For instance, if you have a power chair or a small child assisted by a healthy adult, you need half the ramp length of a ramp designed for areas of public accommodation. In a public setting you never know who will be using the ramp, therefore a very gentle ramp angle is required by code. With the American Ramp System, we can add sections if necessary to make the ramp less aggressive. We can always add a ramp section at a later date if changes occur in your level of assistance, your wheelchair or wheelchair users weight. 6 Wood and concrete are fixed structures, if they twist due to frost heaves or settling, the ramp can be made unusable.
Correction is a costly matter.
The American Ramp System simply requires readjustment of the bolted structure supporting the ramp. There are existing holes for that purpose at every inch of support stand height. Our steel ramps are stronger. They are designed for 850 lb.capacity and we test them to 1200. Lb more than ton .