Instructions for the production of wooden ladder with your hands

Reliable and stable ladder is useful not only during the construction or repair, but also after, when working in the garden or vegetable garden, replacing light bulbs and a variety of household things.Now becoming increasingly popular metal ladder, but if there is a wooden beam, a little time and the desire to work with his hands - a wooden ladder can be built with their own hands.

Materials and tools

To make a ladder, you need to stock up on:

• bars made of dry wood, without cracks and defects, section 5 * 3 cm and a total length of 13 m,
• metal spokes with a diameter of 6-8mm and a length of 9 m,
• nuts and their corresponding washers, screws for wood,
• rubber taps on the legs (not necessarily),
• metal plates for DIN rail enclosures (4 pcs.) by which half ladders are interconnected,
• thick nylon cord or metal chain - length of 2 to 60 cm,
• carpenter's glue.

Of the tools necessary Saw or Bulgarian, chisel, drill, screwdriver, sandpaper or a grinder, a hammer or mallet, measuring tape and a marker.

Billets

First you need to saw timber into pieces of a certain length:

• 150 cm - 4 pcs,
• 57 cm - 2 pcs,
• 52 cm - 2 pcs...,
• 47 cm - 2 pcs.,
• 37 cm - 2 pcs.

Conveniently marker noting all the required length of a solid piece of lumber, then to saw the workpiece.The ends of long workpieces round out the one hand, you can fix the rubber packing with screws.With their feet will not slip on smooth surfaces.

Stand back 10 cm from the end of the long blank, which will serve as foot ladder and a chisel deepening doing a 5 * 2.5 cm depth of 2 cm. Stand back from the edges of 24 cm and doing a new recess steps, and so on.In total there should have 5 pieces on each length of the rod.Immediately below each recess for the steps drilled hole for spokes.

ends all levels zauzhivayut chisel on both sides so that they could go into the hole designed for them.Accordingly, the length of the tip end must be 2 cm. Moreover beveled ends slightly (3-4 mm), since the staircase tapers upwardly, and steps must be tight.

All Templates need to be polished and, if possible, soak antiseptic.

assembly ladder

When all the parts are ready, the ends of the steps are coated joiner's glue, steps are inserted into the support and hammered with a mallet or hammer.Under stage spokes are inserted and fixed from both sides with nuts and bolts.

have plates, which will connect to a ladder, cut the protruding ears and drilled a hole in the middle of the wide part.Every two plates are connected through these holes with a nut.Also plates with holes for fastening to a ladder, for that it is better to attach to supports and to outline the future location of the nuts.The mechanism of the plates is fixed in the upper part of each of the legs.

order of the ladder did not went home, they fasten a nylon cord or chain, fixing the ends at the same height on the racks by means of nuts and bolts.If we are going wooden ladder with his hands, it is possible to make it slightly easier by attaching, for example, the top of the hooks, which can be hung on a bucket.You can also self-tapping screws to fix the segments of the plumbing pipe with a diameter of 50 cm height of 10-12 cm, which is convenient to put a major tool.