Homemade lat pulldown

[kgking1]

There's a guy in the are who has a garage gym and most of his equipment is homemade, one piece of homemade equipment he has is a lat pulldown with a weight stack. How would one go about making one of those?

[morebarbell]

There's a guy in the are who has a garage gym and most of his equipment is homemade, one piece of homemade equipment he has is a lat pulldown with a weight stack. How would one go about making one of those?

You should ask the guy. Sounds like he has a lot of know how. I'd imagine you'd need some pulleys and something to fix them to...

I did a forum search and found some examples. Here's one:

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...#post274360821
see photos in post #22

[hardNheavy2011]

I built this one about 6 years ago and I'd recommend building one like it. It's much simpler than trying to figure out cables and that weight stack ain't gonna be cheap. This cost me about $150.00 to build and with the leverage system, you just add your olympic plates and you're good to go.

[Skidmarx]

Yeah there's no way around it being expensive unless you can find some old donor machine to salvage the weight stack, pads, steel, and parts off.

HNH - I really like that leverage lat every time I see it. Do you use it regularly as your main lat exercise? Obviously the resistance curve is different, not sure if that is good or bad or both?

[rlundregan]

Yeah there's no way around it being expensive unless you can find some old donor machine to salvage the weight stack, pads, steel, and parts off.

OP, I like homemade equipment, but for the money, it's hard to beat Craigslist. I see lat machines for $125-150 all the time. I occasionally see them for much less, especially if they are part of a bigger lot. You could purchase a lot and sell off what you don't want. A lot of guys here get stuff basically for free that way.

[kgking1]

Never mind, I asked him, it was a lat pulldown from a gym that had closed and when it broke he just fixed it and made all the handles.
hardNheavy2011 that machine is sick, how much can it handle?

[Skidmarx]

OP, I like homemade equipment, but for the money, it's hard to beat Craigslist. I see lat machines for $125-150 all the time. I occasionally see them for much less, especially if they are part of a bigger lot. You could purchase a lot and sell off what you don't want. A lot of guys here get stuff basically for free that way.

I dunno. Around here the only ones on CL are POS home grade, not commercial. In the rare event a commercial pops up it's priced to high or is gone in seconds.

[rlundregan]

I dunno. Around here the only ones on CL are POS home grade, not commercial. In the rare event a commercial pops up it's priced to high or is gone in seconds.

Well, you're right about that. I was referring to Body Solid/Parabody level machines that are plate-loaded when I said $125-150. I do occasionally see a commercial machine, but they do run higher.

I often forget that a lot of guys around here are a lot bigger than me. At 5'9 and 170 lbs, my Parabody with a 205 lb stack is something I don't see myself outgrowing anytime soon!

[VlKlNG]

bolt two pulleys to your ceiling, a bar at on end off the cable,and a cargo net type bag full of weights


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[Stasher1]

Well, you're right about that. I was referring to Body Solid/Parabody level machines that are plate-loaded when I said $125-150. I do occasionally see a commercial machine, but they do run higher.

I often forget that a lot of guys around here are a lot bigger than me. At 5'9 and 170 lbs, my Parabody with a 205 lb stack is something I don't see myself outgrowing anytime soon!

I paid $100 or $125 for my Body Solid GLM83 lat machine/low row in perfect shape, and the seller threw in a pair of 18" oly adapters. It's not true commercial quality, but it's pretty damn far from Weider/Marcy type crap.

[Skidmarx]

Do you hear that shyt grinding when he pulls on the cable? FAIL. lol

[hardNheavy2011]

Yeah there's no way around it being expensive unless you can find some old donor machine to salvage the weight stack, pads, steel, and parts off.

HNH - I really like that leverage lat every time I see it. Do you use it regularly as your main lat exercise? Obviously the resistance curve is different, not sure if that is good or bad or both?

I probably use that machine at least twice a week for overhand and reverse grip pull downs. I built a different handle though, that allows me to do neutral grip pull downs too. The handles are removable though. I'm not sure about the resistance curve honestly. It feels almost exactly like a pullup. That's about the only way I can describe it. LOL

[Stasher1]

"I'm only putting on 15lbs for this video, but the machine is rated to hold up to 200."


Lol. There's no way in hell I'd try to use that wobbly POS with 200lbs on it.

[TriggerWarning]

"I'm only putting on 15lbs for this video, but the machine is rated to hold up to 200."


Lol. There's no way in hell I'd try to use that wobbly POS with 200lbs on it.

I am in for his next video "Death by DIY equipment"

[Stasher1]

I am in for his next video "Death by DIY equipment"

He barely touches the thing @ 0:21 and it wobbles like hell. I wouldn't put up with that from any piece of equipment, homemade or not.


Now this is how you build equipment...

[HYMENATOR]

OMG that video had me cracking up laughing. For some reason he reminded me of Forrest gump?

[MikeKK]

Do you hear that shyt grinding when he pulls on the cable? FAIL. lol

You come up with something better then. More friction means you don't need to add as much weights

[iportal]

I am in for his next video "Death by DIY equipment"

I agree, that machine just looks dangerous tbh. It's much better to spend the extra cash and get something safe!

[deadwoodgregg]

You come up with something better then. More friction means you don't need to add as much weights

What...... is December "misc'ers invade the equipment forum month" or something? Go back and look. Skid has a long history of producing some nice homemade equipment and having useful contributions to this forum.

[Skidmarx]

I think he's just ball busting

Actually I did make a homemade lat addition to my rack. It's kinda hard to see but there's a loading pin in the back and I hook up various handles at the front cable connection. I set a loaded barbell on the safety as a hold-down and of course slide my bench in.

[deadwoodgregg]

I think he's just ball busting

Yeah I know, I'm sorry. Just getting thin skinned at the recent rash of stupid threads and comments. I need to go back to the "cost no object" thread and leave the generic threads to be handled by the forum veterans.

[2bars]

There's a guy in the are who has a garage gym and most of his equipment is homemade, one piece of homemade equipment he has is a lat pulldown with a weight stack

If you ever ask the guy and find out, would love to see a written/illustrated guide on it. I finally got a garage and would love to build something there. Otherwise if I ever want a pulldown I'm going to have to buy it a used commercial or something.

[fishpat86]

Build it out of wood, I will even draw some plans up for you.

**** I'm a nice guy!