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Setting your ladder feet is essential to keeping you safe. Set the extension feet like this! #ladder

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This video provides a concise, step-by-step guide on how to properly inspect and adjust ladder feet according to the ground surface. It highlights the critical safety distinction between using padded feet for hard, even surfaces like concrete and engaging spikes for soft, uneven terrains such as dirt, grass, rock, gravel, or bark to ensure maximum stability and prevent dangerous sliding accidents.

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Make sure when you're on dirt, grass, rock, gravel, bark, make sure your ladder feet are set correctly. If you're on concrete, the padded feet down. If you're on dirt, gravel, rock, stuff, spikes down. So, you do not want your pads down like this. On gravel, it could slide. On grass, especially wet grass, it can slide. So, make sure you properly set them. Very simple. Raise it up. kick it forward. Now they're set. Hit the spikes down. It'll grab and hold. So that's extremely dangerous on rock.

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