Truck Receiver Game Hoist

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I'll show ya my game hoist...

First I built a socket that inserts into the receiver hitch of my pickup (Ford F350).

It is tee shapped, with a 2-1/2" vertical piece that the leg of my hoist slides through, and the foot of the vertical piece just sits on the ground.
For taller critters, I can place a block under it to raise another foot or so.

The winch is worm gear drive, just fantastic in that it has crazy lifting capacity. And due to the worm gear, no matter where you stop cranking, the winch just holds right there. I've lifted ~700lb green logs, 13"dia by 9'long.

Heavy enough I couldn't raise one end of 'em, but that hoist just cranks them up.

I actually just did a mod on the hoist yesterday, which is the reason for these pics, as I sent them to bro' Jeff telling him about it.

I cut the vertical leg and inserted a 26" long piece of heavy wall 1-1/2" tubing and welded it in place.
Did the mod just to make handling the thing a bit easier, as it is 8' tall overall and a bit heavy to lift up into the receiver socket.



Modified the hoist yesterday (Jan 21-22)


I built this thing 8 or 10 years ago, it has handled a number of big bucks since then... in this pic you can see the teeth the gear works on...
I have 2 different sized gambrels for it.



My new Crane Hoist, supposed to be good up to 660lbs.


The Big 4x4 hanging on my diy game hoist. and in this pic you can see the receiver socket that it stands in.
Notice that in this pic I have a large block of wood under the leg, to allow this big deer to get hoisted higher.
 
My wife got me one a few years ago , as I hunt alone it works very well. Has an adjustable foot for uneven ground.
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18601028[/URL]]My wife got me one a few years ago , as I hunt alone it works very well. Has an adjustable foot for uneven ground.
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I have the same one. It works pretty good for small to medium sized deer but it needs to be able to extend another two feet taller for bigger bucks. I think it's rated for 400lbs? It's not hard to tell HME hunting products are made in Texas and designed by and for hunting in Texas. My HME blind is a cold bugger to sit in, it's too lightweight for Canada. As for the hoist I bought it for the 2020 season and skinned 5 deer with it to date. It definitely is a help when you don't have a pole setup or a garage with a hoist. I had a new 10x14 shed built with a barn style roof and had them run a main beam down the centre heavy enough to hang a moose or a few deer. The wife bought me a chain hoist for it for Xmas so once that is mounted I'll start skinning them in the shed. It can get pretty cold skinning off the back of the truck on the AB prairie in rifle season with temps often in the -20's and wind howling.
 
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Hmm... mine is a crude homemade thing, didn't actually know you could buy them.
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Nice work, very handy to have when solo hunting!

Like Keith said, they sell them at princess now and then, thats the one i have. I think it is good for 350 lbs. (Yours could probably carry 5x that!) I attached an open eye hook to the bottom plate so i can use it to pull the hide off as well as just field dress it after seeing this version:

 
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I've been using "the hanging rig" which I call it, for about 14 years. I found an advertisement in the Hunting Regulations on a game hitch hoist for about $260, I was sold. I use it every year, case in point, I used it this year for my antelope hunt. It's a real handy rig, especially if a person is by themselves. I can hoist it up and pivot it in a 180%, and then drop the animal in my truck-bed. I usually remove my tailgate before installing the hoist, which takes under 30 seconds. I don't always use the hoist, I also enjoy skinning and gutting animals in deep snow.

I haven't seen the advertisement in the regulations in recent years, and really don't know if the person is still in business. He lives in Calgary and I believe he may manufacture them out of his work shop, at his residence. If some one knows this fellow, please chime-in and give his name or business. Here are a few photographs of "the hanging rid".
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When I built mine I wanted it to be take-down for convenience, just like you. But instead of square tubing, I used round tubing, and a pair of 4” flanges that were scrounged from a job sight. Now with 2 bolts it is held in place, but buy removing the 2 bolts, it will swivel to swing the load into the bed of the truck.
 
The one I have does swivel so you can move it to put you deer into the box on your pickup. My truck was in the shop so I used the jeep. Easy to gut and quarter then put pieces into the jeep. Wrapped in a tarp so the wife was ok with that.
 
Also picked up the hoist Cabelas carries. As stated above the foot is great and the swivel is a must to drop the deer into the truck. Works as advertised and saved labour... although as you can see, I didn't test its limits.

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I always thought one of those hoists would come in handy and although i don't have too much of a problem getting an average sized deer into the back of the truck myself, if it was anything bigger, or a bear, even just logs and rocks and stuff outside of hunting would be really useful.

It does seem like it would be something i would have always forgotten at home when i needed it though so i've always held off getting one.
 
[\QUOTE]The one I have does swivel so you can move it to put you deer into the box on your pickup. My truck was in the shop so I used the jeep. Easy to gut and quarter then put pieces into the jeep. Wrapped in a tarp so the wife was ok with that.[/QUOTE]

I made one out of aluminum for my quad 4 years ago that swings around. Wouldn’t have one that didn’t. Can set a half a moose on my quad like nothing.

[video]http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/image49.jpeg[/video]
 
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My friend just bought a hoist that replaces his rear bumper on his full size pick up. the entire unit collapses down into the "bumper" it comes with. It rotates and has a hydraulic arm and electric winch. He saw it on amazon one night at my place and within a couple weeks the thing arrived on a pallet at the local courier outfit.
Haven't seen it on his truck yet but I'm looking forward to seeing what it can do. If it impresses me I'm gonna order one for the 1st gen cummins w250.
 
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My friend just bought a hoist that replaces his rear bumper on his full size pick up. the entire unit collapses down into the "bumper" it comes with. It rotates and has a hydraulic arm and electric winch. He saw it on amazon one night at my place and within a couple weeks the thing arrived on a pallet at the local courier outfit.
Haven't seen it on his truck yet but I'm looking forward to seeing what it can do. If it impresses me I'm gonna order one for the 1st gen cummins w250.
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saw one of those about 8 years ago at a trade show.

not cheap but would be a great addition to the truck, only drawback is that it had no downriggers.


just did a search, looks like they come with a small downrigger now.

Western Mule fold away crane ??
Sto-away Power Crane ??
 
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PA has three different hoists in their latest Catalog. One is a hitch mount rig with outrigger feet, one is a frame mounted hoist that allows you to lift a load in and pivot it into the box, and the other is a foldaway bumper mount kit that hides in the rear bumper when not in use.

Dunno if you could buy the materials to make one, for their prices.

Waddya know, two more than are in the Catalog!
https://www.princessauto.com/en/truck-cranes/category/410-005-020-030
 
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