Storage Loft Hoist?
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hobie1dog
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tjdux
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That's a harbor freight, or Clone, hoist In the Photo i Beleive (not my post) and i would guess its heavy duty Garage door railing designed for Large lateral sliding doors. Those doors often weight 100s of pounds and imagine basednon the posters photos that his design is good for 250-300 pounds "rated". It would probably hold more but to be "safe"...
Its a super clever way to add linear motion to a vertical hoist.
Signiture; Check out my garage progress http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=352703
Angelfire
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Looks like it could be a unistrut trolley system above with an HF trolley. Before you do anything, be sure to understand your limits of what your structure can support. There are plenty of threads on here describing how these trolley systems are put together.
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Dr Stan
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One more possibility is a barn door track. Used to slide the door open/closed and typically mounted on the outside of the building. I used one for a heavy duty pair of hidden doors on my shop in NE.
driftpin
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Another thread: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=348003&highlight=hoist
The reason I didn't use a hanging track is that it cost too-much in the height of whatever I was trying to get into the loft, so I went with a 2000 lbs. rated pickup truck bed hoist, and adapted a 2000 lbs. HFT 120 volt winch. I don't expect to lift perhaps 1/4 of that weight, but it provides a good safety factor.
The reason I didn't use a hanging track is that it cost too-much in the height of whatever I was trying to get into the loft, so I went with a 2000 lbs. rated pickup truck bed hoist, and adapted a 2000 lbs. HFT 120 volt winch. I don't expect to lift perhaps 1/4 of that weight, but it provides a good safety factor.
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I also found this online. But how would you connect a steel post secure enough to the concrete floor to lift alot?
https://www.princessauto.com/en/det...sionid=21NUJIRwNlD5oAUWd0hOqeuz.pal-prod-com2
https://www.princessauto.com/en/det...sionid=21NUJIRwNlD5oAUWd0hOqeuz.pal-prod-com2
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You wouldn't need much on the bottom, just a 16" plate lagged to the floor.
Then get another pipe that just fits over the mast (your upright pipe), say about 40" long and fix a collar below it to hold it up in position. Welded to this 40" sleeve pipe is a boom arm like you see in the drawing but the boom comes off the top and instead of a cable on a 45º from the top you use a ridged 45º from below to strengthen the boom and it attaches to the bottom of the sleeve. To take all the force and tendency for the mast to tip over you need to brace the very top of the mast with braces on wider angles than the boom can swing.
The top will want to fall in but the bottom will want to kick backward and it should be against a wall anyway. Most of it's force will be nearly straight down.
MushCreek
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Mine's a quick 'n dirty job, but it works. I used a HF winch, bolted to reinforced beams up in the loft. The 'car' hangs from a single cable, and I hold a rope to keep it from spinning. I've seen more elaborate set-ups with twin cables or guide rails, but mine works OK. I tested it with 500 lbs., but never lift more than half of that. I used it all day to get my stuff up there, and haven't used it since. At least it's out of the way when not in use. I don't let anyone under it when lifting!
