Wait a minute hold the phone...that thing on back of jeep and truck is what i need!!! Did you make it, buy it..any more pics..i could have seriously used something like your animal jack on my oryx hunt..please more info
In answer to Juiceking's question, the lift on the back of my jeep is the result of several years of trial and error to figure what works best to handle game in spite of a bad back. Handling deer was bad enough, but when I added 4-500# exotics to the mix, the search began.
My biggest problem was getting the animal from the field to camp where a stationary boat winch can unload and load it into back of pickup for transport to processor. I had already built a "drawer" inside the bed of my pickup to enable items in front of bed to be reached from tailgate.
The drawer was 3/4" plywood with two rubber wheels at front and a 3/4" roller at back of bed. You could pull the drawer far enough out to reach items near front with a 2-300# load.
Mounted a boat trailer winch on 3" angle iron across front of bed and added door hinges to the rear end of "drawer" and front end of the ramp, which lays flat inside the drawer. Use 1/4" pins to connect the hinge halves and hold the 3/4" plywood ramp to the drawer, when deployed. The pins are stored on back of driver's side tool box and a bolt is mounted there to prevent inadvertently "unloading" the pickup should one decide to accelerate too quickly w/tailgate down. Remember the trial and error mentioned at the top of page? Nuff said about that! Over the years, the drawer warped where it was not supported on either side of the roller, so I added a couple of 1" ball rollers I found @ Harbor Freight.....wish I had found them earlier, I wouldn't have had to make the bushings for my roller, just mount 5 or 6 of these in bed: https://www.harborfreight.com/1-inch-roller-ball-bearing-67060.html .
In use, pull drawer out flush with end of tail gate, slide out the plywood ramp and insert pins. The control for boat winch is inside driver's tool box. Have loaded many 500# Nilgai cows with this setup.
The only problem is that you must unload the entire truck before loading game, then the ramp is placed on top of the entire load for transport back to camp. Stage 2 to follow.
Regards,
hps
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