Hoisting deer

I just use a pulley from Princess Auto. Was like $15, lives in one of the bins in my truck. Tie the rope to the hitch and use the truck to pull it up if I'm feeling really lazy.

But I don't have a shop space like many of you. Id likely go the boat winch method at home if I had the space.
 
brybenn said:
I use a atv winch mounted to the wall run thru a pulley in the rafters. Back the truck in the garage and put my gamble thru the back tendons and flip the switch
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This is exactly the hook up I have in my barn. It's perfect for skinning too, as shifting it up and down is a press of a button.
 
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I also run this and a sheet of 3/4” plywood with reinforcement strips underneath, to get critters into the back of the truck. Just suck the critter up the ramp till the head is up on the tail gate, then lift the plywood and with a big push the critter slides in plywood and all, even with moose and elk it can be done, you just need a second guy, or a lower angle on the plywood ramp (road approach)
 
We usually just skin them out using the tractor bucket to lift them, then drop them on a big guys shoulder (usually mine, because I’m the young guy at 69) and they get carried about 20 feet into the shed to hang.
 

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boxhitch said:
So what will you use for stopping the rope or tying it off or a brake
those pulleys are not 'prussick-minding' so will be a pain, maybe add a rope grab or 2
and use low-stretch 'static' rope , arborist rope is good
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Boxhitch !I was thinking of 1/2 inch Blue Amsteel Rope . I hear you on the brake .Ifvthe one pulley had a ratchet mechanism that would have been great ! So if you had it half way up and had to pause it the deer would not come crashing to the ground .
I’m not sure what you mean by a rope grab . I do understand the Prussik idea . I think !
 
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I also run this and a sheet of 3/4” plywood with reinforcement strips underneath, to get critters into the back of the truck. Just suck the critter up the ramp till the head is up on the tail gate, then lift the plywood and with a big push the critter slides in plywood and all, even with moose and elk it can be done, you just need a second guy, or a lower angle on the plywood ramp (road approach)
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If you anchor the winch point to a tree outside the truck.. you can drive forward and pull it in.. so easy with a two by ten hung on the tailgate. cheers..
 
Two of the cheapest non-ratchet cargo straps, y'know, the ones with the push to release clamp on them?

Spread them out, whether that is on an overhead beam or the rafters in the garage. Hook one of each into the hocks of the animal. Pull one side tight, leg lifts... Pull the other side tight, same... Once you have some weight on the straps, swing the carcass from one side to the other, pulling in the slack on the side that the carcass is nearest to, as you use the other hand to swing it.

Might not work for you if ya got no rhythm at all, but it worked for me...

Used same to hoist a front and a back half of a moose...

Doesn't have to be expensive or complicated to work effectively.
 
My son and I always gutted and skinned our deer in the field. Elk and moose are gutted, skinned, quarted and packed out to the truck. If available, the truck is driven close to the animal.

I believe in cooling the animals body and protecting it from debris ASAP, regardless of temperatures or weather conditions. When doing so, there is no mess left in the garage or other facility.
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A guy near Hudson Bay, Sk. had a decent set-up on his Argo machine - an electric winch at front of machine on a longish remote control cable. He would tram the Argo nose first into a tree in vicinity of downed animal - stand on hood of Argo and put snatch block as high as he could reach up that tree. Then run that winch line through the snatch block to the dead critter - wind up the winch - being the snatch block was high, it lifted the dead critter as it got close to the machine - set the critter down into rear "box" of the Argo. Recover snatch block - tram home with critter in back. About no physical lifting work to get that done - the electric winch did all the lifting work.

For my first elk - field dressed it where it died - then used a Quad to skid it near my 1/2 ton truck - we probably skidded the thing on the ground for best part of a mile in the bush - then tow line over one front corner of the truck box and we used the Quad to pull the carcass into truck box - as I recall the Quad did not have a winch or it no longer worked - the thing was pulled up some planks from the tail gate, if I recall.

OP - if you have a 4:1 rated pulley system, and if it truly gives you 4:1 ratio (bearings or lack of in pulleys, etc.) - then you will actually pull / lift 1/4 of the weight of the game. If the weight is hanging vertically, a sliding Prussic Hitch on the winch line will let you stop and it will stay where it is, if the Prussic Hitch tightens up.
 
the old truck had a 1500lb quad winch mounted to the bottom of the headache rack, that worked great for moose and deer

Have to still do that on the current truck.

hanging in the shop I built a stand with one of the hand crank boat winches from Princess Auto, works great, just drag them from the truck and crank them up.
 
I'm actually surprised more guys here don't have a simple rope hoist or 2.
my 500lb weighs nothing and fits in my small day pack. Super handy when i was a solo hunter and still comes on every hunt.
Canadian Tire has the 1000lb model currently for 21.99 . Highly recommend anyone wanting a deer hoist for home or field , grab one or two.
They also sell them in a kit with a gambrel , different sizes for those kits too from medium to large game.
 
45ACPKING said:
I'm actually surprised more guys here don't have a simple rope hoist or 2.
my 500lb weighs nothing and fits in my small day pack. Super handy when i was a solo hunter and still comes on every hunt.
Canadian Tire has the 1000lb model currently for 21.99 . Highly recommend anyone wanting a deer hoist for home or field , grab one or two.
They also sell them in a kit with a gambrel , different sizes for those kits too from medium to large game.
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45 ACPKING . Do you have a picture or a link to the one you are describing or something very similar ?
 
What length of longer ropes do you find handy ?
I may replace the rope that comes with the pulley as comments have suggested it may not be that good !
So if I purchase new rope I will purchase Static Rope .
Would you purchase 100 feet or two fifty foot lengths ?
If you had to join the 50 footers together the knot won’t go through a pulley system
Then again 100 feet of a rope is quite a bit
Reaching out to you guys that have more years experience
I have a plethora of that crap yellow plastic rope . Why I ever bought any of it is beyond me .
 
Leavenworth said:
45 ACPKING . Do you have a picture or a link to the one you are describing or something very similar ?
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can we post links here still?
outside of that go to canadian tire and search "rope hoist"
I don't add anything to mine, just the rope it comes with and pair of leather work gloves for pulling the rope.
I've had my 500lbs (princess auto) since before i moved to the Cariboo so over 16 years probably closer to 20. It has never broken and it still has the original rope. It has hoisted moose quarters a few times, elk quarters and I don't know how many deer. The Canadian Tire version is the same, just a bit more robust and thicker rope
https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/...propylene-rope-1000-lb-capacity-0618150p.html
 
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