Homemade Power Rack and Lat Tower

Article, photos and construction by a reader of this website, Dave.

Your website is great. I found it last year and was inspired. I wanted to get a powertec power rack like yours but could not get the wife to go for it. I showed her the plans for the homemade one you posted and she agreed.

I have a bunch of pictures that I can send and you can post on your site. It ended up costing me about $350 once it was all said and done. The reason being that I designed and added on a high and low pulley system on the back like many commercial racks for lat pulldowns and cable rows.

Homemade power rack and lat tower pulley system:

The pulleys are 3" heavy duty ones rated for 800 lbs. The bolts through them are 7/16"x6". The eyebolt on the weight carrier is high strength rated at 1000 lbs. These along with some of the other hardware were purchased at my local hardware store. Lowes and Home Depot don't carry these specialty items.

I used the drawing tools in excel to generate the plans after multiple hand sketches to ensure everything would fit. I have plans for future modification which I will be willing to send once I complete them. Thanks for the interest. As before, feel free to ask any questions you have. Dave

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