![]() ![]() The launch control facility will be 1/2 mile on the left.įollow I-90 west to exit 127. No facilities presently exist at Delta-01 except for the ticketed, ranger-led tour no entry to the facility is allowed without tour reservations.įollow I-90 east to exit 127. Launch Control Facility Delta-01 is located on the north side of Exit 127, Interstate 90. The missile silo will be 1/2 mile on the right. The missile silo will be 1/2 mile on the right.įollow I-90 west to exit 116. Turn left off the exit and go under the underpass. The Missile Silo Delta-09 is located on the south side of Exit 116, Interstate 90.įollow I-90 west to exit 116. Turn left off the exit, go across the overpass and the visitor center will be 1/2 mile on the left. Turn right off the exit and visitor center will be 1/4 mile on the left.įollow I-90 east to exit 131. The Minuteman Missile National Historic Site Visitor Center is located on the north side of exit 131 Interstate 90.įollow I-90 west to exit 131. DO NOT DEPEND ONLY ON YOUR VEHICLE GPS NAVIGATION SYSTEM. Warning about GPS Systems! Vehicle Navigation Systems and GPS units may provide inaccurate information-sending drivers the wrong way on one-way roads, leading them to dead ends in remote areas, or sending them on roads which are impassable at certain times of year. A variety of maps are available to assist you visit and historic understanding. No public transportation systems serve the park. ![]() The two historic sites which make up the park are four miles ( Launch Control Facility Delta-01) and 15 miles ( Launch Facility Delta-09) from the Visitor Center. The Visitor Center is located immediately north of I-90, exit 131. Using "elbow grease and a sledgehammer" as his only tools, he can bring down an old or damaged silo in only a few minutes.Minuteman Missile National Historic Site is located at three sites along a fifteen mile stretch of Interstate 90 in western South Dakota. One man silo buster AG WORLD Ag World 11-2-18 Homer Dotson, of Leetonia, Ohio, a one-man "silo buster," takes down silos without benefit of dynamite or fancy equipment. (Reprinted from Farm and Dairy, Salem, Ohio).Ĭlick here to download page story appeared in. "You have to tear them down piecemeal," he notes.įor more information, contact: FARMSHOW Followup, Homer Dotson, 4508 Woodville Road, Leetonia, Ohio 44431. Over the years, he has helped dismantle old wooden silos, but he doesn't use the "sledgehammer treatment" on them. I didn't knock the hole wide enough to start with so I had to do more precarious sledgehammer work under the leaning silo to finish the job," Dotson recalls. "The gash I'd made in the bottom looked like two big jaws. The second silo he worked on that particular day "went over half way and stopped," Dotson recalls. Once, Dotson took down three silos in one day at one location. After taking down the silo for Russell, the news spread fast and I knocked down a half dozen or so within the next year." "I figured taking down a silo would work the same as felling a tree. Koontz, cleaning up from a barn fire last August that damaged the two silos, had a hired crew on hand to clean up and haul away the debris after the dismantling.ĭotson began his unique "silo busting" craft several years ago when he took down a silo for neighbor Russell Cook. Most recently, he was summoned to the Harold Koontz farm near Salem, Ohio, where he toppled two heat-damaged concrete stave silos. The pounded-out area faces the direction he wants the silo to fall and, in more than a dozen silo take-downs to date, Dotson hasn't been wrong in his calculations. He stops occasionally and puts an ear to the silo, listening for interior sounds of falling debris ù an indication the silo is ready to fall and a warning for Dotson to make a speedy retreat. Using "elbow grease and a sledgehammer" as his only tools, he can bring down an old or damaged silo in only a few minutes.ĭotson pounds out a few layers of staves or tile near the base of the silo, working in an area about half the total circumference of the silo. Homer Dotson, of Leetonia, Ohio, a one-man "silo buster," takes down silos without benefit of dynamite or fancy equipment. ![]()
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