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My father inlaw has a trailer hanging in his garage that weighs around 700 pounds. He uses a boat trailer winch and 4 cables ran through sets of pulleys to get the job done. I cable goes to each corner of the trailer then up through a pulle mounted to the ceiling. They then go over to the wall and through a larger pulley before they all come down and attach to the drum of the winch. The hardest part is getting the pulleys mounted to the ceiling well (need good support) and then getting the cables mounted to the drum. His cables are relatively small so he used 1 large cable clamp around all four after they went through the hole in the drum of the winch. It sounds complicated but it's fairly easy once you see the parts for yourself.
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