Out-to-Lunch
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Built this ladder hoist for the barn. After seeing many "DIY" elevator designs on Youtube, I found this ladder hoist made by a roofer. Hoist is from Harbor Freight ($159) and the rest is wood, some small profile fixed casters from Amazon, and $40 for a 25' piece of 4 conductor wire to replace the 6' lead that came with the hoist (so you can control it from above or below). Capacity is 440lbs, but I doubt I will ever hoist anything that I can't lift off the floor myself.
Used it with DW yesterday to hoist storage bins and vintage car parts up there.
I didn't want to commit the floor space in the barn to a permanent elevator. So the very cool thing about this is that when I am done with it, I disconnect the hoist cable from the trolley, strap the trolley to a cross brace on the ladder frame, hook the hoist cable to a beam overhead up in the loft, hit the button and the whole thing hoists itself up into the loft and lays on the floor up there.
Cool! This design is very similar to one I built for my roofing project a few years ago. I am using the same HF hoist as you, I am pretty sure. In the first picture, it is set up to haul plywood up to the roof. In the second picture, I extended it and reconfigured it to haul clay tiles up to the peak of the roof.