dcyrilc
Super Member
This is probably good advice. Not knowing your boss, he may be glad for you but there's a chance he may not like the idea that you got it running.
It all depends on the boss. My old boss would bend over backwards to help out her employees. Including allowing them to have left over materials from jobs which were complete and free use of equipment when they needed it. When I left, she gifted their old digger/derrick boom truck to me for use on the farm. It's old and tired, but should last me a long time.