I'm wanting to build a roller style machine since I have short ceilings and am struggling to find dimensions for them. Would anyone be willing to send me some dimensions/pictures so I have a better idea? I'm not looking to steal anyone's ideas, just trying to figure out the dimensions so I can build one for myself. Thanks in advance!

I’ve heard of horizontal setups, not too hard to figure out.

The bars on mine are 12" long IIRC

It would take up too much room to have a horizontal set up.

Thank you, I really appreciate it!

TWhey don't have to be totally upright or horizontal. I know a person who has used an angle type homemade skinning rig for several thousand coons.

Bryce

I looked at the one at n.t.a. , did you check it oot.
Just wondering, I,m just old school looked something else to store an trip over
Not bashing it, or wanting to offend anyone.

I did look at it but was too out of my price range for skinning out free coyotes and coons for hunting buddies and I know a few guys good at fab so I figured I would just make one. Me and my dad usually thermal hunt around 70-100 coyotes a year so it would be nice to have a easy way to skin the nice ones we want to keep and then we have a couple of other friends who do the same so it would get used quite a bit.

Peel them warm, made a pole on my bumper (pre cell phone).
So no pictures, now I use a nylon rope setup, I traded for it at
a western NTA in Holbrook AZ .
Work's as all around type setup, tree, an brace post etc.
Still need body/an knee for help but as I said earlier warm
is best .

Best of luck

Well, I figured it out. I made it a bit bigger than I wanted, but it should do just fine. I still need to make a pedestal/base for it and give it a quick coat of paint.

Nice! I was thinking about building one as well

That should work.
You should attach a winch motor to that rig then you would be In hog haven.

Dang YT that’s awesome.Did you run a threaded rod through a hollow pipe to attach to far side?

If you want to keep it short, don’t bother making a pedestal or stand for it, just drill some holes in that bottom bar and mount that into the floor. That’s what I did to save even more room

Right On, looks good.

Nice job

Anyone got a video of that thing in action ?

If you need any help, just pm me and I'll be glad to help. It's a shame there's no info out there on these to build your own, this was a decent bit of guess work.

That's the plan to use a winch to pull the carcass and keep the hide attached to the roller. Should be a really sweet skinning rig.

Here's how I did it. I used solid 5/8" stock and the way those hand winches are set up is they have a bolt going through with a tube around them so I cut it in half and welded the stock right to the tube around the bolt. I can adjust how hard it is to crank by tightening or loosening the bolt by the ratcheting mechanism. I can make a video of it if you're interested.