I'll be going to deer camp the week after turkey day and would like to put tractor to full advantage in dressing and skinning the game. Last year, I rigged up a chain and C-clamp to the end of pallet forks to hold deer vertically for skinning. I have hooks on my bucket to attach a chain, but that wouldn't give much separation between deer and bucket to work around. Just wondered what other thoughts might be out there.
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CrazyQ
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Hang deer in tree with chain.
Grab strap.
Skin deer down past hind legs.
secure strap on bunched up hide.
secure other end of strap to tractor.
drive away.
Deer skun.
Redbug
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CrazyQ,
That is like a method I have seen done...with a golfball and rope. A winch is used on the other end of the rope that just pulls the skin off.
That is like a method I have seen done...with a golfball and rope. A winch is used on the other end of the rope that just pulls the skin off.
BobG_in_VA
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Don't use the tractor before field dressing, but I really do after....BobG in VA
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mwb
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Only skin down to shoulders (if you are already past the hind legs, whats the point
) typo I am sure.This works very well, keeps hair of the meat too. I have skinned deer with truck, winch, tractor, wifes car
... hanging the deer and using the tractor to skin is the best. This was the first deer season that I had my new tractor with loader. Skinning with the loader is nice because you can pull down rather that horizontally, easier to stay in control.dirtworksequip
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Put deere between two tractors. One geared tractor and one hystat. Now pull in opposite directions. Whichever tractor ends up with the most deer is the better transmission. End of geared vs hydro debate.
Oh, that's another thread. Sorry.
Sincerely, Dirt
Oh, that's another thread. Sorry.
Sincerely, Dirt
George2615
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My bucket has a 2" square receiver hitch welded on top center of the bucket. I slide in a 3' piece of square tubing that has a short chain and hook on the end. I loop a rope around the deer neck and over the hook and lift with the bucket. That gets the deer out away from the bucket with plenty of room to hose it out and skin it.
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I drag the deer to where I can get it on the loader -- do the preliminary cuts around the rear end and split the brisket then lift the deer up with the loader and finish field dressing it. It drains well that way. My bucket has brackets welded inside to allow me to use 2x6's as brush carriers -- I have a sort of boom pole rigged that fits in one of the brackets to lift the deer higher than the fel alone would. Since I only have one deer tag, I usually just skin it out by hand (I have always found the various rope tricks and pull methods mentioned above to take about the same amount of time to set up and do ) and leave it on the loader to hang and cool -- this year it did not hang long as it was in danger of freezing by day two
) and leave it on the loader to hang and cool -- this year it did not hang long as it was in danger of freezing by day two