4/2/26
Crazy day yesterday. Spent the whole day in an auction yard shaking down a new bucket truck that I won… for $1400!
The listing said “inoperable, no response from key”. So I won it cheap and drive six hours to see if I could avoid a $3000 shipping bill.
Well every body, sometimes you win! I brought some good batteries and when I went to change them I noticed this GIANT BATTERY SWITCH was in the way. So I turned it on and started the truck hahaha.
Then the boom didn’t work, I assume that’s the real reason Verizon sent the truck to the auction. At this point I was pretty invested and the security getting in and out of the yard was intense so I was stuck there. I tracked down the wiring and eventually bypassed the master switch and boom! Fully operational bucket truck for maybe 1/20th what it’s worth.
I’m getting a tire put on it this morning and having a nearby-ish friend get dropped off to drive my pickup back while I drive the new truck.
So that’s a looong way of saying I barely ate yesterday and missed my workout.
Then! I get a call for a line getting ripped down in Iowa, but I’m in Ohio, so I spent all night, intermittently, talking a worker through how to get it back up safely (it crosses a road and then goes through back yards. A truck ripped it down). I think he’s still not done. Started at 9pm