lidl hoist

I think you'll find the 'pole' is a piece of scaffold they use to show how to mount it [therefore NOT supplied]. And yes they are pretty good. We've had 2 in the last few years.

JB

Here's the offer:

I think you will find it is too slow for you over that distance, a suitable gin pulley and a rope makes hoisting stuff in and out of the loft much easier.

Stephen brought next idea :

I have a small, but very strong, fixed pulley bolted to the beam directly over the centre of the loft hatch. Using just a rope I can lift half of my own weight up there.

In message , Harry Bloomfield writes

So do you make two trips to get up there?

;)

That's a shame but two out of three ain't bad (hoist, arm, pole).

In response to the other replies, I could have a manual system but where's the fun in that ;)

I would like to ask how you fixed them securely but since this is OT, I'll shut up.

Thanks, Stephen.

Fixing them depends on your roof, but as a rule of thumb if it's not a very old roof then you need a sturdy spreader plate and some screws no larger than 1/6th the thickness of the bit you're screwing into & normally totalling more than 10 times the size of the wire rope. The main rule is never stand underneath them, they do fail on rare occasions and unlike in the movies it hits the floor before you react.

Stephen used his keyboard to write :

Where is the fun in holding a button in whilst your item ponderously slowly rises up in the air?

Are you sure the rope length on this winch is adequate for a floor to floor lift?

Is 250kgs enough to lift an engine? (This is after all an auto group.)

Which engine?

"GB" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

How long's this piece of rope, then?

There's car engines I can carry about on my tod. There's others that are way over that 250kg.

Sometimes you lift more than an engine, especially when you don't disconnect everything :)

Quite. What I meant was that this was not much good for car maintenance.

I don't think 250Kg is enough capacity when you have to lift complete engines with gearbox attached.

Just had a look at a engine hoist today (crane type with ram) that goes to two tonne. at the shorest extended length and 250kg fully extended.

You're back to the which engine & gearbox again.

I have a 1 tonne engine crane which has happily lifted a Rover 3.5 V8 engine with a VW gearbox and cast convertor bellhousing attached, on more than one occasion.

Using a block and tackle which is 1/2 ton and that lifts quite adequately, a motor and gearbox. after all what does a whole car weigh? make sure its not on the capacity limit.