Suspended gralloch using minimal kit

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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.

Perfic solution

 

[Tim.243]

Now Mrs Smith I can assure you these lads work hard to bring me good clean beasts, they bring them all the way from down the hill. See I have their tag in me book...A good day to you the lad will drop your order around later.

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[Antonyweeks]

I’ve never seen a gralloch done the same way twice, so my next one will be on the ground using Charlie’s patented 30 second field gralloch. I carry two S hooks and can usually find a convenient branch, but I’ve only done roe and munties on my own - my guides have done the fallow, so I want to get more practice this year and then do my DSC2.

What's Charlie's 30 second patented field gralloch?

 

[Rafter]

Not sure how I was going to suspend this, so I just cut off the edible bits and went home heavier than I arrived.

 

[Curried Venison]

I appreciate all the different contributions. Thanks for sharing, especially pics.

 

[Tom270]

 

[Hill searcher]

If you need to hoist rather than hang off a branch. Fit in your pocket. Ideal for roe. It has a catch so locks as you hoist. Pull and hold catch to release.

 

[FISH BOY]

If you need to hoist rather than hang off a branch. Fit in your pocket. Ideal for roe. It has a catch so locks as you hoist. Pull and hold catch to release.

I bought some of those with the same idea in mind. Have to say while dinky, they were simply not up to much as it was more a case of lifting the small deer and taking up the slack on the pull rope for the ratchet to lock.

I then sized up to the 1/4 (200lb) version and found it miles better, but still had to lift the deer and take up the slack - literally only using the ratchet to lock it off.

I then invested in a single pulley which makes the combined system do all the work. Simply pull the rope.

Had a number of fallow does on it so it definately works.

 

[Hill searcher]

Same idea it may help him with light gear for light jobs.

 

[Roebuck9]

I found it really awkward carrying the tree around to suspend it on, so have gone back to doing it on the ground…

Guys I know you all "love to do it on the ground" but when you are 80 years old, the hard part is getting back off the ground, ie standing up again.

When you are out on your own with no one to help you, so you probably need a tree for that, so you might just as well use the tree to gralloch the deer on.

It will come to you one day so please, no sniggering in the back row.

 

[Overlay]

Guys I know you all "love to do it on the ground" but when you are 80 years old, the hard part is getting back off the ground, ie standing up again.

When you are out on your own with no one to help you, so you probably need a tree for that, so you might just as well use the tree to gralloch the deer on.

It will come to you one day so please, no sniggering in the back row.

. It already has but I keep fighting it

 

[Klenchblaize]

I’ll just leave this here:

Suspended Gralloch... WHY?!
K

 

[tarponhead]

What's Charlie's 30 second patented field gralloch?

Open the beast at the pizel or udder enough to get in and cut around the diaphragm, pull the contents down and away, reach up and pull oesophagus out, drain the blood and heart-lung soup out of the smallish hole and extract. Great knife skills and minimal exposure of meat to the ground/ inside of truck. All good.

 

[Mungo]

Guys I know you all "love to do it on the ground" but when you are 80 years old, the hard part is getting back off the ground, ie standing up again.

When you are out on your own with no one to help you, so you probably need a tree for that, so you might just as well use the tree to gralloch the deer on.

It will come to you one day so please, no sniggering in the back row.

Oh I have no doubt that there are many extremely good reasons to do suspended gralloch. My issue is that on a lot of the ground I stalk, the nearest tree can be over a mile away, sometimes quite a lot more than that.

 

[StephenToast]

Oh I have no doubt that there are many extremely good reasons to do suspended gralloch. My issue is that on a lot of the ground I stalk, the nearest tree can be over a mile away, sometimes quite a lot more than that.

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[Roebuck9]

Oh I have no doubt that there are many extremely good reasons to do suspended gralloch. My issue is that on a lot of the ground I stalk, the nearest tree can be over a mile away, sometimes quite a lot more than that.

If it's not there you can't have it so gralloch on the ground and get it back to your vehicle so you can get it back to where you can butcher it cleanly and safely. If there is a tree then use it as God put it there for your use.

 

[Tim.243]

If it's not there you can't have it so gralloch on the ground and get it back to your vehicle so you can get it back to where you can butcher it cleanly and safely. If there is a tree then use it as God put it there for your use.

Quite, he also put the lines to follow when you cut them up. Thing is the industry standard is to kill cows pigs sheep chickens and get it up in the air for many reasons one being you are not rolling around on the ground cleaning it out.
Other reasons which should be obvious to the no tree gang then drag it out but any food other than the hill deer has been knocked over and is up in the air and away.

 

[Roebuck9]

Quite, he also put the lines to follow when you cut them up. Thing is the industry standard is to kill cows pigs sheep chickens and get it up in the air for many reasons one being you are not rolling around on the ground cleaning it out.
Other reasons which should be obvious to the no tree gang then drag it out but any food other than the hill deer has been knocked over and is up in the air and away.

Right I think I now understand what you getting at, you or anyone else have not queeried or questioned until now, despite the huge popularity of doing so, the fact that those who gralloch on the ground are not following industry standard of an animal being gralloched by hanging from aloft in order to prevent as far as possible the ingress of foreign bodies entering a carcass that is going for human consumption.

Is my understanding of your conjectur correct? If so I fully agree with you. I may have implied for another reason now but I have always gralloched from a tree but surely it is the individuals in the other camp who you should be educating as to the error of their ways.

 

[Roebuck9]

Cheers Tim.243 we finally made it, but could have made it quicker and easier with just simpler language

 

[Tim.243]

Cheers Tim.243 we finally made it, but could have made it quicker and easier with just simpler language

I speak in numbers as for me a Vernier or Metric/Imperial Mic's the dial on a Mill is much less complicated than there their
threw through or dragging a cleaned out deer down a hill and sticking a label on it saying it is fit for the food chain