Using your climbing gear to hang deer

[robstewart]

A couple days ago I got the call...someone had hit a deer in front of my parent’s house and they didn’t want it.

She was a mature doe and pushing 150-200 lbs on the hoof. I gutted her and left the pile back off the road for the yotes and managed to get her into the car.

At home I had to hang her and realized I had everything I needed in my saddle backpack. First I hitched my 30’ tether to a brace hanging down from the ceiling.

Then I out the tag end through my Ropeman and hung it from the brace. Next I pulled the tag end to get most of the slack out and used a small climbing snatch block pulley to connect the hanger I had stuck through her hind legs to the pulley.

I pulled the tag end down from the ropeman which was now acting as a progress capture pulley of sorts. Since I’m a lazy guy I used my hand ascender and foot loop on the tag end to lift the doe by stepping on the foot loop, then pushing the ascender back up.

Worked like a charm and at the top I hooked another caribiner into a climbing rated webbing loop chain also hanging on the brace and let the tension off the rope man.

Anyway, thought I’d share and I’m sure you guys have other methods we can learn from.


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[Red Beard]

Would love to see a video of this. I'm having a hard time visualizing it. Doesn't even have to be on an actual deer. Could be a couple bricks in a 5 gallon bucket.

 

[SNIPERBBB]

Ive tested the theory put with my SRT gear. CT quick roll ascender and grigri+. Just do what youd do to climb. The deer is the climber.

 

[robstewart]

Would love to see a video of this. I'm having a hard time visualizing it. Doesn't even have to be on an actual deer. Could be a couple bricks in a 5 gallon bucket.

No video right now but here are a couple of pictures.

Picture the letter U and the right side is attached to my garage door hanger at the bottom is the pulley attached to the load and at the top left is my ropeman but you could use a safeguard or grigri or another pulley. The advantage of this is it’s a progress capture system.

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[mtsrunner]

Nice

 

[bowbaker1340]

in construction anytime that you use a lifeline for something like that it has to be taken out of service as a lifeline and can't be used again as a lifeline. your life depends on that line. just saying

 

[kyler1945]

in construction anytime that you use a lifeline for something like that it has to be taken out of service as a lifeline and can't be used again as a lifeline. your life depends on that line. just saying

interesting. Do you replace your tether each hunt?

 

[Aeds151]

in construction anytime that you use a lifeline for something like that it has to be taken out of service as a lifeline and can't be used again as a lifeline. your life depends on that line. just saying

Same with S&R. All rope 1 time use. Doesnt mean its unsafe/no good anymore


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[bowbaker1340]

interesting. Do you replace your tether each hunt?

no but it's not being used for something that it's not intended for either. it's my lifeline. as a matter of fact they say to replace your harness every 5 years. I don't because I tuck my stack of W.E. treestepps in the back and pull them out to install them on my way up the tree and the old seat of the pants is the only design available that i can do that with. it doesn't have a strap in the center of the back so i can tuck my stack in the waist belt

 

[sureshot]

Last year was the first year I cut one up in the woods and packed it out. I got tired of the long drag up steep hills. I my 2 ropeman would work to get it up in the air, which was better than the ground method (less hide cut, loose hair). This year, i'm bringing this kit with me:

It will be easier to hoist and I'll be able to get the deer higher in the air.

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[Tr33_n1nj@]

in construction anytime that you use a lifeline for something like that it has to be taken out of service as a lifeline and can't be used again as a lifeline. your life depends on that line. just saying

Most of us are using climbing rope not lifeline. I think this fits the realm of normal use.

 

[mtsrunner]

Last year was the first year I cut one up in the woods and packed it out. I got tired of the long drag up steep hills. I my 2 ropeman would work to get it up in the air, which was better than the ground method (less hide cut, loose hair). This year, i'm bringing this kit with me:

It will be easier to hoist and I'll be able to get the deer higher in the air.

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I’m the one in that video and that works well. I have also used my LWHC to hang and clean deer.

 

[EricS]

no but it's not being used for something that it's not intended for either. it's my lifeline. as a matter of fact they say to replace your harness every 5 years. I don't because I tuck my stack of W.E. treestepps in the back and pull them out to install them on my way up the tree and the old seat of the pants is the only design available that i can do that with. it doesn't have a strap in the center of the back so i can tuck my stack in the waist belt

We’re not talking pulling the truck out of a ditch. A big buck doesn’t weigh any more than a big saddlehunter

 

[bowbaker1340]

Most of us are using climbing rope not lifeline. I think this fits the realm of normal use.

You don’t consider a line that is keeping you from possibly falling to your death a lifeline ? As a matter of fact lifeline is heavier. I just don’t see it being worth possibly compromising the one thing that keeps me around to have fun with my grandchildren.

 

[SNIPERBBB]

You don’t consider a line that is keeping you from possibly falling to your death a lifeline ? As a matter of fact lifeline is heavier. I just don’t see it being worth possibly compromising the one thing that keeps me around to have fun with my grandchildren.

Unless you're trying to lift an elk or bigger, you're not doing anything that puts more wear on the rope than an extra climb

 

[Midwest Hunter]

In the words of the ruttster, look at the loins on that basket rack.


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[mtsrunner]

In the words of the ruttster, look at the loins on that basket rack.


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They were mighty tasty.

 

[robstewart]

Most of us are using climbing rope not lifeline. I think this fits the realm of normal use.

I've taken fall arrest training and you absolutely replace your gear in a FALL. My rope is a static climbing rope and the doe weights less than I do so in comparison it would be like me hanging on my rope for an all day hunt. I'm not concerned.

 

[Tr33_n1nj@]

You don’t consider a line that is keeping you from possibly falling to your death a lifeline ? As a matter of fact lifeline is heavier. I just don’t see it being worth possibly compromising the one thing that keeps me around to have fun with my grandchildren.

I mean it’s already expensive enough but go ahead and replace all your hunting ropes after each use if it makes you feel better. You could probably make a killing in the classifieds with “used only once tethers”

 

[Cotton-Eye]

The guy who sheetrocked your ceiling should be murdered.