Very impressive Doug. Hats off to you. I believe your site is the old 570-06. I was there in the early 1980's and found the long cableway sitting next to the access road just north of Tangerine. I helped myself to several danger high voltage signs. Came back many years later and found it was a nursery. I called that site home for almost four years both as a DMCCC and a MCCC.I was one of the few commanders who had the excitement of taking a Titan 2 off alert. Believe me that was a very big deal its day being that targets had to be covered. Make a long story short the cooling fan on PS-1 disintegrated after spinning for about 11 years at 2AM of course. MFT performed a shut down and switched over to BPS-1 which I was assured would last 8 hours until MIMS arrived. It failed after 2 hours and 40 minutes, adios power to the MAGCG. Got to wake up Col Scott 390th WC and he got to wake up some folks in Omaha. Fun times at 06.I left the service being greedy I wanted to make more money than the AF was willing to pay. Never got too far away been living up the road in Scottsdale 45 years now. Good luck to you on your endeavor.
It was EPIC! Introducing a whole new generation to that movie in a setting they will never forget. After the movie, each scout got to put on a climbing harness for safety and climb out the escape hatch - 60 feet straight up in the darkness up toward the starlit sky. They loved it.
As an amateur singer who loves karaoke, you got my complete attention with that superb echo chamber . Perfect use for that level. Better idea than any other Titan site I have seen IMHO. Man cave, yeah you nailed it!
Cheers to the guy giving you the tour of his silo. Very cool stuff done and great commenting on every aspect of his work. He also seems like a great guy to have a beer with :D
Thank you! It was unscripted, and more a personal tour for Atomic Underground - he talked me into being the center of the video. Never put myself on TH-cam before, it's scary! :)
Many of the special designs built into this silo are very similar to ones that I worked on over a 40 year career in building nuclear power stations and in large underground flood control pumping stations. Very interesting stuff. I'm really enjoying this series. Thanks for posting these.
I became addicted to the Titan II missile sites after visiting the Museum in 2017. You have the nicest site by far, being so dry and cleaned out. If you ever start doing tours, I'd love to come see yours next time we are out that way. I drove by yours several times without ever realizing it was so close to Interstate 10.
That was my immediate thought when seeing the dome. If he hosts scout groups, then all the better. Of course that site looks like it would be fairly good skies at ground level anyway, although he said something about a Wal-Mart only 10 minutes away so there might be some light pollution.
I installed fiber optics. When I made the first phone call I wondered if I was the first person ever to make a real modern cell phone call in a renovated missile site. Probably not, but just maybe...
Doug - Awesome work, what you are doing is incredible! I figured you own 0-6, was asking on 1st video. Crew life back in the operational years was a fantastic job! We always knew when the big wigs were coming, they couldn’t surprise us......
Hmm, seems to be a bit of "mine is better than yours" with this fella, of course he had the best and most amazing graffiti in his complex, probably the finest of all the graffiti.... But its all gone now, which is odd as he seems to have been very keen to save anything else he found.
Your almost ready for the corona virus apocalypse. Great job on the 1st floor, but I don't think I could handle the acoustics in the first room. Sound deadening would be a must for me. Looking great!
That's an interesting texture (if texture is the right word for it) on the ceiling of that finished dome. Almost looks quilted, but there's still a lot of echo, so I'm assuming it's not sound-deadening material. Don't think I've seen one like that before. Thanks for the tour!!
The inside of what would become the dome was formed with flat boards about a foot wide. When the concreted was poured, and the interior frame removed, it created that pattern. I don't think they cared about making the inside a perfectly smooth dome, most of it was was concealed by the walls and a flat ceiling hiding the A/C ducting and piping. I have some old black and white photos of the construction. I don't think it's enough to affect the acoustics - it sounds really amazing when you stand in the exact center and talk.
@@ArizonaTitan - That's really interesting. Had no idea that's how they formed the dome. Makes sense now. And congrats on your Titan 2 silo. It looks great! There's a pretty large following on TH-cam for those working on silos like this, so I hope you're able to document a lot of it as you go. I know it's time consuming, though. Would love to see those black and white construction photos as part of a video sometime in the future. Thanks for the response, and the education about how that dome was constructed.
Thanks for bringing us to Dougs site, its interesting to see the different ideas and operational practices. Personally, I'd want to live in it, and just have an entry port. the house on top would be redundant.
9:45 this guy says he paid more than anyone else in history for a missile site but he has a dry and clean space without lipstick on it. Arizona I imagine is probably he best location for a Silo.
Yep, az spots are nice, no flood waters when you open the door. The money they go for now is insane. Now I'll never have one, they used to sell for $20k or far less. No one really wanted them. Original sales were preferred to low bidders (because of their history, they "looked bad"). In Az, they were almost all surrounded by "state trust land". A freaking gold mine today to get a piece of land like that... until they sell it off to developers. Az state trust land is not like "forest land", it can be "traded"... my hometown area is getting "traded" into a mini-metropolis in front of my eyes. In a few years, I will not be welcome. I live in a rural area that has "fantastic mountain views", it wont be "rural" much longer, picked up by the places to be sold for $300,000 per 1/8 acre. Talk all the crap you want, I have an awesome mountain view, for now. I'll get "booted out" soon enough to make way for the "big money spots". I lived here my whole life & all that means now is "cool story, get fucked, we are coming in now".
@@ArizonaTitan thanks for the heads up, I'm at work but I'll check them out ASAP! Initially while searching for your channel I was looking for AZ titan ii (2), thanks for providing an Avenue to find the correct one. You got this sub!
There’s a video on here of the Air Force removing the warhead from a titan II that I believe is his site. Don’t know if he’s seen it or not. Was kinda cool.
I saw it recently. It was kinda weird to me, seeing the same mountain peaks I see every day in the background, and knowing I walk over it every day. Really brought it all home, watching something that happened on your property in the past. I've seen lots of pictures and videos, but for some reason that video really struck a chord in me.
This entire thing is fascinating! - to think this was built in 18 months back in the early 1960's! I can't help think about what's underground these days hiding in plain sight that simple Joe on the street has no idea about, the hidden military technology that's inside will no doubt surprise many. Great video's!
Concerning graffiti, if you ever make your way out to the silo equipment area, then make a point of checking the backside of the 100K gallon water tank on level six. You have to climb over the railing and inch your way to the backside on the conduit. This is the location where crew artists would paint or draw murals. When I was on crew, we made a point of checking this location during DSV (Daily Shift Verification) anytime we were an “away” crew meaning we were assigned an alert tour at a complex that was not our home site. Some of the tanks sported some amazing drawings.
Man I cannot Believe it .. I was Born and Raised right across from the Chicken Farm at I-10 and Tangerine Lived in the house right by the Railroad tracks where the RV campsite is . that was 71 72 later on in life I lived Right next to The Breakers water park , I used to stand right on the top of thing and shoot guns with my father in the late 70s and 80s he would talk to me about this silo but there was no way in . Then 2003 2004 I would go see Tim W you know . I remember when he bought that place, was there when he put up the Quanza hut , I remember when I went over there and the excavator had no more reach to pull concrete out of that entry way you patched up . Tim and his little brother Sean tried to get in at the time . I moved down to oracle and river still there now , I watched Acacia nursery grow for years helped my buddy work on them Big spade trucks, I owned land at camino de manana and tangerine , lived of Oasis for 30 years , where the Hilton is Dove mountain my whole childhood was in that canyon . that little Mountain just north of your property I have sat 100 of hours up there . I remember riding my dirt bike where Park and Shade is now 20 years before it was even there . shoot I remember Breakers opening , you gotta Know Herb Ki if I spelled that correct.. Man I would love to come see that place with my son.. Great Job Memories
You should really consider "Control 4" as far as your automation, security, control, and "joystick tv room" goes. They make excellent products and nothing less. i dont work for them or anything lol, but I had a 6 TV set up with climate control, lighting, security etc, and it was awesome!
love the channel,stumbled on a video from,,,the derelict crew,, of an abandend but INTACT titon 2 in vandenburg ca,any knowledge on how it escaped the demolition,
I believe when a missile was launched from them it effectively destroyed them. Also they were not active alert sites so they weren't a threat to the soviets.
Boy's with their toys. Labor of love big time and preserving history. So, would you switch if you could to owning one of those Titan I sites? Maybe to big?
I was wondering what the floor tiles are made from. I worked on a state hospital and in the medication rooms we found the tiles were made from asbestos. Easy to check if you must check.
for steel stairs how about checking with area demo companies they might have a place coming down in the are you could salvage the necessary material from. at the cost of scrap metal verses new .
The yellow color was the only paint that tested positive for having a lead base. The green and others were negative. Basically take all the proper precautions - don't eat it, wear a mask when scraping (no sandblasting) and paint over it with several coats. Exactly how the government recommends you handle old paint in your home.
@@ArizonaTitan That orange paint (particularly in your "tool room" at the entrance right inside what you called "blast door 6") looks like the red lead in linseed oil (TT-P-86) that the Corps of Engineers liked to specify for the primer in their industrial coating systems until the late '70s/early '80s. Sometimes colors don't come through well on camera, so if you really had it tested and it's clear, OK, but it sure does a great impression of the lead paint I see at work all the time. It's great as a paint and lasts forever, but you definitely don't want to eat the flat candy, and want to avoid abrasive blasting without being prepared to handle it. It's surprising to that the yellow paint was lead based; typically the yellow stuff was a chromium pigment. (Also really toxic, but less famous than lead which got used in houses--though that was typically white lead used for color, not the red lead used for industrial paints due to the excellent corrosion resistance.)
Your comment about building this site. they started in 1961 and completed in 1963. Realize they build not 1 complex in that amount of time, they built 54 complexes in that 2 years time.
Do you know of any of the sites that have opened the silo? I know that supposedly they filled them up with debris but as with any Government contractor they might have skipped one? I have heard that the generators were too costly to remove and some are still in place.
Generators were removed from AZ sites but no AR and KS generators were removed. But they are most likely all under water now. As to opening the actual silo... Stay tuned to the 4 Titan site channels over the summer.
There is a lecture from Chuck Penson available on YT where he says that one of the AZ sites silo has been opened (or rather accessed from the long cableway entrance level). All silo equipment areas are accessible and "rather intact" down to the bottom - only the internal ring where the missile once stood is completely filled with debris. The lecture is from 2017 and he wouldn't say which site exactly he's referring to...
How were these sites built originally? Did they excavate the entire thing, build the silo and bury it, or dig it all out? If the later what process would that have used?
Little bit of both. They excavated to the level of the bottom of the cableways. They called it "the bathtub" but it was about the size and shape of a small stadium. Command center was dug out another 10 feet or so for the base, but the silo still had to go down more than another 100 feet. They ran a dozer in circles going deeper and deeper using a buck crane to remove the loosened soil.
I will do what I can for future videos, I agree the audio on these is a challenge. I just have a little GoPro, not sure how to attach a remote mic. It's sealed up tight (waterproof) with no connecting ports for an external device.
How do you grow vegetables in the Arizona desert? Plus he'll have ot go outside some times so not so safe at the end. There is a twillight zone episode -i think- with a man and his friend getting in a bunker after a muclear explosion. They hear people knocking at the door asking if they were any survivors and the owner ask his mate to shut up because they were zombies... At the end of the épisode, the camera slowly pans backwards, revealing the dusty destroyed surroundings of the bunker, goes backwards more and the audience see there was a concrete dome build around the aera and the bunker which is a memorial and outside the dome there a whole new city. A woman says to her child : "That's were your father is".
i get the space part but it looks like a huge hazard and difficult to maneuver, and something about the original case is appealing to me. but hey I'm just some guy on youtube with no missile silo
I was wondering what are the deed restrictions on the site? I have noticed a lot of these are being reopened, but I thought there where restrictions in the deed preventing it.
@@atomicunderground9971 Okay, makes sense, I guess I was thinking about the Minuteman sites, I do know that at one time they where reopening the 510 M-01 outside Holden, Missouri a few years back.
@@ArizonaTitan Thanks, I (made) a map on Google Earth with all of the Missile Silos in the US, makes it easy to find them when I see them here. Looking at Google Earth in the "past" what used to be top side?
@@ArizonaTitan I am located just under 2 hours from you south of Tucson and would enjoy coming out to help renovate. I pilot an INEX Legend at Tucson Speedway if you ever have time to make it out.
I have not tried yet. Would be fun for the sake of "exploring" but it's under the nursery and would be very disruptive to the business - unless I could figure out a way to make it worth the time and money.
IF I ever came under the good fortune to get one of these beasts in fairly good condition, the last things I would do are to add a bunch of home made control panels with random blinking lights, but also normal controls and indication for HVAC operation, normal lighting, emergency (red) lighting, caution (yellow) lighting, night time (green) lighting, remote antenna lift booms for ham/CB radios, rotators for satellite/internet alignment, and back up power generation/active line monitoring and controls. Sure it would be tedious and would require a lot of time, coax cables, ethernet cables, power lines, and circuit wiring, but it would be fun all the same!
Agreed. Lesson learned. When I start posting on my channel I will try to find the best way to fix the echo. Maybe headset with mic encased in foam - that way I can hear it real time in places where it gets bad. Of course, when the place is finished we will take the acoustics into account.
Cool place to live, but I’d have to cover the walls in foam. Resonance is not “acoustics” in my opinion. My voice echoing like that would drive me nuts. I did spend time in MMII silos so I am familiar with it.
I installed fiber optics when I ran commercial power. Got it all down there - cell phone, cable, high-speed Internet. Just about everything runs over fiber these days.
That is exactly what I told these Arkansas folks that they need to do. Scrap all of that old metal to pay for rebuilding everything using lumber and drywall. Put a circular staircase in the middle of the floor and you will have a good start with rooms around the perimeter. I love the dome ceiling. Split level 1 using open walls to expose that dome ceiling... plenty of room for a small day use 1/2 bathroom, small kitchen, and living/dining area. You can go for a larger formal kitchen/dining on L2, and a home theater on L3 with bedrooms below that. After level 1 put the semi-circle staircases staggered around the perimeter right against the wall.
@@atomicunderground9971 How is that? I know a few scrappers and they are all making money scrapping junk metal. None are getting rich, but it's not costing them any more than time, gas, and wear on their vehicle.
@@barking.dog.productions1777 It's extremely laborious to remove and carry out of what is basically a deep hole in the ground, and most of the high-value scrap like copper wiring was already removed when the Air Force initially decommissioned the sites.
@@mentalstampede I could see it as being very labor intensive without the right tools. You might be able to get by with a plasma torch and a truck winch, but otherwise you would probably need some heavy equipment.
So, so glad these sites are being saved. Massive pieces of history, no pun intended!!
Very impressive Doug. Hats off to you. I believe your site is the old 570-06. I was there in the early 1980's and found the long cableway sitting next to the access road just north of Tangerine. I helped myself to several danger high voltage signs. Came back many years later and found it was a nursery. I called that site home for almost four years both as a DMCCC and a MCCC.I was one of the few commanders who had the excitement of taking a Titan 2 off alert. Believe me that was a very big deal its day being that targets had to be covered. Make a long story short the cooling fan on PS-1 disintegrated after spinning for about 11 years at 2AM of course. MFT performed a shut down and switched over to BPS-1 which I was assured would last 8 hours until MIMS arrived. It failed after 2 hours and 40 minutes, adios power to the MAGCG. Got to wake up Col Scott 390th WC and he got to wake up some folks in Omaha. Fun times at 06.I left the service being greedy I wanted to make more money than the AF was willing to pay. Never got too far away been living up the road in Scottsdale 45 years now. Good luck to you on your endeavor.
That's a fascinating story
War Games in a decommissioned nuclear silo? That's awesome.
I thought the same thing lol
@@SteveStoltz me to
It was EPIC! Introducing a whole new generation to that movie in a setting they will never forget. After the movie, each scout got to put on a climbing harness for safety and climb out the escape hatch - 60 feet straight up in the darkness up toward the starlit sky. They loved it.
Perfect movie choice!
@@ArizonaTitan
That done room would make an awesome planetarium 🙄
Looks like some amazing progress made on that site, nice to see he's also preserving history on anything he finds there.
As an amateur singer who loves karaoke, you got my complete attention with that superb echo chamber . Perfect use for that level. Better idea than any other Titan site I have seen IMHO. Man cave, yeah you nailed it!
Cheers to the guy giving you the tour of his silo. Very cool stuff done and great commenting on every aspect of his work. He also seems like a great guy to have a beer with :D
Thank you! It was unscripted, and more a personal tour for Atomic Underground - he talked me into being the center of the video. Never put myself on TH-cam before, it's scary! :)
10:30 okay, this guys a badass. I hope to catch a game there one day!
What a very cool missile site. Thanks to both of you for giving the tour. It is amazing how different the sites are across the country.
Thanks for the good tour all around. Can't wait for yours to look this good
Doug; You seem like a great guy! Best of luck with your project!
Many of the special designs built into this silo are very similar to ones that I worked on over a 40 year career in building nuclear power stations and in large underground flood control pumping stations. Very interesting stuff. I'm really enjoying this series. Thanks for posting these.
Great tour. I love the plan for this entrance being in the garage.
This is Dave Arnold from strasburg Pennsylvania nice job on that on the Charlotte you do a good job
I became addicted to the Titan II missile sites after visiting the Museum in 2017. You have the nicest site by far, being so dry and cleaned out. If you ever start doing tours, I'd love to come see yours next time we are out that way. I drove by yours several times without ever realizing it was so close to Interstate 10.
Wonder if anybody ever thought about putting in a planetarium on level one..... just saying that’s gotta bring in some guests
That would be an awesome idea!!
Not hard at all! Just a central projector!
That was my immediate thought when seeing the dome. If he hosts scout groups, then all the better. Of course that site looks like it would be fairly good skies at ground level anyway, although he said something about a Wal-Mart only 10 minutes away so there might be some light pollution.
The former owner of my site wanted to do a planetarium.
Love the fact his cell worked underground :)
I installed fiber optics. When I made the first phone call I wondered if I was the first person ever to make a real modern cell phone call in a renovated missile site. Probably not, but just maybe...
That upper room is awesome
Thank you! I really love it, it turned out better than I imagined.
Great to see another one! Thanks!
Thanks for the series, great stuff
If nothing else Level 1 would make a cool planetarium!
My thought exactly.
Great tour; thanks for sharing.
Ahhh man, that would be soo cool, alotta work but would be awesome to have.
Doug - Awesome work, what you are doing is incredible! I figured you own 0-6, was asking on 1st video. Crew life back in the operational years was a fantastic job! We always knew when the big wigs were coming, they couldn’t surprise us......
hmm. why paint over the signatures? After all, it would be cool to have them. 🧐🧐
He said he needed to seal the concrete
@@andykrew336 There is clear cement sealant. Too late now obv, but that would've been a nice touch
I think mine is in all the silos but one in Kansas, it was the one that had a leak and was shut down
sounds like he made that whole story up on the spot lol
Hmm, seems to be a bit of "mine is better than yours" with this fella, of course he had the best and most amazing graffiti in his complex, probably the finest of all the graffiti.... But its all gone now, which is odd as he seems to have been very keen to save anything else he found.
12:55 mancave not complete yet but this guy has his priority straight, good stuff
Nice job!!
Thank you!
Your almost ready for the corona virus apocalypse. Great job on the 1st floor, but I don't think I could handle the acoustics in the first room. Sound deadening would be a must for me. Looking great!
Wow..that looks awesome after all that hard work :)
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
That's an interesting texture (if texture is the right word for it) on the ceiling of that finished dome. Almost looks quilted, but there's still a lot of echo, so I'm assuming it's not sound-deadening material. Don't think I've seen one like that before. Thanks for the tour!!
The inside of what would become the dome was formed with flat boards about a foot wide. When the concreted was poured, and the interior frame removed, it created that pattern. I don't think they cared about making the inside a perfectly smooth dome, most of it was was concealed by the walls and a flat ceiling hiding the A/C ducting and piping. I have some old black and white photos of the construction. I don't think it's enough to affect the acoustics - it sounds really amazing when you stand in the exact center and talk.
@@ArizonaTitan - That's really interesting. Had no idea that's how they formed the dome. Makes sense now.
And congrats on your Titan 2 silo. It looks great! There's a pretty large following on TH-cam for those working on silos like this, so I hope you're able to document a lot of it as you go. I know it's time consuming, though. Would love to see those black and white construction photos as part of a video sometime in the future.
Thanks for the response, and the education about how that dome was constructed.
Thanks for bringing us to Dougs site, its interesting to see the different ideas and operational practices.
Personally, I'd want to live in it, and just have an entry port. the house on top would be redundant.
At 1:12 I found a new use for all the random carpet samples I found. 🤣
9:45 this guy says he paid more than anyone else in history for a missile site but he has a dry and clean space without lipstick on it. Arizona I imagine is probably he best location for a Silo.
Yep, az spots are nice, no flood waters when you open the door. The money they go for now is insane. Now I'll never have one, they used to sell for $20k or far less. No one really wanted them. Original sales were preferred to low bidders (because of their history, they "looked bad"). In Az, they were almost all surrounded by "state trust land". A freaking gold mine today to get a piece of land like that... until they sell it off to developers. Az state trust land is not like "forest land", it can be "traded"... my hometown area is getting "traded" into a mini-metropolis in front of my eyes. In a few years, I will not be welcome. I live in a rural area that has "fantastic mountain views", it wont be "rural" much longer, picked up by the places to be sold for $300,000 per 1/8 acre. Talk all the crap you want, I have an awesome mountain view, for now. I'll get "booted out" soon enough to make way for the "big money spots". I lived here my whole life & all that means now is "cool story, get fucked, we are coming in now".
Awesome
Arizona Titan II.. You better believe I'm subscribing!
Two new videos posted today
@@ArizonaTitan thanks for the heads up, I'm at work but I'll check them out ASAP!
Initially while searching for your channel I was looking for AZ titan ii (2), thanks for providing an Avenue to find the correct one. You got this sub!
Geez! The granddaddy of all Man Caves.
Would be a really cool home. The springs make it worthy
There’s a video on here of the Air Force removing the warhead from a titan II that I believe is his site. Don’t know if he’s seen it or not. Was kinda cool.
Correct. 0-6 in 1984. It's poor quality but here is the link.
th-cam.com/video/8zUYMXvhrw4/w-d-xo.html
I saw it recently. It was kinda weird to me, seeing the same mountain peaks I see every day in the background, and knowing I walk over it every day. Really brought it all home, watching something that happened on your property in the past. I've seen lots of pictures and videos, but for some reason that video really struck a chord in me.
@@ArizonaTitan Subbed, nice to see you also have a channel
Cool I always wanted my own Planetarium.
me in the dome: immediately starts the halo theme. lolz
I will do this
This entire thing is fascinating! - to think this was built in 18 months back in the early 1960's!
I can't help think about what's underground these days hiding in plain sight that simple Joe on the street has no idea about, the hidden military technology that's inside will no doubt surprise many. Great video's!
Simpleton Joe is in the whitehouse...
I think projecting a movie on the dome would be cool. Add fiber optics for a starry night theme.
Concerning graffiti, if you ever make your way out to the silo equipment area, then make a point of checking the backside of the 100K gallon water tank on level six. You have to climb over the railing and inch your way to the backside on the conduit. This is the location where crew artists would paint or draw murals. When I was on crew, we made a point of checking this location during DSV (Daily Shift Verification) anytime we were an “away” crew meaning we were assigned an alert tour at a complex that was not our home site. Some of the tanks sported some amazing drawings.
@castanab1 Bottom panel of the MGACG (Missile Guidance Alignment Checkout Group - for those that don't know). Ours was stuffed.
Good choice making the stairs steel. Seems more similar to the originals.
Very nice patchwork but finally something looks like proper expansion.
Man I cannot Believe it .. I was Born and Raised right across from the Chicken Farm at I-10 and Tangerine Lived in the house right by the Railroad tracks where the RV campsite is . that was 71 72
later on in life I lived Right next to The Breakers water park , I used to stand right on the top of thing and shoot guns with my father in the late 70s and 80s he would talk to me about this silo but there was no way in . Then 2003 2004 I would go see Tim W you know . I remember when he bought that place, was there when he put up the Quanza hut , I remember when I went over there and the excavator had no more reach to pull concrete out of that entry way you patched up . Tim and his little brother Sean tried to get in at the time . I moved down to oracle and river still there now , I watched Acacia nursery grow for years helped my buddy work on them Big spade trucks, I owned land at camino de manana and tangerine , lived of Oasis for 30 years , where the Hilton is Dove mountain my whole childhood was in that canyon . that little Mountain just north of your property I have sat 100 of hours up there . I remember riding my dirt bike where Park and Shade is now 20 years before it was even there . shoot I remember Breakers opening , you gotta Know Herb Ki if I spelled that correct.. Man I would love to come see that place with my son.. Great Job Memories
Come by and say "hi"...
@@ArizonaTitan I definitely will thanks
Wow I’m waiting for the Oracle one in Arizona to go up for sale I’d love to grab it someday
Nice. Now all you need is a star projector and boom. you have a planetarium.
I think I will just got a 3 bedroom house .Good work done.
You should really consider "Control 4" as far as your automation, security, control, and "joystick tv room" goes. They make excellent products and nothing less. i dont work for them or anything lol, but I had a 6 TV set up with climate control, lighting, security etc, and it was awesome!
I'll look into it!
So fuckin cool thanks for the tour!!!
He hasn't posted any new videos in a year. Is he still working on this site? Did he build his house over the site?
He posted a 10 year video not too long ago
love the channel,stumbled on a video from,,,the derelict crew,, of an abandend but INTACT titon 2 in vandenburg ca,any knowledge on how it escaped the demolition,
I believe when a missile was launched from them it effectively destroyed them. Also they were not active alert sites so they weren't a threat to the soviets.
I think he should keep the scissor lift and put in stairs, that would be cool!
That is actually the plan!
COOL
I had the same carpet in my first apartment
one day that will be all looking like new
Boy's with their toys. Labor of love big time and preserving history.
So, would you switch if you could to owning one of those Titan I sites? Maybe to big?
I was wondering what the floor tiles are made from. I worked on a state hospital and in the medication rooms we found the tiles were made from asbestos. Easy to check if you must check.
The top must not be to deep for him to have cellphone reception. What does one of these cost, where can I get one:-)?
There would be no cell signal in here without a signal extender. It’s a faraday cage
for steel stairs how about checking with area demo companies they might have a place coming down in the are you could salvage the necessary material from. at the cost of scrap metal verses new .
It just doesn't get cooler!
Do you have a any footage of opening the main missile door ?
I sure would love to have a missile site to go with my Ring.
What do you do about the lead paint? You are doing some amazing work there...
The yellow color was the only paint that tested positive for having a lead base. The green and others were negative. Basically take all the proper precautions - don't eat it, wear a mask when scraping (no sandblasting) and paint over it with several coats. Exactly how the government recommends you handle old paint in your home.
@@ArizonaTitan That orange paint (particularly in your "tool room" at the entrance right inside what you called "blast door 6") looks like the red lead in linseed oil (TT-P-86) that the Corps of Engineers liked to specify for the primer in their industrial coating systems until the late '70s/early '80s. Sometimes colors don't come through well on camera, so if you really had it tested and it's clear, OK, but it sure does a great impression of the lead paint I see at work all the time. It's great as a paint and lasts forever, but you definitely don't want to eat the flat candy, and want to avoid abrasive blasting without being prepared to handle it.
It's surprising to that the yellow paint was lead based; typically the yellow stuff was a chromium pigment. (Also really toxic, but less famous than lead which got used in houses--though that was typically white lead used for color, not the red lead used for industrial paints due to the excellent corrosion resistance.)
i would totally take that domed room and put in a projector for STARS
But real question here, how the hell did he get that scissor lift down there??
Crane. It has lift points built in. Was put in before the roof, but can still be lifted straight out if I remove the big hydraulic door on top.
Your comment about building this site. they started in 1961 and completed in 1963. Realize they build not 1 complex in that amount of time, they built 54 complexes in that 2 years time.
Do you know of any of the sites that have opened the silo? I know that supposedly they filled them up with debris but as with any Government contractor they might have skipped one? I have heard that the generators were too costly to remove and some are still in place.
They are all filled. That being said it could/may have been done
Generators were removed from AZ sites but no AR and KS generators were removed. But they are most likely all under water now. As to opening the actual silo... Stay tuned to the 4 Titan site channels over the summer.
There is a lecture from Chuck Penson available on YT where he says that one of the AZ sites silo has been opened (or rather accessed from the long cableway entrance level). All silo equipment areas are accessible and "rather intact" down to the bottom - only the internal ring where the missile once stood is completely filled with debris. The lecture is from 2017 and he wouldn't say which site exactly he's referring to...
@@MrSzachMatt He was sworn to secrecy, lol! I'll have to look for it.
@@ArizonaTitan th-cam.com/video/sXEZ6SVHuBA/w-d-xo.html from 47m30s :D
Can you add a link to his ch i get nothing in a search
Try TH-cam search "Channel Arizona Titan 2". Putting the word "channel" will filter channel names above other search results.
How were these sites built originally? Did they excavate the entire thing, build the silo and bury it, or dig it all out? If the later what process would that have used?
Look up @atomic rancher. He did a great video
@@atomicunderground9971 Will do! Thanks!
Whoever is wondering; yes, they were excavated and then built.
Little bit of both. They excavated to the level of the bottom of the cableways. They called it "the bathtub" but it was about the size and shape of a small stadium. Command center was dug out another 10 feet or so for the base, but the silo still had to go down more than another 100 feet. They ran a dozer in circles going deeper and deeper using a buck crane to remove the loosened soil.
We want to see him lock the blast door!!!
I guess that part is still top secret
Try making a lockdown button, you push that and the doors automatically shut and lock in case of a NBC attack
It would sure sound better if you had a mike to cut down on echo. Thanks very interesting .
I will do what I can for future videos, I agree the audio on these is a challenge. I just have a little GoPro, not sure how to attach a remote mic. It's sealed up tight (waterproof) with no connecting ports for an external device.
This man and his family are going to be hella safe if shit ever hit's the fan, that's for sure.
How do you grow vegetables in the Arizona desert? Plus he'll have ot go outside some times so not so safe at the end.
There is a twillight zone episode -i think- with a man and his friend getting in a bunker after a muclear explosion. They hear people knocking at the door asking if they were any survivors and the owner ask his mate to shut up because they were zombies... At the end of the épisode, the camera slowly pans backwards, revealing the dusty destroyed surroundings of the bunker, goes backwards more and the audience see there was a concrete dome build around the aera and the bunker which is a memorial and outside the dome there a whole new city. A woman says to her child : "That's were your father is".
watching this again this guy did a nice job on his silo and i'm glad he kept the original stairs. The spiral staircase GT put in his is so stupid imo.
Nice.
I disagree. I’m keeping mine original but DWBS has a lot more room because of the spiral.
i get the space part but it looks like a huge hazard and difficult to maneuver, and something about the original case is appealing to me. but hey I'm just some guy on youtube with no missile silo
I don't agree at all!
You ask his youtube channel but I can't find "Arizona Titan 2". Can you give his link please?
If you type "Channel Arizona Titan 2" it will be the first search result. Placing the word "channel" in front will filter your search.
For what purpose are you renovating this?
Basement
I was wondering what are the deed restrictions on the site? I have noticed a lot of these are being reopened, but I thought there where restrictions in the deed preventing it.
Not on the Titan I or II sites. Minutemen sites do have deed restrictions that prevent digging
None at all.
@@atomicunderground9971 Okay, makes sense, I guess I was thinking about the Minuteman sites, I do know that at one time they where reopening the 510 M-01 outside Holden, Missouri a few years back.
@@ArizonaTitan Thanks, I (made) a map on Google Earth with all of the Missile Silos in the US, makes it easy to find them when I see them here. Looking at Google Earth in the "past" what used to be top side?
@@ArizonaTitan I am located just under 2 hours from you south of Tucson and would enjoy coming out to help renovate. I pilot an INEX Legend at Tucson Speedway if you ever have time to make it out.
Do you have access to the silo as well?
I have not tried yet. Would be fun for the sake of "exploring" but it's under the nursery and would be very disruptive to the business - unless I could figure out a way to make it worth the time and money.
So, is his silo accessible? Or was it filled in like Death Wears Bunny Slippers?
Every one of them was dynamited and capped.
IF I ever came under the good fortune to get one of these beasts in fairly good condition, the last things I would do are to add a bunch of home made control panels with random blinking lights, but also normal controls and indication for HVAC operation, normal lighting, emergency (red) lighting, caution (yellow) lighting, night time (green) lighting, remote antenna lift booms for ham/CB radios, rotators for satellite/internet alignment, and back up power generation/active line monitoring and controls. Sure it would be tedious and would require a lot of time, coax cables, ethernet cables, power lines, and circuit wiring, but it would be fun all the same!
Who owns the acid dealer's silo now?
Acid dealer?
Sigh.. You are living my dream ..
The echoes make it very hard to hear what you say. Maybe a bluetooth lapel mic?
Agreed. Lesson learned. When I start posting on my channel I will try to find the best way to fix the echo. Maybe headset with mic encased in foam - that way I can hear it real time in places where it gets bad. Of course, when the place is finished we will take the acoustics into account.
I loved this but who Evers phone kept going made very annoying I ended up cutting video short
Cool place to live, but I’d have to cover the walls in foam. Resonance is not “acoustics” in my opinion. My voice echoing like that would drive me nuts. I did spend time in MMII silos so I am familiar with it.
You know somewhere probably hidden still to this very day some general had made a deal with one of the contractors to build his own personal bunker. 🤔
How does that guys cell phone ring underground inside that metal container?
Likely a repeater.
I installed fiber optics when I ran commercial power. Got it all down there - cell phone, cable, high-speed Internet. Just about everything runs over fiber these days.
That is exactly what I told these Arkansas folks that they need to do. Scrap all of that old metal to pay for rebuilding everything using lumber and drywall. Put a circular staircase in the middle of the floor and you will have a good start with rooms around the perimeter. I love the dome ceiling. Split level 1 using open walls to expose that dome ceiling... plenty of room for a small day use 1/2 bathroom, small kitchen, and living/dining area. You can go for a larger formal kitchen/dining on L2, and a home theater on L3 with bedrooms below that.
After level 1 put the semi-circle staircases staggered around the perimeter right against the wall.
Scrapping the old metal actually costs us. It does not pay for anything but I am doing it anyway
@@atomicunderground9971 How is that? I know a few scrappers and they are all making money scrapping junk metal. None are getting rich, but it's not costing them any more than time, gas, and wear on their vehicle.
@@barking.dog.productions1777 It's extremely laborious to remove and carry out of what is basically a deep hole in the ground, and most of the high-value scrap like copper wiring was already removed when the Air Force initially decommissioned the sites.
@@mentalstampede I could see it as being very labor intensive without the right tools.
You might be able to get by with a plasma torch and a truck winch, but otherwise you would probably need some heavy equipment.
Hmm so if that scissor lift quit working you're stuck down there.
Escape shaft is available
did my first few alerts at 06 and all of the rest of the 570th sites for 6 years. 1969-1975.
If you are still in the area come by and visit...
I personally would have done a clear coat over the names and art work. Sweet though
I worked on the radio equipment on the Ark. Sites
This guy is in love with himself.
You wouldn't be if you owned a silo?
Y'all should have had one scene different from each version posted on both YT accounts. Kinda like an hidden Easter Egg.
Maybe there is one 😂
@@atomicunderground9971 I'll have to be a bit more attentive to the videos, next time.
I want one lol :D
Anyone else hoping to see a indoor gun range with 50gal, rpgs the lot lol
With that echo you would go deaf very quickly.
@@wictimovgovonca320 very true but worth the try first
Let's face it you have to be a little strange to want to buy one of these..
I'd make level 1 a banjo dome. That's what I'd do. Cue Banjo.....
woohoo first comment. i never said that before. i know its lame but i couldnt help myself lol. love these vids keep em coming
wdf is with that strange music like sound i keep hearing.