Both my wife and son have a very bad habit of standing on a chair to get to something out of reach.
I was guilty of the same thing until one day I tried standing on my sawbench and put my foot out on the 'ripping notch'. The bench flipped over as did I and I don't do that anymore.
I was going to just buy one of the small aluminum steps, but thought it would be fun to make something that looked reasonably at home with the other furniture.
Just made from Southern Yellow Pine construction lumber.
SYP is not really what I would call light weight so I scalloped the bottom of the rungs and other places to try and keep the weight down.
I dreamed up a number of different schemes to limit the forward travel of the front legs, but ended up making some pivoting metal ones as seen on most folding wooden ladders.
Once folded, it does a good job of standing flat against the wall.
Lots of opportunities for me to use the spokeshave.
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