Home Made Meat Cooler

[The Hermit]

Awesome!!! i'd love to do something like that!! Hummmmm

[cdub]

To help I would insulate the floor. Concrete will suck the cold out of the room. I did my floor with rigid foam on the concrete then covered in painted plywood.

[Codes44]

Nice work!

[Norwestalta]

Real nice. What is the cooler compressor worth these days? I've got a 48' reefer trailer that I built a partition wall in for a cooler compartment and the rest is for cutting meat. I think my compressor was around $1200. I built brackets to hold my hanging rail. If I remember correctly the 1 1/2" x3/8" flat bar was pretty reasonable and is also fairly easy to bend corners into. Meat hooks were $25 a piece used. These sure help on the back lol.

If anyone in the peace country is looking for walk in cooler compressor I got one you can have. The only problem is that it is 230v 3 ph.

[jlirot]

I would just level it so that all the water will run out the door - then no need for a drain.

Can I bring stuff over for cleaning, hanging, aging?

That's bitchin'

[tomahawk]

Nice job MA. Pls share the rest as progress continues, I have gathered the lumber, some insulation, A/C and I'm going to build one on the back side of my shed out back. I still need hooks, cool bot, roofing, door etc but hope to have it functional this fall.

[LuckyHorseshoe]

[LuckyHorseshoe]

http://www.photobucket.com/user/mark...yamwl.jpg.html
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[montec assassin]

Looks like a nice unit there LuckyHorseshoe. A lot more mobile than mine. Very Handy.
Norwestalta, I'm not up to speed on the current unit pricing. Like I say, found a great deal on the cooling system for $100 which isn't common. Princess auto has 9inch stainless steel meat hooks for $8.50
The bar is 1 1/4" galvanized top rail of chain link fencing components.





Thanks for the positive feedback

[Norwestalta]

Be careful with the princess auto hooks. They do break.