Hello from Germany, I am planning a wheelchair ramp in nearly this style, too - but for 5 steps with a platform and a turn. I think this is one of the rare videos where the posts were layed on concrete foundation. Have to do the same, because of front yard. Will use more posts, but smaller ones. Thanks for sharing!
Great, until I saw the notching of the posts. Why even bother with extraordinarily expensive 8x8 or 10x10 when you are grinding them out with imprecision and weakening them. Dovetails are great with indoor furniture. 10 year rot failure, here we come.
They're doing a great job. Per code, those 2x8 cross pieces must be fully supported by wood and connected by 1/2 inch stainless steel nuts, bolts, and washers. The workmanship is fine. At least they're using 6x6 PT posts. Too many videos show use of 4x4 posts which will fail county inspection.
When they needlessly notch out half of the post, they are weakening the entire structure down to the same as just using a smaller post. No point in using anything large if you are literally cutting away half the structure, unless they want to mark up materials and rip off the old person they are working that doesn't know any better. This is goofy. Buy 6 x 6 for 70% of the price, and skip the pointless notches entirely, and no fake rabbets to rot out in under 10 years. Also notice some overcuts in the notches, because they used a 6" circular saw instead of a band saw or table saw, meaning the crap is going to fail even faster. @@DD-dh5ls
