Just about daybreak on a bitterly cold morning several winters ago, I was aroused from my sleep by a loud BOOM. I knew that none of my hunters were on the place that week so out of bed I jumped. Sadie hopped in the back of the truck with me and off we went. About a half mile down the road I spied a POACHER. He and his truck were about 150 yards out in my neighbor’s wheat field, backed up to a huge hog. Being that he actually was performing us a public service by eliminating another hog and that I had not yet had my morning coffee, I decided to heck with it and went back to the house. I made the coffee, fixed breakfast, and began to get on with the morning. Loaded up the feed truck and took off down the same road that I had traveled an hour ago. Oops! There he was in the middle of the field but now in plain sight of everyone driving down the road and still trying to load that $%%# hog. Pumpers, ranchers, etc were driving by. He looked up as I passed. I waved and he waved back. When I headed home for lunch, there was a big black hog in the middle of my neighbor’s wheat field. No poacher in sight. Never did see that pickup again.

Got a question guys....


At some point the hogs getting butchered sooner or later. So why do you need a wench?

Grab a cheap role of plastic from lowes. After you dispatch his hair butt. Gut him, then just start quartering him. Whats the purpose of buying a wench just to load a complete hog thats gonna get cut up anyway???

A 500# hog cut into 75# chunks is cheaper and way easier to deal with then messing with a wench trying to load 300-500# of dead weight, by yourself into a truck. That same 300-500#s will still have to be unloaded.

This isn't a shopping trip to TSC for a wench. It's hunting. KISS still applies.

All true. Us older guys don't have the back any longer to bend over for the time it takes to gut, and quarter the hog.
So we keep it simple for us and use the winch/hitch mount thing to clean/quarter/cut up while standing.

I bought a game hoist off of Amazon that fits in your truck receiver and winches up your game with a gambal and it swivels for $89 with free shipping . Best money I ever spent .

I tie a rope around them, then stand in the bed, choke up the rope and give a mighty heave-ho. I push on my heels and set back on my butt. Then grab a leg and drags them in.

The receiver hitch or the wire basket in the receiver hitch.
Wire basket is low to the ground. You can do that lift, I have faith in you.

reciever hitch lift is the way to go if your really going to hunt alone for a long period of years.

http://www.discountramps.com/deer-hoist.htm


This will give you an idea of what they look like.

Didn't read thread so don't know if it's been said. Always take long cable or rope. Hoist over large tree limb with truck. Tie it off on another limb or tree. Back truck up under pig. Release knot. Loaded pig. Then go home

Cell phone. Speed dial 7.

Boyz, I got one down I can't lift. Ya'll come out here.


Rusty
Texas, I luv u

Getting out of the Jeep is the hard part.

Crane is from Harbor freight. $140.

http://www.harborfreight.com/1-2-half-ton-capacity-pickup-truck-crane-with-cable-winch-37555.html

Slick toy for the money.

If you have a spare $10K laying around you can do like we do and use the hydraulic arms on a flatbed haybale truck.

Has anyone come up with an easy way to load a dead hog into a pickup bed? Don't tell me to just pick it up, I hunt alone often and just can't pick up a large hog and sling it in the bed.

Thx in Advance

Didn't read thread so don't know if it's been said. Always take long cable or rope. Hoist over large tree limb with truck. Tie it off on another limb or tree. Back truck up under pig. Release knot. Loaded pig. Then go home

The Monarch hoist has worked well for me.

http://www.deerfeeder.com/Products/HoistHogTrap/GameHoist.aspx

I put a hoist on the rear roll cage of my Teryx. Then made a board that fit the bed out of 3/4" plywood and bolted a chain to it. I open the tail gate and tilt the bed. Then strap the animal to the board, back the Teryx right up to the board, lifting the board and resting it on the tail gate. Push the electric winch button and up she comes. Works like a champ and takes only a few minutes...

I have a winch on the front bumber of my Gator 825i. I would love to be able to use that to pull critters up into my bed, which power tilts. Can't figure out just how to do that...

I've got an idea in my head that might work using 3 or 4 pulleys welded to the grill guard and both front and rear cross bars of the rollcage

It's the windshield that stops me. I think plan B will be a connection at front/bottom of bed and a small block and tackle.