well hey, what can I say! thanks! cc.

I actually got the idea to use black iron pipe like this from two places. 1. Years ago my dad made me a hockey net out of it and 2, some of the guys on rossboxing.com (yeah, I go there from time to time use the stuff for homemade weight handles. The pulley system itself, I just kept thinking, there's gotta be a way to do this, if I connect this here and that there... etc. Honestly, I didn't really hit me until after a bit of thought. My original idea was to use tapcons to anchor it to my basement concrete wall. ( me = idiot!)