collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: Solo canopy removal?  (Read 3951 times)

Offline Skyvalhunter

  • Washington For Wildlife
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Explorer
  • ******
  • Join Date: Oct 2007
  • Posts: 15706
  • Location: Sky valley/Methow
Solo canopy removal?
« on: August 21, 2019, 05:56:58 AM »
Anyone rig up something so you can remove a canopy off their truck by their self?
The only man who never makes a mistake, is the man who never does anything!!
The further one goes into the wilderness, the greater the attraction of its lonely freedom.

Offline Born2late

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+18)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2012
  • Posts: 663
Re: Solo canopy removal?
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2019, 06:05:45 AM »
I bought 4 stainless brackets with eyes and put one in each corner. have a little piece of line tied into a 4way lifting bridal.I have a picking boom with a hook on my forklift and i lift it off with that. you could have a block under a carport and do the same thing where you back up under it centered and lift straight up and drive out.

Offline Skyvalhunter

  • Washington For Wildlife
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Explorer
  • ******
  • Join Date: Oct 2007
  • Posts: 15706
  • Location: Sky valley/Methow
Re: Solo canopy removal?
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2019, 06:32:36 AM »
So you drilled holes thru your canopy to mount the brackets?
The only man who never makes a mistake, is the man who never does anything!!
The further one goes into the wilderness, the greater the attraction of its lonely freedom.

Offline Rob

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Apr 2009
  • Posts: 4431
  • Location: Sandpoint ID
Re: Solo canopy removal?
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2019, 06:42:36 AM »
Was looking for ideas to store a kayak in the rafters and came across this:

https://www.amazon.com/HARKEN-Hardtop-Garage-Storage-Ceiling/dp/B01KH4CTRK/ref=sr_1_11?keywords=overhead+kayak+hoist+4%3A1&qid=1566394589&s=gateway&sr=8-11

might be able to use that as a template to build something that could handle a truck canopy.

_______________________________________
Sit tall in the saddle, hold you head up high.
Keep your eyes fixed on where the trail meets the sky.
Live like you ain’t afraid to die.
Just sit back and enjoy your ride
  - Chris Ledoux

Online Sandberm

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2013
  • Posts: 4935
Re: Solo canopy removal?
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2019, 06:46:56 AM »
Probably not applicable but...

My brother just gets underneath it in the bed of his truck, lifts up with his back and slides it out onto a flat bed grain truck that he is backed up to that is roughly the same height as the side rails of his pickup.

Dad used to have a pulley system in the shop hooked to the rafters. Each corner of the canopy had an eye that a rope hooked to the pulley system would help lift it off...till one day one of the ropes broke and it swung forward into the cab above the rear window.

Offline Rob

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Apr 2009
  • Posts: 4431
  • Location: Sandpoint ID
Re: Solo canopy removal?
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2019, 06:47:09 AM »
same system with a canopy
https://www.amazon.com/Harken-Hoister-7806-200lb-12ft/dp/B005AUH8OG/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=truck+canopy+lift&qid=1566395032&s=gateway&sr=8-3

Says 200lb max on the label but you could build something more robust if you need it (the one on my full size pickup weighs in at around 270 lbs).  8:1 would be pretty key as it that should take you to 40-50 pounds of pull for a full size canopy after factoring in friction.
_______________________________________
Sit tall in the saddle, hold you head up high.
Keep your eyes fixed on where the trail meets the sky.
Live like you ain’t afraid to die.
Just sit back and enjoy your ride
  - Chris Ledoux

Offline sagerat

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Sep 2007
  • Posts: 668
  • Location: Blacktail Country
Re: Solo canopy removal?
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2019, 06:58:30 AM »
I have a set of old camper jacks, the kind that are not attached to the camper. I slide a 2x4 frame under the canopy that extends 10” away from the sides of the truck then simply jack it up. I then drive away from it and jack it down onto sawhorses. It works great but would guess it’s hard to find those old jacks these days.

Online trophyhunt

  • Forum Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+11)
  • Explorer
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2008
  • Posts: 18677
  • Location: Wetside
  • Groups: Wa Wild Sheep Life Member
Re: Solo canopy removal?
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2019, 07:03:54 AM »
same system with a canopy
https://www.amazon.com/Harken-Hoister-7806-200lb-12ft/dp/B005AUH8OG/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=truck+canopy+lift&qid=1566395032&s=gateway&sr=8-3

Says 200lb max on the label but you could build something more robust if you need it (the one on my full size pickup weighs in at around 270 lbs).  8:1 would be pretty key as it that should take you to 40-50 pounds of pull for a full size canopy after factoring in friction.
This seems like a good solution, I hate leaving mine outside on buckets. Takes 3 grown men to move it and it gets full of spiders.
“In common with”..... not so much!!

Offline Fl0und3rz

  • Forum Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+7)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2010
  • Posts: 51553
  • Location: E. WA
Re: Solo canopy removal?
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2019, 07:27:08 AM »
same system with a canopy
https://www.amazon.com/Harken-Hoister-7806-200lb-12ft/dp/B005AUH8OG/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=truck+canopy+lift&qid=1566395032&s=gateway&sr=8-3

Says 200lb max on the label but you could build something more robust if you need it (the one on my full size pickup weighs in at around 270 lbs).  8:1 would be pretty key as it that should take you to 40-50 pounds of pull for a full size canopy after factoring in friction.

I made basically the same thing with some Ace HW pulleys and rope to make a 2:1 block and tackle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_and_tackle

You can make a 4:1 pretty easily and cheaply with double sheave pulleys.


If I remember right, it was not nearly as expensive as the Harken setups, but you got to do some noodling out of your configuration. 


Offline whacker1

  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Dec 2008
  • Posts: 5816
  • Location: Spokane
Re: Solo canopy removal?
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2019, 08:09:46 AM »
I bought a harbor- freight winch and mounted it on the ceiling, and then lift from the Thule rack system on the top, but can easily be done with eyebolts on a 2x4 under the canopy.  I took it a step further and mounted the harbor freight winch on barn door style tracks, so that it will move 14 feet.  This allows me to lift off the canopy, set it down and move over and lift the 5th wheel hitch and put it in the bed of the truck by myself.


Offline Buckmark

  • Washington For Wildlife
  • Trade Count: (+15)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Oct 2008
  • Posts: 5421
  • Location: GPS is searching
Re: Solo canopy removal?
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2019, 09:08:06 AM »
I use 2 pieces of 2x4 24inches long, c-clamp them to my tractor bucket and slide under one side and run a strap over it from the bucket to the other side, easy peasy
To hunt and butcher an animal is to recognize that meat is not some abstract form of protein that springs into existence tightly wrapped in cellophane and styrofoam.

Offline DOUBLELUNG

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 5836
  • Location: Wenatchee
Re: Solo canopy removal?
« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2019, 11:35:52 AM »
When I was younger I would unclamp it, get under it, lift and turn 90 degrees so the length was crosswise on the bed rails, crawl out, get under the front end of the canopy and walk it back until I hit the balance point on the bed rail, walk my hands toward the truck until they were at the balance point, lift it off the bed rails and walk it to the 4x4s or cinder blocks I previously laid out.  Easier with two but definitely doable with one.

I like whacker1's solution.
As long as we have the habitat, we can argue forever about who gets to kill what and when.  No habitat = no game.

Offline Skyvalhunter

  • Washington For Wildlife
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Explorer
  • ******
  • Join Date: Oct 2007
  • Posts: 15706
  • Location: Sky valley/Methow
Re: Solo canopy removal?
« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2019, 12:05:06 PM »
 Thanks for the suggestions. My back can no longer take the lifting and sliding method.   I had a pulley system where I would hoist it into the rafters loc the hand winch then slide 2 2x6's under it and lower The canopy on them . But I don't want to drill holes in a new canopy.
The only man who never makes a mistake, is the man who never does anything!!
The further one goes into the wilderness, the greater the attraction of its lonely freedom.

Offline jackelope

  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (+27)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 49015
  • Location: Duvall, WA
  • Groups: jackelope
Re: Solo canopy removal?
« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2019, 12:53:19 PM »
I used to lift and slide mine off by myself but it wasn’t a particularly nice truck or a nice canopy. It slid one time and scratched my truck up a little bit. I put it back on and never took it off again after that.
:fire.:

" In today's instant gratification society, more and more pressure revolves around success and the measurement of one's prowess as a hunter by inches on a score chart or field photos produced on social media. Don't fall into the trap. Hunting is-and always will be- about the hunt, the adventure, the views, and time spent with close friends and family. " Ryan Hatfield

My posts, opinions and statements do not represent those of this forum

Offline Buckmark

  • Washington For Wildlife
  • Trade Count: (+15)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Oct 2008
  • Posts: 5421
  • Location: GPS is searching
Re: Solo canopy removal?
« Reply #14 on: August 21, 2019, 12:59:01 PM »
Thanks for the suggestions. My back can no longer take the lifting and sliding method.   I had a pulley system where I would hoist it into the rafters loc the hand winch then slide 2 2x6's under it and lower The canopy on them . But I don't want to drill holes in a new canopy.
Do the same thing, only use 2 2x6 with eye bolts in them, slide under the canopy, hook up rope setup and winch up to the rafters?
To hunt and butcher an animal is to recognize that meat is not some abstract form of protein that springs into existence tightly wrapped in cellophane and styrofoam.

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

Bearpaw Season - Spring 2024 by Machias
[Today at 09:19:44 AM]


SB 5444 signed by Inslee on 03/26 Takes Effect on 06/06/24 by hughjorgan
[Today at 09:03:26 AM]


Walked a cougar down by 2MANY
[Today at 08:56:26 AM]


Springer 2024 Columbia River by WSU
[Today at 08:31:10 AM]


Average by lhrbull
[Today at 07:31:56 AM]


Let’s see your best Washington buck by Pathfinder101
[Today at 07:22:11 AM]


CVA optima V2 LR tapped hole for front sight by Remdawg
[Today at 07:09:22 AM]


Which 12” boat trailer tires? by timberhunter
[Yesterday at 08:22:18 PM]


Lowest power 22 round? by JakeLand
[Yesterday at 08:06:13 PM]


1x scopes vs open sights by JakeLand
[Yesterday at 07:29:35 PM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2024, SimplePortal