Adjustable home wall advice

Hey all, looking to build a home wall in the near future that's adjustable. Going with a wall mounted winch, but looking for advice on how to create an easy system for adjustable chain supports. Looked at chain hoists, but wondering if there's a simpler system people have used? 

Interior or outside? I just finished an adjustable outside wall, and would be happy to share design concepts but the design wouldn’t likely translate to an interior space because it’s based entirely on guy-wires for support. No support structure.

In short, use the winch and cable to move the wall up and down, and use carabiners to shorten the chain to pre-determined lengths for the angles you want to climb on.

Longer explanation:

Attach chain to a bombproof attachment to the back wall and to the climbing wall. Use enough chain so the wall goes to the steepest angle you would ever want to climb. 

Then use carabiners to clip the wall in short as you adjust it with the winch. Starting on the steepest setting, crank the wall up with the winch; this will make the chain go slack. Clip off the loop of slack, lower the wall back onto the shortened chain, and off you go. You will need a way to climb up and down to adjust the chain.

You can leave the carabiners in place at pre-measured intervals, or at least clearly mark the chain links for particular angles.

Alternatively heavy duty tie down straps would be easily adjustable. 

How tall of a wall?

I’m away for work at the moment but when I get back l I’ll post some more pics and links where to get the rigging material. Helped a friend build this and it turned out amaziing. The only thing we could have done better is make sure your winch is exactly centered  with the center  of your board width ways. If not it stresses the hinges out. Chains with carabiners pre placed on the chains mark your angle measurements. Don’t skimp on your rigging or bracing. You want to get some rated stuff from a rigging specific store.    

When you are climbing on a wall that is supported by chains do the chains ever make any noise?

Going to be climbing below a sleeping baby when I finish building.

Also curious what kind of hinges you used, those look really serious.

Going off what others have said. Use the winch to raise and lower only. Use the chains for load support. There is no bounce or noise in my system. 

I’m surprised there isn’t any wobble in that system. On mine I do pretty much the same thing with the winch but I have unistrut instead of the chains. I have some bolts on the side of the wall that I slip the holes in the unistrut after using the winch to change the angle. But if I don’t tighten it all back up  against the unistrut with the winch after bolting it the wobble makes it unusable. The chain in this picture is just a safety redundancy.

Mine is pressure treated 4x4 for the framing though bc it’s outside. So it’s a lot heavier. And it’s 8ft wide and 12 ft tall so the forces are probably a lot bigger.  I also put 4 pulleys on the winch system which is overkill. Two would have been fine and used a lot less cable.  

I can’t recommend the unistrut method. It’s kind of a pain to change the angle on a wall that tall you have to use a free standing ladder. Next summer I am going to rebuild it using telescoping steel that I can just place a pin in. I’m also going to build it freestanding. It’s solid but it’s way too loud inside the building when someone is climbing on it. 

Did this on the end of my parents’ house back in 1995…with all the engineering skill of a young teenager.  I used chains, like you are talking about but no winch.  I went up on the roof and muscled that thing up to where I wanted it each time.  Not enough wobble to cause any trouble.  If you threw a big dyno, there was an expected amount of weight shift but certainly not unusable or damaging to anything.  For reference, at the time I weighed about 160# and the wall was three 4x8 sheets laid sideways with the hinge about 12” off the ground in the first sheet.  So call it 8x11 above the hinge.  I used 2x4 framing and big ass eye-bolts, through the fascia and into the roof structure in the end of the house roof line.  All hardware, including the hinges came from the local hardware store.  Basic gate hinges.  Nothing fancy.  I climbed every day on that thing all through high school.  

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