Getting red deer in back of truck

[homer]

For those of us that dont have a winch in the back of our trucks, how do you get a stag, or even a hind for that matter, up into the truck bed on your own?
Do you use ramps, planks of wood etc?
Pictures would be great.
Either the deer are getting heavier or im getting weaker!

 

[dartmoordog]

For those of us that dont have a winch in the back of our trucks, how do you get a stag, or even a hind for that matter, up into the truck bed on your own?
Do you use ramps, planks of wood etc?
Pictures would be great.
Either the deer are getting heavier or im getting weaker!

Is there any reason you cannot fit a winch in your truck, life is made so much easier mate.

 

[homer]

Probably not , was just wondering if there was a way without .

 

[Selous]

One of these things makes life so much easier. Yes I know that’s a roe but it works great with reds too. It’s the swivel top deer hoist from David Stretton

 

[Rory]

I've been cogitating this very thing. I would use two or three ramps to the tailgate. Then rig up a pulley system central in the bed, off the tie down points. Likely use a sled or tray as well, so the load slides up into bed easier. Will need to test this out after establishing if the tie down points cn take the strain.

 

[Feugh]

I use a ramp made out of wood. The carcass is placed into the carcass tray and shoved up the ramp. I haven't shot a red large enough yet so that this doesn't work. If I had to actually lift a red into the back by myself, I'm not sure that I'd manage.
I do carry a pulley system so that if I couldn't just muscle the tray up the ramp I'd use that, but I haven't had to yet.

 

[Essex stalker]

Aluminium foldable ramps work well and don’t take up too much space

 

[CarlW]

Drag into onto a stump or a bit of high ground then reverse up to it. Alternatively, drop your back wheels into a ditch or dip.

 

[homer]

I've been cogitating this very thing. I would use two or three ramps to the tailgate. Then rig up a pulley system central in the bed, off the tie down points. Likely use a sled or tray as well, so the load slides up into bed easier. Will need to test this out after establishing if the tie down points cn take the strain.

I tried using the tie down points as an anchor, but the weight of pull just pulled them out and was going to damage the bed

 

[paulbshooting]

Also got the hoist from David but prior to that had a scaffold plank and used to push the beast in a carcass tray up that.

 

[Rory]

I tried using the tie down points as an anchor, but the weight of pull just pulled them out and was going to damage the bed

Ouch! Right, back to the drawing board!

 

[homer]

Also got the hoist from David but prior to that had a scaffold plank and used to push the beast in a carcass tray up that.

What carcass tray did you use? Propper deer tray or plasterers bath type thing? Have looked at the plasterers bath and they look solid enough but only room for 2 of them in the back of truck at a time, could do with 3.

 

[paulbshooting]

What carcass tray did you use? Propper deer tray or plasterers bath type thing? Have looked at the plasterers bath and they look solid enough but only room for 2 of them in the back of truck at a time, could do with 3.

The standard bushwear one , had it years and you can buy better ones now with angled sides which will help. Looked at the plasterer bath and not convinced

 

[Rory]

Aluminium foldable ramps work well and don’t take up too much space

Nice ramps, where can you get them?

 

[StephenToast]

I don't push, I pull. Red in carcass tray with a length of rope out the front, wooden ramp up to tailgate. Stand or rather squat in the buck of the pickup and pull the tray up the ramp. Means you can lift with your quads and keep your back straight.

As Carl said, dragging it up a bank and reversing up to that helps.

the biggest red I have loaded this way tipped my scales at 150Kg dressed out.

150 is the maximum my scales read so I assume it was bigger than that, not sure by how much though.

 

[homer]

I don't push, I pull. Red in carcass tray with a length of rope out the front, wooden ramp up to tailgate. Stand or rather squat in the buck of the pickup and pull the tray up the ramp. Means you can lift with your quads and keep your back straight.

As Carl said, dragging it up a bank and reversing up to that helps.

the biggest red I have loaded this way tipped my scales at 150Kg dressed out.

150 is the maximum my scales read so I assume it was bigger than that, not sure by how much though.

Sounds good, as long as you dont have a canopy on the back of your pickup!

 

[HallyButt]

Can’t your man just lift it in for you?

 

[Foxyboy43]

Just leave the back open and a pile of apples or turnips in it for a couple of nights. Simples.

 

[Woodsy]

If you need a few trays in the back and plasterers trays don’t fit, you might consider a few half barrels. Three should fit in back of your truck. A hind fits in well enough and although I had a friend to help lift this one in, I’ve managed to slide big fallow bucks up scaffold planks alone using the half barrel.

 

[Bavarianbrit]

Put a pully bolted in at the front of the pickups bed onto a vertical frame if there is one fitted or onto the front wall of the bed with a reinforcing plate (load spreader). Hook a wide piece of ply with homemade metal hooks onto the top of the tailgate when it is lowered to the horizontal which is the ramp the other end of ply touches the ground behind the truck say 3 feet back. Put the red into a tray on the ground. A rope goes around this pully and is tied onto the tray at one end on a load spreader plate. On the other end of the rope make up a strong ring loop (metal reinforced). Drive a spike into the ground through this loop directly behind the pickup . Then drive very slowly forward and the tray will be pulled up the ramp and into the trucks bed. The ramp will of course drag along the ground as the truck moves forward but the rope will keep the tray aligned centrally
Easy.