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Beautiful day today, sunny, high of 66. It could have been a little warmer, but I am not complaining because it didn't rain.
 
Salvage auction tomorrow so I went and looked at a few trucks. Think I'll skip one the one with side damage (whole door frame slammed in) and the one with "mechanical damage" (high miles + someone doesn't know how to roll up the window, mold/mildew GALORE). Best bet rides with the one with the gutted center console and missing a driveshaft.

Why are the salvage yards workers always so grumpy looking? Is it the job? Bad life choices that led them there!? Only the office guys have any positivity at all.
 
Working the yard can be a lousy job. All kinds of weather and stupid request from office personal. I lasted two months one summer at that and moved on. Only advantage was unlimited parts off the scrap pile. Built a few Chevy small blocks (hence the term anyone can build a junk engine) and use of shop machine tools on days off for extra income. I did learn how to pull an engine and transmission every 15 minutes with the proper body crushing equipment.
 
Well that truck I looked at yesterday, it was going to auction today so I put a bid on it and watched the auction for it today, sometime around noon, and and at this point I'm teasing some sneaking suspicions about Copart. Like a few trucks before this, I had the highest pre-bid before the auction, only for someone to drop a crazy high bid on it and steal the win (I'm talking numbers that are a little high for a salvage rig that needs lots of repairs and will forever have a salvage title). Well, later today the truck ended up right back on my watchlist (meaning the sale for it was cancelled and it got relisted for future auction). Why wouldn't they sell a rig that someone made an egregious for? Well, rumor has it that some sellers that list through Copart will hire a "random buyer" to jump-start the bidding and get the "impulsive" bidders to race to the top and ramp the bids up higher than they normally would. After all, if I remember right Copart has stiff penalties for delinquent buyers who back out of a bid after the auction is done, not something serious buyers wanna be doing. The only way out of any penalties is if the seller has a reserve set, and if they can't negotiate the buyer up on his final bid then they can cancel the sale and relist. Come to think of it, the few rigs on my watchlist that this happened with, they all had a reserve. That truck got relisted for an auction next week, we'll see if it happens again.

Guess I shouldn't be surprised at something like this, all sorts o shady sh!t happens with salvage rigs.
 
Need to be bidding on stuff with no reserve. Police or goverment auction stuff were they just want to dispose of it. They are out there.
 
Last day off, 11 of them ticked off like it was nothing. But aside from some rain at night, I had some really nice weather, even the hot stuff. In the mid 80's the last couple/few days and it's been awesome. Got some stuff done, some other stuff it pushed back a little. Back to reality tomorrow.
 
Yep the water had finally evaporated from the water hole in the drive and what does it do last night but rain. The neighbor fence most of the yard and turned his cows in yesterday. Grass is now waist high. Surprised he did not get stuck mowing a path to put the fence in. I did my best to keep him out of the worst of the mud and I guess it worked. The rest will have to be cut with the wheeled string trimer and racked the first time. Maybe by the end of the month it will look some what like a lawn again.
 
Warm and sunny today. Prepping Charger for trip North next week. Hope to end up in Minneapolis Sunday night.
Wife is up and I am ready to get working but will to wait until she is somewhat functional.
 
Dsertdog said:
Warm and sunny today. Prepping Charger for trip North next week. Hope to end up in Minneapolis Sunday night.
Wife is up and I am ready to get working but will to wait until she is somewhat functional.
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If you're going up I35, I'm 35 minutes west of Albert Lea. King Hooter from FCBO lives in the Albert Lea area.
 
Dsertdog said:
Warm and sunny today. Prepping Charger for trip North next week. Hope to end up in Minneapolis Sunday night.
Wife is up and I am ready to get working but will to wait until she is somewhat functional.
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If I had to wait for mine to be functional things would never happen.
 
LocuMob said:
If you're going up I35, I'm 35 minutes west of Albert Lea. King Hooter from FCBO lives in the Albert Lea area.
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We will be on the way home. We'll be coming up on a different route because our first destination is Rock Island Il.
Hell I'm not 100% sure we're going to Minnesota yet! Mom in law lives up in the twin cities, but wife isn't sure can handle a 3 day visit. Her mom's 93 and has had two strokes...

7mopar said:
If I had to wait for mine to be functional things would never happen.
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LMAO...yeah. Love her but with her health issues she doesn't get moving real fast. Some mornings I don't either!

And today is one of those days. After spending half a day yesterday prepping one car, a third of the day changing 4 plugs in the Polara, and cutting the back yard, Charlie and his horse stopped by with my buddy Arthur Itis and kicked the crap out of me the moment I got up.
And it's supposed to rain, so we hustled the Polara off to her storage, and not a drop has fallen yet.
 
I went home and fell asleep for a three hour nap, before getting up to find out the lock ring was doing it's job, and just looks ugly. I'll reposition it when I go back and adjust the float level. But the weather was perfect, sunny in the 70's with lower humidity than we've had the last few days.
 
Humidity was lower here today also. The neighbor helped mow lawn today. First mowing of the year and most of it was waist high. With any luck and no rain it will be in his barn yet this week for feed later. Still have about 1/2 acre yet to go when the rest has been removed.
 
Out driving around yesterday we found this iron railing for free, perfect for my deck! Also we drove the 58 panel and 56 wagon, Bob did some rust removal on the 56 wagon and today do some metal work,
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