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  • From: Kevin Bradley <kbradley@ttlc.net>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Three legged ladders
  • Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 06:22:25 -0500

I built one in about 4 hours, they're really easy to make. Buy a 2 X 12" X 8' piece of Douglas Fir, strip it into 3 1/2" sections, use two as the frame, get a 1 1/4" inch flat metal drill bit and three three foot sections of 1 1/4" dowel, then grind down the drill bit til the dowels fit very snuggly into pilot holes, then figure out the angle of the two main legs and drill your holes, insert the dowels and then on the topmost rung put the third leg, with a hole drilled about three inches down from the top of it.
There you have it a beautiful tripod ladder that gets right into the trees.
Fashion a little shelf at the top to rest the fruit as you pick.
I could have made mine wider, it is not as stable as I would like. I would make the space between the bottom two legs about three feet apart. for more stability.
The eight foot height is perfect for apples on M26.
Any questions or if you would like a pic let me know.





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