I thought I would share a few new pictures of the truck, although it's dirty, and what I've been up to with it this summer. I've hauled several loads of lumber, and have used it as a work truck while building my house. The inside is trashed, dirt, paperwork, leaves, you name it. I'm embarassed about how much I've let it slide, but the house has been priority one. We finally got the final rock down on the driveway, so no more driving over dirt, and my wife plans to take it in for a full detail.

The first couple of pictures are of a couple long loads of wood I had to haul to the house. My trailer is still packed full of all my stuff, so this was my only option at the time. The third picture is of the house with the truck sitting out front. The house is built out of ICF's (concrete forms), for all three stories, and has monolithic concrete slabs/footers, as well as 3400 square feet of gypcrete for the sheethed floors. Total cubic yards of concrete and gypcrete is about 210.

I'll stop babbling and get to the pics. Hopefully I'll have some clean truck pics and get my painted fender flares on soon. Those have been sitting in the trailer all summer as well. I guess you can call it truck neglect, but I've still been roasting the tires and killing lots of cars and trucks on the street with it.

 

Also, since 90 octane is our premium here in Alaska, I've buried a 500 gallon fuel tank to mix the 90 octane with 101 octane race fuel to get 92 octane for the truck. I've had to take it easy with her this summer because I do get some knocking at higher RPM's due to the low octane fuel. Next summer should be a lot more fun.

The tank will be hardwired with a switch in the garage so we can turn the pump on only when we need it and keep it off so the gas doesn't disappear on me.

 

crazy lookin house

 

I want those black flares when you're done with em. I call dibs.

Nice house, btw. And good idea for the tank in the ground.

 

i can appreciate a SC f150 being used for what is meant to be used for.

 

How are you securing those long loads down? I cargo strap the crap out of mine using the holes in my tow hitch but i'd be scared to haul anything that long. Truck looks like it's sitting pretty good with all that weight on it.

Gotta say I bet that house could hold up to some massive winds being all concrete. Looks like a good solid structure.

 

Here are a couple more pictures of the house that show it a little better. It's coming along pretty good, we started building in April and hope to be moved in by Christmas.

 

Weight and slow driving. Luckily it is a straight shot, for the most part, from the lumber yard to my house. I know it isn't all that safe, but it worked for the few times I had to do it. I'm lucky I didn't end up hitting a bad bump and have those boards kick down because it would of probably destroyed my tonneau cover, or worse yet, something behind me.

The truck rode real well with the weight, even with the weaker Roush leaf springs and coils. I had it loaded up a lot more with shorter boards this summer and brought the back down pretty good though.

 

Are you up the hill behind UAF?

 

Depends on which hill you're talking about? I'm up on Chena Ridge Road, not too far from Justa Store.

 

That's very odd looking construction/architecture.

Is that normal for that part of Alaska?

 

She's gettin' close, bro, looking good, too. It'll be interesting to see your reaction when you get off your 3 week hitch and see the house with all the siding, heat possibly on, electical MUCH further along (I'll get right on it ), plumbing wrapped up, maybe even get some insulation in the attic. I can certainly vouch for the 'condition' of your truck; paperwork, dirt, leaves, dirt, receipts, dirt, I'm glad the final rock is down on the driveway! When you get back into town, we'll have to start sheetrocking and get this sucker wrapped up.

 

Man I'm jealous. You are a speed freak, burying your gas to meet an octane level

Beautiful home and your truck is too. Need to change that dated sig with a pic of some smoke coming out of your rearend. I don't know if I've asked you this but who is building your house? You doing it yourself? I need to get into that type of construction (did concrete at one time) and learn a few trades so I can build one in the future. What are the benefits to building'r with those modern walls (sound suppression, heating/ac, etc?). Your truck is a beast.

 

Nice house

 

looks great best of luck....