Ideas & pics of how to rasie shafts up to store carts

[Yip]

I now have 2 carts to store in the space of one in my feed/tack shed.

I’m thinking if I could raise the shafts of the gig cart up to the ceiling, I could pull the e/e training cart in facing the gig and maybe rest the shafts somehow on the gig. The e/e would be in use all the time for now.

Do any of you raise shafts to the ceiling like that? What kind of contraption have you found that works well to hoist them up evenly and lock them in place up there? They are wood.

I’m thinking rope, piece of pvc pipe, eyebolts, pulley, etc. or whatever else would work.

Thanks again!

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PS - about making a sidecheck bridle out of an overcheck bridle - I did the carabiner thing and it worked! Nothing else was needed. But I’m going to look for slightly larger carabiners. The ones I bought were very difficult to fit in the loop of the browband on each side.

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Man Yip is your tack room clean!!

I stack carts in our feed room too. From the looks of your set up, I would;

1. hang two eye bolts from your rafter above the cart shafts but slightly wider than the shafts.

2. mount another eyebolt on that outside wall about waist height.

3. hang clotheline starting at inner most eyebolt, through second ceiling eye bolt, then tied off in a half hitch to the wall eye bolt. Leave lots of extra

When you are ready to stow cart, let out line so you can drive cart over it and the ceiling eyebolt loop ends up under your shafts. Raise your shafts, pull the extra clothelines tight until it is supporting your raised shafts as the tips touch the ceiling, then tie off a half hitch on the wall eye bolt.

To store the second cart, put it facing the same direction, leaving enough room for the tipped up seat to clear the front of the other raised cart, then do the same clotheline set up for cart number two.

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LOL! It wasn’t that clean till I had to use half of it to store a big cart! Even though I had my 4-wheeler in there BC (before cart), I still had a lot more space to spread the feed out along the back wall. It’s tight in there now, but doable. Putting the saddles away is the worst part.

Thank you for the idea. I can picture it and it’s what I had in mind - except I hadn’t figured out where/how to tie off the rope.

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