Jif Marine Hinged Dock Ladder - 3 Steps - 750 lbs - Aluminum - 4" Deep Step

Video Transcript for Jif Marine 3 Step Hinged Dock Ladder Review

What's up everybody It's AJ with etrailer.com. Today we're gonna be checking out this Jif Marine aluminum three step ladder and it's also gonna have a hinge so you can lift it up outta the water When you're not using it. Let's check it out. What separates this ladder from the other ones is that pin. Just gonna pull it on this side lift it up and out the water, lower it down to the deck. and then you can come back on the side and pin it back into place.

Another good reason to have the ladder up and outta the water is that the fluctuation of the lake level. So the lake could lower quite a bit. That would cause a standard ladder to bottom out and hit the bottom and cause issues with the dock. This way we can have it flipped up if we see that the water's low and it's not an issue. This is a stationary ladder, so this one stays on the dock and in the water all the time.

Now I can see there's moss on the third step at the bottom so that's gonna be slimy or gross when you go to step on it. You can even slip. It's hard to get a grip. You'd have to go up to the second ladder but even the second step here has some moss on it too. Standing on the ladder it has a weight capacity of 750 pounds.

And I'm only 170 so not even pushing it, it feels sturdy. I can jump up and down on it. It doesn't feel loose like there's gonna be any problems. The step itself is gonna be four inches wide. So compared to another ladder we installed earlier today it had a two inch wide step and that felt like I could only get like the tip of my toes on there when I was climbing the ladder.

It's gonna get most of my foot on there so I'm very happy with how much footing I have when climbing up out of the water or going back in. We took a look at what the ladder does and what it's made out of. So now it's time to look at how does it install. It's not too bad of a process. You are gonna have to get your own hardware. You can go to the hardware store or order some from our site. There is a kit for this ladder. It's not that bad, it's just a couple holes you gotta drill. Check out how I did it. We're gonna assemble our ladder here. Just take the steps slide in our rails to one of the posts. We're gonna line up the hole there and get the hardware that's included. Run one bolt through the front and add a nut on the back. We're just gonna hand tighten for now. We're gonna do the same thing on the other side. We're gonna get a screwdriver and a wrench and we'll tighten down the hardware, hold the ladder together. Now we're gonna set our ladder in the water and get it positioned where we want it on the dock. We get it close to the edge there. Give it a little bit of space from the step and the dock. That way you don't kick it as you step up there. And that looks good right about there. Make sure it's straight and we'll come back and add our hardware. Now you're gonna make sure you get your own hardware. You can order a kit from the site if you wanna use their official kit or you just go to the hardware store. Or if you already have some hardware from an old ladder you can reuse that to attach the new one. So we're just gonna go in this back hole here on both sides and there's gonna be another one in the front we're gonna do. We're just gonna run this through to attach it to the dock. With our back bolts secured, gonna flip the ladder up, put it in the storage position and then we'll run the screws in the front. Overall, I like this ladder on the dock. The one pin system makes it so much easier to lift it up out of the water. We'll put it back in there. I like that I'm not leaving all wa- the ladder in the water all the time so it's not gonna get slimy. And just pull that pin and lift it back up versus some other ladders that either stay in the water all the time or have a complex system of sliding it out and catching it on tabs. That's just annoying. I'd rather just pull the one pin and be done with it. Well I think that does it. Thanks for hanging out and hope this helped..