As my wife and I have aged, dragging laundry and grocery bags up to the living portion of our stilted house in Florida has gotten progressively more difficult. I rigged a simple 2 inch trailer receiver hitch to the main beam in our upstairs porch and mounted the hoist on a short piece of 2 inch tubular steel and installed it. Made a small basked to hang off the hook and now we can "hoist" up laundry and grocery bags from the deck to the porch with ease. The only problem I encountered was that the mounting brackets do NOT fit around a piece of 2 inch steel square stock. In order for this project to work I had to cut two pieces of 1/4 angle iron, weld them to the 2 inch stock and then drill holes for to mount the hoist. The brackets are rather flimsy anyway, and I was afraid that they would not hold the weight of the hoist, the 2 inch stock and the suspended load.But the system works fine and the hoist is quiet, fast and reliable.