Here's my modified Warren/Sweat Pony cart. The way the thing was originally designed it had a center of gravity that was too high. It also wasn't wide enough to be stable. I bought a steel rod, 4 collars, some ubolts, and some wheel-barrow wheels. It is now very nice. The rubber wheel-barrow tires act like shock absorbers when rolling deer and gear into and out of the woods.
Years ago while hunting alone and a long way from the truck, I shot two deer right at dark. The next day I started building a wheeled deer cart.
I like this style as it has a low center of gravity and with an air filled bicycle tire on the front it will hop right over small logs and bumps. You can push it in front of you or pull it behind you. It lays almost flat on the ground to roll the deer on and breaks down into two pieces.
This has been hanging in my garage for at least five years. I probably should put it on the sell and swap forum.
Fishing & Hunting, that looks like an effective, inexpensive job to me. Of course, big wheels would work better in the woods.
I use those small wheeled hand trucks to haul my stuff from the vehicle to the rifle range.
Bet that trailer in the back, cost a lot more money!
I made this out of an old wheelbarrow several years ago.put some 2x4 extensions on the handle and some 1x4 . works pretty good, I strap em on and pull it.
The thing I like best, set the wheel on the tailgate, and roll it in, makes loading a deer easy.
I found a golf bag cart in a junk pile and took it home and used it to drag out my first Georgia doe. It was priced right and ALOT easier than dragging her on the ground. I would widen it a little but it really worked pretty well. Just another idea to add to the list.....
Another advantage with these cheap contraptions is that you can just stash them in the woods in your hunting area (depending on your individual situation) so you won't have to walk a mile back to the truck to get it each time. I use one of these carts and try to pre-position it in the woods in a brush pile in the general vicinity so it's right there handy when I kill one.
I've got two home made ones.one is made out of a discarded hand truck that I've had close to 20 years. The handle had broke on the thing and the office was tossing it. I took and had someone weld a pipe between the breaks to make it a little longer and bolted a piece of plywood near the bottom foot and slipped an old tire innertube over the top. Other is simply a metal bar with 2 wheels on either side and two hooks at the top. It slips over the rungs of a section of ladder stand. Simply tie the deer on and rollout. Both worked like a charm.
Also made a great barbed wire roller out of the handles off an old push lawn mower.
Figure Im due for a new tote like these --got some good ideas from all these pics -I sold my 4 wheeler and just refused to shake off 6 grand to buy a new one . I think things are alot simpler when we look back at how things used to be .
Guess I need to invest in something like that. I shot a hog in March that weighed right under 200lbs. I had walked for quite a while that morning. When I looked down at the GPS it read 1.3 miles back to the truck. I shot at about 2:30 and it was something close to 6:00 when I got him on the truck. I even field dressed him and cut off his head. I would have paid $100 for one of those inventions.