Neanderpundit

Shooting a deer is the easy part, once it’s done. Getting it in the freezer- now, that’s some work. I’d packed the body cavity with bags of ice becasue it was warmer during the day than I liked, but in the end, that was fine. I hung the deer from the gambrel I built into the garage ceiling. It took all day. My back is sore from the bending over the too-low table. My hands are sore from the rope winch, raw from constantly washing and changing gloves. But the deer is in the freezer. I took some pains to get as much meat off it as I could, cutting it into mostly roasts as I have steaks leftover from last year. Small scraps and strips went into the grinder. THe hide and hooves are in the garbage for takeout today- If I had time and the skill I’d tan the hide and smoke it, but I don’t, and I don’t have the time to develop it either, right now.

I’m nursing a headache now, and the arms are hosed up from the cutting and grinding, but i feel fine.

And he wants to get colder.

Jim is trying to get a cooler in his attic.

Now, it’s possible to get a walk in cooler as a kit, and you can get them through just about any opening. but they are spendy:
some are over 5k, and even a cheap one will cost around three grand.

I’m not sure what Jim means when he talks about the cost of a freezer in a garage; a freezer costs the same to operate wherever it is- if it’s hot, it still has to move heat from inside the unit to outside, and an attic will be as hot as a garage. Plus, the idea of having a garage mounted generator makes it a double benefit to have the freezer out there.

A couple of wall mounted freezers, or even a small chest freezer in the rafters, will work perfectly, and cost a couple hundred dollars. Additionally, an electric fan in the garage roof will make it more efficient, and a couple sheets of styrofoam glued aroud the outside of the freezer will make it keep cold longer even in the event of a power failure. Any other ideas for Jim in comments?

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