Homemade Barn Door Winch Build

How I turned a garage door opener into a barn door winch.

[peterhaan]

Love the thought, design and execution that went into this. A most enjoyable YT channel!

[Mikidy]

Another interesting video. Thank you for sharing. I wish I had half your abilities.

[Graysailr]

This is really amazing to see in person. Almost Rube Goldberg with all of the flaps and movement going on. So are you going to add safety detectors in case the critters are halfway in? lol. I think a klaxon should sound, alerting the animals it's time to go in, and then flashing red lights at each doorway. You'd probably have to do all of that if this was in, say, California. I'd forgotten about the daylight sensor and I was looking for the timer!.

[TheDistur]

Cool project with a variety of materials and techniques! I guess the doors aren't heavy enough or move fast enough to be really dangerous?

[glennfelpel]

Thank you Sir for showing this video.  I sure was wanting to know how you made the 5 way drum.  It turned out looking excellent.  Not a criticism at all, just a question, why didn't you take the nylon rope all the way to the drum?  There was a lot in this video to take in.  Thanks again and hope your weekend is going well, the heat broke a bit around here thankfully.

[littlekingcobrasden]

I'm just curious, in the event you only want one door open it appears you have all of them opening at the same time so if some reason you only want one door open instead of all three what do you do then?

[jeffjensen]

Hi there I love your design concept. You like me have the gift of vision. Seeing simple concepts and making and design things. I would love to share my new idea which is exactly what you did but uses a series of small electronic motorized winch system and implement them into my new home theater build and design concept is all mine cool 😎 part is that the home theater is 2 people size and is inside of my spare bedroom inside my apt that I rent. Thank goodness for a very good landlord for granted me permission to build it and build so cleverly using steel tracks and studs making a exoskeleton framework for the new home theater to start taking shape all framing out new walls with fiber optic technology installed into the entire new back wall. Remember that the original wall is still there safe and untouched by the frame work. So I would love to make contact with each other to discuss my design and concept of your design and seeing if the both of us can’t pull off a Miracle. Great video very very informative well done hope to hear from you soon.