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Bushtec Trailer Lift or How I Store My Trailer
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<blockquote data-quote="Fontanaman" data-source="post: 1363687" data-attributes="member: 19354"><p>Last year I bought a Bushtec trailer. The foot print assumed 4'x8' of precious floor space in my garage. <img src="https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/uhoh.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>So with an 11 foot garage ceiling I decided to build a trailer lift. I bought an electric hoist having a 1/4 inch wire rope cable, with a 440/880 lbs lift capacity and mounted it on the garage wall. E-Rigging.com was a good place to buy all the rigging hardware such as swivel pulleys, eye bolts, shackles and cable clamps. All the stuff is rated for lift. I figure the lift table and trailer weighs about 200 pounds so there is 50 pounds on each corner. The lift table hangs from 1/4 wire rope independent of the wire rope doing the lifting thus the electric hoist does not hold the weight unless the lift table is moving up or down. I think it is a bit over designed, by design. <img src="https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Here is a video of the trailer hoist in operation. Works great and was a fun project.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zXl7LKfKBGI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/embed/zXl7LKfKBGI</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fontanaman, post: 1363687, member: 19354"] Last year I bought a Bushtec trailer. The foot print assumed 4'x8' of precious floor space in my garage. [IMG]https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/uhoh.gif[/IMG] So with an 11 foot garage ceiling I decided to build a trailer lift. I bought an electric hoist having a 1/4 inch wire rope cable, with a 440/880 lbs lift capacity and mounted it on the garage wall. E-Rigging.com was a good place to buy all the rigging hardware such as swivel pulleys, eye bolts, shackles and cable clamps. All the stuff is rated for lift. I figure the lift table and trailer weighs about 200 pounds so there is 50 pounds on each corner. The lift table hangs from 1/4 wire rope independent of the wire rope doing the lifting thus the electric hoist does not hold the weight unless the lift table is moving up or down. I think it is a bit over designed, by design. [IMG]https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.png[/IMG] Here is a video of the trailer hoist in operation. Works great and was a fun project. [URL="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zXl7LKfKBGI"]https://www.youtube.com/embed/zXl7LKfKBGI[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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