Storing Game Meat "All Winter" Cache or Meat Pole Discussion
If this get any traction, I'll post more information. But for now I have a fair amount of heavy logging chain, and considering running it from tree to tree to serve as a meat pole. The short coming of a wood meat pole is that squirrels and marten and ermine, wolverine can traverse the pole.
The goal is winter storage of meat in the north country, secured from birds and mice and other small meat-eaters. The meat would most likely be quarters of moose. This would be for emergency all winter and/or temporary storage while processing. And only used October through March.
Yes........there are dozen of way to preserve meat. But this assumes my cabin in the wilderness burned to the ground on New Years Eve, and I moved into a tent. Or pretend an advance survey party was trapped between two rivers late November in the North Country. The goal is preserving and protecting meat in the arctic winter, no cabin. Maybe at the end of your 26 mile (each leg) trapline.
If this get any traction, I'll post more information. But for now I have a fair amount of heavy logging chain, and considering running it from tree to tree to serve as a meat pole. The short coming of a wood meat pole is that squirrels and marten and ermine, wolverine can traverse the pole.
The goal is winter storage of meat in the north country, secured from birds and mice and other small meat-eaters. The meat would most likely be quarters of moose. This would be for emergency all winter and/or temporary storage while processing. And only used October through March.
Yes........there are dozen of way to preserve meat. But this assumes my cabin in the wilderness burned to the ground on New Years Eve, and I moved into a tent. Or pretend an advance survey party was trapped between two rivers late November in the North Country. The goal is preserving and protecting meat in the arctic winter, no cabin. Maybe at the end of your 26 mile (each leg) trapline.