[AT] OT: How to rescue the dome from a silo?

[pga2 at hot1.net]

Wow! This showed up on the list less than 2 minutes after I sent it!
Spencer either applied Tim Taylor's law of computing or there isn't
anyone on the 'net right now.

Phil

> Seems to me that the only way to get the domes off in one piece
> would be to use a crane. That is probably cost prohibitive.
> The only way I can see is to disassemble them and take them
> down one piece at a time.
>
> Phil
>
>> There is abarn being torn down near me and the person doing the destruction
>> is letting me pick at the spoils.  Among the things being torn down are
>> three large silos.  Two of them have really nice looking domes on top.
>> I was thinking that I could use one or two levels of the old silo bricks
>> and make a nice little storag shead or building for the goats, and perhaps
>> with the other one make a little observitory for our telescope.
>>
>> The big question is how to get the domes off intact.  The dozer driver
>> was thiking about drilling holes through the silo and pulling it over
>> with a cable.  I suspect the top would die when it hit the ground.
>>
>> So, does anybody have any thoughts on how to rescue these things?
>>
>> --Matthew
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