Oh must blow fuse
ok we're going to get this thing cut today or what let's try this again
okay wild or what okay so that was to to buy tents by eight feet long and I just cut them
to six foot so today I'm going to be showing how I going to make a set of ramps now I'll be using
these to go up into my little bit of a garage I have my northern camp in Ontario and at the
end I'll explain why I'm making these because actually I had the steel ramps and all I've
done is just scavenged the ends off so I'll be attaching the ends to it very simple you can buy
the ends yourself at most hardware stores and make your own ramps just like I'm showing you
here and I've got a couple of carriage bolts to put in and this is a pretty simple build the only
difference I'm going to show you is a little jig that I make up when I'm making the center ramps
and that's just this here very simple out of a piece of scrap wood and this is going to go on
here like this and I'll show you how that's going to go and what's the purpose of it but these are
going to be quite a simple set of ramps to make and maybe you'd like to make a set yourself you
know for $10 a board I think they're well worth it now I am NOT going to treat this I'm not going
to put nothing on it I'm not gonna stain it I'm not gonna do nothing to it so let's get
started right now well I've got everything all lined up here and you can see I've got lots of
marks on there and I just grabbed an old piece of stock roughly around four inches and you can
see where I put the marks all the way along and I got my little router here and check out
the bit there that's the bit that I'm going to use in conjunction with this jig and you'll see
why in a second so let's get started and I'm using my three-legged sawhorses you could see
how it's easier to walk in between here without having them legs in the back and your way these
guys want I'll put a link down below you can make yourself a set of them sawhorses yourself
too they're very easy to make let's get to it right now well there you go as you can see the
setup and I just clamp it on the sides here and there's enough flex and a little bit of
the jig that's on the end here to clamp it to the sides and let's get started right now now
you want to go in the direction of your router bit so we'll be going in this direction here
okay I'll show you another one
got the idea I'm going to finish zipping these all off and you can see the grooves that it's
putting in there I'll finish these these all off and then I'll go on to putting on the ends with
the carriage bolts and you'll see the old idea behind this at the end so let's get to it next
up well here's the finished product right here and you can see you don't need to have a jig
or anything you can just put your own lines on there and just freehand it you don't really need
the jig I just find the jig is so much easier and faster for me but the reason why I've got
this particular design is because my garage my camp is about 24 to 30 inches off the ground and
when I go up there I leave these ramps out there so I can walk in and out and bring my more up and
down and the reason why I got this design here is if it's raining or stuff like that at least
it'll run down or just put slots going across they just sit in there Rock the wood out at
least this way here it'll drip down and this will give you some more traction so I've got
the end piece here one thing I noticed yeah my carriage bolts go through no problem but
problem is though when you get to the end yeah the carriage bolt just sits up like that so I'll
have to drill these holes out just a little bit bigger and then I'll bring you back and
I'll show you me just installing them and it's that easy this is the setup right here and I've
just got them clamped in and I had to drill the holes out a little bit more and they're
almost the right size for that square part to fit inside now if you take a real good look there you
could see and all I do is I just get one of these countersinks and it'll automatically
Center it so when you start drilling you know it doesn't go off to the side or anything so
that's very easy to do so we'll just drill these holes out and we're almost done okay you ready
okay I'll bring it back when they're all finished being drilled I'll put
the carriage bolts in and we'll take them up on the other side well I got you zoomed
in there pretty good and you could see that these carriage bolt heads they just almost
will fit through the plate steel but not quite and that's how I like to have them
so that it'll actually grip against the sides not just spin on you so let's tighten these up
and let's see if it works that pulls it in there real nice there's another one
there you go now we'll go on the other side beautiful there it is all the heads are all
flush well as you can see right there them carriage bolts are way too long and I zipped
them off and just took my grinder here just smooth them all off nice smooth but
I ain't gonna show you how I tease off the fastest way I found so let's get to
that next well this is the fastest way I know not using the reciprocal saw with a
nice blade on the end fine tooth metal cutting blade let's get to it right now
there you go well there you are this is all done both of them are all finished and you can see here
here is the an old steel one that I have I've got two down here in the city and I'll tell you the
story behind how I destroyed one of them last year or up my camp and I pull in for the fall
hunt and got about ten inches of snow so I drove all the way down and just at the end of my road I
got stuck so I decided a bright idea take one of these ramps put it underneath the tires and guess
what they just fold it up like a pretzel they were just completely destroyed you know squish
straight out bent and twisted I got on stock but they're completely ruined now these go for about
a hundred bucks these steel ones usually and I won't be buying any more of them I'm going to go
strictly with this style here and you can buy the ends like I said these are about ten dollars each
for each board and they're so easy to make now will they hold the same capacity I think these
steel ones are rated like around eight hundred or a thousand pounds I'll tell you what I don't have
too sure if I'd want to put a thousand pounds on it but for me I'm gonna go with the wooden ones
from now on and with the grooves in like this yeah it's going to be a lot not so slippery and that's
the main thing and of course the water we're all dripped down and if we take one of these
and put it like this that's how they're gonna go like download like here now my top of my grads I
think would fit there is about another six inches down but that's just fine for me and I think on
a one to ten scale this is about a five project I think most people could tackle something like this
if you buy the end pieces it's very easy to do so thanks for joining me here today I hope you like
this little bit of a project on making a couple of wraps these guys come back again if you haven't
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