redthorn
09-14-2011, 05:45 PM
For those of you who want to build your own cooler in the Lower Mainland, there is a lot of FREE Zero-loc (6" expanded polystyrene foam with tin facing on either side) in slabs in the parking lot of Neova on Peardonville in Abbotsford. They are doing a plant expansion and are throwing it away.
If you grab enough out to make a fully enclosed room,(walls and roof and possibly floor) just cut a hole in the wall to the size of a freebie working fridge (Craigslist...). Place the fridge in the cut out so the interior of the fridge is open to the inside of your room and the backside of the fridge with the pumps etc is outside of the room. Run the fridge in it with the fridge and freezer doors open and you should have more than enough cooling with that insulation to hang an animal for a week.
We have a homebuilt ourselves and it has no problem keeping 2 moose and a few deer cool with a simple eggcooler for the refrigeration. You just need the thick insulation.
If you grab enough out to make a fully enclosed room,(walls and roof and possibly floor) just cut a hole in the wall to the size of a freebie working fridge (Craigslist...). Place the fridge in the cut out so the interior of the fridge is open to the inside of your room and the backside of the fridge with the pumps etc is outside of the room. Run the fridge in it with the fridge and freezer doors open and you should have more than enough cooling with that insulation to hang an animal for a week.
We have a homebuilt ourselves and it has no problem keeping 2 moose and a few deer cool with a simple eggcooler for the refrigeration. You just need the thick insulation.