Pulling Elk out with Chainsaw wench.... Question

[fishngamereaper]

I must be doing something wrong, cause Ive never killed an elk anywhere near where I could winch it to a road..Maybe I should road hunt more. Or hire a logger that has a yarder, and is willing to string 1500 ft of cable 100ft up a tree for me...

[BULLBLASTER]

I've built several of "winches" like that.  The thing you have to remember is you are not really using it to "winch" out the animal.  You use a line puller like the linemen use to pull power lines to actually pull with.  The spool is used to store the wire on.  You can see the strap in the picture that is probably used to do the actual pulling.

We just have all our haywire in coils in the back of the truck.  I'll probably build another spool or two as I have some other ideas, but they are a pain to keep in the back of the truck.  They like to slide around even with rubber on the bottom and rubberized bed liner in the truck...you don't want it to slam into the inside of your box as it weighs a couple hundred pounds with 1500' of wire on it.  As for leaving them in the reciever... I've built them high and then you can't open the tailgate, and I've built them low and the dig into the road when you back up that hill to turn around.

We just have coiled sections in the back of the truck.  I've packed a lot of coils of haywire and it's not that big of a deal.  I have a Simpson capstan winch and I love it.  It's either that or cut it up and pack it out on my back.  I do have a bicycle trailer that works well as long as it's fairly flat.  I gets hard to pedal an elk up any kind of a hill.

right, it isnt a winch just a freespooling roll of cable. this one has 2000 feet. there is a cable squeezer lock thing on teh strap and we set that and drive down the road pulling the elk and then re wind the cable.

[high country]

If you pull slow and set your blocks to lift as opposed to dig, you will be fine. High speed is what tears it up. I have pulled them on dry ground and not tore them up....and burned through the hide dragging them on the snow with a sled.

[skywalker253]

Pulled our Elk out last week. Shot it in the jack firs, and it died down in the windfall/drainage area. Had my dad go up top to the landing and I walked down with 1200 feet of heaving rope. Tie the two back legs together. Tie the two front legs together. Then tie the two front legs to the head. Make a leash around the elks neck and pull. It was going a good 10mph up a straight up and down hillside. The elk just run over the jack firs and roll right over the logs. It got hung up once on a stump, but we got it dressed and packed out in a little over an hour whole.

[Opportunist]

We've used a Lewis chainsaw for a few years. We run a chain around the bulls front shoulder and around it's neck, hook the chainsaw/winch to the chain and run the cable out to stumps and trees and pull the elk. It's easier to guide the elk around  stumps and trees with the winch at the elk than pulling the elk to the winch.  It works well, but anymore I just 1/4 them up and pack them out, less rigamoral and there's no way to get out of work with an elk on the ground.

[high country]

We've used a Lewis chainsaw for a few years. We run a chain around the bulls front shoulder and around it's neck, hook the chainsaw/winch to the chain and run the cable out to stumps and trees and pull the elk. It's easier to guide the elk around  stumps and trees with the winch at the elk than pulling the elk to the winch.  It works well, but anymore I just 1/4 them up and pack them out, less rigamoral and there's no way to get out of work with an elk on the ground.

When you get tired of lugging that Lewis around.....peek at the simpson capstan winch. Nine pounds of pure happiness.

[724wd]

When you get tired of lugging that Lewis around.....peek at the simpson capstan winch. Nine pounds of pure happiness.

 

[billythekidrock]

When you get tired of lugging that Lewis around.....peek at the simpson capstan winch. Nine pounds of pure happiness.

 

Any pics?

[runningboard]

BTKR check this out
http://capstanropewinch.com/
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[high country]

I use one on one of my saws I can have a saw one minute and a winch the next. Some of the best money I ever spent.

[billythekidrock]

BTKR check this out
http://capstanropewinch.com/
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Thanks