That's nice AVB, but I settled for a ramp. I had one for loading rineons onto my trailer so I just made a lighter one for the mowers on bench.
No more straining my back ................
cheers
speedy
Before the vertebrae popped back in place recently which I didn't know was my main problem I couldn't even push one of those walk behinds up such a ramp. I would end up using a rope and pulley system even to do that or I would in pain for few weeks. That's why I got the lift. Now things are improving back wise though I will continue using the ramps and lifts since I got them. No point making my back worse again.
That lift came to good use when I had to a 10 kw portable generator this Fall here to load. The customer brought it to me using a tractor with lifting forks as he couldn't load it either.
I thinking you mean ride-on mowers. For those and zero turn riders I have set of skeleton arched aluminum ramps with a 3000 lbs capacity per pair as the mower decks tend to hang at the trailer end and pickup trucks tailgate. They were twice much as 1500 lbs ones but I deal with various equipment sizes and weights; therefore, I needed the extra capacity. Beside the rungs are closer together than the home owner version and those small 4" and 5" rim diameter front tires on those home owner ZTRs would try to fall through the wider spaced rungs making it hard to load and unload those mowers. Think of these being like a ladder except the rungs are 3" apart.
These ramps which you can make wooden ones are base on an "I" beam design except the metal ones don't have a solid panel. For a wooden you use a thinner lighter weight plywood stretcher plus two side rails with a shallow dado into them to accept the plywood panel. Of course you glue and nail these on. Placement of the dado can centered or offfset depending the deck clearances you need. Plywood when use in such an "I" design can be a lot stronger than you expect; therefore, you might get by as thin as a quarter inch think ones but I prefer to stick with half inch. Three quarter inch plywood is just over kill for light weight walk behinds plus it makes the ramps heavier to move around. And when not in use at your shop you can hang them horizontally on a side wall out of the way.
