Glad it worked Steve, I came on that idea by misdemeanor long time gone, where bodgy nuts had locked onto too-long studs, and the only way out was up, so was born a not so useless idea>>!
Hey muskie that' a great idea too, you must have some very rare BSF eye bolts
, best I can come up with is Eye nuts on a mixed thread stud (....?/BSF), trouble is I've only found metric series eye nuts(maybe I shop at the wrong places), and I dunno that a imperial/metric combo exists, without custom engineering.......
..... and then yea'd need to maybe bolt bottom end to the floor, if it's really well glued on....and if your little winch doesn't work, I have access to some small heavy lift cranage (or is it 'carnage'), 500T..?
No worries Bob, the brain cells need a shake up every now and then, they get complacent and lazy, nothin' better than a bit of random shock therapy