# concrete central grain towers: winter climb to the top? cajones check! **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 16, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872 "2008-12-16T22:56:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jim1234664](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jim1234664/32/7438_2.png) [@Jim1234664](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jim1234664)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/41 "2008-12-20T16:54:04Z")
> [@llink78](#): > > the ground level of the building is mostly just 2foot square columns, with a few pieces of macherinry and a room off to the side. perfect for paintball that sounds great but does it seem structurally sound in there? ---
**Author:** ![llink78](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/llink78/32/8037_2.png) [@llink78](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/llink78)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/42 "2008-12-20T17:49:47Z")
> [@Jim1234664](#): > > that sounds great but does it seem structurally sound in there? yes, iv been playing in there for years. never seen anything fall or look different from any other time iv been there ---
**Author:** ![MiniSRT4](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/minisrt4/32/7225_2.png) [@MiniSRT4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MiniSRT4)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/43 "2008-12-22T14:18:02Z")
nick you know im down…yet again…perhaps ill make the climb this time… ---
**Author:** ![Willybeen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/willybeen/32/7351_2.png) [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/44 "2008-12-22T15:58:58Z")
[http://wcco.com/topstories/grain.elevator.death.2.362560.html](http://wcco.com/topstories/grain.elevator.death.2.362560.html) > **[In-Grain - GEAPS](https://www.geaps.com/resources/in-grain/)** > > In-Grain Newsletters The In-Grain newsletter keeps members up to date on all things GEAPS related and recaps the many meetings and events members are involved in that shape our organization and benefit the industry. > **[Man killed in grain elevator accident](http://abc7chicago.com/archive/6007031/)** > > One person has died in an accident at a LaSalle County grain elevator. lol… you guys are dumb. ---
**Author:** ![Avatar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/avatar/32/5076_2.png) [@Avatar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Avatar)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/45 "2008-12-22T18:50:51Z")
^^ That’s why we should knock all these stupid things down. ---
**Author:** ![JustinH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JustinH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JustinH)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/46 "2008-12-22T19:05:27Z")
> [@Avatar](#): > > ^^ That’s why we should knock all these stupid things down. I agree. People get pretty bored in buffalo in the winter, and decide that playing around in some abandoned grain elevator is fun. I seriously don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Josh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@Josh](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Josh)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/47 "2008-12-22T20:03:45Z")
> [@Jim1234664](#): > > inside the building? that sounds pretty sweet. is it big in the non grain elevator part? yeah, there’s tons of paintball shells in there all the time laying all over the floor. I love concrete central, fun building to climb around on. you die, you die. whatever. you won’t know about it when you’re dead, right? ---
**Author:** ![Willybeen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/willybeen/32/7351_2.png) [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/48 "2008-12-22T20:37:24Z")
^ will you be the first to go? welll… you’re not going to know about it after the fact. tardass ---
**Author:** ![Drexial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Drexial](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Drexial)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/49 "2008-12-22T20:40:49Z")
> [@Willybeen](#): > > [http://wcco.com/topstories/grain.elevator.death.2.362560.html](http://wcco.com/topstories/grain.elevator.death.2.362560.html) > > [http://www.geaps.com/ingrain/2003/sept03\_industry\_06.cfm](http://www.geaps.com/ingrain/2003/sept03_industry_06.cfm) > > [http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6007031](http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6007031) > > lol… you guys are dumb. “A 13-year-old girl was drinking on a late-night adventure with other youths when she mistook an electrical cord for a rope and fell 100 feet to her death in a grain elevator, investigators said.” not exactly the strongest argument against it. And the third was a work accident from what I gathered. The first article was the only one worth anything as an argument against it. ---
**Author:** ![Carnut](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/carnut/32/7590_2.png) [@Carnut](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Carnut)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/50 "2008-12-22T21:04:36Z")
> [@Willybeen](#): > > lol… you guys are dumb. If that isn’t the pot calling the kettle black… [![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/0/b/0bd8d5285ba15c650c77cbc077e0f88bd394c381.jpeg "Midnight Wheelies") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5lwaeCXebY) Just sayin… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MPD47](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mpd47/32/7383_2.png) [@MPD47](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MPD47)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/51 "2008-12-22T21:06:20Z")
Loosing control of bike at high speeds = concrete falling out from under you at any instant? I’ll take my chances with the leathers. ---
**Author:** ![Willybeen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/willybeen/32/7351_2.png) [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 5:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/52 "2008-12-23T05:57:47Z")
> [@Drexial](#): > > “A 13-year-old girl was drinking on a late-night adventure with other youths when she mistook an electrical cord for a rope and fell 100 feet to her death in a grain elevator, investigators said.” not exactly the strongest argument against it. And the third was a work accident from what I gathered. The first article was the only one worth anything as an argument against it. google results for grain elevator death. = 428,000, the three i posted were in the top 5… > [@Carnut](#): > > If that isn’t the pot calling the kettle black… > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5lwaeCXebY&eurl=http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=30874347&feature=player\_embedded](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5lwaeCXebY&eurl=http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=30874347&feature=player_embedded) > > Just sayin… 😛 wellll, i’ve slowed down and i have far more knowledge of my bikes limits then half the boneheads on nyspeed have of the “structural limits” of a grain tower, not to mention balance, strength, and other human “limits” that could ultimately lead to their demise. jerk :-p thanks mike. \<3 ---
**Author:** ![Motocrossx23](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/motocrossx23/32/5120_2.png) [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 6:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/53 "2008-12-23T06:05:38Z")
will’s just made he can’t wheelie in the winter but they can climb a grain tower =P ---
**Author:** ![Willybeen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/willybeen/32/7351_2.png) [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 6:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/54 "2008-12-23T06:06:50Z")
im in florida, you twit… i can wheelie as much as id like its 75 out right now… hows the snow. ---
**Author:** ![Motocrossx23](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/motocrossx23/32/5120_2.png) [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 6:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/55 "2008-12-23T06:10:10Z")
asshole. lol it’s cold. and wet. ---
**Author:** ![Willybeen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/willybeen/32/7351_2.png) [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 6:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/56 "2008-12-23T06:12:49Z")
go adjust your valves then, im going to enjoy driving this corvette and maybe go rent a bike sooo i can do wheelies… after that i might go climb some grain towers. ---
**Author:** ![EVOLUTION\_VIII\_MR](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/evolution_viii_mr/32/5187_2.png) [@EVOLUTION\_VIII\_MR](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/EVOLUTION_VIII_MR)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/57 "2009-09-20T18:16:59Z")
bump! how do you get to the top of the grain towers? me and breetime, iank, kuppler8, and slonismo went exploring there and want to get to the top ---
**Author:** ![Willybeen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/willybeen/32/7351_2.png) [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/58 "2009-09-20T18:23:15Z")
climb!!! ---
**Author:** ![Willybeen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/willybeen/32/7351_2.png) [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/59 "2009-09-20T18:23:31Z")
FLY!!! ---
**Author:** ![Willybeen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/willybeen/32/7351_2.png) [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/concrete-central-grain-towers-winter-climb-to-the-top-cajones-check/59872/60 "2009-09-20T18:23:47Z")
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