Old Man Work Smarter Tools Not Harder?

[RealMuddyboots]

So the "old man, old cartridge, old elk" thread got me thinking at same age at 75, back fusion surgery, knee surgery in last 12 months, HTH do I keep hunting without banking upon family and friends? I added a winch to bed of my truck plus a game cart years ago but other geezers must have some great "tools" to use? I am ordering a drill 1500 lb. winch as added help too.

So whatcha got geezers?

Posted this last year after back surgery.

Drill winch I am looking at:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DL576VBT?tag=gardeningmyst-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1

 

[Bighorner]

I got a winch very similar. It works great for pulling an outboard of a boat. I was impressed.

3000' of mule tape seems like it would be handy.

 

[MTGomer]

light weight chair and a Swarovski BTX

Easier to find them with your eyes than with your legs.

 

[Wind Gypsy]

I got a winch very similar. It works great for pulling an outboard of a boat. I was impressed.

3000' of mule tape seems like it would be handy.

I've shot a few matches with a guy who's a lineman and brings mule tape to help drag critters. I forget what else he used it in conjunction with but it sounded slick.

 

[Potsie]

I've shot a few matches with a guy who's a lineman and brings mule tape to help drag critters. I forget what else he used it in conjunction with but it sounded slick.

Mule tape and a chainsaw winch is a combo that I grew up with.

 

[Straight Arrow]

Adult grandkids, some with horses.

 

[SaskHunter]

The only old geezer I hunt with has the best available tools for the job! He had a pretty daughter marry a hunter (me) and made babies until he had a son.

Now he's got a couple younger dudes to retrieve his deer for him... I don't think he's hauled a single deer out of the bush with me around.

 

[noharleyyet]

Ken Jr usually has it done before I can tell him how it should be done.

 

[Brittany Chukarman]

A game cart and a hitch hoist were good additions for me.

 

[Straight Arrow]

Heavy plastic sled with paracord cross-ties and easy-pull canvas-rope harness.
(I can break down, partially de-bone, and retrieve an entire cow elk with my sled in heavy snow.)

 

[WildWill]

Then there's old man decisions that make you harder but aren't smarter.

 

[noharleyyet]

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[Redmt]

Mule tape and a chainsaw winch is a combo that I grew up with.

What chainsaw winch do you have? I have an old Rule 2000 with an old home lite motor that I just sent in for a rehab.

 

[Potsie]

What chainsaw winch do you have? I have an old Rule 2000 with an old home lite motor that I just sent in for a rehab.

My uncle had one when I was a kid, he could out the power head from his 066 on it.

No idea what brand of winch it was. But it worked awesome.

 

[Redmt]

My uncle had one when I was a kid, he could out the power head from his 066 on it.

No idea what brand of winch it was. But it worked awesome.

An 066 will out power this little bitty Homelite by 10-1!

 

[howl]

A game cart and a hitch hoist were good additions for me.

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I have that tent. An impact driver and screw-in tent stakes make putting in the the eleventy billion stakes it requires less a chore.

 

[howl]

I don't do this, because if it's on a cart I just use the cart to roll it into the bed, but ....supposedly this works.
Sheet of plywood as a ramp. Pulley in the bed of the truck up near the bed. Run the rope from the deer, through the pulley, then to a tree. Drive forward.

 

[Rack Daniels]

Mule tape and a chainsaw winch is a combo that I grew up with.

That’s how I’ve heard of guys getting moose out, in Maine. I’d never heard of the chainsaw winch prior.

 

[Caseknife]

I drew up a single wheeled game cart that kind of emulates a travois, but haven't built it yet.

 

[shrapnel]

I put a length of channel strut across the front of my pickup box and put two eye bolts in, to attach a Warn ATV recovery winch. Then all I need to winch a full sized elk into the back of the truck, is to put my ATV ramp down to the elk, wrap the cable around the elk and pull it up the ramp with the winch. One person can load a whole elk by themselves with this method…