Must have been a shade tree mechanic who first devised the method, eh?
Probably south of the Mason Dixon line ta boot!

I'm not a big fan of this shortcut...we've done it a few times at my camp. The last time we did it, however, we ripped the head of the deer right off, which made getting the hide off pretty hard and seemed pretty disrespectful of the animal to me. We stick to man-power and sharp knives now.

Have seen hilarious results as one commenter mentioned, tearing head off or tearing carcass in half etc. Was helping elder neighbour and his buddy floored the truk and dragged the deer halfway down the street. Not sure how much time it saves. Have used my quad winch and if at home have used my engine hoist as well as I have more control and easier for one person to do. Two guys who know what they are doing can skin complete warm deer long before you are done goofing around hooking up stuff. We usually hose our deer down inside and out and they are ready to age and cut up nice and clean.

Been using this "trick" for YEARS !

It was, although, a good video to show hunters who are impaired in their ability to do all the skinning. Everyone should have a chance to hunt and skin their own game.

I've heard about this but I've never tried it. I sort of like hanging around the skinning rack & shooting the bull--giving each other a hard time and all that good clean fun while a couple of guys skin the deer & the other guys brag BS about how much better they can do it. But it does seem like a pretty good shortcut if you have a whole stack of deer to skin.

that is about as easy as it gets we use a golf ball to tie around. works great.

It might be worth a try.

Golf ball works good. I used a nut bout the size of a golf ball and chain. Just wad the skin up around good. And i'd recommend having a person to watch so it doesn't tear meat off. If you do it right you can pull the tail right off the bone

The first time I tried that my deer was cold. Not a good idea.

wow, must be a warm weather deer camp not much fat on that deer. Pretty funny though and I TOO and curious of what happen to the cooler hahaha

Come on FS...I would expect that we could find a video showing and explaining how to do this better, its at a wrong angle to start. Where did he attach the wire?? I read about putting a golf ball under the skin to attach to the deer. This seems like a short cut that saves you maybe 7 minutes. I like my meat too much.

Never seen that before. I think the time saved doing it this way is minimal though, it really doesn't take that long with a good knife and a little muscle. Besides, I've always hung my deer head down for skinning.

my uncle had a butcher shop for 40 yrs priod to his retirement and did 200 deer a yr this way! starting in 1963! and I have done this since I sterted doing my own deer 30 yrs ago!