Ideas for using, (sniff), old dead freezer?

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Our upright freezer bit the dust the other day. Now that I'm over the emotional strain of watching my hard work of freezing tomatoes go splat on the compost pile, we're looking for ideas for the old gal. It's a large upright. I don't know the square footage as I picked it up as part of a barter last year. I was hoping it would make it through the winter...it didn't. Bren is thinking either vermiculture or feed storage for the bunnies. I'd like to hear if anyone has some other great ideas for it, besides pitching it, of course.

-- gilly (wayoutfarm@skybest.com), February 06, 2002

Answers

Some farmers I know use them for varmint-proof storage for seed and feed. A tip I learned from an in-law, to prevent mildew from growing in unused fridges and freezers, place a few paper towels in there. For some reason it slows down or stops the growth of mildew. We've tried this in the cottage fridge, works well.

-Chelsea

-- Chelsea (rmbehr@istar.ca), February 06, 2002.


Some people bury them in the ground on their back for use as a root cellar. Also make excellent feed bins. gotta be way to recycle it!!! good luck. Tomas in b.c.

-- Tomas (bakerzee@hotmail.com), February 06, 2002.

We laid our down, put a bunch of peat moss in it, prop the lid up a bit and it is now a handy , dandy worm bed.

-- Tana Mc (mcfarm@totelcsi.net), February 06, 2002.

I made a Smoker out of one.

-- Mark in N.C. Fla. (deadgoatman@webtv.net), February 07, 2002.

We had several old refrigerators lying around on the property when we bought it. The roads were in need of severe repair and we couldn't afford to have someone come in to fix them. We turned them over on their backs, loaded them down with metal and rocks and proceeded to "grade" the roads with them. They did an excellent job. Couple of them didn't pass muster and are waiting in the junk pile for a pickup in the near future.

-- Trucker in Bonnieville,KY USA (Bkftrucker@msn.com), February 07, 2002.


Of course theres lots of things that you could store in it. If it's waterproofed you could make a pond with it. Maybe aquaculture come catfish. You could put a closet rod in it, and make a dresser in the bottom. since it has insulative qualities, maybe you could store heat in it by filling it full of rocks, and passing hot air through it. a buddy of mine thought it might be interesting to build a house out of freezers, think of the storage-yes I keep eccentric company. Most of my other ideas were used up by other folks. I was personally thinking of importing a bunch of them from the dump to put as my celler floor. Then I could open the door, and step down into a freezer full of spuds, or carrots, but I'll probably just end up with one in the floor, and a few uprights on the walls.

-- roberto pokachinni (pokachinni@yahoo.com), February 07, 2002.

Of course theres lots of things that you could store in it. If it's waterproofed you could make a pond with it. Maybe aquaculture come catfish. You could put a closet rod in it, and make a dresser in the bottom. since it has insulative qualities, maybe you could store heat in it by filling it full of rocks, and passing hot air through it. A buddy of mine thought it might be interesting to build a house out of freezers, think of the storage-yes I keep eccentric company. Most of my other ideas were used up by other folks. I was personally thinking of importing a bunch of them from the dump to put as my celler floor. Then I could open the door, and step down into a freezer full of spuds, or carrots, but I'll probably just end up with one in the floor, and a few uprights on the walls.

-- roberto pokachin in B.C. (pokachinni@yahoo.com), February 07, 2002.

Ours worked well as a feed bin.

-- Shannon at Grateful Acres Animal Sanctuary (gratacres@aol.com), February 07, 2002.

I've heard of chest deep freezes used for livestock waterers.

--->Paul

-- paul (ramblerplm@hotmail.com), February 07, 2002.


with a SMALL light bulb installed, your dead freezer can be used to store latex paint, sealants, caulks, etc., etc., that say on the label DO NOT FREEZE -

-- Joan - Zone 6 (egavasnok@juno.com), February 07, 2002.


I'm using an old refrigerator in my workshop to store my power tools and other eletronic/electrical gear in. Keeps insects out of the innards when they're not in use.

........Alan.

-- Alan (athagan@atlantic.net), February 07, 2002.


Unless it is an old all metal freezer don't make a smoker out of it. The plastic is nasty stuff.

We've used them for mouse-proof storage.

-- Bonnie (stichart@plix.com), February 07, 2002.


how about just extra space, like a pantry, maybe inthe barn or garage for storing canned goods and anything else...use a box of baking soda or some charcoal to help keep odors down. Sounds good about keeping rodents and insects out

-- MissJudi (jselig@clemson.edu), February 08, 2002.

MY GOODNESS....WHAT A COLLECTION OF WONDERFUL IDEAS!

-- Harmony (harmonyfarm57@hotmail.com), February 08, 2002.

I use an old chest freezer that died to store all my boxed groceries in and it keeps the mice from gnawing holes and spoilin anything tap some bayleaves to the top of the door and the weevils are less too. then I don't lose things to the mice. Works great Cindy

-- Cindy (hollo@bitwisesystems.com), February 08, 2002.


I have two dead uprights. One holds my lawn and garden stuff on the side porch so that the animals don't get into it.(potting soil, tools...etc.. I had no ideas for the other one...till now! You guys are great! What an excellent idea to use it for dry food storage! I have a lot of things stored in my working freezers that don't really need to be there. Just that I don't want anything getting into it and spoiling it. What a great wonderful splendiforous! Idea! Thanks ya'll! Sorry, guess that I had that 3rd cup of coffee today and now I am a bit more hyper than usual! But....THANKS! :~D!

-- Nan (davidl41@ipa.net), February 08, 2002.

No kidding about the great answers!! Thanks everybody for the good ideas. Now I'll think about each one and eventually I'll do whatever Bren tells me to do with it. :^}~ I do like the drygoods storage idea, we don't have enough pantry space and that would help out alot. Once again, thanks!

-- gilly (wayoutfarm@skybest.com), February 08, 2002.

Another good use for old freezers is dog houses. Cut a hole in the lid for a door and your pooch has a nice insulated easy to clean home.

-- doggone (nmhoofer@paulbunyan.net), February 09, 2002.

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