During warm weather, when you skin right away, pulling the hide by hand is easy, but in Wisconsin, we must wait to register our deer at a registration station and in late season, or during rifle season when we have 8-10 frozen deer to skin, it sure makes alot of work easy using a 4-wheeler. For us it is not rediculous, it's practical, and we have never had a problem doing them this way. We use a big tree to hang our deer from so the garage roof thing is not an issue but is something I am aware of.