TO LIFT A WEIGHT YOU NEED A FORCE JUST A LITTLE BIGGER THAN ITS WEIGHT
WRONG!!
Well there is a little right about it
If you lift an object at a CONSTANT SPEED the forces on it must be balanced so your upwards lift force equals the weight. But of course you have to get it moving
in the first place so at the beginning you need a force bigger than the weight. However to stop it at the top of the lift you need a force LESS than the weight, so on average the force
needed to lift is equal to the weight.
Just think what would happen if the force up was always a little more than the weight, the forces would not be balanced so it would always ACCELERATE up.