Thread: Moa Graf's boy's "packing out" technique

Originally Posted by charliehorse

@Moa Hunter where do we find more info on this packing out technique? Is it strapped to an old pack frame?

Hi charliehorse, if you are asking I assume that you dont actually have a horse, which if you did would of made things easy ??
I had not seen the vid that Sarvo posted before, those Grafs sure know what they are doing. Anyway I used the following vid of theirs as a tutorial to make my frame:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgAhw2Uwhas
I bought a Macpac pack and cut the back and harness out of it for the deer carry pack and made the frame out of old light weight furniture tube from beach chairs. These were not welded to join them - I used a piece of tight fitting tube 80mm long at each join sleeved inside and a two pop rivets. This let me disassemble the frame and shorten it until I was happy with the dimensions.
I will make another one that will be collapsible as the frame can be a nuisance while hunting. This will be made like a X cross from those fold up camp chairs but with a folding top and bottom bar. I twitched some fence wire top to bottom on my one to brace the light tube 'L' shaped bend at the bottom and I think a collapsible one could be braced with two short lengths of braided wire with a hook or eye to attach them when the frame is extended