Garage Light Duty Electric Hoist

[caster]

I just purchased one of these wall mounts tire racks https://www.knapeandvogt.com/heavy-duty-tireloft . My garage is about ten feet in height. I mounted this tire rack at ten feet and the bottom most portion is eight feet off the ground. I would like a safer way to put the wheels/tires on the rack instead of carrying them up a ladder. I thought about attaching one of these https://www.harborfreight.com/440-lb-electric-hoist-with-remote-control-60346.html using some unistrut across the a few ibeams in the ceiling of my garage. The ceiling in my garage is manufactured ibeams and above it is the second floor.

Im figuring each wheel weights about 55lbs. Would this work within the limits of my ibeams? Is there another solution that I should look out to safely lift these wheels?

 

[rsanter]

Yes. If that is all you are lifting then your structure should handle that with no issues

 

[Kaizen]

yea that would work but if you are going this far mount unistrut to the wall and wheel trolleys to the back of the rack. mount the winch low and put the pulley up at the top between both unistruts. load all tires from the ground, winch up. seems like a pain to rig the tires and then get up on a ladder to unhook and roll onto rack.
also save some money using a boat winch that locks as i assume this is a 2 times a year thing. that ac winch is awesome but it does not lock in position well. same idea used for garage elevators that you can research.

 

[caster]

yea that would work but if you are going this far mount unistrut to the wall and wheel trolleys to the back of the rack. mount the winch low and put the pulley up at the top between both unistruts. load all tires from the ground, winch up. seems like a pain to rig the tires and then get up on a ladder to unhook and roll onto rack.
also save some money using a boat winch that locks as i assume this is a 2 times a year thing. that ac winch is awesome but it does not lock in position well. same idea used for garage elevators that you can research.

Thanks.