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From: "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Shop Crane Revisited
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:45:39 -0500
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"Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:vkc84r$1aeas$1@dont-email.me...

I am sure the winch could be hooked to a trolley even if mounts had to
be fabricated.  As to the cable, I've seen it done with a series of mini
rolling hangers.  It would/could bunch up, but it would roll out and
roll back just fine.  Te real expense if it were used often would be
replacing the cords with high flex cord.

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Angle iron could connect the winch to the side plates of a purchased 
trolley. I made a low profile trolley to maximize lifting height and log 
capacity in a nearly full low roofed storage shed. The tapped mounting holes 
in the winch are under the trolley side plates and wheels, so installing and 
tightening the bolts is tedious, more so than if the vertical legs could be 
bolted to the trolley sides afterwards; mine is one compact unit. With the 
winch level the hoisting cable winds neatly. I've been replacing steel winch 
cables with synthetic which is safer to handle.

The hanging line cord wasn't a problem on 8' of track. The search term for 
supporting long electrical cables is 'festoon'.