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A chain around the beam in the garage. Then skin around the neck and slit the skin on the front legs. We put a skinning clamp on the hide and pull it off with an ATV
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My deck. I've got a pully mounted up there, that you can see at the top of the picture, and a boat cleat. I run a rope through the pully and pull them up with the tractor and tie it off with a shorter rope onto the boat cleat. After I skin it down to the front legs, I strip it off with the tractor.
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Found pic of another rack, think I’ve build 6 like this. No trees big enough at most places I’ve hunted.
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I hardly ever hang them. Just do it on the ground. Skin and butcher one side at a time.
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I have a cheap ATV winch mounted to the wall of my garage, pulley chained on a rafter and pull it up.
So no one complains about blood, I use one of those cheap kiddie plastic pools and put it under it like a drain pan.
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That’s a good idea.
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I have a cheap ATV winch mounted to the wall of my garage, pulley chained on a rafter and pull it up.
So no one complains about blood, I use one of those cheap kiddie plastic pools and put it under it like a drain pan. I have pretty much the same set up, except I have my pulley bolted down in the rafters. I use a small wheel barrow underneath for the blood. My hose/water are a ways off, so I just take the mess to the water.
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I have a singletree that was used with harness to pull a wagon or cart Usually one horse or mule. Actual word is Swingletree, but no one uses it now days. It has an iron hook on each end that the trace chains fasten to that fits nicely above a deer's hock and an iron ring in the center that I hook to a chain hoist that is hung from the garage trusses Then do you hang two swingletrees off one dwoubletree 😁
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My deck….usually quartered out.
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Many times I've hung them from the front end loader on the tractor. YEP, Sometimes I hang them in my shed from rafters
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I’ve built a half dozen skinny racks through the years. Move along kids.......daddy needs to use the swing set....
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Tarp on the ground. Not worth hanging given we are limited to effectively 1 deer per year in ID. But I can see, if you are cleaning 3 or so at a time well worth it.
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Yearling doe are always on my hit list. They make for easy lifting… 😃 A small limb saw and paracord are handy. If I have nuff daylight, only the meat gets hauled out.
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I’ve built a half dozen skinny racks through the years. Move along kids.......daddy needs to use the swing set.... I have two swings when we have little kids in camp😎
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Hunt close to home and bring them home guts still in. Skin back the hind legs a ways and hoist from the hind legs with a rope, gambrel, and a pulley using a yard tree limb. Pull the hide off first and then gut. Almost all our deer are shot between sunset and dark thirty in cold weather so I wait until daylight to part him out.
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At deercamp we have a couple of chain hoists hanging in the barn. At home or in the woods somewhere else a tree limb and block and tackle works.
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