Truck free stalking?

[Dickie]

Wouldn’t worry too much about that. I’m in the same boat as you. I used to use a 55 gallon drum cut in half and put the carcass in a fly net. Works well for keeping the bugs / blood away out of the car. Most farmers will have spare drums laying around.

Or if you have £130 I recently upgraded to a Coleman chiller box which seals with a lid. It’s also got basic wheels if the ground is good. It’s got 95ltr capacity and can take up to 110kg so big enough for a fallow but lifting it into the back of the car would be a back breaker with bigger deer. May have to quarter it in the field to manage.

https://www.nisbets.co.uk/coleman-xtreme-wheeled-food-and-drinks-cooler-blue-95ltr/ch947

Get a length of old ladder and use it as a ramp to slide the box up into the car.

 

[countrryboy]

Oh there’s no criticism here I’ll definitely be copying it, really like that winch setup at the vehicle too. The hills around me are all drumlins so short hills but fairly steep, my van won’t get anywhere near the deer so that sort of trolley makes the most sense I think.

wot might work well if u can drive at 90 ( or any other angle) to the hill, some sort of ground anchor ( wont take much as its only a deer) with a snatch block and a length of cheap rope and pull them with ur motor..

Easy to set up and cheap to buy and nothing to break.

For a ground anchor u can use 2" angle iron with holes drilled into them and drive pins in, but they can literally pull/anchor many T.
If u go down the steel pin route, pay extra and buy hexagonal pins and get a hoop welded in the top, that way u can put a bar throu and twist as u lift and they come right out no probs as they break the suction. Round pins can be hard work to pull out.

 

[ABL]

Years ago I helped a friend out culling mainly fallow on a small piece of private woodland up on the South Downs that had no vehicle access permitted.

We modified an old fashioned folding golfing trolley to get the carcasses out to the truck. It was ideal as it had large wide wheels so didn’t sink too badly in soft ground & in itself was fairly light meaning we were not pulling that much additional weight.

Pulled the animal headfirst towards the handle, the back then cradled into the bits which would’ve originally stopped the golf bag falling sideways. The bottom bit was modified so there was a ‘shelf’ to sit the arse of the animal on so it didn’t slide down as it was wheeled out & we used to tie round the chest under the armpits & up to the handle from memory. Unfortunately all before the advent of camera phones so I don’t have any pictures.

This type of thing but more substantially made.

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One thing you need to be aware of with fallow is once they’re dead they become big heavy floppy lumps that aren’t easy to get up into the back of a vehicle. A ramp of some kind that you can slide them up will assist you immensely, as too will some sort of rope & pulley system - even if it’s just a rope you hook up between the outside seat hinges with a central loop that you can attach a simple doubler block to.

Back in the day when my carcasses all went inside my everyday vehicle I used an old ‘office moves’ / ‘teacrate’ box to contain all the mess.

The A6 has got quite low boot access, so I’m planning on lifting one end of a tray up onto the lip and then levering the other end up and in. That should be fine for a fallow I’d hope. But I will have to see how stable that is, or whether I need some sort of pulley design to help like you suggest. Thus far the fallow I have shot have been with friends, so there’s always been two of us, and never far to move the carcass to a 4x4. So doing it alone and over longer distance is going to be some learning for me!

 

[ABL]

I am putting up my L200 pickup as i have bought a mid size diesel van . Most my off roading is more because i can over why don't i just park right here and walk in ! Its amazing on fuel and its got a lot more space for dead deer, guns , kit and Dogs .
Will put some more grippy tyres on it when the current tread wears . If your looking for a good cheap L200 with long MOT etc I have one looking for a new home

I wish! Currently got 3 cars on the drive already so can’t have more. When I can properly get rid of one I may go the truck or 4x4 route. But need kids to grow up and a change of jobs before I can manage that!

 

[WalkedUp]

How old are your children?!

 

[ABL]

wot might work well if u can drive at 90 ( or any other angle) to the hill, some sort of ground anchor ( wont take much as its only a deer) with a snatch block and a length of cheap rope and pull them with ur motor..

Easy to set up and cheap to buy and nothing to break.

For a ground anchor u can use 2" angle iron with holes drilled into them and drive pins in, but they can literally pull/anchor many T.
If u go down the steel pin route, pay extra and buy hexagonal pins and get a hoop welded in the top, that way u can put a bar throu and twist as u lift and they come right out no probs as they break the suction. Round pins can be hard work to pull out.

A good tip

 

[ABL]

How old are your children?!

17, 16, 3 and 1. All full on boys! Never any problem getting venison eaten

 

[WalkedUp]

17, 16, 3 and 1. All full on boys! Never any problem getting venison eaten

Excellent work, I’ve only got three boys myself 11, 9 and 7 but they’re similarly greedy for venison.

 

[ColinBr]

Used to buy them in homebase as I have a few.
Actually have wee wheels on the bottom.
Some of those home bargains BM type shoes have heaps of cheapish storage solutions.

Thats where I bought mine also

I think Argos sell them too. I have the 175L version that as a deeper/higher lid.

 

[ABL]

Excellent work, I’ve only got three boys myself 11, 9 and 7 but they’re similarly greedy for venison.

There’s always time for more! As I discovered much later than planned or expected!

 

[South of the M4]

I couldn’t justify my old Landcruiser any more, it wasn’t being used April to November.
So started using our Audi Q5. It’s been 2 doe seasons now, it plows on through some ridiculous mud and ruts. It has winter tyres, but standard otherwise.
Yes, it’s Quattro 4 wheel drive, but even so….

 

[Jh1986]

Not all grounds are suited to vehicles anyway...





Both of my permissions are at the bottom of hills. I've a sled and I'm thinking of a Sika sack

 

[robgal]

wot might work well if u can drive at 90 ( or any other angle) to the hill, some sort of ground anchor ( wont take much as its only a deer) with a snatch block and a length of cheap rope and pull them with ur motor..

Easy to set up and cheap to buy and nothing to break.

For a ground anchor u can use 2" angle iron with holes drilled into them and drive pins in, but they can literally pull/anchor many T.
If u go down the steel pin route, pay extra and buy hexagonal pins and get a hoop welded in the top, that way u can put a bar throu and twist as u lift and they come right out no probs as they break the suction. Round pins can be hard work to pull out.

Good shout there is one area where that could work well, I’m a blacksmith so can forge my own hexagonal pins

 

[Eric the Red]

Take some advice from the fishing boys, who seem to hump vast quantities of gear about = look at Carp Porter - they even do a powered one and it collapses to nothing in a boot. Takes a Jetsled tray on it beautifully. Lift across from sled to car all in one. Works a treat - have done two animals at once from areas I'd have declined the shot without one

 

[skypie]

I have managed most of my shooting activities in a Nissan Juke. I did have a roof box on as I had transported my Labrador in the back. Most of that was wildfowling and rough shooting but have transported a roe in the roofbox too, admittedly in colder weather.

I did change to a pickup truck a few years ago, a Nissan Navara. I think all pickups are more or less the same anyway for practically but I do also find myself off-roading for the sake of it sometimes. And could get a way with a small berlingo sized van. Only thing I would struggle with is the occasional off road and transporting 3 people, 2 adults and a child.

The other problem with 4x4 is leaving tracks on the land so I will only use it if it is dry most of the time.

Don’t get me wrong the 4x4 (with correct tyres) is good in snow and mud. But a fwd could do most of what I need.

 

[Tim.243]

Take some advice from the fishing boys, who seem to hump vast quantities of gear about = look at Carp Porter - they even do a powered one and it collapses to nothing in a boot. Takes a Jetsled tray on it beautifully. Lift across from sled to car all in one. Works a treat - have done two animals at once from areas I'd have declined the shot without one

More than one use for my deer cart..

 

[Greenmist]

wot might work well if u can drive at 90 ( or any other angle) to the hill, some sort of ground anchor ( wont take much as its only a deer) with a snatch block and a length of cheap rope and pull them with ur motor..

Easy to set up and cheap to buy and nothing to break.

For a ground anchor u can use 2" angle iron with holes drilled into them and drive pins in, but they can literally pull/anchor many T.
If u go down the steel pin route, pay extra and buy hexagonal pins and get a hoop welded in the top, that way u can put a bar throu and twist as u lift and they come right out no probs as they break the suction. Round pins can be hard work to pull out.

Good article on here somewhere, attached a winch to the discovery's front alloy wheel

 

[SSN100]

What’s the make of that box? Looks like an alternative to the plasterers bath that might keep the passengers contained

I think I picked mine up in B&M. If you google large black box with wheels you’ll see them come up in lots of places.

 

[CookM]

I did fine with a Talbot Horizon,then a Ford Fiesta before work gave me a pickup.
Even had a roebuck on the back of a Suzuki Katana,before l stalked.
You are not limited by any means,but will be exercised well.

 

[ABL]

Not all grounds are suited to vehicles anyway...

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Both of my permissions are at the bottom of hills. I've a sled and I'm thinking of a Sika sack

Ouch!