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<blockquote data-quote="rifle02" data-source="post: 5278119" data-attributes="member: 20050"><p>At my age I have found it impossible to load a larger deer onto a four-wheeler by myself. I have found the easier thing to do is use the winch with the cable over a tree limb, Hoist the deer pull it back, lower it onto the front rack. So when I killed a somewhat small doe on the last day of the season in 2018, by myself, I began looking for a suitable tree limb. The mature Oak Forest I was hunting in offered very few possibilities. I finally located a sorry tree with a limb That Grew somewhat parallel to the trunk not that far away. Using the ATV I dragged the doe to that tree. I then began the frustrating process of trying to throw the twisty cable and steel hook through that crotch in the tree. I tried a bunch of times each time worrying that the falling heavy steel hook would damage something on the ATV or me! No matter how many times I threw that heavy hook in there I couldn't get it to go through the crotch in that tree. Out of frustration I climbed up onto the ATV and stood on the front cargo rack. I gave a mighty heave with the hook felt off balance, and said oh shot. That is all I remember. I regained consciousness and I was laying on the ground with a splitting headache. I stood up in the first thing I saw was my glasses lying about 5 feet away. I put my glasses on and felt the back of my head I had a goose egg literally the size of a goose egg. I looked at my hand and there was blood on it. I felt again and I did not think I was bleeding and I noticed a deer's head in my armpit! I had fallen on top of the deer as well as the ground. I tried to stand up and it was extremely difficult I staggered like a drunken sailor to the ATV and sat there for a minute. I am not sure how long I had been unconscious. My thoughts were I'm glad the coyotes didn't find me or a crow come and pick my eyeballs out. I resumed trying to throw the cable but this time all I did was walk around to the other side of the tree slightly uphill and on the first try the cable and hook went through the crotch in the tree! So I picked up the small deer and did not raise it as high as I needed to. I grabbed the hooves on her back legs and picked up on them and I felt something crack and break in my chest! That's when I actually started to get worried. My left arm was all spastic and wouldn't cooperate for a few minutes. So eventually I got the deer on the ATV strapped so it wouldn't falloff, drove, very slowly I might add back to my vehicle put the ATV on the trailer and the deer in the bed of the truck. When I got home I unloaded the ATV, then told my wife we needed to go to the emergency room. But first I had to change my clothes clean up a little bit and drop the deer off at the processor! Anyway it turns out I had a fairly severe concussion I could not tell them how long I had been unconscious. I had what was called retroactive amnesia. That is I remember standing on the four wheeler and then being on the ground nothing in between. And a day or so later I determined that my left collarbone was dislocated. It still is actually but doesn't bother me. The scary thing is no one knew where I was and I was by myself. Could have been much worse but turned out okay in the end. I'm glad God looks after people even when they do stupid things. The embarrassing part was explaining to people, no, I was not riding the ATV, I was standing on it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rifle02, post: 5278119, member: 20050"] At my age I have found it impossible to load a larger deer onto a four-wheeler by myself. I have found the easier thing to do is use the winch with the cable over a tree limb, Hoist the deer pull it back, lower it onto the front rack. So when I killed a somewhat small doe on the last day of the season in 2018, by myself, I began looking for a suitable tree limb. The mature Oak Forest I was hunting in offered very few possibilities. I finally located a sorry tree with a limb That Grew somewhat parallel to the trunk not that far away. Using the ATV I dragged the doe to that tree. I then began the frustrating process of trying to throw the twisty cable and steel hook through that crotch in the tree. I tried a bunch of times each time worrying that the falling heavy steel hook would damage something on the ATV or me! No matter how many times I threw that heavy hook in there I couldn't get it to go through the crotch in that tree. Out of frustration I climbed up onto the ATV and stood on the front cargo rack. I gave a mighty heave with the hook felt off balance, and said oh shot. That is all I remember. I regained consciousness and I was laying on the ground with a splitting headache. I stood up in the first thing I saw was my glasses lying about 5 feet away. I put my glasses on and felt the back of my head I had a goose egg literally the size of a goose egg. I looked at my hand and there was blood on it. I felt again and I did not think I was bleeding and I noticed a deer's head in my armpit! I had fallen on top of the deer as well as the ground. I tried to stand up and it was extremely difficult I staggered like a drunken sailor to the ATV and sat there for a minute. I am not sure how long I had been unconscious. My thoughts were I'm glad the coyotes didn't find me or a crow come and pick my eyeballs out. I resumed trying to throw the cable but this time all I did was walk around to the other side of the tree slightly uphill and on the first try the cable and hook went through the crotch in the tree! So I picked up the small deer and did not raise it as high as I needed to. I grabbed the hooves on her back legs and picked up on them and I felt something crack and break in my chest! That's when I actually started to get worried. My left arm was all spastic and wouldn't cooperate for a few minutes. So eventually I got the deer on the ATV strapped so it wouldn't falloff, drove, very slowly I might add back to my vehicle put the ATV on the trailer and the deer in the bed of the truck. When I got home I unloaded the ATV, then told my wife we needed to go to the emergency room. But first I had to change my clothes clean up a little bit and drop the deer off at the processor! Anyway it turns out I had a fairly severe concussion I could not tell them how long I had been unconscious. I had what was called retroactive amnesia. That is I remember standing on the four wheeler and then being on the ground nothing in between. And a day or so later I determined that my left collarbone was dislocated. It still is actually but doesn't bother me. The scary thing is no one knew where I was and I was by myself. Could have been much worse but turned out okay in the end. I'm glad God looks after people even when they do stupid things. The embarrassing part was explaining to people, no, I was not riding the ATV, I was standing on it. [/QUOTE]
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