RAD Sportz Kayak Storage Hoist - Overhead Pulley System with 125lb Capacity for Canoes, Bikes, Ladders, and More - for up to 12-Foot Ceilings

I bought this along with the companies bike lift and cannot believe the difference in quality and ability. This is a double rope pull system, vastly superior to the single pull bike lift. The lifting hooks are industrial quality and the nylon straps look like they would support a small car. Now, can I easily life by 70lb ebike using just the ropes - no but I'm old and don't have the strength I used to. And, I don't need it to store the bike, only to service it which means it only needs to be about a foot off the ground so I lift each end and my wife locks in the ropes with the braking mechanism - easy. Beats having to have a dedicated bike stand in the way all the time and at about 20% of the cost. While I use it for my bike, it would obviously do well with ladders, kayaks, roof top carriers, etc. . The included straps are long and will allow it to go about a variety of sizes so it is compatible with a lot of objects most of us would not want taking up floor space. Included rope was plenty for my purposes (10ft ceilings, pulleys on 25" apart for a bike), seems reasonable durable and strong. I expect to get a good 5-7 years out of the product as the nylon pulleys will deteriorate in the desert heat of my garage but I've gotten used to replacing anything plastic or nylon in that timeframe. So, hats off to a really well made and thought out product at a more than reasonable price!

This worked great for my moms kayak! Now she just has to let it down on the bed of her truck and she's ready to go. Just as easy to hoist back up. Pretty impressive for the price. The installation wasn't difficult. Directions worked fairly well.

The hoist works quite well. You raise or lower each end of your boat with separate ropes, and can easily raise or lower it evenly. However the force required to lift is substantial for my 60 pound roof top cargo box. A smaller person might find it difficult to lift a 100 lb.+ canoe or kayak. The Brake System works very well and prevents sudden, uncontrolled drops should you lose control of the ropes. Overall this hoist is easy to operate. The suspension straps provided use a plastic snap together buckle (like on a backpack waist strap). This seems dangerous. I don't believe those types of buckles are intended to be load bearing. It's the weak link in this hoist. I'm going to replace mine with cargo straps that come with a proper load bearing rating. Installation was easy, I screwed the pulley blocks into a stud that I located in the ceiling by following a line of nails driven through the sheet rock. Drilled a pilot hole for the wood screws to verify I was going into solid wood (very important); the kit's wood screws have bolt heads so you'll need a socket and ratchet, it takes some considerable force, they are sizable screws (that's good- you're hanging a lot of weight off these things). The instructions require you space the pulley blocks a minimum 6 feet apart. That wasn't an option for me given the spacing of storage racks, the garage door, and furnace ducts. So I set mine at 5 feet apart and I'm not having any problems- it operates fine- you should have no worries ignoring this rule if you have a short kayak. Threading the rope through the pulley blocks and tackle is easy; they give you a drawing to show how. But securing the 2 loose rope ends onto each pulley block is not so easy. They want you tie those rope ends around one of the horizontal bolts that attach each of the pulley blocks to the mounting plates. Problem is you've already bolted it together, it's screwed into the ceiling, and you don't have a lot of room to work with to make some fancy knot (they don't supply a diagram of what type of knot to use). You'll see what I mean when you do it yourself. So I simply ran the rope ends through the hole in the block and tied a simple double knot that prevents the rope from slipping back through the hole. Seems to work just fine. I recommend you test your installation by suspending your boat just a few inches off the ground for several days before lifting the boat up high into its storage position. Check to make sure the pulley blocks aren't pulling loose from the ceiling, and tug on the ropes suspending your boat to further ensure those pulley blocks won't rip loose. You will note the ropes stretch, your boat will drop about a half inch in the first 24 hours. Aside from the strap buckles being poor quality, I would have given this 5 stars. It's a slick product that optimizes precious floor space in your garage.

Love these hoists. I use them to hang bicycles and kayaks from my garage celling, and they work great for both. easy to install and use. excellent construction and quality materials.

I don't own a kayak and I'm feeling too old to learn how to paddle one now. Okay, I probably could learn, but my recreation plate is full enough right now. Maybe when I'm 80. What I am using this hoist for is to get the third-row seat for the old Ford Excursion up off the garage floor. The seat weighs probably 30lbs and it feels like that much weight is right at the true maximum load for this thing. Yes, the ropes and hardware would hold the stated125lb limit. But you'd get some seriously nasty rope burns trying to hoist something that heavy. I suppose if you wore some sturdy gloves that might help. It's working great and easy to install. The instructions could be a little clearer, but they were better than most.

Easy install and works great.

I purchased this hoist to store my 24 ft extension ladder on the ceiling. I have an 11 ft ceiling in my garage so clearance wasn't really an issue. I read other reviews that said you should replace the rope and lag screws because they were cheap so I bought replacements. I got slightly longer lag screws and a 100 ft polypropylene rope. My ladder is 12 ft long when collapsed. The measurement calculations in the instructions are for kayaks, not ladders so I decided to mount the pullies about 8 feet apart which would leave me a couple feet on each end beyond the hooks. I screwed the pullies into studs so I didn't bother with mounting the pullies to a board and then mounting the board as mentioned in the instructions. It's a much cleaner look for one thing. The lag screw holes are 1/4" diameter. I really wish they would have went with something larger like 3/8" or 7/16". I could have drilled out the holes but I didn't want to modify it and void the warranty. The included rope is a soft rope but it seemed like it would be OK for as often as I would use it (only a few times a year) so I went with the included rope. And like others have mentioned, I didn't cut a piece off the rope and cut the remaining rope in half. Instead I tied one end of the rope to the front pully and threaded it through and tied the other end to the rear pully. I placed the ladder on the ground under the pully and started bringing the hooks down to the ladder. As I did, the end that you would attach to the wall cleat started moving out of my reach. I should have went with the longer rope I bought. Rather than switch out the rope I decided to use the straps on the ladder. That gave me the extra slack I needed to reach the end of the rope when the ladder was on the ground. I adjusted the straps as tight as they would go because I wanted the ladder as close to the ceiling as possible. One thing I noticed is that you need a lot of room to bring the rope back far enough to unlock the pully system. Make sure you don't mount the locking pully too close to a wall or you won't be able to pull the rope back far enough to unlock it. A ladder is fairly narrow so it doesn't interfere with the locking mechanism much but I could see where a wide kayak might be hard to unlock because you can't pull the rope straight down and back. I'm sure these are strong enough to hold my aluminum extension ladder but there is one flaw in the design. To attach the rope to the pully you thread it through a hole and just tie a knot in it. The only thing keeping the load from falling on you is the knot you tied. I double knotted the rope to ensure it is big enough that it won't pull back through the hole but it still concerns me. They could have designed a more robust mechanism to secure the tied ends of the rope like a cleat or a clamp. I think the next time I have it down I will clamp a rope ferrule to the end of it to ensure there is no way it could come out of that hole.

This is a nice system, and it works well. The adjustable strap is a necessity in order not have your kayak or canoe hang down too low. The mounting system is straightforward, the hardware, bolts, etc., are all of reasonable quality. I put up a 16' canoe and a 12' kayak. Both went up just fine, were easy to pull up, and the lock system worked just great. Two concerns cause me to give it just three stars (changed to 4 after use and getting a 3rd one), both are somewhat mechanical in nature. First, once you've snugged the system up all the way, it locks, you snug up the rope on the supplied wall mount, and that's it. The problem comes when you want to get it down, and this is not addressed in any of the descriptive material. I did not find it possible to unlock the line to allow you to lower the canoe by holding both ropes -- it would not come down far enough to disengage. The only way I could do it was to separate the two ropes on either side of the canoe, and stand directly under it and pull towards the other end of the boat. Not the most comforting feeling to be under the canoe while you lower it, maybe I should wear a helmet. But it does work.[Note: after use, it's easy to do it from the side if you use one rope to hold the lock mechanism down while lowering one side a foot or two, then reverse and lower the other side. An easy solution once you get used to it.] The second item is a worry but may not come to pass. The hooks that go into the nylon bands are attached to the pulley mechanism by a couple of pop rivets, and if you're trying to cinch the boat up near the ceiling, they get a bit of stress. If one of them let go, the boat would come plummeting down, likely damaging it and anything under it. Might be nice to have some assurance that this won't happen, but they make me nervous. Finally, one reviewer mentioned connecting the two straps at the bottom with another piece of strap so that they don't ride towards the end of the boat and potentially let go. I tried a different approach, which was to use a connector between the two hooks that hold the straps. It works fine, but I think that the sewed on strap idea is probably better. (added pictures of how I tied the upper pieces together; use the length of line appropriate to the distance between the two units on the ceiling). Overall, this item meets my objectives and I will continue to use it, but there are a few glitches. (I did buy a third one for another kayak, so like it pretty well.)

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Es una excelente producto la calidad y resistencia del material son satisfactorias, ha pesar de que en las especificacion mencionan que debe ir con fijacion en techo sobre viga de madera o concreto, funciona de igual manera con una fijacion en pared, dejo una imagen de la instalacion que hice en pared. Recomendacion (Tome en cuenta que el paquete trae sus taquetes, tornillos, etc. Estas recomendaciones son para instalacion en pared) Broca de 1/2 en conjunto con taquete de 1/2 Tornillos pueden ocupar los que trae el paquete por defecto u optar por unos mas largos Adiscionar previamnete arandelas al momento de ajustar los tornillos Sin duda una gran opcion para ahorro de espacion y mantener seguro tu equipamiento!

Zag er stevig uit, nog niet gemonteerd maar vermoed dat het precies doet wat ik ervan verwacht.

Installation was easy, the hoist operates very smoothly. The locking mechanism works good too. Overall very happy. For the instructions there are two issues. 1) It says to cut 6-10 feet off the rope so you can use it to tie the two hooks together. I have 9 foot ceilings, there's no way there would be enough rope for the hoist if I cut 6 feet off of it. Instead I just used some other rope I already had. 2) It says to cut the rope in half for the two pulleys. But one pulley requires way more rope than the other so I think this is just an error. However I don't think you should cut the rope at all. I left the entire rope intact, I just tied a knot on one end, threaded it through, then tied a knot on the other end. This makes way more sense to me. The other thing I would like change is the design of the ceiling mount. It adds 3 inches to the overall height of the thing for no good reason. I'm bolting this into joists, I wish that bracket was just flush with the ceiling. They designed it to accommodate different scenarios, exposed joists versus drywalled ceiling. However I think the product could still be flexible but offer a better solution for flush mounting. Between the joist bracket, the pulleys and the hooks I'm losing 1.5 feet of space. I would like the kayak to be tucked way up. Last thing is the spacing of the pulleys. The instructions say to space them between 6 and 10 feet. I don't understand why they say 6 feet minimum. My kayak is short (10.5 feet). I decided to space them 5 feet apart and still I think the straps are further out than I would like. I may remount them 4 feet apart. That's fine, my issue is the instructions make it sound like it's bad to mount them any closer than 6 feet.