[aggie91]

Quick update - C10's in the Park is only 18 days away...

Had a good week last week, but nothing truck related until yesterday. My company was having a end of summer cleaning to get rid of surplus stuff. A couple of items caught my attention. Most items were done as luck of the draw for a given cheap price. I was luck enough to get 2 of the items I was interested in that way. One major items was done as a sealed bid auction. A Vertical Mill with a 9"x42" table, DRO, and powered cross feed. 230V single phase power! I placed a bid on the last day, along with 5 others. Turns out I overbid the next highest bidder by $400. Oh well, I got it at a very fair price! Learned the next day that another coworker had intended to bid but forgot the deadline and missed submitting his bid. Turns out that was a blessing for me as his bid was going to be $500 higher than mine!

Got it loaded up Friday and then fortunately caught a shop neighbor on Sunday that had a fork lift and he helped unload and set inside my shop. Also, helped stand up the cabinet I bought and moved it into the shop.

I watched my nephews for the weekend as my sister and her husband took a weekend trip to celebrate her birthday. So they came to the shop with me and Korbin met us out there. They had fun playing with my creeper and floor jack and was able to help get the mill and cabinet into the shop.

Korbin started cleaning the mill and we gave it a general inspection. Now we need some tooling and collets, but this is something I have always wanted in my shop.