I picked one up a couple seasons ago but never used it till this year. I always figured nothing could beat my sled. Boy was I wrong. This cart made the job much easier. Will be my go to if I'm not in a swamp.
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Hawk Crawler game cart
- Thread starter Parkerbow
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I added info on my Jet sled setup here:
Both work exceptionally well in my opinion...
Hawk crawler cart
To any of yall that have one, I have been debating on picking one up from midway USA they have them for 120 right now. I hate to spend that for something I will only use maybe 3 times a year, have any of you used it in its folded down mode to haul a kayak strapped on it?
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Both work exceptionally well in my opinion...
I shot a buck on Sunday probably pushing 200# dressed. It was my first experience with the cart and I honestly didn't have a great experience.
Issue I had in the field was the folding handle would not lock on the frame very well. This affected the leverage of the cart up front drastically as I had to stop and keep adjusting it. At one point, I had to disassemble the handle to ensure the fabric of the cart was on the outside of the bolt. This helped some but the handle still did not handle the front weight of a buck that size.
Jury is still out on this cart for me. I'm going to make something that cinches this leverage point tighter the next time I use it. I'd say a high quality hose clamp that I can leave on the frame and cinch tight as necessary.
Issue I had in the field was the folding handle would not lock on the frame very well. This affected the leverage of the cart up front drastically as I had to stop and keep adjusting it. At one point, I had to disassemble the handle to ensure the fabric of the cart was on the outside of the bolt. This helped some but the handle still did not handle the front weight of a buck that size.
Jury is still out on this cart for me. I'm going to make something that cinches this leverage point tighter the next time I use it. I'd say a high quality hose clamp that I can leave on the frame and cinch tight as necessary.
I've had intermittent issues with the front handle as well. Debating drilling a hole and just adding a locking pin like the back side instead of tightening the bolts to snug it up. Another idea I had was to heat from a section of pvc pipe to fit over the joint, with a slot cut out to go over the bolt head. slide up onto handle to fold, slide down to reinforce so I don't have the dang cart ramming me in the Achilles again.
Still a great cart even with that minor annoyance, I love rolling right over logs and such
Yep. Good idea. Maybe just use a Clevis pin on each side. I’d lose them guaranteed when I needed them though! Lol
Thx for sharing on the cart yall. ill definitely put some pins in the handle to lock it in place. I ended up ordering one tonight. basically spent all day recovering from my drag out last night. If this cart can even make it 50% easier, that's $ in the bank!
It works good as a bike trailer. I've only hauled one deer with it but have hauled a lot of trash down my .7 mile lane. I did replace the tires with solid rubber. It rolls harder but no flat tire worries.
I added some hardware and ubolted it to the rack. I put a clamp on the crawler and drilled a hole through it and use a pin to attach.
I'll try to take a picture of it this afternoon.
My apologies, I have it on my calendar to take those pics tomorrow. The bike and cart are down at my shop 150 yards away and its 20 degrees out and dark. It just slipped my mind when I was down there earlier.
I had some black tube steel so I cut 2 side rails and a back bar. 4 ubolts and 2 bolts for the back connection.
The the clamp is a chain link fence connector reshaped and bolted on with a drilled hole. Simple.
Normal bike trailers connect down at the axle so my method changes the balance, proceed with your own at your risk.
