KATSU 1 Ton Chain Block Hoist 3M Lift Height Garage Car Engine Heavy Load Lifting Tool 181741

Cheap and well made. Not for daily hard work but fine for a domestic garage workshop….. arrived promptly…

Great bit of kit to be fair worked a treat dragging some heave geese out pumps out of a well

I read all the reviews and thought I'd take a punt. Packaging was in good condition. On un-packing I took cover off to check mechanism. All bolts were adequately tightened and the mechanism was adequately greased. I read a review from France that said it was dangerous and the pin holding the lift hook had fallen out/failed. I checked all pins thoroughly and although there were no problems but I am not sure I would take this block to it's lifting limits. I always back up the hook with a 2500kg kevlar strop in case it fails. So far lifted 500kg repeatedly with ease. This block is not going to win any awards, but it is well made and exceptionally good value. I would recommend taking all the steps I took before first use to check it has been assembled correctly.

Simple to use a little bit glitchey to change direction up down. Sometimes had to give it another tug when lifting. It made light work of lifting a heavy gearbox, make sure you use gloves the chain is oily. The chain is a little short when lifting from the floor of the garage.

I had to lift and drop 10 heavy (47KG) fence panels on my own, lifting panels up 6ft, started with a cheap string pulley 6 to 1 mechanical advantage but still too hard to pull, string twisted and of course no brake so chose this beauty and wow did it work well. I believe the gearing gives 32 to 1, I could lift the panels with 2 fingers, very effective brake and gave lot of confidence. I used a ladder as a sky hook, ladder suitably held. Hoist not designed for this type of high up work so the pull chain had to be reached by me standing on stepladder, no drama though, very easy to pull up drop down with the brake working perfectly while positioning panel into the slots.

bought after seeing the review that showed a fence panel being lifted! exactly what I needed, however, be warned. This is excruciatingly slow. far to slow to be useful for this purpose. The Block and chain seem great and hopefully I'll have a use for it in the future, but the gearing ratio makes this almost useless for lifting a fence. it would take 15 minutes just to lift the thing a couple of feet. . Even preparing the chain length took longer than manually lifting the things would have taken. standard fence panel is 25kg, so a simple pulley would be more appropriate. (ladder and bracing was genius though)

Great piece of kit. I used this to hoist very heavy double sided fence panels into place, when renewing my fence panels. Effortless lifts and brakes and holds. Do not try this if you are not savvy with ladders, forces and weight.

Hoist worked very well, enabling me to complete the task I purchased it to do easily and safely. Very good quality and value.