[mjgray123]

The gas winches are pretty awesome. They’re not terribly heavy. I would bet they’re not too much heavier than an electric one plus a drill and battery.

 

[MNmike]

Problem is they have pretty low capacity of cable/rope so you end up adding sections . Then as it gets closer someone has to be there to remove, let out cable, and hook up again. Depending on the angle. There goes the deer sliding down the hill.

 

[2backstraps]

I built this attachment for Hawke Crawler cart last year. The base slips over the center of the handle. Boat winch with 200' of thin dyneema cord. The cord runs down through a pulley at the base of the cart and then 200' up the hill attached to a tree. It's noisy as hell since the boat winch doesn't have bearings but I can walk along the cart at a good pace as this thing pulls the cart up the hill. On one use last year I reset the line 4 times going up different hills and still had juice left in a 4Ah Ridgid battery.

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[Todd NE WY]

I have an old capstain gas powered one with a 300‘ spot of no stretch rope. It was expensive but worth every penny when i need it. It would be perfect in the OP’s situation. Mine is a Simpson.

 

[kevinfoerster]

Ttt thanks guys. Leaning towards buy once cry once and get a tugger 2 capstan gas powered winch. Seems like could pull a deer from the creek bottom about 250 feet up the hill to level ground for the remaining half mile drag out. Just leave in truck until deer is down then drag the unit via sled to top of hill, connect to deer, pull deer up and load everything in the sled