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omahagreg

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Here is a wheelchair ramp we built last week-finished yesterday!



It is a state program, and they had it figured at 18', so 18" of rise. NO, it actually was 24" of rise, so technically needed 24' of run. Boss said no, so we stretched it to maybe 20', and we passed the city inspection! Now the program supervisors will have to sign off on it-sure hope they do-as extending it now could be a 'sticky wicket'!
 
That looks very nice. I build 2-3 a year as a volunteer with an organization that finds the people and pays for the materials so all I have to do is go to the site, draw a plan, get a
permit and build it. We have to use 1x6 hand and knee rails instead of spindles and they don't look as nice but they are cheaper. I have gotten it now to where I can build a ramp
up to about 30 feet long with a couple of platforms in a day working by myself(which I almost always am). Anything more I go back for a second day. This year with the building
project here I may not be able to build any ramps, or at least not till fall. The organization requires the 1/12 pitch the same as the towns here do, so I build them that way.
Sometimes they have to go around the corner of the house or do other weird things in order to fit, but so far I've always been able to find a way.
Zach
 
That wouldn't be in Carter Lake, would it? There isn't any land that flat in Omaha.
 
Here in NY now they are enforcing a maximum 2 1/4 inch wide handrail on everything so no more 2x4 top
railings. We build one during the winter with landings almost 80 feet, bought solid brass handrail
brackets and had to have continuous rails on both sides.
 
Looks nice. I have some friends that live not far from there, 42nd & Maple, but they are moving
to a different house in Omaha soon. Looks like one of the nicer houses for that area.
 
My wife has a half brother who lives in that area north of Ames.

Some 25 years ago when I was an outside salesman for a private label auto parts company, I called on a repair shop on 52nd and Ames. That was always "interesting". But-I sold them a lot of parts, they were too good of a customer to shy away from because of the location.

Although one day when I was making my sales call, a big commotion erupted, with police cars, an ambulance, etc. Seems a young gal got shot in a Goodrich dairy store a block west of the place. The gal survived, but to get shot in a dairy store in the middle of the day?
 
Looks like this job is a much better use of your talents than your previous one. Great Work!
 

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