I'm Just Sick!!

[Cabin Fever]

My wife texted me this morning while I was at work and said that it smelled like a dead animal in the basement and for me to check it out when I got home. Well, I went down and could smell "something", but couldn't locate the source. That is, until I saw all the liquid around the freezer! The freezer died and EVERYTHING was thawed and spoiled! I lost tenderloin, burgers, sausage, 100+ bullheads, both turkeys that my kids shot this spring, lots of chicken, a ham, etc... I feel like I just killed these animals and them go to waste! Man, I am just sick... 

 

Reminder.... Check those freezers!!

[growalot]

Damn that's a shame...we have two full size  upright freezers and two side by side frig/freezers....I check them daily. We loose power several times a year and have brown outs ...don't they have some sort of alarm that when the current reduces an alarm goes off to warn ppl?...If not someone should invent one...Though I do retain credit for the idea...hahahaha

[landtracdeerhunter]

 Sorry to hear that! I lost a 10 cu ft one 5th of May.. Caught  it in time though, and had to scramble everything into the other two. Luckily they were down on reserves, but had to move the hides out and  gett'em tanned    quick.

[gfdeputy2]

Cabin Fever

I feel your pain same thing happened to me a few years ago. This is why I hate having my game freezer in the basement . Don't beat yourself up over it it does stink but not your fault

[phade]

Gag. The smell had to make you sick.

 

Don't beat yourself up on it. It happens.

[verminater71]

it sucks, my uncles lost power he lost a pig and 20 chickens

 

I have an extension cord, with a light in it, I can give a quick check just by walking by, no more chances

[ants]

Damn shame but its not your fault. A few years back my deer season was just about over, but I had a tag left. My friend who doesn't hunt, wanted venison so I went out one last time and was lucky enough to get another deer. I had it butchered and gave hime the whole deer (minus the tenderloins) . He put it in a freezer in his garage and his son unplugged it, to plug in a radio, and never plugged it back in. The rest is history. It was so bad he threw out the freezer. It pisses you right off but accidents happen.

[josephmrtn]

Man that sucks! we had that happen a couple yrs ago.... almost happened again a couple weeks ago but the chest freezers are in my archery range (along the side) and i have some spraypaint and stuff for targets on em... i went to grab the spray paint and said WTH the freezer is unplugged!!! turns out someone had unplugged it to plug in a scale and forgot to plug it back in.... lucky i caught it!!!

[Arrow Flinger]

That sucks! I've had it happen to me before. Now I have a Generac Generator on my house.

[GreeneHunter]

Cabin Fever .... Sorry for your loss !!!

[fasteddie]

I had my 7 cu ft Sears chest freezer die on me a couple years ago . It lasted one month past warranty expiration ( one year ) . Lost all my venison . I bought a GE at Home Depot and bought a 4 year extended warranty that starts after the one year after the original warranty runs out .

 

I bought an indoor / outdoor wireless thermometer and put the sensor in the new freezer and have the reading unit next to me at my computer . It's 4.3 degrees right now  .

[NFA-ADK]

ARG that sucks Cabin Fever sorry about that!  Dam that sucks.  Fasteddie has a great idea with the wireless thermometer! 

 

[PREDATE]

That is unfortunate.

Just more reason to get out and stock back up!

[RangerClay]

Had that happen 2 years ago and yes it sucks.  When you go to buy you new freezer buy $24 worth of this insurance so it never happens again.

 

http://www.opticsplanet.com/hb-instrument-company-vwr-digital-refrigerator-freezer-thermometer-with-alarm-3804.html?gclid=COzH-7T3zLcCFZSe4AodzC0Amg&ef_id=Q39NcAeqGg8AAAMu:20130605123740:s

[papabear]

I dint loss power but had a friends son stay with us and he unplugged the freezer I dint find out till four days later lost all my venison and about 15 ducks and geese I was upset about the lost of all my game too  

 

papabear

[Fantail]

Very unfortunate. 

Most freezers are out of sight - out of mind and we tend to forget how much we depend on them.

[WNYBuckHunter]

Man, that sucks. Sorry to hear it.

 

On a similar note, we came home yesterday to a dead fridge, though we didnt loose anything except what it will cost to replace it.

[growalot]

was that part of the house deal?...Curious ...What brand name...we are looking...have been having problems for a year now...but I can't find a brand that ppl don't have major problems with after 6mos.

[landtracdeerhunter]

Freezers are pretty straight forward refrigeration units. Most failures have to do with moisture eating away at the tube joints. Because of this, a moist basement is the worst place to keep a freezer. Refrigerators have more electrical components. Far more failures in the electrical side rather than leaking refrigerant.Most companies intall the circuit boards, that control the evaporator fan and the defrost mode, in the refrigerator side. This circuit board fails quite often, with evaporator fan motors failures coming in a strong 2nd. The mechanical vent control, that funnels cold air from the freezer side, failure fall 3rd.

Edited June 5, 2013 by landtracdeerhunter

[fasteddie]

We have a Gibson upright freezer that we bought the year we bought our house ( 1969 ) . That baby is still working .

The chest freezer I bought to store my venison lasted 13 months ........

[Five Seasons]

i've lost meat by forgetting it was in my trunk, but never a whole freezer. that freaking sucks!

[NYbuck50]

I guess all you can do now is clean it out, and dump it in a field somewhere to shoot some coyotes over it

[WNYBuckHunter]

Would have to wait until October though....

[Culvercreek hunt club]

My freezer got unplugged once too. I lost everything. First thing I did though was plug it back in a partially refreeze the contents. It stunk much less and was easier to clean up. Very sorry to hear about this Cabin. I am glad to hear you are back to work though.

[apoallo]

nuts I lost a bunch of my meat 2 winters ago when we had that bad storm in october. just went shopping to prepare for the storm and I start thawing some of my dee rout and low and behold a telephone pole came within 1 fopot of crashing through my back window of my condo. power company had to cut power for a week until they could get a truck back there. I put all the meats in a cooler and put snow in it but mid week it got warms again and then there was nothing I could do.....