DIY Off Grid Cabin Build - Episode 32

foreign I've got uh some slope in the front in the rear of the cabin got just a about a four inch Gap there and then you come down here and you got about a foot and a half so you can see how my ladder is tilted anytime I'm using it here along the front it's going to be tilted like that unless I set you know some kind of a board underneath one of the legs and uh I've got that it's not that much of a deal here on on this side or the opposite side but on the front and the rear I'm going to be running into that problem so I was talking to a buddy of mine a lot of you guys probably know him Kevin Robinson he's got a YouTube channel most of you guys probably already watches videos if you don't I encourage that you go over to his channel and check him out because I think he'll really enjoy him and I'll leave a link in the description but um I was talking to him and he suggested that I get some leg levelers for my ladder he sent me a link and uh I went ahead and picked it up so I'm gonna install this these leg levelers onto my ladder and we'll see if that doesn't help me out a little bit so uh let's get started on that foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign my first thoughts here are these bolts way too long and because this is a lock nut I've got a I can't just hand tighten it all the way up so I've got to use a couple of wrenches to tighten that thing all the way up and I don't know seems like they can do a little bit better job than that all right half an hour later I got all four of these bolts installed and tightened look how long these bolts are man that's ridiculous you'll need three inch long bolts that that's a I I like the fact that they have lock nuts for these because that'll keep it from getting loose but three inch bolts good grief man my recommendation is uh find out what length bolt you need go buy that and use those bolts and take these and store them for when you need something that's three inches long that is ridiculous length see you can only do a quarter turn at a time so this takes forever trying to go up a three inch Bolt for the thickness of the leg I'm going through I would only need maybe three quarter inch bolt at the most I could see if if this you know wrapped all the way around instead of going up on the bottom like it does you might need one that's maybe an inch and a quarter but uh I can't imagine what you'd be bolting this to that would need a three inch Bolt I think once I get this installed I'm going to be happy with it but man this is taking a long time just to attach eight bolts I'm not gonna put you guys through any more of this um look at that how much I've got left after all that I've been going I'll bring you guys back when I'm done all right so let me get the foot and get that installed foreign okay so these feet swivel so you do need a wrench to tighten this and the kit does come with a wrench all right so how does this work you squeeze this so that it's parallel and then you can move the feet in but it'll come out but it won't go back up unless you squeeze this okay it's best if you uh if you put a apply pressure to both ends at the same time you just apply pleasure to one end it's not going to work for you so apply pressure to both ends then you can push it back in all right finally got those installed that took forever and a half so you can see how crooked the ladder is let's see how easy it is for me to get that level all right foreign okay that was really easy to get it level so now how easy is it to bring that bottom back up I might have to bend down to do that not sure I can do that with my foot but I'll give it a try okay that's not bad I think uh I think that's gonna be a nice addition to the ladder so not only does it uh make it really easy I with my foot I can get the latter level and then I can bring it back uh flush again at the bottom so I don't have to bend over which is an important thing for me because I have several vertebrae that are fused in my lower back which prevents me from being able to bend over so I always have to get down on my hands and knees and uh it doesn't stop me but it does Slow Me Down so this is uh gonna be nice I tell you I did not enjoy putting those three inch bolts on there I recommend swapping those out for the shortest bolt you can get away with then I think you know it'll probably install relatively quickly but uh and once you get it installed it seems to work pretty nice so uh let me get it back to where it's level and uh let me climb up it and let's see how it holds foreign I think that's going to work out great so uh you can see that uh with these Little Giant Ladders they the the legs on the back do flare out which makes them a little bit stable more stable but um adding these leg levelers even expands that out another couple of inches so it just makes it that much more stable and the fact that uh the feet rotate [Music] not sure if you can pick up on that but uh they rotate so that they they stay flush with the ground no matter what the angle is so that's uh another feature and you've got uh a good uh I'd say that's about three and a half four inch wide foot where before I only had about a one inch foot so that's going to make it that much nicer so what are my final thoughts on this product um I think that now that I've got it installed I think I'm really going to be glad that I've got it it's going to make a moon this ladder around around a ton more easy but again I do recommend taking those bolts and getting rid of them in addition to being three inches long they're fine thread so it just took forever to get those things tightened I would play some with your own bolts get the right size and maybe get coarse thread and a lock nut and uh I think you'll be a lot happier but other than that I think this is going to be a great product holds my weight and uh that's that's good so chances are it's probably going to hold your way too so I think that's going to do it for this video I'll talk to you guys later