I have used chains many times in training at my friends gym. If you find value in training with chains they are a no brainer to purchase, but it’s not something I’d ever use in my own gym, outside of a small leader chain to extend a cable for the lat pull-down / low row.

I have handled a few natural stones and they are a very unique and challenging things to do. I need to find some for my HomeGym someday.

Owned this briefly it was a tank but didn’t really fit in my gym. Too cumbersome to move easily and a bit to tall for my preference and a large pad gap.

I picked this up used over a decade ago for $100. One of the best investments I have ever made in my gym and it’s the first machine anyone should add to their gym after having the basics.

Maybe if you are on a super budget and are extremely good with diy stuff. But after tying a couple diy pulleys I rather just have my lat pull-down with low row

Had this model for a few years. It does the same job any of the new ones do.

Really good looking deep dish style plates that are easy to handle with the deep lip. They are fairly loud when in use so that’s a con for sure and just know they are essentially bumper plate width so what you can deadlift with this is not what you will be able to deadlift on skinny comp kilo plates, also the will take up a ton of room on the bar sleeve limiting what some people can fit on and storage they will take up more space than a traditional plate. I used these multiple times at different public gyms.

Good quality deadlift frame. They want to charge you an arm and a leg for their plywood and rubber tiles so lots of people still diy the inserts. I don’t see much value in this over a homemade play unless you really want to pull against bands