Hillbilly Diving Board

I don't really consider myself to be a Hillbilly even though my family lives in rural Ohio and we have a few more cars and boats than we need. One of the things we have on our 8 acre slice of Wayne Township is a JLG MS 25 "Sizzor" lift. This lift has a 5'x9' working platform that can raise to an elevation of 25'. It is considered an "all terrain" lift because it has big tires. I would have preferred four wheel drive, but this one was the right price. Everything is hydraulically actuated with electrically controlled solenoid valves from the work platform or a control box on the base of the unit.

Originally we bought this lift to facilitate extensive rework of our leaky roof. Soon after it arrived in our backyard, however, our minds came up with numerous other uses:

1. Cleaning the gutters on the house and barn
   
2. Trimming those hard to reach tree limbs
3. Lifting light poles into place
4. Repainting the back porch
5. Installing new lights in the barn

Though we came up with many more practical and relitively safe uses for the lift, our best idea yet is the "Hillbilly Diving Board"!

Falling 21 feet into a 4 feet of water is actually a really bad idea.

So we only really jumped from about 5-6 feet above the water. We would still hit bottom every time, so we always went feet first.


Maybe at our next party I will add wings to it, extend it to the top, and drive it around like an amusement park airplane ride for the little kids.