What bone saw to get?

[berg]

Would love to see how you do a suspended gralloch without splitting the chest plate Taff? Never had a dealer complain either!

Easy same as they do lambs in the slaughterhouses bit more fiddler and not how I go about dressing deer but not that hard if you think about it just tie the food pipe of losen up and though hang your deer up, open the belly upwards and pull the stomach over the sternum cut the diaphragm free and give it a pull and out it comes .would twice as long as a normal suspended gralloch but very doable.

 

[Taff]

Easy same as they do lambs in the slaughterhouses bit more fiddler and not how I go about dressing deer but not that hard if you think about it just tie the food pipe of losen up and though hang your deer up, open the belly upwards and pull the stomach over the sternum cut the diaphragm free and give it a pull and out it comes .would twice as long as a normal suspended gralloch but very doable.

twice as long? I would have it all out before you get it off the ground.

 

[baguio]

Easy same as they do lambs in the slaughterhouses bit more fiddler and not how I go about dressing deer but not that hard if you think about it just tie the food pipe of losen up and though hang your deer up, open the belly upwards and pull the stomach over the sternum cut the diaphragm free and give it a pull and out it comes .would twice as long as a normal suspended gralloch but very doable.

Yes, like a ground gralloch but losing some of the benefits of a suspended gralloch as anything that you don't want can't get away so easily! I fail to see the point of it and much more chance of breaking something and spilling contents. Why would you? I appreciate that it's not the way that you do it either and that's how I would have done it too if I was told to but as splitting the chest cavity enables the carcass to cool quicker with the aid of a chest spreader too it is the way that I now go!

 

[baguio]

I have one of each of these but don't rate them as they don't seem to last too long! The blade is carbon which is high maintenance as it rusts and stains very easily. The teeth are very fine like a hacksaw and clog quickly on a large beast. The plastic on the end soon cracks and breaks which has happened on both now. To be fair, they have been used on a lot of deer, but the plastic is too brittle and I'd prefer a stainless version.
MS

Mine didn't do a lot of deer either though. Two or three maybe before it was returned for the 11cm blade Casstrom which is still going strong some time later!

 

[mchughcb]

I have one of each of these but don't rate them as they don't seem to last too long! The blade is carbon which is high maintenance as it rusts and stains very easily. The teeth are very fine like a hacksaw and clog quickly on a large beast. The plastic on the end soon cracks and breaks which has happened on both now. To be fair, they have been used on a lot of deer, but the plastic is too brittle and I'd prefer a stainless version.
MS

Sorry for the price and size I rate them pretty good. Mine haven't cracked yet and I certainly clean them every time. Having a coarse blade on a short stroke would make it difficult. To be clear, how many is a lot before failure?

 

[bigoak]

I dont see any need to split the breast bonf, but if you need to just get s folding bahco pruning saw. I can cut the backbone etc with mine as well as removing skull caps. Easy as

 

[baguio]

I dont see any need to split the breast bonf, but if you need to just get s folding bahco pruning saw. I can cut the backbone etc with mine as well as removing skull caps. Easy as

As has been said on here before, a chain saw will also split the breast bone but that doesn't make it a good tool for the job either!

 

[Sellars]

I've never found the need to split the chest to do a gralloch so don't carry a bone saw with me when out and use a standard butchers saw in the larder.

 

[Tim.243]

I sheer the ribs from one side of the breast bone using my tripe knife, this is done in one motion with a suspended gralloch.
I open up the main cavity down the breast bone and the using my tripe knife with the blunt tip get it in position and with one fast downward motion sheer the ribs right off and carry on until I get to the beasts chin.

The ribs go back in place holding in the guts then with both hands I can work it all out with the wind pipe.
I have done 60kg Fallow the same way...

What I find hard to do with my big fat welders hands is get the bladder out from a Muntjac buck!!

Tim.243

 

[chrishorner]

I have used a Casstrom, Bush saw from bush wear, a knife to open chest cavity. By far the best is the casstrom in fact I threw the Bush Blade away after one Gralloch it was awful to use floppy blade and suspect handle.

 

[Taff]

Yes, like a ground gralloch but losing some of the benefits of a suspended gralloch as anything that you don't want can't get away so easily! I fail to see the point of it and much more chance of breaking something and spilling contents. Why would you? I appreciate that it's not the way that you do it either and that's how I would have done it too if I was told to but as splitting the chest cavity enables the carcass to cool quicker with the aid of a chest spreader too it is the way that I now go!

I think you have to remember, we all do things differently, I very rarely shoot one deer at a time, deer are shot, gralloched on the floor, if roe they are hung up a tree, by using the removed front legs as a cross stay, we then head for the next deer, perhaps not perfect but how it happens in the real world, when culling large numbers.

 

[Cyres]

I must say rarely use one but on an older roe i find the saw blade on my leatherman super tool is ideal. At home I use a folding Bancho/Sandvic pruning saw.

D

 

[bogtrotter]

Bushwear do a cheap bone saw similar to the sagen for under a tenner,don't last that long but at will last most hobby stalkers a season or two.

As a Highland stalker all our grallochs were done on the ground no trees to do a suspended gralloch , usually only did a green gralloch on the hill and the rest in the larder , unless it was going to be a long time before the carcase could be brought to the larder for example having to be left out overnight in which case a full gralloch would be done.

Personally don't care for dong a suspended gralloch much prefer a stool.

My Game dealer insisted on both chest and aitch bones being split.

There is more than one way of skinning a cat.

 

[AN DU RU FOX]

Bushwear do a cheap bone saw similar to the sagen for under a tenner,don't last that long but at will last most hobby stalkers a season or two.

As a Highland stalker all our grallochs were done on the ground no trees to do a suspended gralloch , usually only did a green gralloch on the hill and the rest in the larder , unless it was going to be a long time before the carcase could be brought to the larder for example having to be left out overnight in which case a full gralloch would be done.

Personally don't care for dong a suspended gralloch much prefer a stool.

My Game dealer insisted on both chest and aitch bones being split.

There is more than one way of skinning a cat.

But you will need a smaller saw,

 

[johndeere]

Get one of these I have split cattle with these before today cheap easy to clean and useful for fitting a door
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/IRWIN-13-...281724?hash=item5b031d63fc:g:LwIAAOSwMmBVlpho
Actually the one I used on cattle was its big brother this will work fine on deer

 

[bigscott270]

Get one of these I have split cattle with these before today cheap easy to clean and useful for fitting a door
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/IRWIN-13-...281724?hash=item5b031d63fc:g:LwIAAOSwMmBVlpho
Actually the one I used on cattle was its big brother this will work fine on deer

Big man I will need to come down and show you how to cleaver them

 

[johndeere]

Big man I will need to come down and show you how to cleaver them

You cant just go down one side got to be down the middle

 

[P@ul]

Another vote for the David Stretton saw, you won't regret it.
Paul

 

[Monkey Spanker]

Another vote for the David Stretton saw, you won't regret it.
Paul

I got one and regretted it immensely! It is basically a boning knife with teeth cut into it but with no offset. Incredibly sharp, but absolutely useless on large deer as the teeth do not cut a path for the wider back of the blade which then jams solid!
MS

 

[baguio]

I got one and regretted it immensely! It is basically a boning knife with teeth cut into it but with no offset. Incredibly sharp, but absolutely useless on large deer as the teeth do not cut a path for the wider back of the blade which then jams solid!
MS

A basic design error. All proper saws have either offset teeth or a wavy cutting edge (junior hacksaw blade) to stop the blade jamming. You have to wonder if half of the recommended items on here have actually been used by their owners?