Video Transcript for Telesteps Telescopic Ladder Spec Review

What's up everybody, it's AJ with etrailer.com. Today we're gonna be checking out the Telesteps telescoping ladder. It's going to be an awesome thing to have on you because you have all the use of a full ladder. But it also condenses down and stores easily in your basement compartment. So that can be really useful because you never know what's going to happen on one of these trips. You might need to get on the roof and check the AC, if it's not working.

You might need to go up there and get some brush off there. Maybe you got some branches stuck up there. When you go to do the pop-out, that's kind of in the way. Or maybe you're getting ready to leave and you want to clear all that stuff out that's around the fall. You want to get those leaves out of there and move them.

Get all cleaned up before you leave. You can do all that with this ladder, but not have the bulkiness of having a, trying to find a spot for a full size ladder. That can be kind of a pain. Goes right in our basement door. It's out of sight, out of mind.

Let's check it out. Also, you're going to need it if you don't have a ladder on your rig, you got to get up here on the roof somehow to check out your vents or your air conditioning. So this is going to be really helpful to have that in that basement door. Just so you can go ahead and climb up here and check it out. Something else worth considering is even if you do have an existing ladder, you can see it's nice to have this one because it's got quite a bit wider steps.

So even with the work boots I had on, when I climbed up there, this had plenty of room for that, where this one wouldn't have as much room. So it's nice to have that extra room, that extra lip here on the step. Plus, it's actually, you can climb and start down here, instead of here. The bottom rung here is quite a bit up. So you still got to, or at least I do, I got to get my foot up there. This one, I can start here and work my way up. One of the most important things about picking out a ladder is making sure it is the right height for what you want to use it for. So this one, fully extended, it's gonna be 12 and a half feet tall. So make sure you keep that in mind with when you will use it for. It's not fully centered right now. We didn't quite need all of it. You see that we kind of just pick and choose the rungs. Went up there and we can reach the roof. No problem. And that also goes with the 12 and a half feet fully extended. If you get towards the top there, they say it has a 16 foot height reach. So that's just, if you're on the top, they're keeping your arms in that factor of like what you can actually reach when you're standing towards the top of that ladder. Now, if you're looking at these, trying to pick one out for your rig or your RV, I would suggest some of the other ones that Telesteps also offers They're different heights, they're made out of aluminum and those we're really the way to go if you're just using it on the RV or camper side. This one's kind of a special case because it's made out of Kevlar. So that's going to be non-conductive. So you can really use this on the job site, or if you do electricity work. You see we've got it up next to our power outlets here. I'd be able to use this and not worry about it conducting any electricity and shocking me, if anything was to go wrong. When you're using on your job site, you want to make sure you know, that it's safe. It is OSHA compliant, so you don't have to worry about that. Another thing is you got the wider stuff, kind of like I said earlier. There's more space to step around, especially if you're carrying stuff with you up and down the ladder, you want to make sure you have sure footing. Then at the bottom, it's got the nice feet on there. So it's got a rubber grip on the bottom and the feet stay in place. You see, I'm moving the ladder away from the wall. The feet stay in place. I really like that. You can kind of get it set, lean that ladder and you don't have to worry about the base moving on you so much because it's nice and planted there and can pivot just a little bit. Another thing that I really liked is that these little windows here on each rung. They're going to be green when it's locked into place. So if this is the first time you've seen a telescoping style ladder and you're kind of worried about, well, how, how come it's not going to, how do you know it's not gonna come back down You can look right there. You see the green. That means it's locked into place. And you're good to go ahead out there. It also has a weight capacity of 300 pounds. So even if you do have some tools on you or a tool belt, it should be able to handle that. Let's go over on to how the ladder operates. How are we going to condense it down into a more compact ladder So it's really easy. You got two buttons down here at the bottom underneath this rung, and I'm going to pinch them together and that's going to get it started telescoping down and going into itself. Now I will say that there's a sticker right up here. Keep an eye out for that. It wants you to keep your hands above that rung. Not that it comes down super fast or anything, but just easier, more manageable. Keep your hand here. Cause it's going to start to come down here first and then you can kind of just walk the ladder down as it comes down in there. Those gas struts do a good job of keeping it and making it manageable. And it's speed, so it's not going to be super aggressive. It's not going to be too slow. It's going to be just right and easy to do. So let me just go ahead and do that. Gonna move over to this side. Keep my hand up here, above that sticker. Bring it away from the wall and let it start to come down. You see Easy to do. Just walking it down. It's that easy to get it nice and compact. Now you can store it far easier than you could before with a regular ladder. Now I mentioned the gas strut. We have worked with a couple of different styles of these. There's one that doesn't have any, and there is a does have gas strut. That's the one that did have one, the other one we worked with went laughably slow. I mean, it took forever, just the one rung to come down and just the full, that's like one telescope in one. So it just took a long time to kind of sit there and watch the ladder slowly do its thing. The other one had no gas struts at all. So it just dropped into place. So you wouldn't keep your hands completely out of the way on that one. That's not good either. So either way, especially if using that the job site, you don't want to wait around all day for the ladder to fall down into itself or telescope down into itself. And you don't want a dangerous ladder that if the slight miscalculation you put your hand in the wrong spot could do some damage there. That's going to be a nice in the middle and really easy to use. Let's talk about how to extend it. Now, it's really easy to do. You just put one foot here at the bottom and then start extending. Now, if you want to use the full ladder, you would start from the very top and start pulling that up and it locks into place once the bottom does. It's good to use. But if you don't need to full extended the ladder, that's a nice thing about this telescoping ladder, you don't quite need to get to the top of this wall or the top of your rig. Let's say you're not going that high. You can come down here and kind of choose where you want to start going up at. So we'll come down here to this rung and just start pulling it up in the place. You can see all the green. You know it's locked in. You can hear it audibly lock. And as long as the bottom base is locked, the top is going to be as well. So you just get that lean against the wall. Now it's good to use. Pretty easy to set up. One of the other nice things is that when it's fully retracted down, it's going to be 34 inches. So that's quite a bit less space than the 12 and a half feet that it usually extends to. But you still have all that length and height if you need it on the job site. Not to mention, you don't need a ladder rack then. You can easily just take this, throw it in the back of your truck. If you do have a ladder rack, you just save that for lumber but that's out of the way in the back of your truck. You don't have to add anything else in there. You can even probably fit it in the cab. Now, if you are using on the job site, they do make trays that go on the top of them. That'll go on the corners so that it has like kind of a tray. You can put tools in there and stuff. That's just going to help you out if you're using it for the job site. You can store some of your tools and whatever you need up there at top. I would recommend getting that. Otherwise, I think it's gonna be really helpful to have, and you'll find plenty of uses that have it once you already got it. Well, thanks for hanging out and I hope this helped..