Homemade deer cart suggestions?
#3
You'll find that a copy of that will be better suited for golf clubs than deer. Center of gravity wouldn't be correct with that type of set up, IMHO. Through the years I've tried numerous commercial, and made a few myself. Some of the commercial actually are more work than actual dragging. Best I have found are patterned after a " goat cart ". Example of them can be found on e-bay. I built/rigged a smaller version of one, and it works great on a trail such as a fire trail or a canoe portage.
#5
I think you could stiffen it up with some conduit. You have any electrician buddys that could bend some conduit for you? A couple more braces and I think it could handle a good sized whitetail.
#6
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 112
Find an old wheel chair @ a flea market, one with solid tires, get some 3/4" angle iron, and then you can make one that will also colapse for easy transport and storage. Me and my Dad are building some @ the moment. the basic wheel chair frame colapses to lay flat and the wheels are large enough diameter to roll easy over any terain. The frames on the wheel chairs are STRONG but suprisingly light. it's all in the design. Yours looks a tad on the light side but looks may be decieving. On yours, I would build the rest with 1/2"-3/4" angle iron. Do it in a way that it helps the integrity of the rest of the frame. Some spots on your original frame may benefir from 1/4" angle iron laid along the tubing and welded. Also, when building you might take into consideration the average dressed weight of deer in your are. Deer carts in Florida probably wont have to carry near the weight of one in Alberta. If nothing else, you got wheels and bearings to use on a complete other frame if the metal on yours is too light. If it's thick enough wall to weld with an arc welder set @ 40-60 amps or a wire welder, it's thick enough for a deer cart! As long as the design distributes the weight and stress properly.
#9
I had a deer cart once that had the wheels way back like that. It worked, but even with two people you couldn't go more than 50 yards before you had to stop and rest.