Indispensable Hunting Camp Gadgetry: Eat Your Heart Out Red Green!

[Glenfilthie]

I was just going over the pics of our last trip. I lucked out; I went with some guys that were real pros and hardcore hunters and they knew their way around a camp! They had EVERYTHING and that trip threw EVERYTHING at us. I got my truck stuck, we got torrential downpours after a blizzard - and we STILL managed to bag a moose!

In any event this thing is THE BOMB:

Cripes - you knock down a tree, throw it on this thing and you start sawing on one end, your buddy starts on the other and before ya know it you have enough wood to fire the campfire and the tent stove all night long! It is light, strong and fits in with all the other crap in the back of your truck when you head out!

If you guys have something worthy of the skilled do-it-yourselfers of the foolish firearm forum folk - this is where to put it!

 

[kamlooky]

Great idea, but the logs we cut would crush that thing.

 

[AbLonewolf]

We built this ginpole set up few years back and never looked back. We use it for moose, elk, deer...hell anything. We hoist the game up via a cheap Champion 3000 lb winch (7 years old now) by connecting it to a portable 12 volt power pack. It is anchored to a large poplar, but the 2" square tubing horizontal piece fits into a truck receiver. This thing has been a life saver!

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[savagelh]

that grinpole is awesome

 

[yorgi]

Excellent gadgets folks keep-em coming!

Here's what my old moose group fabricated for hanging our game. It helped that one of the guys was a welder and had access scrap aluminum pieces left over from other projects. Since we hunted in different locations each year we needed a portable system. Couple the hanger with a barrel-type winch and a heavy duty ratchet strap and any stout single tree is a candidate. Notice how there's two rings on the horizontal part, we use the ring closest to the tree to hoist the gambrel as high as we can, usually until we run out of cable. We then tie a short loop (out of rope) between the outer ring and the gambrel and drop the gambrel slowly by releasing the tension on the hoist. The carcass drops and the loop tightens on the outer ring, we reverse the steps when it's time to drop the carcass and cut the sacrificial rope with a knife. Princess Auto rocks for barrel hoists and ratchet straps!