hey guys welcome back to window fishing daryn here and it is a sad day in northeast ohio because it's
getting close to the end of fishing season big bummer it's the end of october and uh halloween's
just around the corner and i might get a few more times in but i also purchased a new house and i'm
running out of storage and so i was looking around like where in the world can i store my kayak
and realize the only way to go is up so i did some research and tried to figure out what's
the most cost effective way to get this thing up in the air so so i buy my own pulley systems and
design it myself and i found out that really the easiest and most cost effective way is
to head over to amazon and buy the kit that is already made for this type of thing so i
waited and waited for the amazon warehouse deal and found a hoist for kayaks for 15.41
had a 4.5 star rating and it was amazon's choice and there it is right there
all right let's hop in and see what you get and i'm going to show you how to install let's do
this if you love kayak fishing then you are in the right place my videos drop every thursday at 11
45 a.m all right enough about that let's hop in let's open this box and see how to
install it well here it is the rad sports easy kayak hoist and i was afraid this
thing was gonna be a bunch of junk when i open it up so i guess we'll decide that
together yep simple there two of those guys and then some instructions
doesn't look too incredibly crazy but we'll see what happens all right so what you'll need to
do is first determine of course where you want to place it mine's going to go up there in a corner
and then where you want your lift points on your kayak to be so i determine i want
my lift points to be here and here which i think will be pretty good
so i measured that out a little bit earlier to save some time so i want to put it four feet
from here to here so i need to be four feet off the wall so my nose has room to fit up there and
then there's four feet in between here so i need to put my hardwood hardware four feet apart and
then the rest of it will just stick out it should be good to go all right let's install
this all right i'll put a ladder here trying to figure out where my joist is i know my joists
run a long ways along my garage also keep in mind make sure your joists should be um 16 inches off
the side here because my kayak is three feet wide and if i'm going to lift this up here
this is going to be the center of my kayak so we have it these lag screws are 7 16 so you'll need
an extender and a 7 16 bit which will save you a lot of time and driving that into your joists
because if you don't have an extender what happens is you can't get your drill bit far
enough in there in order to sink it so it'll save you a ton of time all right put these up
all right so it's obvious i have a finished ceiling but if you don't it's open you're still
showing the studs you can skip that step and just take this hardware and attach it right to your
studs so it makes it a lot easier basically just drill a hole through here and you leave enough
room in order to go all the way through or another option here you can build this on your work table
on a longer uh 2x4 and then when you're done this attaches to the ceiling but since i have
a finished ceiling and i know the joists are i'm going to do it this way all right let's move on
now we're going to basically simply attach these with these up to the ceiling i'm gonna keep on
moving on this project all right since i want my kayak like it's sitting now it's angled up here
and i want to be pulling the rope on this side so i can attach it to a cleat down here this is
how you're going to set up your hardware i'm going to want this one set up like this on the left side
i want this one set up like this on the right side and you'll see when we put the rope through it why
did that all right once you have these in on both sides depending on which hand you are i'm right
handed so i put the nuts on the outside and then take 11 16 socket and tighten those bad boys up
all right to show you what i'm going to do i'm going to tie this knot right here
it's going to run down through this pulley up over this pulley and we'll get that started all
right you might be thinking you're only going to be pulling one rope and your kayak's going
to be lifting into the air that's actually not true as you can see here there's two pulleys
and one you stick through the lift brake up here around the pulley over there and that controls
one of the pulleys and your other rope same thing you go through the second hole kind of see it
right here just the second hole going the left side of the pulley and this controls the pulley
right here so when you're pulling you're actually pulling on two ropes so let's go ahead and get
that set up all right so when you're running these you would think at the break with the
through the hole you think you go this way for the break but you actually don't you gotta tuck
this behind this break and i'll show you why in a second and then run it through your pulley
so when there's a lot of weight on the kayak
it's a break that's how that works after runs down through here right over the pulley
down through your other pulley this is nice make sure these are facing inwards and then
back up then all you got to do is tie a knot and that sits like that and you pull on it
that's how you go before i go start cutting rope i'm going to put the cleat on here and
since i know that i know that i know there's a stud right here i'm going to place this here
and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to lower the rope this side the lowest it will go and
then once it wraps around the cleat a few times i'll cut it and then i'll set the rest of the rope
now that i wrapped around a few times it is at my lowest
point that i need to be i now can cut it off right here and run the other rope now
i'm going to take my propane torch and burn the ends so the rope doesn't fray
all right same thing here the rope down and then tie the knot up here and now you have two
and make them both go up and down all right next up is creating a spacer rope so i cut out a length
of four foot which is basically from my pulley hook to pulley hook and you can see there's a
hole here so basically just tied a knot so it's tight and you'll run it all the way down to the
other one and this will keep from your pulley hooks from separating and your kayak falling
so do not skip this very important now that you've attached your tether rope to the middle
now you gotta tie your straps so you gotta get some leverage on your boat pick it up
and get these things as snug as you possibly can and i did as you can see um they stretch
out a little bit plus if it's a lot of lag in there you're not going to get it to
your ceiling like you want to see i have 10 foot ceilings but if you eight foot ceiling this is
really important you're really going to stretch these out as much as you can and if you don't like
these i'm sure you can use a uh a ratchet strap to get it super tight like you want it to be so
once you have these set up now all you gotta do is pull let's go and do that
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