Deer Cooler ?

[nomad to hunt]

could you use an old upright freezer, put some hooks in the top, and fill the bottom with block ice. do you think that would work?

[Cyclic-Rivers]

My uncle converted his laundry room with the ac unit. He also insulated it very well.  works great and is a useful space the rest if the year.

[lpcjon2]

nomad to hunt I think only a deer from jersey would fit in that freezer...LOL

[Stiks-n-Strings]

we had an old deep freezer and sat it in the coener of the garage and hung heavy plastic around from ceiling to floor and hung our deer in it before when it was warm during the early season (50-60) and it kept the meat around 40 degrees only thing is it'll freeze the lower half.

[Earthdog]

Much the same as KentuckyTJ,,but we use a small steel shipping container.

[Possum2]

Yes me an a buddy of mine bought some scrap of an old meat locker took the door and fram and pieced it together cut a hole in the side installed an airconditioner put a heat lamp close to the themostat sensor to make it cool at a lower temp around 38 degrees put a steel bar thru to sides of the wall to hang deer. We can fit 5 deer in the cooler at one time!

Possum

[L. E. Carroll]

My deciesed hunting buddy of 23 years, and I built a walk in cooler about 12 years ago that would hold 3 deer and a couple elk at the same time. [ He made a nice living working in the heating and referigeration field. ] It is about as close to a commericial unit as you will find.

We can actually bring it down well below freezing.

I have continued to hunt with his son ever since his Dads's passing and still use that cooler. Now thats a hunting related item I would hate to have to do without              We do our own burger grinding and sausage stuffing with it.  

Then there is the smoker..Home-made using foil backed plywood. about 30" x30" and 5 ft. tall.  It has it's own electric hot plate for the wood chips along with a oven coil in the bottom to help keep the heat uniform and thermostatically controled, with a handy drip pan in the bottom to catch any droppings.  All of the meat, [salmon or sturgeon if thats what we are doing] is layed on horizontal stainless steel racks.

Guess you could say we kind of take it serious.