david w.
Senior Member
We are making a place to clean our deer and was wondering what kind of wood could we use to hang the deer on.Maybe 6x6s?We dont know where any old telephone poles are so we couldn't use them.Thanks in advance.
hahaa hey bud this aint kansas lol we are building one also its gonna be a 10x10 gonna use 10 foot 4x4 two foot in the ground we willl run one 10 ft 4x4 across the top in the center and use 2x4 for roof joist use some 5/8 osb for the roof then put tim or singles on it brack each corner from the roof to each 4x4 and you will be good to go
I used 14 ft. 4x4,s/ P.T.8 ft. across the top , Lag bolts all the way thru. Crank um up high. I,m tired of bending over. 3 ft. in the Ground . Stick a hose around the Base to wash the dirt in good. It,ll be a little shakey for awhile, but it ain,t going anywheres.
We use a lever design-
Sweet!
Here's ours - simple and to the point.
I just put a rope on their neck, throw it over a limb and hook it to my truck bumper. Then I make my son clean it.
He takes care of ole pops. He'll even track it with my dog and drag em out.
That's nearly identical to what we use....except we have two of them side-by-side and a poured concrete slab underneath. I've considered rigging up an electric winch instead of the boat trailer winches, but I think that's probably getting a little too lazy....
We also have a rack that we welded together out of some 1" conduit...it's really sort of a cradle kind of thing....you can winch the deer up onto it and the deer lays in the cradle belly-up and it makes it a lot easier to handle opening the belly and dealing with the front legs, making the initial cuts on the back legs, etc. before you hoist it up by it's back feet....you're standing and working at waist level rather than kneeling down on the ground. Makes a big difference when you're cleaning 4 or 5 deer or more at a time.
We use a lever design-
Sweet!
Here's ours - simple and to the point.
We have one like that but it is a double wide for cleaning two at once.
If I had it to do over, I would make mine a double wide as well.