What did you do today?

[Razorback 1,356]

31 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

 

 

Gotcha. I ask because I've seen pickups and semis with what appears to be RV style AC units on the roof.  

If that's a feasible option id consider it for my Ford.  A very small one.....

 

Done right...  they look ok.  

 

This pic will give you an idea of the overall dimensions.

[ebinmaine 79,182]

I'm getting farmed out from my own store to another one because they don't have a crane driver at the moment. 

 

By the time I got home today I had somewhere in the neighborhood of 325 miles driving.

Left the house about 4:15 a.m. and got back by around 5:45 pm.

Roughly 6 hours of that was driving.

The rest was loading and unloading with either crane or forklifts.

 

Similar tomorrow although I don't think I'll have as many miles. Could be close.

 

 

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Driving Miss Daisey.          My wife had an appointment with a doctor in the big city, she doesn't like driving on interstates and in city traffic so I always drive her. Her report from the doctor was good so we celebrated with lunch at Cheddars.                     Good old comfort food makes the trip worthwhile.

[8ntruck 8,964]

As we were starting to prepare breakfast, the well drilling crew showed up  at the neighbor's place.  Only problem is that the location they had marked for the well was a foot or foot and a half on my side of the property line.  I pointed this out to the crew and said that we have a survey ordered. 

 

No argument from the crew - they don't want to drop as well in the wrong place.  They picked a new spot and started thinking about how they were going to get their rig into position when they get the final go for the job.

 

This story continues.......

[c-series don 11,984]

It wasn’t what I did today, but over the weekend. My wife and I took our camper about an hour away to the east end of Long Island, to Montauk,NY. We got up early Saturday morning to catch the sunrise at the lighthouse. It’s a beautiful place to camp, right on the beach! In the village of Montauk I stopped to take a picture of The Memory Motel. Yes the one The Rolling Stones sang about! As they said The Memory Motel, it’s on the ocean, I guess you know it well! Technically it’s not on the ocean, it’s probably 1000’ away 😂

[MainelyWheelhorse 2,691]

Worked a shift at work this morning, Then worked around the house for a while. I then visited relatives for a few hours in a weekly meeting called “Happy Hour” at my cousin Brian’s,  Then picked up the basement/workshop and worked on my R/C car for a few hours. It’s a 1/5 scale Redcat Rampage that I got on my 30th birthday roughly 15 years ago. BTW that’s a roughly 4 foot diameter table.

 

[Beap52 2,299]

On 6/14/2026 at 9:40 PM, Razorback said:

Spent the day today reinstalling one of the air conditioners on our 1987 Avion travel trailer. It originally had only one, installed over the center of the trailer. It always did real well, but because our travels usually take us to Baton Rouge (an upcoming trip in mid July), we would really be in a pickle if our only air conditioner pooped out. So, I ordered a new one and installed it in the center, then wanted to install the old one over the rear bedroom where a roof vent already was. So today, I removed the vent, which was a Hammond vent with a two-speed fan. These Hammond vents had radiused corners as opposed to square. The opening in the roof was already 14", so I had to use some snips to sqare up the opening, then installed the air conditioner. Then, ran some romex and connected it to a breaker. 

Checked it out and it works well. So, It will be available if we need it! I still need to enclose about three feet of romex in some stick-on cover that I can get at Lowes.

My next project will be to convert this trailer from 30A service to 50A service..... maybe this Fall when it's cool.

We purchased a 1971 Holiday Rambler ~30' long.  It had the original rooftop AC and was still going when we sold the  camper last year.  When I rebuilt the interior, I ran an additional wire to the rear roof top vent in the event we added an additional roof top air conditioner.  One time when I was at the scrap yard, they had a motor home that had what appeared to have a fairly new rooftop air. (The fins were still clean looking.)  I bought it for $25 and they even helped me remove it off the rooftop.  I installed it and you could hang beef in the Holiday Rambler on the hottest of days.  How I handled the extra power load was run a dedicated extension cord that we would plug into the power pedestal's 20 amp circuit.