Man uses bucket truck to visit mom's third floor window
April 2 (UPI) -- An Ohio man unable to visit his mother's nursing home due to coronavirus lockdown used a tree-trimming bucket truck to visit her third floor window.
Charley Adams, owner of Adams Tree Preservation in Youngstown, said he wanted to visit his mother, Julie, 80, at Windsor Estates Assisted Living in New Middletown, but the facility is on lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic, with no visitors allowed inside and no residents allowed to leave.
Adams said he received permission from the home to bring his tree-trimming bucket truck to the building and lift himself up to his mother's third-floor window.
"I pulled up the truck, set up the bucket, and I called her on the phone, and I said mom, look outside, look outside your window right now, and there I was," Adams told WFMJ-TV.
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He never did get to retire, he died when he was still actively working and from what I know, he was pretty popular since he was a "people person." One of his closest employees - who also lived next door - came over to ask if we'd mind if a company vehicle joined the procession to the cemetery. He said it could be something unobtrusive, like a small van. But I remembered when we were kids and my Dad always made a big deal about the bucket trucks, always talked about them and pointed them out to us kids, he liked them especially and thought a lot of the guys who worked with them. So I surprised the neighbor and said I knew he'd love a bucket truck instead - so a bucket truck accompanied my Dad on his last journey and I was sure he'd approve. 
