So how is it done? I can see how a guy with a Maule or a 180 does it, but what about the guys with two place planes; cub, husky? Cut the kill up and take it out in pieces?

Jon

Once you drain the fluids out and disolve the major organs in a vat of acid, the average human doesn't take up that much space...or were you talking about something else?

I don't think I would want to haul out a human...CSI would have a tougher time finding the body in the wilderness.

I was think specifically about hauling an Elk.

Jon

A SC will haul 1 1/2 moose quartered.

Ok but what if you only kill one moose!

is one and a half moose equal to one and a half elk? And a Maule can probably haul 2 moose ..... so there! or is it Meese, or Mooses?

We used to cut it up and debone as much as possible.....leaving about 400-600 pounds of transportable meat. In a SC with an improvised strip and no passenger, we hauled it out in 2-3 safe loads....

be careful of the CG since moose and game meat is very heavy per cubic foot...I would not recommend a pilot, passesnger, and the meat aft of the passenger....

plus you should leave someone to hang out by the rest of the meat 'cause a grizzly may be on it before you get back. Watching the CG of game meats is a

lesson hard learned by the Horizon Air crash in Homer Alaska a number of years ago. A commercial plane overloaded with deer meat (In Kodiak you were allowed 5 deer per hunter) and people...took off slow but became more aft heavy as they burned fuel to Homer.....pancaked in when they dropped power to land.....

Ravi man, that was funny.
Man I can't wait to get up to Alaska, i would love to see a moose, alive even or riding copilot in the back of a Supercub.
Now wait a minute, i just went camping and about 31 airplanes were camping as well, a half dozen of them were SC's mostly arriving with two people. The Cub drivers were all limited in room with two people and light camping gear. one cub driver and his wife came with there camping gear but he didn't have room for his guitar so there friend brought it in her plane.
So how does a dude fit himself and a Moose in a SC, even if it is Quartered. Never mind himself and the Moose and half of the body of his Moose buddy.

Be careful on this site, MTV suggested i should purchase my grave stone now because i went camping w/my wife 100lbs of fire wood and some camping gear in my Maule, someone might get mad. Never mind cruising around in a small plane with a moose in the back or even an elk.
I'm with Whee here, how do you do it? How much does a F...ing moose weight??, even when it is quartered.

Can a beaver carry like 5 Meeses

Skin it, quarter it, haul it out appropriate pieces at a time.

And, for the record, that was NOT Horizon Air that splashed going into Homer from Kodiak.

MTV

Sorry....my mistake..it was Ryan Air,,,Nov 1987. I was living in Kodiak --USCG at the time......thanks for pointing that out. It's been a long time.

Ok then how many grizzlies can you fit in the back of a SC. And do you have to remove the back seat? And if you remove the back sea....... Never mind...

iceman,

Depends on what sort of meds they're on.......

And, yes, I have done that one . But, they were VERY good meds.....

MTV

So what kind of airplane carries it's fuel foward of it's CG?

a64pilot wrote:So what kind of airplane carries it's fuel foward of it's CG?

A36 Bonanza?

Beech 1900C

Jr.CubBuilder wrote:I think the real question for Whee is how do you hang and dress the rest of it so it will last while you take it out piece by piece.

It will be much lighter if you dry it first. Slice it into thin strips and season it, then hang up to driy. It's ready to transport when the flies stop landing on it.

J Michael wrote:

Jr.CubBuilder wrote:I think the real question for Whee is how do you hang and dress the rest of it so it will last while you take it out piece by piece.

It will be much lighter if you dry it first. Slice it into thin strips and season it, then hang up to driy. It's ready to transport when the flies stop landing on it.

Isn't it easier to just go to the super market and buy Jerkey.

mr scout wrote:Beech 1900C

I knew it couldn't be that many, I've never seen a "small" airplane like most of us fly that did, but that was the second post that I had seen that referenced a problem with aft CG after fuel burn off. Usually most airplanes carry their fuel in the wings between the front and rear spar, which of course places the tanks centroid aft of the CG, so CG moves forward as fuel burns off. I assume there are some aircraft out there that may carry their fuel forward of the main spar, I just hadn't seen one.
Before the heavy three balded prop was put on my Maule, when she was loaded heavy it was pitch sensitive due to an aft CG, but as fuel burned off the sensitivity went away.

iceman wrote:Isn't it easier to just go to the super market and buy Jerkey.

Now where are you going to find Moose jerkey?

Jr.CubBuilder wrote:I think the real question for Whee is how do you hang and dress the rest of it so it will last while you take it out piece by piece.

I'm going to leave my brother behind and let him quarter it and guard it while I shuttle every thing out . The trouble is that I can only haul about 350 lbs of meat at a time... I need a bigger plane.

Jon