Bought this house, two silos with it. Great condition but nonoperational (assuming). They’re between 65-85 ft tall, any reccos on how to get some use out of them?
I’m content with just calling it good and saying they look cool. But curious as to what yall would think. NE Kansas area.
by Flashy_Song575
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I knew a guy who use one as a deer stand.
Mostly I think they are just to look cool.
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Interior climbing walls?
Could add windows and make a greenhouse. Would make a great workshop of some kind . add stairs and platforms for additional vertical storage. I would leave it until you see what you need .
A telescope inside would have a limited view but isolated from a lot of RF/IR noise.
Silage.
You might be able to rent space on them to be used as a cell tower or microwave repeater for an ISP.
That’s where I would keep my wasps
Take care of them well enough for them not to collapse before you move/die.
Other than that the use cases for silos is really small.
Aviary…
Makes a great root cellar.
Post them online as the thing to see for tourists and charge 10$ a person to see them.
You won’t become rich but you’ll be doing something with them and making money to.
Put two balls at the bottom of them
Put a couple of large round bales at the bottom and put pictures of them on your dating profile.
I was curious, & asked Copilot (yes, I know some of you Hate AI), & it did say vertical farming like mushrooms, strawberries, aquaponic/hydroponic growing was a possibility.
Made me think of all those vertical tower & hydroponic systems I keep seeing on various social media platforms.
Put missiles in them…
fill with cocaine
I’ve seen smaller metal grain silos turned into apartments. My dad’s farm has one of these and I always though it would be cool to make a house out of one of these, but the reality is, to modify it to the point of being habitable probably wouldn’t be safe. These things are poured concrete and held together by steel cables. Modifying it in any significant way would compromise its structural integrity. My dad’s has just sat unused for 50+ years. Too expensive to demo, so I’d just leave it alone if structurally it looks fine. A town near where I grew up did a cool mural on an even bigger one, though not your type with the cables:
[https://exploregeorgia.org/colquitt/general/historic-sites-trails-tours/georgias-agricultural-mural](https://exploregeorgia.org/colquitt/general/historic-sites-trails-tours/georgias-agricultural-mural)
Air defense system.
Fill them with grain.
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When I was looking at properties in my state, there was a farm for sale where the owner had a cell phone antenna mounted on his silos and was paid monthly rent by the cell phone company. Mountainous here and service is bad in a myriad of unexpected pockets.
The daft old coot was trying to sell his land but retain the rights to keep collecting monthly rent from the antennas. Surprisingly no one was biting.
Fill them with peanut butter.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/lqsrm3/silo_learned_to_walk_during_demolition/](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/lqsrm3/silo_learned_to_walk_during_demolition/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/2csg08/the_way_this_building_collapsed/](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/2csg08/the_way_this_building_collapsed/)
I mean, it only works once, and it may not work so well every time. The ones you see are the ones where nobody died.
I also know of a guy who lives along the interstate that rents the side of it out like a billboard. Not sure I would do that for my own place also I wouldnt want to live along a busy road.
As far as I’m concerned, taking them down is a crime.
Rent to NORAD.
Missiles
Homemade observatory/telescope
I showed my kids [this YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzKvwYt3Zyg) ages ago. One of them grew up asking to see the “bam bam” video all the time.
House with an observatory?
Carefully dismantle them and sell to an eclectic millionaire so they can reconstruct them in a gentrified downtown area
Grain
Observatory?
Look up the Kletter Tower in Iceland
Paint them to resemble medieval castle towers.
If u have kids make it a play area
Telescope on a rotating platform on the top.
Paint the them pink n purple and sell tickets
Indoor plant room
Lease them to the government for “classified” use only…
Compost vermicompost
[Drop’em](https://imgur.com/gallery/84rN7Ee), especially if you can find someone to do it for the scrap.