I use to pick up my Companion (head and base as one unit) and walk up my tailgate step to install it in my truck, but now I'm kind of lazy and I wanted a better place to store the hitch. So I cut a hole in the ceiling of my garage directly above where the hitch sits when I have my truck is parked in its stall. I built a box that fits up in that hole and mounted a winch in the box. When I want to remove my hitch, I simply lower the winch cable down and lock it into the hitch jaws; then I winch the hitch up into its storage box, in the ceiling of my garage.