Where is John Dotson when I need him

Francis and I were working on the fuel system today. They have 3 fairly large fuel tanks and we were working on building a manifold system for them. It will be gravity feed into the generators from the tanks. It rained really hard today. There were some tool bags and some battery powered tools in the back of the pickup and I just got soaked getting them out and under cover. After the rain Francis and I made pretty good progress on the fuel system. We worked on it until about 7:oo pm and it was time for me to go get something to eat.  The crew is working on right of way clearing. John Owite, the guy who normally runs that, is off sick, so Jacob took it and the whole crew joined in. The drain pipe came with metric threads on the end so we had to cut them off because the values were American. So the first picture is of me with the cutter working on the drain pipe. The second one is of me tightening a check value to the drain value. Where is John dotson when I need him--he should be working on all these values and fittings. The next one is of Francis tightening a shut off valve. One of the pipes had a large welding bead on it and even though we ground and filed It down, it was quite a chore to get threads on it. The last picture shows us trying to decide what to do about it. In the end we got it threaded but it was a chore.