Using 3 inch wood screws attach the 8 foot long pieces to the ends of the shorter support pieces.
Self leveling 4 point pulley lift system diy.
For my table i ended up using roughly 60 feet of cord.
Cut two 2 by 4 s to 8 feet long and five 2 by 4 s to 3 feet 9 inches long.
Like anything there can be even more fancy or elaborate systems.
Below i ll discuss another style which is a platform style supported by 4 points.
Our garage ceiling is 10 ft high.
Check out step 10 for a formula that will help you determine how much paracord you will need pine board 8 wide x 10 long x 1 thick 20 these are cut and combined to.
It works because of the 4 point lift system 2 on each side of the load as compared to only 2 lift points 1 fore and 1 aft used by lower cost systems.
In this case it was removing the roof from a tractor similar can be done with 8 pulleys and 1 draw rope giving 16x lift advantage on the rope.
Same image i used before for a similar question.
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You should use two screws at each end of the shorter pieces for a total of 20 screws.
Paracord 10 used for hanging the table the ammount you will need will depend on the size of the table you make and the height at which you want the table to hang.
Setting up a 4 point pulley lift system optional setup everything so far has created the basics for a simple pulley system like the one seen in the video.