Home Built Canoe Hoist
Hah! REI wanted $100 bucks for a set of pulleys to put the canoe on the ceiling. A 25$ Home Depot gift card was all I needed to set one up for myself. Well, that and some hardware I had sitting around.
The trick is to use multiple pulleys to give yourself leverage. The new (used) canoe is pretty heavy -- probably 80 lbs or so. And awkward! Now it lives conveniently out of the way on the ceiling of the garage....
posted by ScienceFare at
7:07 PM
2 Comments:
Looks impressive! Must have been fun to design it!
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Denim Genes, At
May 23, 2007 at 4:01 PM
You might want to make a couple of slings using 2" hose from the hardware. If you support the canoe in a couple of places away from the ends there would be less chance of warping the canoe.
By
Muddler, At
January 19, 2008 at 7:46 PM
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