Suspended gralloch using minimal kit
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Unfortunately (or not as the case may be), we don't have any reds in our neck of the woods!
This set up works with fallow does & prickets - for bucks I use the lightweight block & tackle, either with a suitable tree or the scaffold pole off the roof of the motor as per post on the thread below.
Wanted: - Large stainless gambrel
Happy New Year I’m trying to build my own pulley rig for field suspended gralloch’s as cheap as I can so looking for a large stainless gambrel with loop similar to pic for use on Fallow (around 20 inch would be ideal) if anyone has one going? Thanks Dan
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@theroedeerguy
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By making the cut below the flat joint it means any contamination from dirty hooves is cut off and discarded back at the larder.
Ade8mm
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Snap!
It all fits in a small belt pouch along with neporene gloves a knive sharpener (and tournequet and bandage - 'cause you never know!)
Ade
Come on K think out the box
I’m not lugging that lot across the Greensand Ridge!
That said I do have all the components, other than the aluminium scaffold-like tube and mounting plate for the electric hoist, to make a detachable & adjustable A frame deer hanger that attaches to my external LR roll cage. Components include:
•. Various Key Clamps
•. Quick detachable male/female plugs that accommodate power cable of the thickness you’d see on your vehicle battery.
•. 12v hoist. Yes, a hoist and not a winch. There is a difference as I’m certain you know.
•. Heavy-duty thumb tighten-able clamps for attaching the above once I’ve cut out the base plate. These clamps I secured from a London Theatre refurbishment project. They are used in the context of scenery and lighting support and were going in the skip. Cost to purchase new would be circa £75 each! Probably more.
Others bits too but you no doubt get the picture.
Best
K
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Overlay
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Trigger260
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Thats no good! You need an electrical solar powered winch strong enough for roe and large rabbits! Bang tidy
Tow it back to the truck as you need the truck to go home..
wish it was that easy open hillTow it back to the truck as you need the truck to go home..
truck prob 800+yards away
Nearest tree 300+
small cuts to get the bulk out then Get the drag rope out
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You’ve clearly not done much hill stalking…Tow it back to the truck as you need the truck to go home..
Hill Stalking Explained for the Lowlander:
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NoIDeer
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I wonder how many folk are thinking they could do a fine suspended gralloch by rigging some thing or other from the top of that Argo
Heym SR20
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Beautiful spot. Where abouts are you here then?
Heym SR20
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Torridon. No chance of any vehicle get up on the tops. Indeed dragging through the lumps of rock is very hard, so much so that really only way to recover a beast is chopping it up on the spot and backpacking it out.
Done that from the roof rack on the Jimny, just made sure I rinsed any blood spots off the bodywork sharpish.I wonder how many folk are thinking they could do a fine suspended gralloch by rigging some thing or other from the top of that Argo
Heym SR20
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I have tried the suspended gralloch. For me it doesn’t work. All of the weight of gut contents pressing against the belly skin makes it much more difficult to open.
Instead, small slit in the throat - tie of the oesophagus and separate it and the wind pipe. Lie beast on its back, lift up belly skin away from rumen, open up the belly from sternum, roll it onto right hand side with head to your left, ease out the rumen, separating the liver, get the neck of the rumen and ease out the food pipe, pull rumen and intestines out, at back end squeeze out pellets, chop and tie off off poo pipe ( or faff about cutting out the rectum , bladder etc - I do it in the larder when splitting H Bone), slit open the diaphragm, reach in - being careful of any sharp bone and grab wind pipe and extract, lay beast so any blood drains out, dispose of the gralloch, clean up knife and hands using wet grass, moss, stream etc, have a smoke and drag or carry beast back to the larder.
Meanwhile suspended method - first unfankle all the knotted cordage………………,
I have also found the solution to gralloching and extraction - its called a keen nephew, godson, daughter’s boyfriend or somebody else who is keen to learn. You can guide them through the gralloch and then let them get fit recovering the deer - far too dangerous dragging and carrying an unloaded rifle and since they don’t have an FAC and its the law that a younger person does the dragging - well I will see you back the yard.
Instead, small slit in the throat - tie of the oesophagus and separate it and the wind pipe. Lie beast on its back, lift up belly skin away from rumen, open up the belly from sternum, roll it onto right hand side with head to your left, ease out the rumen, separating the liver, get the neck of the rumen and ease out the food pipe, pull rumen and intestines out, at back end squeeze out pellets, chop and tie off off poo pipe ( or faff about cutting out the rectum , bladder etc - I do it in the larder when splitting H Bone), slit open the diaphragm, reach in - being careful of any sharp bone and grab wind pipe and extract, lay beast so any blood drains out, dispose of the gralloch, clean up knife and hands using wet grass, moss, stream etc, have a smoke and drag or carry beast back to the larder.
Meanwhile suspended method - first unfankle all the knotted cordage………………,
I have also found the solution to gralloching and extraction - its called a keen nephew, godson, daughter’s boyfriend or somebody else who is keen to learn. You can guide them through the gralloch and then let them get fit recovering the deer - far too dangerous dragging and carrying an unloaded rifle and since they don’t have an FAC and its the law that a younger person does the dragging - well I will see you back the yard.
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