Full length roof rack placement/removal

Hi Terry,

A mate of mine stores his roof rack in the ceiling of his garage and when needed, he lowers it via a couple of ropes and pulleys. Sounds more complicated than it really is, but he can do it on his own.

Cheers,
Chris

Hi Terry

In my previous property, I used a simple pulley system attached to the roof of my shed. Much the same as pot racks or laundry drying racks but on a slightly bigger scale.

Four large hooks screwed into the roof timbers, "Riley" pulley's attached to the hooks (you will need some double pulleys), some good rope - I used some of my old climbing rope (12mm) with some straps and pulleys to attach (temp) to the roof rack.

Drive under, undo the bolts attach the temp straps and pulleys and lift up. You could either secure the rope and leave the rack suspended (I did this sometimes) or drive out and lower to the floor and store elsewhere. Reverse the above to put back on.

I was able to do this without the help of the "Nagivator".

If you think this could work for you, send me a MM and I will do a drawing for you.

Cheers

Anthony

I used a couple of pulleys and a boat winch attached to the garage wall to lift my roof top tent off my Landcruiser.
Attached the cables to the mounting points on the frame of the tent and wound it up a couple of feet off the car until next trip.

cheers
Dave

As others have said - hung from garage ceiling using pulleys is the way to go. Once you have it set up it will be a lot easier than what you now do.

Thank you all for your suggestions.

It seems the roof/rope/pulley idea is the way to go.

I will study the situation.

Terryj2