I am building a meat hanging tree for hunting camp.
Designed as two large H sides and a pipe across them.

Rancher has a post driver so can drive four shorter legs into the ground , contemplating 2 7/8 drill stem maybe.
Will 2 3/8 slide inside 2 7/8?

I could pound in 7' 2 7/8 in the corners and then build the two H braces at home to slide and weld in.


It is designed to hold several whole elk at a time. And deer on the lower side rungs.

Main question is pipe sizing that will slide inside the legs?

I take it your talking OD sizes on your tubing.
As long as the wall thickness of the 2 7/8 is less than a 1/2" the 2 3/8 should slide into it... Provided you don't deform the sleeves to much when you drive them into the ground.

Might be easier, (read less critical measurement/alignment wise) to build your end supprts on site by sliding the 2 3/8 uprights into the sleeves before tying the tops of them together.

OMMV

Ya, I don't have to build the risers off site.
From what I remeber oil field pipe has od and id confusion.
2 7/8 is heavy walled pipe, it should not deform.
I just don't remeber if 2. 3/8 fit inside.

I'm not sure what I wouldn't just build it like a swing set frame on steroids where it could move around if you wanted to.

2 3/8 drill will slip in 2 7/8 drill stem

There's pipe and then there's well/downhole tbg.
You're talking about well tbg.

Standard 2 7/8" well tbg. is 2 7/8" ID and about 3.66" OD.
2 3/8" well tbg. is 2 3/8" ID and about 2.5" OD.

2 3/8" well tbg. will slide inside the 2 7/8" well tbg., but you may have to cut off the threaded upset (larger) ends.

If you are spanning across very wide you may want something larger/heavier than 2 /3/8" as it might flex/bend with a lot of weight.
It's about the same size OD as regular 2" line pipe.

Good Luck.....
-Ted

Nope. Oilfield tubing info listed below with tube OD, weight/foot, ID and drift. Common 2 7/8" tubing is referencing the OD (2.875") of the tube. Tool joint connection OD's will vary according to thread.
2 7/8" 6.5#/foot ID-2.441" Drift-2.347"
2 3/8" 4.7#/foot ID-1.995" Drift-1.901"

My planned span between the separate H frames would be wide enough to back two or three trucks under so 18' or so.
With the 18' I can gusset the top cross rails to to add support.

The H frames themselves being 10 feet on H cross bar. Wide enough to back a truck under from that direction.

I would like to be 16' high, the 12' of my shop leaves the nose of an elk low enough that if outside a coyote or dog could maraud.

A bit of overkill but we have electricity nearby so an electric winch on rail would be doable and future roofed and enclosed are considerations
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Built one a few years ago. Two a-frames and a cross pole. I put two sliders with rings on the cross pole. You can slide them to where you want them, block & tackle, and then tie off the quarters.

Tried a picture

Also referred as 2 1/2 and 2 in.

If the upsets are cut off of the 2 in.it will fit inside of the 2 1/2.

If i was doing it i would use a larger piece of tubing for the short piece that the cross bar slides in,allows some wiggle room.

That is a good design, the rings will be a good addition.

I need to find some closer but pipe prices don't look too bad.

8' 2 7/8 are $15 ea
2 3/8 are $35 ea they average 31'.

A friend of mine has a couple of oil fields. Spare and used pipe for the asking. We put this together in a few hours. One thing I would add is another cross piece in the middle of the A-frames. Tie off points.

I have built a couple like this. 3" pipe header. The legs are 2". They go inside the short pieces of 2 1/2 that are welded to the 3 " header. Wench on each side. Should hold a couple Elk easy. Can be moved quickly. Took about 3 hours to build. Gusset is 1" solid bar.Takes 4 people to put up and take down. I think it's 12' wide. Could be made wider. This may be the one with 4" header. I'm old, so I don't remember. There is an old sugar cane mill in pic. Rancher is about 60. He said they used it a lot when he was a boy.

Wench is welded on a piece of plate that's wider than leg. Wench is u-bolted to the leg. F...k block and tackle-tieing off to legs. I use my old boat wenches. The straps rot after a couple years. I bought 500 feet of stainless cable. That should last a while. Hope this helps.

Looks good. Does the "wench" get to operate the winch, or is there another job for her???
Maybe a 12 volt winch that would hook up to a battery?
No, I like the wench idea.

Here's a pic, because your post may have gone over someone's head...

That is definitely a better image than I picture when imagining a 1000lb wench.

Around here those are called a sorghum mill. miles

Sorghum mill. Old Dave ain't much of a farmer. Pretty ignorant about that stuff. Damn I spelled winch wrong too. Glad there are people here to help us old people spell. I probably spelled it correctly, spell check changed it. I was at least able to build skinning rack. Maybe I should start building and selling them. I used to build BBQ pits, raffle them off on a football pot before they started letting us work all the overtime we want.

There are people that restore those old sorghum mills, put them in operation again. John Deere made them.

I am sure they were used on sugar cane too, where it would grow. I really think you could grow it here, but you had to put down a cane stalk, and it would sprout at the joints. Sorghum could be planted from seed. I don't think they have to replant cane, where they raise it, but it comes back after cutting. After all, it is just a grass. miles

I will ask him. It might have been sorghum. I found a silver dollar made in 1884 by the skinning rack in the pic. I was digging ditch for electric line. There was an old house there at one time. Spring fed creek to the right of rack. That property has been in that family since early 1840's.