This video explains the process of building a table that raises to the ceiling, to save space or for the pure enjoyment of it.

Since it has been a while since we made the video, we tried to link everything to the best of our memories.
Winch: https://www.amazon.com/Aceshin-Heavy-Winch-600Lbs-Trailer/dp/B07KZH6QT1/ref=psdc_15737591_t1_B07214MSL7
Pulleys: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Blue-Hawk-Rope-or-Chain-Pulley/999971124 and https://www.lowes.com/pd/Blue-Hawk-Rope-or-Chain-Pulley/999971148
S-hook: https://www.lowes.com/pd/National-Hardware-S-Hook/50414082
Screw Hook: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Hillman-Steel-Screw-Hook/3035617
Chains: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Blue-Hawk-1-Ft-2-0-Welded-Silver-Steel-Chain-By-The-Foot/4222669 (make sure it fits on your hooks)
Rope: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Blue-Hawk-0-25-in-x-100-ft-Braided-Polypropylene-Rope/50405958
Wood: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Plytanium-15-32-CAT-PS1-09-Square-Structural-Plywood-Pine-Application-as-4-x-8/3010149 and https://www.lowes.com/pd/2-in-x-4-in-x-8-ft-Euro-Spruce-Lumber-Common-2-in-x-4-in-x-8-ft-Actual/1002099252

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31 Comments

  4. I've been looking all day on Amazon for a pulley solution. This is what I am going to lift a 5×9 plywood railroad track. Excellent job young men! Put everything else to shame.

  5. Someday their girlfriends will be highly impressed with their rope/pulley skills.

  12. Szobody Kids, what an awesome video! Congrats on a job well done and documented, I am a producer as well. Question, how much weight can this possible hold? Can I increment the weight by exchanging a few parts? Thanks!

  16. OH my god ! all i want to do is lift an oblong box for roof storage .This example terrifys me !!!! haha .love it .Great vid .

  17. Nice job guys. I love your pulleys to single block design, to lift all four corners evenly!

  18. Bingo! Great job!!!! I'm looking for ways to get the bed out of the way for more play space. Loft beds don't cut it and murphy beds cost a fortune. You just gave me some ideas. Thanks guys!

  20. Hahaha! “But I do not trust my work!” The reason why everything in my house is way over-engineered. Anyway, excellent work guys. Now I know exactly how I’m going to store the heavy tables above my garage door.

  21. This is perfect; need exactly this to raise a work surface in my workshop. I liked BattleTech more, but never got into either one since all the minis and stuff were so costly 🙂

  22. Genius. These kids should go door to door offering retractable shelving in peoples garage.. sign me up fellas.. or at least let me copy your idea, I need to lift some shelving like this up so I can hang it from unistrut, vs 90 deg brackets that I don’t trust at all..

  24. You guys are marvelous. But I do wonder if we can get a quieter ratcheting mechanism. I love the safety feature of it though. So simple and effective.

  25. I'd like someone to send me a pulley system design for my 10' wooden garage door in my inclosed metal carport shed. The current power door motor don't work anymore, so with the springs and chains and cable, It's light enough to lift by hand and I prop a 6.5 foot X 2" hickory stick into the track to hold it up. I'd really like to upgrade to the winch system. I can mount it. Please send me the details of a system I can hook up to one eye bolt in the middle of the 10' foot door on the existing track. My email is rcannon9000@yahoo.com. Thank you, have a blessed life.

  29. Great work!

    Only part I don't like, is the pulleys placing a side load onto the eyes in the ceiling, but that's being picky! Nice one.

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