OK, so the freezer died. It was on our porch. We thought maybe the cat had drug a dead rabbit behind it. And that was the smell. No.
It's had the compressor out for maybe a week now. It smells. REAL BAD.
I need ideas.
Do I throw it off the bridge, full of rot? NO! that's littering, and besides some idiot did it once, and I hated it.
Do I hide it on the back of the property, with the lid propped up 1/2", with a log chain around it, with bear traps around it? Hmmmm maybe. Wife would kill me!
Do I take it to the local scrap metal yard, and SELL it, and not tell them? Naw, that would be mean!
Do I take it to the inlaws, and leave it on the end of the drive?
Do I find somebody to sneak swap with?
OK, I need help!
N
Calls the guys from Swamp People use it a gator bait.
Or take it to a dumpster.
Buddy lost a chest freezer full of elk, had it plugged into a GFI circuit in his garage. Bad idea. Didn't notice until the smell hit him.
Rent a backhoe and bury it.
Paint a Big A on it and send it to Fayetteville. Might be a breath of fresh air compared to how the hogs have stunk lately. o.O
After Hurricane Katrina, there must have been tens of thousands of fridge and freezers placed at the curb for weeks and months afterward. I know the stink that you are talking about. In New Orleans East, there was a large meat packing place that stunk to high heaven. I had to pass by a few times and it was unbelievable. People said the dead bodies were more pleasing to smell. I think the EPA came in and assigned a special task force to handle all the fridges and freezers. They hauled them off somewhere where a battalion of workers stripped and sanitized them. Same with the abandoned vehicles.
I salvaged our fridge. It was only 6 years old. I took it apart as much as I could. I dragged it to the backyard and hosed it off and applied chlorine bleach solutions and also cleaners that had an orange oil base. But it was the sun along with the cleaning agents that cured it. We still have it now and works like and smells like when we bought it.
We had some neighbors who rented that dumped all their stuff at the curb including fridge and freezer. They took off for Texas and I was left to clean their mess up too.
sounds good, robert hill. maybe quick lime would get things moving in the right direction as well. maybe i have been watching too many gangster films
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Well it just not gansta films.
Here there was a restaurant named Mosca's on the west bank of new Orleans. I have eaten there.
Mama Mosca was supposed be a cook for al capone.
BUt it was also strongly associated with Carlos Marcellos. There are storoes of individuals meeting with the don on sunday mornings and never seen again. They were taken out to the nearby swamp and disposed of with quick lime.
Oyster Mosca is pretty tasty dish . Baked oysters with olive oil, seasoned bread crumbs and parmesan
Put it out at the side of the street with a sign on it "For Sale - $25". Somebody will steal it.
Someone unplugged the upright freezer in the storage shed about 20±yrs ago to plug in a power tool and never plugged in the freezer again. A while later it was opened and was as bad as could be, maggotville. 99% of content was separated into trash bags that were placed in tubs.
The contents were put on the tree burn pile and cremated and the freezer went thru phases of cleanup.
1 hot steamy water (hose from hot water heater)
2 hot sunshine dryout
3 a bucket full of charcoal to extract smell (a few months)
4 dismantle and clean with bleach
5 more charcoal (months)
6 bleach again and a good rinse
Since your unit does not work anymore, burial is a good option. You could empty and cover contents with a sack of lime as that would mask most decomposition.
I don't freeze in mass quantities anymore...
Nate I would say bury the meat, it's biodegradable let nature do the work.
Vinegar, citrus oils and sunlight will cut the smell, after that put it on Craigslist for someone to make a dollar scrapping it.
I agree about the bleach. If you have access to a backhoe, I would find a place to bury the contents and take a sprayer and lots of bleach with you. Once it's empty, I'd spray inside and out with bleach. Then I would take it back, hose it out, bleach again, and repeat as necessary. You might have to take it apart. Once it got manageable, I would clean with soap and water, then probably more bleach.
All this is if it's worth fixing. If not, I would still probably bury the contents, spray the inside with bleach, the put it somewhere far from the house in the sun with the lid open.
Update:
Most of the food in it was eaten. So, it was only 1/4 full. Besides, last yr was not a great year for deer hunting.
So, I took it to the edge of our place, opened it up, dumped it out, CUT all the wrappers, and burned the wrappers. Piled up the stuff, and left it. (animals will make it disappear in less than a day, as we are in the woods)
Then, I turned my attention to the freezer. RAT cut wires!
I can fix it.
So, I left the freezer out there to air out.
And, we may actually get our freezer back... or maybe not.
Thanks everybody.
I up, lost my stomach doing this, but I could not think of a better way.
Nate
I have two old ones in the barn; great for feed storage for the animals. But you wouldn't want to use the real old ones for that because of the latching systems that could trap a child in them.
If it happens again...
... just paint it like shown below, take it to a construction site Sunday evening and by noon Monday it will be gone forever -
If it happens again...
Ha ha ha !!!! will it attract a bulldozer too?
If it would attract a skid steer, that would be good!
N
My god!, just plug your nose, put some rubber gloves on and throw all the stuff into garbage bags throw it in the back of your pick up truck and take it to the dump!
I realize this is humor, but I can't believe all these people telling you to bury it in your yard. Around here you would have a good chance at getting turned in for illegal dumping.
I once had an ice chest that I didn't clean out after a camping trip. I left it closed for 2 years. When I had to move to another house, I opened the lid and almost passed out from the smell. I gently poured some of the liquid out and taped the lid shut with duct tape and hauled it to the dump.
Around here the people working at the dump go through your stuff immediately after you toss it out. I have seen them going through peoples paper work that wasn't shredded.
So what did I do....cut the tape and tossed the ice chest over the edge of the transfer station loading dock and watched the contents spill all over the ground. I smiled to myself and quickly left.
Thats a funny story!
