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Place and Level Railroad Ties

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Teaching a Laborer TO THINK like a LEADER #1

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What happens here

Place the first railroad tie onto the prepared leveling sand base. Using a Milwaukee Redstick level, check for levelness side-to-side and ensure a slight forward pitch (a quarter-bubble) for water drainage. Adjust the sand underneath as needed to achieve the correct level and pitch. The second railroad tie is then placed immediately next to the first one, ensuring it also sits level and with the correct pitch. Ensure both ties are flush and aligned. The ties are connected together to prevent independent movement.

Goal: Install and level the railroad ties for the stair treads.

Tools and materials

  • Milwaukee Redstick Level Milwaukee — Checking levelness and pitch of the ties
  • Railroad Ties — Forming the steps
  • Rake — Adjusting sand underneath the ties
  • Shovel — Adjusting sand underneath the ties
  • Leveling Sand — Making precise adjustments to the base

What they say

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[Applause] [Music] did you put a level on these stairs Zach all right let's see him a level of intolerance it's like you can go up a skosh but okay how about front to back yeah not just front to back as your whole thing's slow yeah well that's a level step right there but you want to have a slight downward angle to compensate for uh the rain coming off you never want steps perfectly level you want them to shed down and away but right here you gotta toe kicker here so this so this we need to to correct this step is level this step on its own is out of level you see how you don't have the two steps Level side to side so that makes this the only one that didn't get a sand base okay that one that started with nothing okay everything else got a fan base too and this one we still we got a pretty aggressive pitch but let's see how aggressive of a pitch we got that's level that's probably almost too aggressive but I don't care as far as being on my property but when we go back customers of course I'd be level that way okay but when we go over here we're over there Level side to side yeah Level side to side but you gotta start you gotta take care when you're doing two steps Side by now these are rough Timbers as well so I don't want you to worry about getting exactly perfect simply because but this is too far out of per perfect to count so the eyeballing did good to a point but we gotta actually do them right Zach we got to get him right so in this case what's happening is Zach is doing a fine job of leveling each Timber individually but he's forgetting to level when you have multiple Timbers butting up to each other to level one Timber with the next Timber to make sure they're Level side to side and front to

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