Half steps
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Topic: Half steps
Posted By: omahagreg
Subject: Half steps
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2022 at 8:10pm
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I am trim carpenter working for a Pharmacy in Omaha-we modify houses for accessibility! Here is one you dont see everyday! Specs called for half steps (4.25") with 16" tread! I call it the dragon tail! 
------------- Greg Kroeker 1950 WD with wide front and Freeman trip loader |
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Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2022 at 8:17pm
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O my, why not just build a ramp? Would me more comfortable to scale that way. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2022 at 8:18pm
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Interesting design. Should work great for someone who can't handle full steps but doesn't require a ramp. You did an outstanding job on those. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: omahagreg
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2022 at 8:40pm
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A ramp would have been 38’ long! Omaha won’t allow that size ramp in the front yard ------------- Greg Kroeker 1950 WD with wide front and Freeman trip loader |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 7:13am
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Greg IV done similar. A lot of times here in the Ozarks the steep terrain won’t allow for a ramp to code. I have built a couple with 3 switchbacks due to the terrain. You sure did nice work on this one.👍👍👍 |
Posted By: GeneD14
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 8:40am
Nice job on the stairs!
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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 8:49am
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nice ! but I'd have fixed that buckled board on the deck....sigh.. that really shows next to your fine work !! ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 9:04am
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Greg... my wife has trouble with 8-9 inch steps... That 4.5 inch would work great for her.. I did build a ramp in an enclosed porch area for the neighbor... Only had room for 10 to 1 slope so i did that...it is U shaped double back.... They love that also.... No "regulations" where i live.
------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: ACinSC
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 12:25pm
| Good job ! |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 5:40pm
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The steps/risers look AWESOME !! It's the height of the handrails that have me giving a "double-take", in the pics they look to be 42" high ??
And there's no actual "gripping" for a hand to grab ???
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 5:46pm
Gassy... why comment when you have NO IDEA what you are talking about ?? ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 6:03pm
Trust me Stevie, I have good idea of what I'm talking about  !! My questions to the OP are purely observations from the picture that I saw  !! AGAIN, a TTPP to the rescue
 !! |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 6:28pm
JUST SAYING........ GREG is a professional ........ your more of a WANNA BEE ! 
If you REALLY knew "WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT", you would not post half of the stupid chit that you do !  ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2022 at 11:28pm
| i re-did my front steps from our deck that way, put a 2x8 and a 2x6,one in frobt of the other and screwed them down to a landscape timber with a 1x4 under it, made great steps up to our deck. yours look alot nicer with the hand rails. good job! |
Posted By: omahagreg
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2022 at 6:18am
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About stuff I did not fix-this is a State funded assistance program. We are not allowed to do ANY work, other than the spec sheet we bid on, without our program contact giving approval! That is so we don't come in low and then suggestively sell our way into a large project. If we do that we risk not being allowed to bid on future projects. Not all projects are in low income areas, but most are. There are lots of things one could improve on at most of these projects. ------------- Greg Kroeker 1950 WD with wide front and Freeman trip loader |