Hi AZFIREBALL,
Do you plan on raisers at the corner attach points?
The "raisers" will be eye bolts directly into the aluminum angle corners with the cables attached to the these four eyebolts.
Also, do have room for a 'backbone/strongback/wiffletree' beam above the the structure/load being...
Hi anorlunda,
I completely understand about the safety aspects, coming from the world of aircraft systems design, believe me that is foremost in my mind. I've already done all my structural calculations for the ceiling joists and had my builder double up the ceiling joists when the house was...
Thank you for the reply.
Will this 48X36 rectangle structure have a bottom plate of some sort?
Yes, it will have a 1/2" plywood top deck.
How will it be hosted?
It will have cables attached at the four corners of the platform that go up to the hoist assembly.
Hello Everyone,
I'm a retired systems engineer from the aerospace industry, while working part of my job was to come up with concepts and then have great mechanical engineers implement them. Now that I'm retired I have to do both parts for myself. I'm designing a storage hoist to get heavy...