Hello everyone! I have a help request for your consideration.I live in an apartment in Taipei City, Taiwan, and I like to make stuff out of wood. I'm not very good at it, but that comes with practice! However, I have an obstacle on my road to wood mastery- I have no real place to work. I live on the third floor of a walk up apartment with no garage or workspace. I've been making some stuff just in my house, but the dust, noise and mess is a headache to deal with. To solve this problem, I've decided to use the flat roof of my apartment building as my workspace- no one is using it for anything else, so why not?Problem: Our neighbor on the 5th floor is a hoarder. Seriously. I've never seen so much junk crammed into a stairwell before. I can get past it myself, but carrying lumber past is... interesting, to say the least, and not always possible (and not to mention tiring, carrying lumber up six flights of stairs!)Solution: Rooftop crane. Why not get a winch on the roof so I can just lift stuff up from the street? Obviously I'll have to be careful not to hit any windows on the way up, but by bribing a friend with beer to be my spotter it could save a lot of time and energy.I've already bought the winch itself, now I need to install it. Here's some pictures of the location where it'll be installed- not ideal, but the only realistic place on the whole roof. The worst problem is there's a protruding window box on the fourth floor- I'll need to have a protruding arm with a pulley to clear it; but the other sides of the building are a completely roofed-over alleyway and a busy main street respectively, so this is the spot.I used my amazing art skills to make these inspired plans. Essentially, I'll add a steel plate to the bottom of the winch and bracket it on two sides to a concrete wall, then have the cable running out onto a secured steel bar and down to the street. The bar will be fixed to its bracket by a smooth bolt that allows it to pivot between straight out (and held down by the weight of loads) and straight vertical, which will bring the loads in and up to where I can grab them. I don't plan to lift more than about 50kg at a time with this for safety concerns.It looks like a good plan to me, but I really don't want the whole thing to rip out of the wall and crash down on some unsuspecting person's head- so here I am! How does my plan look?TL;DR- I'm building a crane on my roof here. The plan is roughly detailed here. Will it work? How could I fix it? Thank you! via /r/DIY http://ift.tt/2kDtLab
