Radial bearings to take load off a movable pulley/sproket

[Dreamer66]

I have an arrangement where a movable pulley has a hook attached. This pulley has to take a load of 5 tonnes and yet move along the horizontal direction. Is it possible to achieve this by using a radial bearing?

 

[Nidum]

It is certainly possible to do this sort of thing but we need to know more about the details of the problem before we can give any good answers .

Can you post a sketch showing the actual arrangement of the shaft , pulley and hook ?

 

[Dreamer66]

this is a rough sketch.