Freezer died

boneaddict · Sep 10, 2005

We had a temp drop of 20 degrees this morning and snow up high, I was dieing to hit the ridge to catch some serious elk action. I know the trees were being shredded today. Anyhow, I got up, and happened through the backroom where one of our freezers is located and there is stuff dripping out the bottom. Turns out it was raspberries that had thawed. I freaked because I have a ton of moose and elk in there. Most of it was still frozen, but if I hadn't walked back there I would have been sick. I purged about a dozen birds I need to skin and taxidermy out of another freezer to make room. Not a good way to start your fall.

RACKMASTER · Sep 10, 2005

Good reason to upgrade!
goodluck!
rackmaster

mmwb · Sep 10, 2005

What a great day! Imagine if you hadn't noticed... Still sucks, but it would've been terrible to loose all of that great meat.

BuckSnort · Sep 10, 2005

At least you didn't lose any meat.

Tuffbucker · Sep 10, 2005

I know how that goes. Unfortunately when it happened to me, I wasn't as lucky. My brother had a near empty freezer at his house, so when I killed my bull elk last year and my cow the year before, I used his freezer to store my extra meat. Well, this summer he went out of town, and we had a short power outage. The outage tripped his breaker in the garage, and when he returned from Disneyland....5 days later, all my elk meat had thawed and is now ruined. Luckily I had a little bit stored at my house and little at my parents, so I didn't come out of it empty handed.

SCOTT

PronghornHunter · Sep 11, 2005

You got lucky. Last month my wife found one of our freezers had been turned off thanks to my 7 year old boy playing in the garage. The freezer that was still on had nothing but ice and frozen meals in it. The one that got turned off? It had a whole elk and one mule deer and both ruined. Half of it was sausage and quite expensive. We are both sick over that one and I told my boy I would remind him every hunting season of what he did till the day he dies.LOL!

ridgerunner · Sep 11, 2005

I had a similar experience last summer, lost a bunch of salmon, and deer meat, it stunk and was a bummer to lose all that good stuff.

boneaddict · Sep 12, 2005

I'm very lucky. The repair man is coming out today I hope. Its only three years old. The good news about it, I got some taxidermy done that I needed to work on.

ID_Paul · Sep 12, 2005

LAST EDITED ON Sep-12-05 AT 02:18PM (MST)[p]After I heard a few stories like this, I bought a freezer alarm similar to this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-DT4821-MW-F...ryZ20644QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

It has already saved me once. It is well worth the money to be alerted at around 25 degrees instead of by seeing something dripping out the door seal.

Paul