u/chiefbigjohn

I was bush hogging my dad’s property last night and came across this crazy looking weed? It must be 25ft tall (F-150 for scale lol) and grew within 4-6 months this summer. It was pretty dark but I think the stem/trunk was reddish towards the bottom and smooth.

Any ideas on what it is? This is in East Tennessee if that helps.

The pictures don’t really don’t convey how giant and out of place this thing looks in the middle of a tiny clearing.

2015 F-150 5.0

Any idea how this happened? Just replaced the water pump, thermostat, and Y pipe about a month ago.

This just seems like an odd place for a line to burst and I’m wondering if I did something when I worked on it last.

This is the pipe directly above the water pump, I added a picture in the comments for better context. You can see the new Y-pipe on the left side of the picture

Had my passenger side tail light go out and decided to fix it today… until I realized there was no hope of getting these bolts out without removing the entire bed cap.

Any suggestions to get these out? I tried pushing the taillight out after I loosened the bolts, the bottom pops out a little, but not enough to get the bolt out. The top side doesn’t move much at all.