What did you do today?

[ebinmaine 76,652]

11 minutes ago, adsm08 said:

help a friend and his son do exhaust manifolds on the son's 5.4 F150. That's an "if you know, you know" thing

 

I know I wouldn't touch one o' them with a 39 1/2 foot pole...

[c-series don 10,969]

Well it’s not what I did today, but this past week. Myself and another guy dug the hole for a foundation of a new house. Mostly I push material to the guy in the excavator who bales it out of the hole. Then I finish grade the bottom of the hole with the dozer +/- 2” for the masons. The hole is almost but not finished in the picture, I just snapped it after lunch one day. This is in one of the most expensive zip codes in the country. 1.9 acre lot- 7 million dollars. Spec house that will probably list for around 23 million! This whole area used to be nothing but farmland mostly potatoes and corn. From this point you used to look across approximately a mile of fields and see the ocean. Now it’s mostly houses with some occasional fields. It’s sad really. 

[Blue Chips 573]

12 hours ago, adsm08 said:

I went home to help a friend and his son do exhaust manifolds on the son's 5.4 F150. That's an "if you know, you know" thing. They worked on it almost all day yesterday, and a good chunk of today, I was only around for about 6 hours. We just finished up about 8 PM.

 

I remember a couple of long sessions with Ford Triton exhaust manifolds on my previous pickup (fF250 with the V10 version of the Triton). There were several exhaust manifold studs that needed to be replaced.

 

It was a great truck and engine, but it had a tendency to snap exhaust manifold studs. I managed to replace several studs without removing very much in the way of hardware by welding nuts onto the ends of the broken studs so that I could remove them. It was very tedious and fussy to weld in such an awkward position. I had to use a mirror for one of them so that I could see where I was welding. If I were going to do it over again, I think I'd bite the bullet and remove whatever was in the way.

[Ed Kennell 44,142]

1 hour ago, Blue Chips said:

I had to use a mirror for one of them

Reminds me of using a periscope for some welding in tight spaces.

[Treepep 971]

On 6/21/2025 at 10:02 PM, Ed Kennell said:

Got home from the Big Show Friday night and reloaded to head West or my Sisters 80th buirthday party this morning.   Four hours out, five at the party, and four hours return.   A quality day with the family, but I'm pooped.

 

 

 

Handsome family!  N ot certain that dog house in the last picture is going to work..  Each their own and stuff

[Ed Kennell 44,142]

55 minutes ago, Treepep said:

 

 

  Not certain that dog house in the last picture is going to work.

The bear proof bird feeder.