EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

just wondering what do yall use to drag yalls hogs out of the woods like sleds , wenches, or good ol pulling went a rope or lead. if yall got any pics of what yall use to give me ideas on way to make it easier.

Best method is to bring a couple young strong guys!

This is what I use works pretty good (http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/12/03/ec9ca3efb6cfdcd1ad47e93ce8093727.jpg)

the fridge never heard anybody using a fridge. how do u do it stuff hog in there then drag.

Well way I look at it if ya can't haul snacks and drinks with ya probly not strong enough to haul the hog out any way lol

Wheeler and winch if possible. If not, for small hogs (150# or less) tie the back legs together, tie front legs together, cut a small tree or limb (3-4" diameter and 4-6' long) and slide the limb between their legs and pole carry them out. OR, grab a leg/s and start grunting.

I use the ole refrigerator method as well. But dang if that aint gettin old in a hurry !!!

Well some  refrigerator are built to last some need to just stay home lol. Like my daddy always said can't never could

I aint but 27. This refrigerator is still cold as ice. But a wheeler with a winch had me spoiled at one time. Id like to know how somebody got that golf ball in that garden hose like that anyway ? thats pretty neat right there now !!

No video games and a lot of push ups and pull up

Call it what u will but the older u get the smarter u get. I have a big red. We put them in the back. If we get one too large to lift run the winch over the top and pull it in. If I can't get the big red to it I use my 4wheeler. If I can't get it all the way we use leads and drag it to 4wheeler. Dragging is the last option.


Shotgun
Arkansas

The older I get the more bossy I get lol. I am to poor for a buggy or wheeler so we do what we got to do and suck it up if ya want the hog

Is that the roid's talking

Heck I bought the 4wheeler 14 years ago. The big red 6 years ago. Wife's truck is 11 years old. Not rich by no means but have collected a piece or 2 over the years. If I buy something a rarely sell it. If it breaks I fix it.


Shotgun
Arkansas

LMAOOOOOOO

(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/12/04/c1f6ab5ce8816c1d9b70634aeb9a4505.jpg)louisiana boys put a lead rope on them and get it lol


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Dang shotgun 14 yrs on a wheeler that's good shows you take care of your stuff. If thanks go as planned when I get my truck paid off I will see bout getting a wheeler. Dallas 22 the only roids we use are the ones my wife puts in our biscuits and gravy. My boys work ten hrs a day at the ranch and come home eat like kings but they do pull ups push ups and climb a 20 ft rope most days

This hog weighed 369#  Getting him out was a breeze with the cart.
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Kerreydw that is how it's done right there. Hog bit that's nice little set up

Good stuff stay motavated!!! Just messing with u

Think some of yall are under the misconception that it's Judge Peels arm in the photo. Shoot...he's fat and old like me....and although WE COULD drag a hog out

We got a bunch of ski ropes, those soft handles are great on hands

Lol Kevin getting old and fat is a bitch I live thru my family. In my mind I am still a stud lol

I got this from my grandad years ago and if your far from the truck it wks great take a 4-1/2' to 5' old seatbelt and sew loops on both ends and tie 2' of rope to the ends tie the head as short as possible and put the seatbelt across the chest and start getting it it beats holding a lead r rope and aloes u to use all legs

I don't drag many hogs out, but I drag deer every year.  I do kinda the same thing I use one of these (the cheap one that comes with every tree stand anymore), and run the tree strap abound what ever needs dragging.

http://www.basspro.com/X1-Bowhunter-Safety-Harness/product/13031906213913/

(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/12/05/78496ecca0bdb91cb1e6c2331708aae4.jpg)with judge on this one

Drag hog under heavy overhanging limb, reel out enough winch cable to toss over, hook to tied hog and winch hog up, push it or drive up under it, let it down on your front rack. Finding a sturdy overhang is always the problem, never one where u need it when u need it.

Lou, dragging 20 ft don't count!!! Ha ha!!!

If you can't get a wheeler to them set them free

Sometimes that's not option IF u wanna keep ur hunting permission and property. It sucks to kill and leave lay,I don't agree with it, but hogs are a nusience animal and farmers/ranchers want them gone, not set free to destroy more land. Iv killed and left lay in the past, but it is what it is.

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I use this method from time to time..lol..

Tell all my secrets man..lol

That's why I like hunting old school on horses you don't have to drag nothing!!

I also had an older guy tell me he always carried two ropes that way he could just walk the hog to a point where he could get his truck to it

those boys were hog crazy I think they drug two out that day we had a pen full of hogs they took around 10 out of it I really enjoyed those boys great guys good moonshine and better hunting memories.lol

Here is a good example how to carry a hog out if no wheeler access is available and a lot less friction than dragging
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How about draggin a live hog.

How about draggin  a live one out

Done it the same way, shove a big enough limb between its legs and heave-ho and go. It worked for me, just if ur hauling to hogs at the same time, put them mouth to mouth or they will bite you, trust me, I know from experience. Anyways, that hog on the limb looks alive to me, the head ain't hanging low as if it were dead, unless rigor has already set in.

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Drug this one out alive. Half hitch the bottom jaw or top which ever is better for hog. Then half hitch the snout shut with same piece of mule tape. Then tie in a stick handle.  Have your partner tie in a stick handle on the tag end of the hog tie and get after it.

I'm way too lazy for that, here is my preferred way
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 why is the pig riding and u walking? The pig would b dragged, not gettin a free ride out of the whole deal.

Trust me Charles, I didn't walk a step.
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LOL, that's a cats meow. But if that hog would be alive, I think it but a whoopin on you and the horse  :D

I agree horseback is definitely a great advantage at times I'm sure. I'm jealous of that I admit.
However us here in these Florida swamps especially in the Perry area 80% of the hog bays are in the thickest  "wait a minute vines " you ever seen.  Horse would probably throw you off and look at you like you were stupid if you tried to get him in there to the hog. Lol

So we pretty much have to man up and drag them out of the block by hand in order to do anything with them.

Fullwood i have hunted in madison florida and it was CRAZY THICK those boys were calling them ty ty bushes or something like that. Its real good hunting down there with a ton of hogs but dang its thick and wet !! And yall florida boys are use to the gators down there and run around like no big deal. I was freaked out everytime we went near the water. Im from north georgia and yall can keep your alligators

  lol  dragging hogs is nuts , I will butcher them right where they die and just haul the meat .

Lol Georgia Hawgs I guess we are raised in it and it's all we know so it's not a big deal. Gators can be a true pain in the ass that's for sure. Mainly in the warmer months . But recently a guy that hunts with us lost some dogs to a 11 footer. So that kind of thing is what bothers us the most. Florida can be tricky. From the venomous snakes to the gators to the terrain.
But you know I live in Lakeland Florida which is about 3 in a half hours south of Perry where we hunt.
The woods around the house and local to us aren't near as thick and nasty as Perry woods.  The Perry woods will make or break ya to be a Florida hog hunter .

I heard that. I did enjoy myslef and we go there a good bit but i aint never got use to the critters..lol..i still do it but i can assure you im thinking about way harder than the locals. And them guys were saying they tracked there dog down one time that a gator had killed and shoved in the weeds for later. Do they do that ?said they followed the garmin sinal that was sayin treed all the way to a dead dog ..

For those who drag em out. If you face the hogs head the way your pulling it makes life easier ha. Me and buddies have drug hogs a lot just to get them close enough for a truck or wheeler. Even drug a few almost a mile:(. Lots of cussing and grunting haha

Yes. It's not hard to figure out when a gator has ruined your day. You will track the dog (if collar wasn't bitten ) but even then you will have a ? At the scene. But you will track them to the water and if the garmin is still working at the time you could be standing on the edge of the water and watching the dogs position on your garmin change when it's pointed out into the pond . Now the guy that hunts with us did get that gator and if I remember the story right he retrieved one of his collars back. But mainly he wanted that gator gone to eliminate another threat. 11 footer in the woods you hunt isn't a good thing.

That picture above we had already gutted that one, dogs rolled and caught another so we hung him in a tree and went back to get him. We took that picture at the truck.
Charles, we don't kill a lot of hogs, and that buckskin horse will haul them dead or alive, he is only 5 but a good one. If they are too big for me and them in the saddle, I ride behind it. Most of the places we huknt are pretty rough also, and you can't just ride every inch of it. I might have to drag to get to my horse, but that is about it. If not I do like Mr. Whitten said and take care of business where it happens. A while back caught a good boar in a really deep and steep, rough and rocky holler. After we tied him and took his picture, we untied 2 legs and persuaded him to start down the hill. He went about 3/8 of a mile on his own and we caught him again, tiedd him back up and hauled him 1.8 miles to the truck, on the horse. I have a lot of respect for those that will drag them, its work and separates the men from the boys. I used to hunt in the southern part of Oklahoma a bunch and hunted around some swamps, I am sure nothing like you Florida men do but I know a little what you mean. I got lost in one of those swamps and when we got back to the horses and mules, I asked the man I was with where the truck was. It had got dark and we were catching hogs, he told me he didnt know and I got kind of nervous, he cut his mule loose when we got out of them swamps and he took us to the truck. You can bet I didnt let him and that mule out of my sight, dark and no light aint no fun. That garmin cuts down on that now.

If we decided to bring one out and it's a decent drag we'll tie some string around the snout and tie the other end to a good pole and one or two ppl get on both sides of the rope and go to town like a team of mules . Takes a whole lot of the work out of it, by doing it this way your using your weight to do all the work

Been hunting hogs for 18 years and I have only ever killed a couple barrs to eat and you could put the ones I've taken out of the woods in a very small trailer over the last 18 years.  I learned along time ago not to add work to something I love.  LOL

You exactly right Oconee I'm going to enjoy myself not make work out of it, everybody who hunts with me on a regular basis knows I don't drag hogs out unless it's a bar or it's been tore up then and only then I'll drag one out, or if I can get a vehicle, boat, or bike to it and that's got to be a hundred yards or less.

Half a mile to a mile drag is normal for us

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....and thats a live hog. 

Damn thats tough what u do with its mouth.

Dang right grounds keeper that's how it's done right there

I would sure would like to see more pictures of your cart and some measurements


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That sucker was chomping all the way out!  Luckily only had about 150 yards of a tote!

Jody, they sell them carts at cabelas and sometimes at Walmart. I bet I could sit down and draw u out some plans to build it. I can Chinese blueprint it from just that pic, or go to cabelas or gander mountain and take some measurements and get 1 built

K I'll stop by gander mountain and look
I can build it but want to use rubber wheels


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U talkn the airless rubber hand truck wheels or an air up type wheel? Iv got them airless wheels and they work great and are easy to roll over stuff with and 5/8" round stock works great for an axle. Heck, even a riding mower air up tire would work good.

I haven't got that far yet to decide on tiers. One project at a time.


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I sure would like to see the footage on this one.  I see you got your gopro cam on that hat.  Post the video.

The cart comes from Cabela's.  It can be bought fairly cheaply (Like less than $75)   I was going to make one, but received this one as a Christmas gift. I have hauled at least a ton and a half of pork through all sorts of terrain with this cart.  The first time i used it I had two  sows over 200 pounds a piece on it at the same time for about a mile.
That camera was a cheap hat cam that didn't take great video.  After this hog I shelled out a few bucks for a better camera.

Hog bit what kinda wheels are the tires mounted on. I have one from cabelas that has plastic wheels and they bend and flex real bad when it has a load on it

They are airless rubber wheels. This is the closest one to what I have. The one I have isn't aluminum. Mine may be discontinued as I don't see it on the site.

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