On “steep” terrain, one could easily dump the deer out and use gravity to slide it down the hill. Uphill…fahgettaboutit!DuckHunt wrote: ↑Sun Nov 21, 2021 7:37 pmThat's a great cart full! Congrats to them.
I purchased a Hawk Crawler and used it once. For those that are interested, I really can't recommend it for hilly terrain. Its way harder to descend a steep grade with a deer on a Hawk Crawler than not. It adds work in both directions.
Now in the woods on firm soil, it is pretty impressive how it can negotiate obstacles.
I gifted it to my younger brother in Arkansas and we used it to drag out his swamp buck last Saturday. I also can't recommend it for swampy retrievals. We had to cross three sloughs well above knee deep in muck and we would have been far better off with the deer off of the cart than on it. Those thin tires are more like pulling a disc behind a tractor when pressed into deep muck. That's only a problem if you are the tractor.
But, the Hawk Crawler certainly has many good uses. We used it to carry our two climbing stands about a mile back onto public land. That alone saved a lot of sweat.
Yup, those wheels are certainly not pontoons…but for “general” carting over medium terrain, I wouldn’t want any other cart. That said, I have NOT tested mine YET! Trying like hell but no luck…so far.