This was my first pulley system, and it was really good for what it was. First, the pros: 1. It's an inexpensive way of getting a cable system into your gym if you have a spare upright (note, it isn't removable, you're giving up an unright here), 2. Plate loaded, which works great for me, 3. Has both upper and lower pulleys, which can be swapped out quickly. The big downside for me was that I have a shorter ceiling, and after mounting the lower pulley, the upper pulley and the trolley itself I was never able to get the ROM I needed. I also bought the lat pulldown seat to go with that, but as you can see in the photo below, if I were to mount a seat above the lower pulley, the trolley would be pushed up even further and the ROM would be terrible. I'm not going to dock points from a review because of my ceiling, but I will note that the tolerances were never quite spot on, and I could never stop the trolley from rubbing on the uprights, and also my initial order was missing a few pieces (which took two rounds of iteration to correct), so I'll knock a couple of points off build quality. That said, if you have a high ceiling and want to get started with a cable system, this one did me well.

I bought this initially when I was using the full Revolt pulley system so I could low row off my rack. I have upgraded fromt he pulley system, but saw no reason to remove the footplate from my rack, Every now and again I come across a movement where having a stable plate to pull against it useful. The big pro here is that this is inexpensive. The downside is that there is some give in the manufacturing tolerances, the plates always have a bit of slop when pinned in. I don't think they're going to break at all, but it does feel a bit rickety.

I was a little doubtful when I first bought this because I lift in a temperature and humidity controlled basement, so rust isn't really a problem. That said, I had noticed that the knurling on my dumbbells was losing all its shine, so I took a flyer on this. Let me tell you, I was extremely freaked out by the amount of skin dust that came out of that knurling, and now they're shiny and good as new. 10/10, extremely gross experience.

This used to be my main rack when my gym was smaller, as I added more space, this turned into a rack attachment center. It currently has foot rests, dual ancore pros, a landline attachment. The uprights are 81" tall, the same height as my basement, so I couldn't mount the pull-up bar high. I ended up putting the diagonal bars low so that I can give the Ancore system a new angle to pull from, and mounted additional wall mounts on sideways from the top of the rack so I can cover them in hooks for small equipment pieces. Overall, I have no criticisms of this piece, it served me well as a rack and now as whatever it is

This is the first rack I bought. If I were buying again, I would likely make a few different choices, but this is a really solid piece of equipment, and is reasonably inexpensive for what it is. The things I would change: 1. It's 2x3, if I were buying today I would get 3x3 2. It's a half rack, which I thought was a space saving thing, but the reality is that a half rack with spotter arms attached takes functionally as much space as a full rack. That said, this is my daily driver and had held up GREAT since I got it. No complaints whatsoever.

This machine is absolutely at the top of my "in no world do I NEED this, but I like it" list. I could, of course, do lat raises, rear delt raises and front raises with dumbbells (or cables, or resistance bands, or probably a million other ways), but when I used a commercial gym I always enjoyed the dedicated machines, and this brings a little bit of dedicated machine into my home gym setup, and that is good for my soul. Assembly was quick and easy. I have it mounted on a dedicated upright alongside the BOS seal row pad. If I didn't have a dedicated upright for this I would probably never use it because it's heavy and unwieldy and annoying to move. I like that I can just leave it loaded at approximately the correct weight and use it with no delays. I set mine at the correct height for doing chest-supported rear delt rows, and rather than move the machine, I just change my stance to get to the correct height. One note: I mounted it on a Titalt T-3 upright here, which is a 2x3 rack. I 3d printed a couple of shims since this was built for a 3x3 rack.

Especially given the price point ($125 at time of writing) this is a phenomenal piece of equipment. Ever since I hurt my shoulder I have swapped front squats for belt squats so this gets a fair amount of use. On the negative side, it takes a couple of minutes to set up (two things to connect to the rack, got to run a cable through the mechanism, and the two foot plates are fiddly to get seated), but on the positive side, once set up I find it to be a really nice belt squat movement. It comes with foot plates at a 10 degree angle, which serve a dual purple, they keep the mechanism in place on the floor because you're standing on them, and make the movement more quad dominated. Would a dedicated belt squat machine be better? Almost certainly yes, but at the price point, and as something that I can store on my wall, I really like this piece of equipment.

Gets the job done. It was cheap off Amazon, well made, I'm not going to break this in a million years. It's comparable in depth to a Marcy LA hub (much deeper than, say, a York milled hub, which makes it easier). I'm using it to progressively work towards Marcy hub lifts.