I am 63 years old and saw this after watching your ski groomer video. When I was a kid, they had one of these in Fraserdale, Ont. the place where I lived because my dad worked at the power dam. Pretty cool. Great job. You son reminds me of myself bombing the hill.
I am 40 now and we learned on tow ropes, glad my kids' are now getting the same experience. I would always go look in the tow rope "hut" on teh hill as a kid and see a lot of designs with rubber tires and pulleys at work, seemed simple
I couldn't watch any further without commenting on your garage. It's quite nice with the poured resin floor and living area. I know it seems odd for the focus of the video, but resin floors are pretty cool. Our little theatre company installed one in the auditorium and, though with a dry mop or wet mop, it's a pain to clean but looks better than the old concrete floor.
Would you be able to provide more information about the electrical wiring for this? Either a video or diagrams? It would be much appreciated as I am far from an electrician. Thanks! Love the video!
@STRAUSS HOUSE I think it would be a good idea to build wooden/metal towers. I think it would help getting the rope on the return side up and out of the way so it doesn’t interfere with the skiers. That’s my only recommendation but overall, great design!
Nice work! I saw it pull 3 kids at once. I have a big hill so it will be fun to see how far it could go with 2 hp (I have a motor). That yours goes quickly is cool, slow it down and it could pull more. Tell be about the drive tire/ wheel/ spindle and stub axle please. Tireless casters, eh? Again, nice work. Would you make any changes? Thanks, Bobby
yes it works great for kids, 2 hp 1700 rpm motor, the 3600 is to fast. I am upgrading to a 5 hp so it can pull more adults at the same time, I would suggest at least 3 hp for a bigger or large hill. the 2 hp just barley pulls one 180 lb adult up
After watching through the whole video, it's pretty slick. Nice job, I especially like the electrical. Do you have a system that keeps it from running backwards when the safety fence trips or there's a power outage?
For sure what are you looking for? motor is actually a 2hp. motor Part #F56HC2S4C, it can be wired 120 or 230v just went out and checked, it's actually a 2hp motor F56 frame. 12" long. Princess auto - i suggest you use a 18" dia pulley minimum. with the smallest pinion pulley you can get. Still quite fast, but great for our large hill.
kids, if your parents do this for you or allow you to do this.. be appreciative. go give them a high five and a thank you. very fortunate.. or if you did it all on your own, be proud of yourself and go buy some good ice cream for yourself
Wow, amzing video. By far the easiest and best design I've seen. I am looking to upgrade my current system, which is a 1/4 HP geared down to 60 rpm with a pully attached directly onto the axle. It works, but I would like a little more power. Also do you know at about what speed and what weight yours pulls? Awesome project!
I think I found the motor, but this one says it doesn't run on 120. Can you verify? www.princessauto.com/en/detail/3-hp-totally-enclosed-fan-cooled-electric-motor/A-p8601668e#
Hi Lars thanks, yes works great and fairly simple to build. here is the model # off the motor F56HC2S4C, it can be wired 120 or 230v just went out and checked, it's actually a 2hp motor F56 frame. 12" long. Princess auto
@@strauss_house Well, I finished running electric cable to the hill. I have not yet constructed the rope tow, but plan to do so soon before snowfall this year.
Very nicely done. We did a very similar model at home, but I'm having issues with the rope sliding on the tire in snowy conditions. Worked great all weekend in very cold and dry weather, but today in the snow, the rope kept sliding and loosing all traction. did you have issues with that?
just wondering what size is your tubular stock ? Appears to be about 1X3 ? also you commented that you would upsize to a larger HP motor. From what little searching I did motors greater than 2 HP also have higher RPMs requiring a greater gear reduction to keep rope speed manageable. Do you have a recommendation on a higher HP >2 HP that is around 1800 RPMs as well? Otherwise nice job!! Trying to get the grandson into boarding and his back yard is perfect for this - thanks for sharing
Awesome work, thanks for the video. I'm building one for my kids, I noticed in the first assembled view the belt pulley was smaller than the tire, and later in the video, the pulley was about the same diameter of the tire. Did you solve some gearing/speed concerns that you might be willing to share?
Sorry to bug and thanks for your previous reply. I built mine, loosely modeled after yours but am still having trouble. It is chain driven, 11 tooth on motor to 21 tooth on Jack shaft. 10 tooth on Jack shaft to 40 tooth on driven axle. Still not enough power to pull. I have a 3 horse 3450 rpm motor. Just curious about your rope size and length. (I’m trying to pull 1” rope, 600’ of total length. 300’ of towing)
@@beauminnick8531 ok that is not good, your 1st issue is the 3450 rpm motor, that is the incorrect one, you will need a 1725 RPM model. Even the 1725 motor I am running 2" pully on the motor shaft and 16" pully on the tire, with that reduction it's still almost to fast, 3450 will be way to fast and no torque to start up etc.
I'm going to build something similar for my uncle. My uncle's house is at the bottom of a big hill. Would this work if the unit was at the bottom of the hill? I think it will but he is determined to run power to the top of the hill and it run like what you have.
Princess Auto, I believe some Peavy Marts also have them. Get the largest one you can get or I would have used a chain drive to prevent slipping if I built another one. Mark
The cleanliness of this build blows my mind. Such an inspiration. I love the portability of this system and the use of the hay bales to anchor each end is ingenious. Bravo.
This is Alberta, Canada- Oil and Gas Industry keeps our jobs up here, not to mention it's dark most of the day in the 6 months of our winter. solar is not very effective unless it's summer.
@@strauss_house I design and build passive solar. It is in the architecture. The fundamentals have been used in buildings for 2,400 years. Building my last retirement one in the Kootenay's right now
120 volt, or 230 single phase. actually 2hp vs. the video says 3hp. motor Part #F56HC2S4C, it can be wired 120 or 230v just went out and checked, 2hp. F56 frame. 12" long. Princess auto - I suggest you use a 18" dia pulley minimum. with the smallest pinion pulley you can get. Still quite fast, but great for our large hill.
Kidding aside, I love this. I've been wanting to do this for awhile but don't know how to weld. I've got a tiny backyard compared to this, but it still has a slope and a small rope tow I'm hopeful would motivate the kids to go outside. What really gets ME motivated is that we've got public use cabins all over near mountains. Thought it would be loads of fun to snowmachine something like this in and run it off of a generator and make it a whole weekend get away. I like the idea of electric because in town it's quite and out of town a honda generator is still quieter than a briggs and stratton thing. But I'm a dreamer and haven't learned how to weld yet, so I'm probably just dreaming. Thanks for living it. You also have an awesome piece of property and I especially like your garage. Well done.
First kid to get his glove caught in the rope and gets sucked into that tire and gets his arm mangled, is really not going to have a good day. You should be thinking about a shutoff switch.............. Put it like where those pvc pipes are--- so that if it is sucking you into the tire, it will shut down when you hit the safety switch.
Dude, did you watch the video? there is a cut off switch in front, the rope in front of the whole lift, if a kid comes anywhere near it trips the cut off switch.
