Storing flip over

Hi everyone. What’s everyone using for a pulley system to store their flip over on their garage ceiling?

Following this thread also.
Was thinking a kayak storage kit.

I rigged up a big game gambrel and pulley with two tow straps to lift my Otter Resort to the ceiling in the detached garage. Once up there I hold them up by chains to eye bolts in the ceiling. I’ve got the eye bolts going through 4×4’s across the rafters in the attic. I use my four wheeler winch to pulley it up. Good thing is the mice haven’t found it up there yet!

Don’t forget to put some dryer sheets in!

At my old house, I used a canoe hoist system for the pulley system and then rigged it up to a hand crank on the wall. For the hand crank, I bought a cheap boat trailer hand winch that worked great. Now I have a bigger garage with more storage and don’t need to store it that way but it worked well when I did.

You can purchase pulley systems made for bicycles. I have seen them modified and used for kayaks and canoes. Would think would be simple to do same for flip over.

I use this for my Otter Cabin. It works great!

Just hoisted mine up a few beers ago.
Poor design, but still in my early 30’s.

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Couple pulleys and some rope from menards is all I use.

Well I was going ice fishing but the weather put a kibosh on that. So I put away the gear instead. Lots of room behind the boat.

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I use a Racor lift modified to work with my 13’ garage ceilings. I raise my Otter Cabin up/ down with a power drill. I added several additional secure points for added storage safety.

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Are those old metal coolers worth anything? I have a couple in my crawl space – Coke and Pepsi. My “modern” coolers are so much better, so I don’t use the old ones. I can’t bring myself to toss them though.

I had an older model Otter (purple Wild) that I attached S hooks to the corners and then attached cord to a middle ring which then attached to hook on a pulley system to raise it into the rafters. I did this for years and then 2 years ago when I brought it down, I noticed the sled had curved like a banana. I am guessing it just got so hot up there that the plastic got soft and it bent. I tried to “re-heat” with a torch, but could not make it happen. Good excuse to buy a new one. Then I also built a Smitty sled for it and now the ice house goes on the sled for more stability and I hook that to the pulley and up it goes. Easy Cheesy.

This topic has been hammered repeatedly on here in the past, but don’t forget to consider the amount of weight you are adding to your trusses. In most cases they are designed to hold the weight of insulation, sheetrock, and maybe some light fixtures. When you start hoisting up loaded thermal flip over shacks with hundreds of pounds of gear you could create a major problem.

Both my Dad and Grandpa worked at Hamm’s so I have a few collectibles. I’m sure the coolers are worth something, but they will go to kids or grandkids as family heirlooms. We use them occasionally at home.

buckybadger wrote:

This topic has been hammered repeatedly on here in the past, but don’t forget to consider the amount of weight you are adding to your trusses. In most cases they are designed to hold the weight of insulation, sheetrock, and maybe some light fixtures. When you start hoisting up loaded thermal flip over shacks with hundreds of pounds of gear you could create a major problem.

very true that you dont want to overdue it, I only store my empty Otter Cabin

Thanks everyone for your comments greatly appreciated!!

More ideas and pics please, I have to try something new.

let me know if you have any more ideas about it.

Simple kayak hoist, $20 at Menards. Unfortunately the last one I bought was poor quality but I had 2 extras on hand from previous projects. completely empty, my otter XT pro cabin is pushing the absolute limit of what these cheap hoists can hold. I would not go any larger on shack size with this system.

KPE wrote:

Simple kayak hoist, $20 at Menards. Unfortunately the last one I bought was poor quality but I had 2 extras on hand from previous projects. completely empty, my otter XT pro cabin is pushing the absolute limit of what these cheap hoists can hold. I would not go any larger on shack size with this system.

The kayak lift I found online is rated for 150 pounds. My big 2 man Clam is supposed to weigh 120 so hopefully I’m safe. Still a 2 man job to get it up in the air.

KPE wrote:

Simple kayak hoist, $20 at Menards. Unfortunately the last one I bought was poor quality but I had 2 extras on hand from previous projects. completely empty, my otter XT pro cabin is pushing the absolute limit of what these cheap hoists can hold. I would not go any larger on shack size with this system.

Look at the specs of what you are buying with the kayak lifts. I think when I was looking at that idea, the Menards ones were only rated for 60 lb each.

Rodwork wrote:

Look at the specs of what you are buying with the kayak lifts. I think when I was looking at that idea, the Menards ones were only rated for 60 lb each.

Definitely. The one I bought was rated 125 lbs. It worked great, so I bought another when we moved same one same rating. Different plastic wheels though the material had obviously been changed. That’s the one where one of the pulley wheels broke. Funny enough since I wrote this my cousin gave me both of his which are identical to my original one, and I’ve switched to one of those and it works well. But yeah with a 125 cap. rating my otter pro cabin x-over is pushing it. I hang it above the snowmobile lift so nobody can be standing below it, in case it decides to give up the ghost one day.