The potentially new owners (the listing[1] is marked "sale pending") would definitely have a lot of work to do but fortunately it does not look like the silo is below the water table. I looked at silos for a while and a lot of them were simply full of water as they required constant pumping if you wanted to keep them dry. Not all silos kept the missile vertical (like this one apparently did), those have large doors which can open up (assuming enough power/hydraulic fluid). Given the 51' diameter by 300' deep measure of the silo, if you put an elevator right down the middle you could have 25 floors of 'pie shaped' rooms (assuming a 1/4 section per room that is approximately 1900 sq feet per floor (47,500 sq ft total) That is a pretty big workshop space :-)
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The potentially new owners (the listing[1] is marked "sale pending") would definitely have a lot of work to do but fortunately it does not look like the silo is below the water table. I looked at silos for a while and a lot of them were simply full of water as they required constant pumping if you wanted to keep them dry. Not all silos kept the missile vertical (like this one apparently did), those have large doors which can open up (assuming enough power/hydraulic fluid). Given the 51' diameter by 300' deep measure of the silo, if you put an elevator right down the middle you could have 25 floors of 'pie shaped' rooms (assuming a 1/4 section per room that is approximately 1900 sq feet per floor (47,500 sq ft total) That is a pretty big workshop space :-)
[1] http://www.century21.com/property/8422-clovis-hwy-roswell-nm...