Span870’s Deer Cart

I agree on the long handle. A guy at work extended one like that and it made a huge improvement.

We were talking about something for park hunts. We are gonna add a rear handle so a second guy can push and pick up to go over logs and such. That is our biggest demise, ruining the spoked wheels. They bend or crush.

My buddy converted his cart over to lawn tractor steer tires, so the center hub is solid. No more problems. This one is flat, and he even made it tilt. He hauls it behind his four wheeler to really make life easy.


On other sites. I see a lot of guys using the sleds. I have yet to hear anybody say they aren't the best things to use. Seems like over leaves they would be good?

The sleds are nice, BUT you have to have a wide one. If it isn't wide, the deer is "top heavy" and the sled tends to turn over. I've tried the rolled up piece of flat plastic that you tie a deer to, after 20 feet the plastic was on top, the hair was on the ground.

Sleds work marginally better than dragging a deer over bare ground, where they shine is in snow.

Budd, after fighting with many different types of sleds over the years I bought something very similar to the Otter sled. It was sold as a replacement base to a Clam type ice fishing house. I added flat pieces of aluminum bar stock to the sides and front, sandwiching the plastic lip between them, and then used threaded eye bolts to hold it together and put the "squeeze" on the plastic material. Those are my tie off points for the deer, and also in the front it gives me a good solid anchor point to pull from. I am not worried about ripping or cracking the sled now.

A few years after I started using it, I noticed that the bottom was starting to get thin where it was contacting the ground. I bought some 1/8", 3/16" or 1/4" thick strips of UMHW, beveled the front and attached them to the bottom using countersunk screws with the heads on the bottom. That stopped the wearing out of the sled.

Wide enough to prevent tipping over, enough attachment points to tie the deer inside securely and beefy enough to pull wtihout worrying about pulling it apart. The only thing I might change is to add 2 ski handles to the front to pull with, so 2 guys can pull the sled at the same time instead of a single rope loop.

All the hardware and sporting goods stores around here sell the runner kits for the bottoms. Otherwise ill wear holes in less than a year. Ive pulled SEVERAL cords of wood out behind my snowmobile in a otter sled.

Barn hay loft and it was america's most wanted

If I remember I will. Maybe deadeer can remind me, he wanted to see it too.

Will do

I have a deer sled that I bought at Rural King many years ago. It looks like any other long sled that a kid would use except it is brown and has deer hooves embossed on the bottom.

That thing is the cat's meow in snow except going uphill. The deer's weight fights you to go downhill like a fat kid!! They also do very well on leaves and I found out last year that the thing is deep enough to float with a deer in it!! That is EASY pulling!!!!

What it does not do well is crossing logs (too flexible) and being pulled across a plowed field. The bottom accumulates mud across the plowed field and is just as bad or worse that pulling the deer by itself.

Before I found the sled, I had made my own deer cart out of the handle and rear end of a "big wheel" push mower, threaded rods, and steel conduit. I haven't used it in a while and noticed in the shed the other day that one of the rubber treads had split and separated from the rim.

Santa got me a BIGGER Otter sled than what I already had. Along with hitch, cover, and runners. 😃