ATV adaptations for haulin moose?

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Whenever we're setting up to remove a moose from the far reaches of out there, we go through a flurry of discussions about how we're gonna rig up a portable arch, snatch blocks, front receiver-mount winches and all manner of wonderful possibilities. This has been going on like this for several years.

Please advise as to your favourite solutions to hauling a downed moose some distance. We seem always to have better luck in the middle of the swamp or over the mountain. Thus we need to come up with labour saving devices, there's often only two of us and sometimes that's the wife and I.

Thanks for any help!
 
Get you'r self a plastic/aluminum stretcher 2 guys on each side can move out a moose real quick after being quarterd its very slick set up.
 
We only do it one way: Two quads. cut a trail, then tie the HEAD (or rack) to the rear rack of one bike Head has to be off of the ground). Run a line (winch or otherwise) from the front of the quad with the moose to the trailer hitch on another quad, and pull TIGHT. If you are using a winch, crank 'er down. If you are using ropes/straps to join the two bikes, have a guy or two stand on the front rack of the back quad to take out any suspension slack. Last years moose was 1700 lbs, and we pulled it 2 1/2 k's with a couple small 350's.

Oh yeah, buy waterbed mattresses at garage sales, and drag the moose on top. Makes the going way easier, keeps the carcass clean, and you will NOT believe how strong those things are.
 
We also use two atv's when the going is tough,or the terrain is steep. The front one keeps the rear on steady and safe, while adding more traction.
a single atv can move a big moose though, if it's hitched properly.
Tie low, or even run under the machine and tie towards the front to hold down the front end. The danger of a roll over is very real. You need a lot of wieght in the front end.
 
We wrapped our moose in a blue tarp and drug it with a 400 foreman. Head just slightly off the ground tied to the back rack. On up hill climbs i had to sit on the front rack. Our moose was relatively small though. It sure as hell wasnt 1700 lbs.:eek:
 
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We try to shoot them on the logging road so we can back the trailer up and load them on.

When they don't co-operate with us and we need to pull them out then we tie the head to the back rack and tie a rope around the body behind the front shoulders and secure it to the trailer hitch and drive it out. The odd time we need to sit on the front rack to keep all 4 wheels on the ground and pulling.


I hear a chainsaw winch is the cat's ass but you still need something to tie it too.
 
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Good comments! Last Fall we winched the head up into a little two-wheeled trailer with removable tailgate and pulled it a couple Kms back to the camp with a 400 but GETTING the head secured up in the trailer was just a gut buster for us old guys. Plus it was past our bed-time! We want to figure out a way to use a second ATV facing the hitch and run the winch cable up to some kind of "A" frame with a snatchblock at top of the "A" to clear the first ATV and lift the front of the moose enough to secure it to the wee trailer (flotation wheels dump trailer) we use or something similar. We rarely are lucky enough to have trees anywhere nearby.
 
We use a trailer. It holds a whole moose(minus head, gets, etc). Every now and again a second atv is needed to give a little tug when the going gets rough.

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well, I have been told the best way of doing it is to tie the head on the back rack up high, then unspool your winch, run it under the quad, wrap it around the rib cage in the mooses arm pits, and then hook the cable back to itself. Once you have it hooked up, suck your winch tight and it pulls the front end of the quad down that way you got all sorts of traction from the front end.
 
I've hunted with a couple guys a few years ago that had a neat set up. I'll try to explain. Two atvs, one with a winch and the other with an atv trailer (similar to crazy davey). They had a removable steel tube (approx 3-4') with a plate with u-bolts at one end and a pulley at the other. Once the moose was down, they backed up the atv with the trailer to the moose, attached the tube vertically to the trailer pole. The atv with the winch came nose to nose with the the other atv (at a slight angle so the tires would come in contact instead of the bumpers. Run the cable over the atv with the trailer, over the tube with the pulley and over the trailer. Attached the moose and winch it right in the trailer. Worked pretty slick.
 
Umm....ok...I maybe missing something here but I have to ask: Why would you haul out a whole moose anyway? Is it a rule or something every where elese but the rock? When ever I get a Moose I cut it into quarters and lug it out peice by peice like every one elese. That's hard enough work.

When I was driving through NB one year I say a guy with a full bull moose in the pan of his truck and couldd only think: "Man, he must have worked like a $#@%& to get that in there!"
 
More convenient for us to quarter and skin in camp. Sometimes we even take the moose out whole to the house, and quarter it there, where we have running water to clean up with.
It's easier to keep the meat clean that way too.
 
Algonquin said:
Good comments! Last Fall we winched the head up into a little two-wheeled trailer with removable tailgate and pulled it a couple Kms back to the camp with a 400 but GETTING the head secured up in the trailer was just a gut buster for us old guys. Plus it was past our bed-time! We want to figure out a way to use a second ATV facing the hitch and run the winch cable up to some kind of "A" frame with a snatchblock at top of the "A" to clear the first ATV and lift the front of the moose enough to secure it to the wee trailer (flotation wheels dump trailer) we use or something similar. We rarely are lucky enough to have trees anywhere nearby.
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After many years that's the best way we have came up with to do it. We have a small trailer with a post & pulley on it. Just run a winch from second ATV up thru it, winch front part of moose up into trailer till head is up to pulley, secure & drive away. With second ATV running in front for a extra hook thru any tough spots.
 
Ljungman said:
Umm....ok...I maybe missing something here but I have to ask: Why would you haul out a whole moose anyway? Is it a rule or something every where elese but the rock? When ever I get a Moose I cut it into quarters and lug it out peice by peice like every one elese. That's hard enough work.

When I was driving through NB one year I say a guy with a full bull moose in the pan of his truck and couldd only think: "Man, he must have worked like a $#@%& to get that in there!"
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You sure must have missed something :D or don't have atvs :(

Sure no effort in winching moose on trailer, in winching moose up meat pool at camp, skinning it there, then slowly letting it down while you remove quarters to stowaway in truck for trip home! :)
 
Loading full moose in the back of a truck is real easy. All you need is two 2x6 and a thirty foot long flat strap. Another vechicle helps to pull a flat tow strap slung over the roof And the 2x6 are the ramp to get it in the back of the truck. Done it with one truck but you got to wrap one end around a tree so when you back up you pull the moose in the back of the box.
 
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See why we're talkin' about this?? Think of the untold millions we're saving the beleagered healthcare system in avoidance of bad backs, cuts, bruises and swamp muck up the wazoo!
I would like to know does anyone sell those fine looking tandem-axled ATV trailers (like Crazy Davey's) out towards Ontario/Quebec?? Somehow they look a little expensive but then, what the heck.

Regarding the pulley-pole off the tongue of a trailer, how do we secure the pole and tie it off to reduce side-loading? I guess we could use tie-straps or whatever cinched back to ATV rack.

Quartering is fine but we're often down in the muskeg so we have to do a whole (field-dressed) moose haul anyway before we submerge.
 
I have found that if you can get the head off the ground so the antlers do not dig in,I have been able to drag any of my moose or elk to a suitable cleaning spot with a single quad,providing that it has proper tires.We usually only drag our animals to a goog cleaning spot and then haul them out in quarters,but if there is snow on the ground and the terrain is not too rough ,I have dragged them considerable distances.Then again the heaviest animal that I have ever had to recover weighed much less than the 1700lb moose that someone mentioned previously.:D
 
stubblejumper said:
I have found that if you can get the head off the ground so the antlers do not dig in,I have been able to drag any of my moose or elk to a suitable cleaning spot with a single quad,providing that it has proper tires.We usually only drag our animals to a goog cleaning spot and then haul them out in quarters,but if there is snow on the ground and the terrain is not too rough ,I have dragged them considerable distances.Then again the heaviest animal that I have ever had to recover weighed much less than the 1700lb moose that someone mentioned previously.:D
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That was two moose, he shot them while they were... stuck... together. :D
 
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