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Set Subsequent Stair Treads and Perform Final Checks

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Building a Tricky Staircase

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What happens here

Repeat the process for each subsequent stair tread. For each new tread, first ensure the base material underneath is properly leveled and compacted. Then, use the excavator and lifting straps to carefully lower the next pre-manufactured concrete stair tread. Once positioned, use a level to rigorously check its alignment relative to the previous tread and the overall staircase design. This includes checking the face, the actual tread surface, and the level from front to back and side to side. Additionally, check the consistency of the step height (rise) and depth (run) between the current and previous treads. Make any necessary micro-adjustments to ensure perfect alignment and a smooth, consistent flow for the entire staircase. Once all steps are in place and checked, prepare for final backfilling.

Goal: Install all remaining stair treads and ensure perfect alignment and stability.

Tools and materials

  • Bobcat Mini-Excavator Bobcat — Lifting and positioning the heavy stair treads
  • Level — Ensuring the stair tread is perfectly level and checking alignment
  • Measuring Tape — Measuring the rise and run of each step for consistency
  • Plate Compactor Honda engine — Re-compacting base material for subsequent treads if needed
  • Pre-Manufactured Concrete Stair Tread — The main component of the stairs, designed to look like rock
  • Rake — Making minor adjustments to the base material
  • Shovel — Making minor adjustments to the base material
  • Yellow Keeper Lifting Straps Keeper — Securing and lifting the concrete stair treads

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i think we can get that hey sam i kind of nudged that one forward a little bit when i was i tried to scoot too close did it did it move it off too much or that was my bad i almost say it's good probably i might have just been this back one kind of teetering a little bit too since it got that crest that's still good it was three and a half before somewhere around there maybe a little over three and a half three and five eights maybe oh you're at four on each side oh really oh that's why i scooted the whole thing forward then let me check as long as they're even on both sides oh wait wait no we're uh probably that's uh three and five eights four no that's like uh what is that gonna be one two three four five six seven eight uh like three and nine sixteenths no no okay the excavator gets the stops 99 complete but each step still needs to be double checked and sometimes tweaked just to make sure that everything flows together in a very natural pattern and has a good feel just a good rhyme or rhythm so we double check everything we double check the faces we double check the batter we double check the level side to side we double check the level from front to back we double check the level between the steps and then once all of those checks and everything is passed then we move on to the next one man i burned the hell out of my hand on that exhaust twice uh no it doesn't have a throttle cable you gotta hit it on this we gotta we gotta go in the same way rip it [Applause] freaking snap yeah that's why it's so short yeah i just tied it freaking just tied it together it was pretty funny actually you know gave that thing a rip to freaking start somersaulted over [Music] so [Music] dammit so one of the things to make sure you're aware of is when you put in your very bottom stair tread you've got to get them right because that sets up the entire rest of the staircase because the bottom stair tread is the base for the second stair tread which is the base for the third the fourth the fifth the sixth the seventh so on and so forth so if you screw up that bottom stair tread you're gonna be fighting the rest of them but when you get those individual stair treads all the right level it makes laying the next ones out that much faster and easier so a stitch in time saves nine i guess that would be the saying for this video right a stitch in time saves nine

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