Any innovative solutions for suspended gralloch?

[Olaf]

The hoist is free to rotate in the two clamps on the side. The top clamp allows the vertical bar to pass through and rotate freely. The bottom clamp has a ridge or flange at the bottom that stops the bar from dropping through to the ground. This clamp has a hex grub screw (the system is key clamp I believe) that I welded an old Allen key to so I can lock it in position while gralloching then loosen it and swing the hoist around.

Best part was it was all less than £20 secondhand from someone who bought a house that had this down the front path for a previous elderly owner. There was probably enough pipework and clamps to make two joists.

You can buy all the fittings new and if you get them to fit old scaffold tubes then you can make more of a saving.

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That’s the stuff to use, key clamp joints
If the op uses 2 x 27mm fittings and 3 bits of 27mm tube he can make a little frame that can attach ( resting down) onto the roof rack. Position off the side or straight off the back of the vehicle .
Nice link there sir. That’s what I used to rig out my walk in chiller with hanging rails and an electric winch for under £50 and I only needed to get my angle grinder and drill out to do it all in a quick Saturday morning job.
Kindest regards, Olaf

 

[Tom8]

Boot is side opening.......

Probably easiest thing is bite the bullet and find a SH tow bar and get it fitted. Then get a hoist off TomB or Deer Trays.

If you do drop on a towbar, give me a shout if can supply big or small deer hoist or custom made ones

 

[johnnytheboy]

What about one of those canoe racks, would they give you a bit more height?

 

[Olaf]

One of these

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And one of these

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And 3 bits of pipe.
The swivel ones good to attach to the roof rack as it will allow for un even / sloping ground.
Kindest regards, Olaf
Oh… and one of these to hang the deer gambrel off:

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[Olaf]

What about one of those canoe racks, would they give you a bit more height?

Canoe rack ? He’d also have to buy himself a stand up paddle board and a 6.5 Creedmoor then
Sorry… I simply couldn’t resist
Kindest regards, Olaf

 

[Confidis]

Join the queue of apprentices at the builders merchants in for a pair of skyhooks and a long weight…

an item of last resort abseil down flick the rope and down it comes

 

[Olaf]

Ach, I do love a good chuckle .
anyway , I’ve done a technical drawing to help illustrate the potential design solution in action.


The drawing is not to scale, so don’t try to take measurements from it. and I’m sorry that the wheels are not very goodly drawn or anything, but it sort of illustrates how one could deploy it.
The deer in the drawing is a fallow buck …..weighing approximately 60kg at a guess.
Kindest regards, Olaf

 

[Olaf]

Canoe rack ? He’d also have to buy himself a stand up paddle board and a 6.5 Creedmoor then
Sorry… I simply couldn’t resist
Kindest regards, Olaf

On a serious note though, if the OP were to grasp this opportunity to multipurpose the canoe rack and did buy himself a stand up paddle board, and a 6.5 Creedmoor rifle ( a tactical one) ….then I can strongly recommend arranging his hair in a sort of spherical ball - or more accurately described- a bun like form on the top of his head. It stops your hair getting all in your eyes and tangled up if you fall off the paddle board and get it all wet and horrible.
Kindest regards, Olaf

 

[HonestJohn]

Ffs, gralloch the bastard on the deck! never, in decades, have I felt the need to hoist one up. It’s like people who must lay down and crawl around in the mud with a bipod to shoot anything, when onlookers are like “wtf are you doing?”

Live simple

 

[Shootgun]

I’ve got 2 solutions, for when you can drive to them , and for when you cannot!
2 prickets on it just to test it !

 

[HonestJohn]

I’ve got 2 solutions, for when you can drive to them , and for when you cannot!
2 prickets on it just to test it !

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You carry that around whilst stalking? Or do you leave the beast in gralloched for xyz time until you’ve retrieved it and brought it to the deers location?

 

[Shootgun]

You carry that around whilst stalking? Or do you leave the beast in gralloched for xyz time until you’ve retrieved it and brought it to the deers location?

I leave the beast gralloched, into a fly net for later retreival .

 

[HonestJohn]

I leave the beast gralloched, into a fly net for later retreival .

I was wondering about the hoist

 

[Shootgun]

I was wondering about the hoist

Sits in the back of the motor, is made out of 2 pieces, easy to put up and it takes 400 pounds of weight.
I just drop it in the sled when needed and job done!

 

[Tim.243]

I’ve got 2 solutions, for when you can drive to them , and for when you cannot!
2 prickets on it just to test it !

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Mine swings around to lay in plasters bath on tailgate 83kg £20.00 for the winch the rest out of the steel rack, takes about 30 seconds to set up.



Do you have to put them down then handball them in the truck?

 

[3595wilk]

Ffs, gralloch the bastard on the deck! never, in decades, have I felt the need to hoist one up. It’s like people who must lay down and crawl around in the mud with a bipod to shoot anything, when onlookers are like “wtf are you doing?”

Live simple

Wow, I am actually impressed. It has to be a new SD record?

It took 29 posts before someone came on to basically say.......

'You are all knobheads. My way is the only right way to do it. If you don't do it that way you can all f**k off......'

 

[3595wilk]

I’ve got 2 solutions, for when you can drive to them , and for when you cannot!
2 prickets on it just to test it !

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That is really impressive.

 

[Tim.243]

That is really impressive.

Tell Werner

Thread 'Deer Hoist (Back Saver)'

Dec 27, 2023

Good morning Comrades,
I hope you all had a great Christmas and Santa brought you some nice gifts. My gift came way before Christmas and a big thank you to @Tim.243
Now for those who don't know Tim, I alway discribe him to mates as the Chap that Engineers himself out of the S*&t he got himself into . For years I have asked Tim to fabricate me a deer hoist and it fell on deaf ears..... Little did I know Tim wanted to build himself one first and then me second in line. Well that day had finally come and one afternoon I popped over for a coffee. Tim walked to the back of my truck...

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[Mike1979]

On a serious note though, if the OP were to grasp this opportunity to multipurpose the canoe rack and did buy himself a stand up paddle board, and a 6.5 Creedmoor rifle ( a tactical one) ….then I can strongly recommend arranging his hair in a sort of spherical ball - or more accurately described- a bun like form on the top of his head. It stops your hair getting all in your eyes and tangled up if you fall off the paddle board and get it all wet and horrible.
Kindest regards, Olaf

Jealous nonsense Ownership of a creedmoor shows refinement and class and keeps the hair , beauty and inappropriate thong market going

 

[HonestJohn]

Wow, I am actually impressed. It has to be a new SD record?

It took 29 posts before someone came on to basically say.......

'You are all knobheads. My way is the only right way to do it. If you don't do it that way you can all f**k off......'

Yep