump will be end of May. The water from the Silo has to be on the property, one of the suggested places was the sunken loading bay, so this was a quick test to how fast it would fill. Or not, seems to drain away fast, if doggo's are going to get there pool the loading bay is going to have to be lined.
Atlas F Missile Silo Willsboro NY-10kW Sol-Ark 15k & 25kW SOK Battery
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Progress on the Solar - Basic System was up and running 12/7 and on that day 3 brown-outs and no transfer switch resulted in 3 5-1/2 minute outages. So added the SOK battery and will add a transfer switch too at some point. Generator still needs to be moved over to the Sol-Ark but will make that a plug and play. With 3 small generators, have a propane and gas but a small diesel would be good to...
Atlas F Missile Silo Willsboro NY-10Kw Solar Prep Work
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So after repairing the South Quonset Hut roof and then the South-ish side of the office roof, I then had to go with a ground mount option. Which was my originally choose but given the cost of trenching gave it up for a roof mount which did not work out. So back option 1 and clear the ground, about 80 hours total but maybe 6 hours a day max as its hard going at 64. Oh to be young sucks being old...
Atlas F Missile Silo Willsboro NY Downstairs
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Atlas F Missile Silo Willsboro NY Downstairs
Atlas F Missile SIlo Willsboro NY project dreams?
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Atlas F Missile SIlo Willsboro NY project dreams?
Atlas F Missile SIlo Willsboro NY Flyover with Ukraine Roof
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Atlas F Missile SIlo Willsboro NY Flyover with Ukraine Roof
Atlas F Missile SIlo Willsboro NY Quonset Hut Repair Update
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Atlas F Missile SIlo Willsboro NY Quonset Hut Repair Update
Fantastic video thanks for the update, pleeeease be careful down there!
Jeez Steve take care xxx
Thanks for the update. Good luck with your continued works on the site. Hopefully the water ingress rate wont change when you reach 80ft.
Wow! About... 1/3 dry now?
Is there a way to stop by and see you? I am in that area regularly.
Yes, contact me at noddysyacht@gmail.com
So I heard from one of the other silo owners that the steel I-Beams under the Silo Cap Doors were used for closing them. The hydrolics were removed with the doors open and I-beams were placed across with wooden boards and large amounts of hay bales over them. The Doors were then pushed onto the hay by heavy equipment with the hay then lit on fire. As everything burned, the doors slowly closed into position with only the I-beams remaining under them. The I-beams were possibly bent from the extreme heat. Reply
wow WOW *WOW* , incredible!!! My cousin's family and I always go up to the Adirondacks every year for a weekend or so and this year just by chance we're doing an Airbnb in Willsboro. I was having a look around google maps and noticed an ICBM site literally across the street! After a bit sleuthing on here I was shocked to find this amazing record of the site's current rehabilitation! We're kind of into nuclear technology and history and it would be absolutely amazing for us to be able to see the site. Is there any possibility at all that we could stop by and have a quick peek around? Do you have an email address I could contact you at? There are only 5 of us total and we would of course be very respectful of your time and property if we had the chance to stop by. Thanks much for all the interesting video of the work you are doing at the site here!
Email is listed under the channel - about but here it is noddysyacht@gmail.com
Do you know if the escape tunnel/shaft still has the 3 tons of sand? Would be good to know if you ever decide to open it!
Sand is long gone, shaft is empty
Why was a shaft drilled into the tunnel?
7 monitoring/test wells were drilled years ago for water testing after the site was shutdown. I have found 6 of them and gave up on the 7th
This is absolutely amazing! I suspected the LCC and crib were still intact. This one is gonna be quite similar to Brainardsville! Great work!
Wow. I thought I took on crazy projects but you take first prize in that contest. I would LOVE to reclaim a silo, but my budget would never keep pace with my impatience to just get it done. I can't imagine the cost of buying, draining, gutting and restoring or reclaiming the space for new uses. Kudos to you and yes, I subscribed. :)
Keep it rusty, you’ll never be able to get back such a cool asthetic like that no matter how hard you try. Sure, turn one level into something livable but try and leave the rest. The atmosphere in there is just incredible and kinda sacred.
Living my dream my dude. Subbed.
It looks like we have much to learn about building things to last, like the Egyptians and Romans did.
could use a woman's touch
Tyvec suit & respirator
Great video very interesting be great to see lower levels thanks for your time 👍🏻
What is the end goal? Giant man cave? Underground survival bunker? Indoor climbing wall? Sandblast and paint everything, then fill it up with water for a really cool scuba diving tank?
Awesome. So cool. Alot of work but wow
I have no idea what the context of this video is, but wow all that rust is both scary and amazing! Im always amazed at how us humans are able to create sich structures. All the effort taken to create it and the. Just throw it away. All of it is amazing
Great progress with draining the silo - considering the level of filtration you're applying to the water you bring out I think 15 inches a day is amazing. So fascinating to see how much of the infrastructure they left behind. I guess at the end of the day there probably wasn't much of a market for it on that scale. Thanks for sharing your journey on this project.
Oh my. Looks like a lot of work. I've seen other silo projects. For me, I would want to get the water out as soon as practical and start drying things out. The humidity must be awful in there. Not good for what's left of the metal either.
Really cool!! There's a lot of stuff left in there by the looks of it. Your camera has a really lazy auto focus, might be worth setting it in manual focus at infinity, which will be fine if you're not zooming in on things :)
I will try that, the lights I strung up mess things up and the videos are just as is with no planning
Wow. Relatively intact. I wonder if yours was the last Silo they stripped, and just gave up before they finished the job :-)
Them black tanks your using. I used to work at a factory that made them. Idk if them are the same from the same company or not but they look just like the ones we made. I worked in the commercial department and we made way bigger tanks then that and those were made in the residential department. They were always made well but it's cool to see you using them. Neat set up
Such a shame it was allowed to fill up with water in the first place. Great job pumping it out - lot of work ahead of you but what an exciting project!
That's a very impressive filtration system! I was surprised how quiet it was too.
might of been a cool video if it would of been in focus...
Very cool. I'm in Vermont and have visited a few of these locations. Fun to see what was underground.
That is so incredibly cool! I'm so jealous LOL. I have to build my bunker from scratch. Looking forward to your next video.
The silo has been leaking
You do realise the amount of asbestos that was used in those old silos?. I hope you was suited up.
Thank you for the video.
Nice setup. I'm glad you got those all those filters especially carbon filters. The carbon filters are great at captureing PFAS and other chemicals. Thank you for doing your part keeping the environment clean while you uncover history.
I believe there are 10 of these atlas silos in upper NY I used to live by some titan missle silos in arizona. One by my house they halfassed the concrete pour when they decommissioned them and you could crawl down the main shaft and get into the actual base which was partially full of flash flood water and mud. By now, i would think that mother nature finished the process and its just packed to the brim with mud/flood debris.
Oh this is so cool, turning this into a house or bnb? It's in pretty good shape all things considered. I'm a former minuteman III IBCM maintenance guy and I absolutely love the silos and the LCCs and such for that site. The Atlas has always fascinated me, it was way before my time though. Still really cool!
Living space first and maybe bnb latter, have to see how time goes as there is so much to do here.
@@noddysyacht Oh cool! I can't wait to see more!
Much better condition than I would have expected.
Great job, keep up the awesome work...👍🚀
Amazing progress on the pump out! Well done! Have had enough rain back here in Blighty to fill it back up in the last 24hrs lol
Hey There! We visited a few years back when the silo was still filled with water. Would you be interested in doing an interview?
Thanks for the ask, but it's not really my thing.
Brilliant work, keep it up!
Wow. It’s in better condition than I was expecting. I was feeling proud after putting in 40ft of fence today…and meanwhile you’re replacing floors and pumping out a silo.
I could do a fence if I was 30 years younger
Awesome progress!
Hell yeah, love seeing these opened back up. Can't wait for more videos, thanks..
Great job...👍🚀🚀
Please keep us updated, this site has never been documented below grade!
Hell yeah, congratulations. Can't wait to see how this project progresses
So you're strictly rate limited on pump-out and it's got to be cleaner than the water in the surrounding woods!? Thanks for the update, hope you're well!
Permit is limited 20k gal/day 14 gal/min BUT to remove the phenols that will have to be slow to give the longest contact time with the large carbon filters so 2-3 gal/min = 2" per day in the.Silo. Out of the 90 plus substances tested, phenols was a surprise, EPA limit for phenols is 2 ppb, Silo is 56ppb, post filter 43ppb, my land 50ppb & neighbors woods 150ppb. Work continues but even with 2" per day 2 months the top level of the LCC will be accessible.
Brrrrr looks chilly !!
Yeh overhead pipes now frozen until next week but nice and warm indoors
I have a pixel 7 and the issue is having a specific case on it that doesn't have a cutout on the top right corner