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Waayyy back in the early '70s before OSHA existed, I built myself a cage to run on a forklift. It allowed me to get up to the roof of the place I was working. It didn't have a scissors lift, just a cage for doing electrical work. An electric forklift, I built interlocks so it couldn't be moved while I was working. And a remote on the lift/lower control.

A light forklift, but it had enough of a counterweight in the battery that I never feared it tilting forward. And was a real treat for working over machines where I needed the offset. A bear if I had to climb up to the cage, but overall an easy working cage in which I spent many hours. I left the job a couple years later to work in a foundry, then OSHA came along and I had to hang up my ball cap and wear hard shoes. It's been downhill ever since. . .

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Ralph and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Ralph suddenly jumped into the deep end.
He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there.
Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled him out. When the Head Nurse Director became aware of Edna's heroic act she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as she now considered her to be mentally stable.
When she went to tell Edna the news she said, 'Edna, I have good news and bad news. The good news is you're being discharged, since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of the person you love... I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness.
The bad news is, Ralph hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he's dead.'
Edna replied, 'He didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry. How soon can I go home?
 
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