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looking to add a camper top to my Jeep I found one that I want, but they deliver to you. It comes in a big box of wood.
My challenge would be to unboxed it, and then using a hard top hoist, lifted up high enough so that I could leave it over the Jeep and lower down
Having a hard time telling which ones actually extend down low enough that I could pick something up basically off the ground so from a height of 18 inches say to the rooftop
It looks like the line would work, but it’s $700. That’s kind of pricey, whereas the generation one lange is less than half of that I don’t need to store the top cause I have an SOP that will store in the garage on a flat shelf
What can you recommend?
and what are the capacities because the camper top that I’m looking at weighs about 100 pounds more than the standard hard top with the freedom panels so I think that translates to about 150 pounds more than just the back half of the top that comes off once you take the freedom panels off open to suggestions what have you got? will it work
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Are you looking for a one time solution to get the new top installed, or will you remove it periodically?
 

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probably just a 1 time
 

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If probably just one time,I was thinking see if you could make arrangements with a shop that installs camper shells and see what it would cost for them to install it and have it drop shipped there. Then compare the cost in your time and money to buy or build and install a hoist.

If you’ll be removing it or switching tops on a regular basis that changes things
 

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good idea
 

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For my camper top install, I used the wood from the delivery container to build a hoist frame and added a ~$20 Amazon hand crank winch.

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