Today’s first task was to get the F-350 warmed up so we could move the work trailer into its parking place in the yard where it will likely stay for the next couple of months. I snapped this picture as the sun came up because I thought it looked cool.
Next up-I needed to do some work to this water trailer and haul a load of water.
Here’s the inside of the water trailer tank. I’m not sure the picture does justice to just how nasty this thing is. While it’s never been the cleanest since we’ve had it, a long series of incidents lead to water being left in it in treated too long, then getting shocked to kill off the resulting algae bloom, leaving behind a strange and nasty coating of mystery fuzz that reeked of bleach. This was adhered to a layer of almost as nasty hard water scale that was surprisingly well bonded to the smooth inside of the tank.
I didn’t get any progress pictures, but here’s what it looked like after I drilled a big hole in the drain sump so that all of the nasties could flush out. Then I hit it with the pressure washer for about an hour and got the inside pretty close to squeaky clean.
Then we installed a bulkhead fitting with a plug so that this could be sealed back up and also pulled to rinse and flush at a later date if needed.
Much, much better!
Here is Denise using the fish tape to poke through that drain hole, which we then slid the bulkhead fitting down the fish tape into the hole. Works like a charm!
I did not have any real threaded plugs, but I had pieces laying around to make this contraption up. It actually works pretty good because it only needs to be hand tight anyway, and this is easy to get your hand around while you’re crawling underneath the trailer with no tools.
This is some cam lock fittings we came up with on the vent/overflow of a water tank that allows one person to quickly and easily fill the tank up. Works really good!
Tank filling in a remote spot in progress!
This remote spot has a really cool story and a lot of really cool things that I hope to share with you guys sometime soon!