Deepfreezer Quit!

[Slipped Cork]

My wife called me at work yesterday and informed me our freezer quit and everything was thawed and smelling.When I got home she was sure right,stunk so bad I could barely stand to clean it out.I had just put a 700lb steer in there back in march but what really hurt was all the spring fish fillet's in there.I had to take everything to the dump including the freezer.I will make a note to myself,the next freezer will have an outside light.I was around that freezer the day before and never smelled anything,guess it had a good seal lol.

[poppop]

Your homeowners should cover that.....a friend of mine has his to quit...and the insurance paid him for the contents...and for vension...it was like $7.00 or so a pound.

[wrwest]

Your homeowners should cover that.....a friend of mine has his to quit...and the insurance paid him for the contents...and for vension...it was like $7.00 or so a pound.

That is interesting and good to know. Thanks for posting this info.

Cork, sorry to here about your miss hap. That happen to me several years ago. Not fun.

[Slipped Cork]

I was in a hurry to get rid of that stuff because of the big birthday party we had planned for today.I never even thought about the insurance.Oh well,it had about 25 roll's of vennison summer sausage in it to.The beef was raised by my dad and he gave it to me so it's not all that bad.

[osagemo]

I knew someone that accidently got his freezer unplugged. The meat went bad and he cleaned it with everything he could think of to get the smell out. Didn't work. Ended up getting rid of the freezer anyway.

[Slipped Cork]

I knew someone that accidently got his freezer unplugged. The meat went bad and he cleaned it with everything he could think of to get the smell out. Didn't work. Ended up getting rid of the freezer anyway.

I never even tried to clean it.It had around 4in of blood in the bottom and I was ready to get rid of everything.On a good note we had a good birthday party for my 2 son's.

[Cane Pole]

Stuff liquefied before we knew it was broke. My wife vomited from the smell. I smelled body bags that smelled better than our freezer. Awful. Insurance paid nothing. Old freezer, pro-rated then deductible = 0.

Everyone should experience cleaning out a freezer full of rotten fish and meat.

[Limb Snagger]

Had lightning strike close to my neighbor's house last summer. It ended up throwing the breaker to the basement recepticles and they didn't know it.

Luckily, they went down the the freezer just as all the meat thawed but didn't have anything to do with it. The whole neighborhood ate on that for the next few days. Ribeyes and NY Strip sure are good... especially when they are free.:D

[CrappieHead]

This may seem hard to believe. But years ago when I hauled Household furniture, I have loaded deep freezer full of food. Some trips they was on my trailer for days.

We (me or the moving company) would not guarantee any thing, it was 100% the shippers & consignee problem if it did not come thru ok.

But I never had one spoil on me. I moved a lot of them over time.

I would load them near a side or back door with the plug hung out the door. When I stopped I would do my best to park so I could plug it in. I made some good tips for doing that.

I always used Charcoal in empty deep freezers for any smell.

[MOPanfisher]

Been there and done that. Thought I was immune to the smell of rotted freezers until I spent 60 days in New Orleans after Katrina working at a landfill site. It was the dropoff point for all the "white goods" meaning appliances mostly refrigerators and freezers that were full of meats and other things and had been sitting the Louisiana sun for a few weeks. Sort of got used to the smell but all the contents had to be cleaned out before the appliances could be crushed for recycling. One day the crew was cleaning out a refrigerator and as they reached into it a jar of what we later speculated was mayonaise fell out and detonated like a small nuclear warhead. The guys that spent 12 hours a day cleaning out freezers with masks on etc. started to gag and fall back like it was poison gas. We were laughing so hard I almost wet myself, at least until that vile cloud of vapors hit us too. WOW. Ain't nothing quite like a freezer full of shimp and apparently a jar of mayonaise.