Built a crazy skinning machine this weekend. I'll put it together tomorrow and take some pics, it was dark when we finished. It is all steel tubing. In the retracted position it is seven and a half feet tall. In the fully extended position it is seventeen feet tall. It can be set at eight and a half feet, ten feet and twelve feet without extending the center section. It is totally modular with a base that accepts the main tubes and the fur clamp at the bottom which consist of 2 vice grips with split 1/2" pipe 2" wide welded in the jaws 9" tip to tip on a welded 1/2" pipe "H" stand. The rod that the vice grip "H" stand goes on is a 3/4" steel rod with 4 adjustment holes for pins that allows 10 inches of adjustment. The main poles are various sizes of steel tubing slid inside each other that have pin holes for 1/2" pins to adjust it from 7' to 17'. The largest of the tubes (the bottom one) pins to the base and has the winch mount and fairlead welded to it. The feet are 1" tubing 3 feet long in an X pattern. The top is 3/8" thick 3" wide flat bar holding the 2 pulleys for the winch cable and is welded to tubing that slips over the top and is removable. Each pulley has a pin above it to prevent the cable from jumping off. The pulleys and pins are removable for maintenance and repair as needed. The winch is a 3,500 pound 12 volt atv winch and has the mounting studs permanently in its feet and is installed and removed with wing nuts. The last piece is a receiver stabilizer 3' long with a 1' section that slides over the bottom tube allowing the rig to slide up and down to contact the ground wherever it is used. Unless out in the field it is free standing. Broken down it consist of the receiver stabilizer, the base, the winch, the vice grip "H" stand, the "H" stand rod, 3 sections of steel tubing that slide into each other and the winch pulley top attachment. I'll take some pics and post tomorrow.
