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Post by 36fan on Nov 18, 2020 12:32:40 GMT -5
At the request of onebentarrow, here are some pics of my homemade deer cart. The deer cart works great for getting deer out of the field, and it doubles as a gurney to slide them in the truck bed. I took an old dolly we had laying around, scavenged some bicycle wheels from a bicycle someone had left at one my parents' rentals, bought some conduit and pan head bolts, got a metal rod for an axle, a couple of washers and cotter pins, borrowed a conduit bender, drilled holes in the metal rod for the cotter pins to slide in ... and voila! On the first attempt I basically extended the handle of the dolly. As you can see, the dolly frame didn't like the way I did it and bent. I cut off the bent section and exteneded the conduit all the way down to the bottom. I made it six foot long to fit in the bed of a short bed truck or the back of a mid-size SUV. The cotter pins pull out of the axle, in case the wheels sit up too high for a tonneau cover.     Let's see others deer carts, or methods for loading deer. |
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Post by steiny on Nov 18, 2020 12:37:53 GMT -5
My buddy made a cool one. It's a simple 8-10' tall ladder stand with bicycle wheels mounted roughly where the ladder turns to make the seat platform. All made of lightweight steel tube, welded.
He rolls the stand back to his hunting area and sets up, then uses it as a cart to wheel out deer when successful. He does a lot of park hunts and built the rig specifically for such.
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Post by deadeer on Nov 18, 2020 12:46:01 GMT -5
At the request of onebentarrow, here are some pics of my homemade deer cart. The deer cart works great for getting deer out of the field, and it doubles as a gurney to slide them in the truck bed. I took an old dolly we had laying around, scavenged some bicycle wheels from a bicycle someone had left at one my parents' rentals, bought some conduit and pan head bolts, got a metal rod for an axle, a couple of washers and cotter pins, borrowed a conduit bender, drilled holes in the metal rod for the cotter pins to slide in ... and voila! On the first attempt I basically extended the handle of the dolly. As you can see, the dolly frame didn't like the way I did it and bent. I cut off the bent section and exteneded the conduit all the way down to the bottom. I made it six foot long to fit in the bed of a short bed truck or the back of a mid-size SUV. The cotter pins pull out of the axle, in case the wheels sit up too high for a tonneau cover. Let's see others deer carts, or methods for loading deer. Looks good, but I bet the tongue weight is terrible on a big deer. The wheels need to be closer to center to balance the weight. But then you have to angle the frame in a vee shape so the handle is higher. |
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Post by deadeer on Nov 18, 2020 12:47:20 GMT -5
My buddy made a cool one. It's a simple 8-10' tall ladder stand with bicycle wheels mounted roughly where the ladder turns to make the seat platform. All made of lightweight steel tube, welded. He rolls the stand back to his hunting area and sets up, then uses it as a cart to wheel out deer when successful. He does a lot of park hunts and built the rig specifically for such. We have been doing this for 25yrs at least. Although we got away from it recently since we always have a partner nowadays and just use the regular mule. |
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Post by scrub-buster on Nov 18, 2020 13:32:26 GMT -5
Nice job on that cart. I started making one from a bicycle kid trailer. It was light weight and folded flat. I stripped it down to the frame and was starting on making a box for it out of an old plastic truck bed liner. I abandoned the project last week. I don't think we would have used it that much and I was tired of moving it around my garage. Our woods are so thick and tangled with fallen trees it would have been hard to use. I gave the trailer frame and wheels to my dad for scrap and tossed the bed liner. I think it would have worked if I had finished it and had a better area to use it.
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Post by esshup on Nov 18, 2020 14:32:02 GMT -5
My buddy made a cool one. It's a simple 8-10' tall ladder stand with bicycle wheels mounted roughly where the ladder turns to make the seat platform. All made of lightweight steel tube, welded. He rolls the stand back to his hunting area and sets up, then uses it as a cart to wheel out deer when successful. He does a lot of park hunts and built the rig specifically for such. I did the same thing with a 15' stand that broke down into 3 sections. I had to get left hand threaded rod to make an axle - kept loosing the nut on the RH threaded rod on both sides. Like Deadeer said, the tongue weight is pretty heavy. |
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Post by onebentarrow on Nov 18, 2020 17:43:17 GMT -5
Thanks for the pictures. That looks pretty slick.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2020 18:29:28 GMT -5
You are all some very handy dandy dudes!
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Post by 36fan on Nov 19, 2020 8:30:20 GMT -5
At the request of onebentarrow, here are some pics of my homemade deer cart. The deer cart works great for getting deer out of the field, and it doubles as a gurney to slide them in the truck bed. I took an old dolly we had laying around, scavenged some bicycle wheels from a bicycle someone had left at one my parents' rentals, bought some conduit and pan head bolts, got a metal rod for an axle, a couple of washers and cotter pins, borrowed a conduit bender, drilled holes in the metal rod for the cotter pins to slide in ... and voila! On the first attempt I basically extended the handle of the dolly. As you can see, the dolly frame didn't like the way I did it and bent. I cut off the bent section and exteneded the conduit all the way down to the bottom. I made it six foot long to fit in the bed of a short bed truck or the back of a mid-size SUV. The cotter pins pull out of the axle, in case the wheels sit up too high for a tonneau cover. Let's see others deer carts, or methods for loading deer. Looks good, but I bet the tongue weight is terrible on a big deer. The wheels need to be closer to center to balance the weight. But then you have to angle the frame in a vee shape so the handle is higher. It's not too bad, though I've never used it on a really big boy. It's wide enough I can be inside of it with the handle resting on the inside of my elbows as I walk it out. Typically I don't have to go very far to get the deer out of the woods to a field where I can drive up to it. The bigger bucks I've shot since I made it have had the courtesy to drop on the edge of a field (it still worked as a gurney to load them!), or at my house where I can just use our tractor for retrieval.  |
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Post by featherduster on Dec 2, 2020 6:23:04 GMT -5
I don't have a photo of my new deer cart but it's very similar to this one I traded in.  |
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Post by 36fan on Dec 3, 2020 12:09:23 GMT -5
I don't have a photo of my new deer cart but it's very similar to this one I traded in. I like it! ...but mine only cost me ~$10, takes essentially no maintenance, can easily be loaded in the bed of my truck, and my kids can drive it without a helmet.  |
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