I have been designing ours for years. Keep buying parts and then changing my mind. Last year the plan was a fixed heavy cable with a cart that hung from it and a smaller cable that pulled it up. I have the cable, pulley, big motor and gear box etc.
Current idea is to use a pair of electric wheelchair motors with rubber wheels to drive a cart up a winding pressure treated monorail. (Around and behind the giant rocks on our hill. The biggest challenge for us is to minimize the visual impact of the project from the land and from the water.
I keep thinking that someday I am really going to wish I made it capable of carrying my large frame up the stairs when my knees are no longer up to the task. The monorail seems to be the most likely way to achieve something I would actually get on.
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