Well it was opening day today for Sika Fallow and Red in England.

I have been watching some Fallow and Reds coming out to feed regular as clockwork in the evenings.

I planned to get Claire her first Red or Fallow we packed the truck with the gallows hoping the christen them.

Well it was not to be neither the Fallow nor the Red showed up.

But we did get to christen the gallows.

Dave,

Not exactly an exacting test!

Did you make the reciever hitch as well?

Regards,

Peter

Looks to be a good sized buck. No back strain!

Nice bit of kit!

Hi Pete,

did you mean the one in the photo or another one to go on the hitch?

Dave,

Looking at the one in the picture..I know they arefairly common in the US, but you don't see too many in the UK...

Regards,

Peter

It was all built from scratch to fit the Ranger it also has a skinning attachment.

I dont know it if will be quite high enough for a mature stag but there is only one way to find out!

I will take some pics of using it to skin when I get a chance.

It looks very strong and well thought out. I haven't been able to find one commercially made here in the states that wasn't made as cheaply as possible.

Well done.

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Nice bit of kit!

Claire for sure!

Dave,

A monster Muntjac Buck!

The "Gallows" interesting and appears well made,too.

Have fun with it!

Nice piece of equiment Dave
Must be a relief to "hang them in the gallows", compared to do the grallocking on the ground.

nice bit of kit Dave, you've got me thinking.. time to get the welder out!

Well if you want the size etc just let me know.

Apart from the Permanantly attached tow hitch and the eyebolts there are no bolts or fixings.

I figured that if it needed bolts or pins to assemble it in the field they would be the first things that got lost.

Nice looking munty, shame it's still in velvet but a good one none the less
good for her

Not a bad looking hoist either
wot was the cost of getting it galvanised or is it just painted??

Galvanizing costs around £1.50 / Kg plus vat

Minimum charge of 20kg I dont know how much the hoist cost on its own as it was part of a job lot of stuff I had done.

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Originally posted by DJM:

Similar idea to the one that Dave Stretton makes at Donnington Park. His has a separate roller skinning attachment too.

http://www.doningtondeermanage...andling_systems.html

As you can see he has a different leg design to yours. TBH looking at both. I prefer the Donnington leg bracing solution. Less to bang your shins and knees on. LOL

If you had made the top section from round tube instead of box section it could have been made so that the carcass could have been swung into the back of the truck directly off the gibbet. Simply by allowing the top section to rotate at the join. That way you would save having to pull the ramp out and use the electric winch.

I assume the FC left the winch and ramp in the truck when they sold it to you?

Sadly the Donnington ones are not strong enough for large wild reds, and if the top section had been made from CHS niether would this one have been.

The trouble with the donington design is that the feet get in the way of your feet and are easy to trip over and get blood and snot all over them.

The FC would not be very happy if the Truck did not have the winch in it when it went back to work on Monday.

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Originally posted by DJM:
Sadly the Donnington ones are not strong enough for large wild reds, and if the top section had been made from CHS niether would this one have been.

The trouble with the donington design is that the feet get in the way of your feet and are easy to trip over and get blood and snot all over them.

The FC would not be very happy if the Truck did not have the winch in it when it went back to work on Monday.

Dave

It would be relatively easy to add a brace to the Donninington design similar to your solution. Simply beef up the wall thickness and add a brace as per your design if you think the CHS wouldn't cope.

I hope you've got LOLER cert.

What I like about the Donnington feet design is the cleaner lines. No snags to get hung up on. Blood and snot can get washed off when you swill the the load bed down at the end of the day. Knock a lump of flesh off your shins and it will take weeks to heal up.

Very nice of the FC to let you have a loan of one of their trucks.

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It would be relatively easy to add a brace to the Donninington design similar to your solution. Simply beef up the wall thickness and add a brace as per your design if you think the CHS wouldn't cope.

Nope doesnt work even on 80mm dia 5mm wall thickness CHS

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I hope you've got LOLER cert.

Yep it sure has unlike the Donnington one.

It has a SWL of 350kg the Donnington one does not have a SWL

It is also CE marked unlike the the Donnington one.

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Very nice of the FC to let you have a loan of one of their trucks.

It is they even put the deisel in it and let me drive it to work and back every day

That all you get for now as I normally

Dave

It all depends on how long you have to make the top bar in order to give you sufficient clearance. Like I said get the bracing right and it would work.

Who did your testing? If you say its rated at 350kg I would have thought it would have required a better leg design rather than using a couple of trailer jockey wheel clamps. Putting it in for LOLER would give you a CE tag. If it passed that is!

I see I only have to ask a few questions, make a few suggestions and offer some constructive criticism to have you waving the troll flag. Very unfortunate seeing as you have had that same accusation made of you and suffered the consequences as a result. I didn't realise that you were that sensitive.

On another point entirely.

You were quick out of the starting gates with your uk deer dog register. Following some early suggestions and discussions on the various fora by a few guys. But it looks to has refused at the first fence and unseated its jockey. Even its rival failed to get past the conception and wishful thinking stage. Are you planning on actually doing something with it or are you planning to let it wither away and die from lack of interest?

Dave/DJM

Bumped in case you missed it.

Just wondered if you would like to answer the following.

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On another point entirely.

You were quick out of the starting gates with your uk deer dog register. Following some early suggestions and discussions on the various fora by a few guys. But it looks to has refused at the first fence and unseated its jockey. Even its rival failed to get past the conception and wishful thinking stage. Are you planning on actually doing something with it or are you planning to let it wither away and die from lack of interest?

Well Finally caught up with a red, Claire wasn't confident enough to shoot as it was a fair way off and nearly dark.

It ran and dropped in a barley field and I need the dogs to find it!

Pic is not to good as it from a phone, but it does nicely show the working lights.

Interesting to see the hoist.

I must admit to much preferring a gralloch on the ground in situ and then use of my carcass wagon to the trailor. I hate dragging full carcasses.

What a nice setup for gralloching!
Looks like a really nice muntie, btw!

Great job!