Free up valuable floor space in your storage shed or garage
Includes two 8’3" x 2" hanging straps
One person operation
Easily store your canoe or kayak up and out of the way with this even-pulling, two-rope hoist system. One-person operation. Safety release mechanism. Can be used to store bicycles, ladders and many other bulky, cumbersome items. Mount directly to ceiling studs or surface mount to finished ceilings. Includes mounting hardware. 120-lb. maximum lift. Imported.
We have high ceilings in the garage and used this to hoist and store a 17 foot Mad River canoe. I have not had any problems with it and it works as described.
This product is not a true pulley hoist system. It is lift storage system that relies upon your strength to get item raised up in the air. If you have a plastic kayak, lightweight canoe, bicycle, etc., that you want to store off of your garage floor, it works fine. I store all my boating gear inside a heavy canoe and this product did not cut it. If you look around you can find a block and tackle hoist system that uses physics to reduce the force needed to lift your load.
As with any review I will give the good, the bad and the ugly. The Good: It does the job. I purchased it to put a 70lbs kayak up and out of the way and it works. The Bad: The pulleys need a swivel on the bracket that attaches to the hanger so that the pulley stays in-line with the rope and doesn't bind. The Ugly: It's not a complicated instruction procedure but the instructions are horrible. The one picture that they provide is no help at all. Use the picture on the box to help you out. Conclusion: Worth the money...yes. As with a lot of products, there is room for improvement.
I installed three of these to store our three kayaks in our garage and they work beautifully. Installation was pretty simple. The straps are long and will need to be shortened for most uses to prevent your boat from hanging two feet below the hangers. I just folded one end over about two feet and tied it off. We have a ten-foot ceiling and there is plenty of room. For a shorter ceiling you might need to modify it--you could attach a hook of some sort to the pulley shell and save 6-8 inches. I could gain perhaps another 6 inches by shortening the straps a bit more. Without these additional modifications my hangers and boats use about 30 inches total, and the boat accounts for 13 inches of the total. Again, if I needed to, I think I could reduce the total by about 10 or 12 inches more. The ropes and pulleys work great. You do have to pull hard to raise 50lbs or more of boat, so make sure they are secured to joists/studs, as the instructions indicate.