Keep your freezers checked!!!

Lost one! It has been a couple of days sense I checked it. Temp was 70 in it when I found it. Just butchered a couple of months earlier. It was the one with the choice meat cuts. The dog is going to eat well. Just thought I would remind everyone to keep a check. Spring work keep us busy and we forget if we have more freezers than one.

BTDT...

We got a "freezer farm" in the back of one of the barns, sometimes when they all kick on at once it'll trip the breaker. I put a little plug-in nightlight in a outlet on the same circuit near the front of the barn - I can check it every time I walk by. If that nightlight is out, I check the breaker...

That is a bad deal. Did the freezer just fail? Does homeowners insurance cover anything like that? I suspect if there wasn't something that caused it you are sol, but maybe?

Lots of homeowners policies do cover loss of frozen food- I'd sure check.

Don't know what happened to yours, but I put in a dedicated circuit for ours and no GFCI!

If you have anything of value in a freezer it would be worthwhile to have an alarm system on it.

No GFCI on our freezer since we found it not running but before it got thawed out. Found the ice cream was softer than normal. I bypassed that dumb safety thingy. My BIL said a freezer should not be on one of them.

I have a question:I have a year old small upright freezer, 12-14? cu ft. Why are there no cooling coils under or behind it? I went to vacuum the dust out and alas, no coils. Does the heat just disapate throught the skin? Doesn't seem very efficient way. Also it seems a little louder and I see white lube like stuff on the outside of the compressor, like it dripped. Something from assembly?

70 degrees and you can hang on to it long enough to feed it to the dog....you have one strong stomach

So does the dog!

That is why I added freezer alarms to both of my freezers. If I remember right, I found them on the internet for about $15 each. They run on AA batteries and make a lot of racket if a door gets left open, and I assume they would also sound off if the freezer failed or the power was off too long.

I discovered that my old chest freezer had failed when I heard the starting circuit cycling, but did not hear the motor start up. My food, which included a half of beef and several turkeys was still quite cold, but it was all thawed. I saved the beef by immediately refreezing it in the new freezer I bought that night. The quality of that meat was WAY lower than it should have been, but at least we got some good out of it. The rest of the stuff in the freezer got tossed. The magpies ate well for a while. I ended up with about 2" of red liquid in the bottom of the chest freezer. At first I thought it must be all meat juice, but then realized that there had been huckleberries and other fruit that had melted.

I was really glad I found the freezer problem when I did. Another couple of days and it would have smelled pretty putrid and it would have been even more of an unpleasant job to clean it out.

I tinkered with the chest freezer, but could not get it to come on again, even manually operating the relay. I suspect that the motor went bad--it was bought in the 1950"s.

The alarms work pretty well and don"t cost that much. I have a little trouble remembering to change the batteries, but I test the alarms once in a while to make sure they still work, by leaving the door open for a few minutes. In my opinion, the alarms are really worth having. Good luck!

I also had one quit over to our "other" place about a year ago.

Thankfully it was nearly empty, down to just the livers, dog bones, lard and some sausage. Only about 20 or 30 pounds lost.

Sure smelled up the garage for a long time. It is still in the garage, but even with having left it open for several months the (upright) freezer still stinks. Was going to use it for mouse proof storage, but stinks too bad.

Next stop for it is the local scrap yard. DOUG

the heat Exchange Coils are INDEED inside the cabinet, on the outside near the Aluminum outside that You can see ... If You feel the surface, it will feel luke warm in an area or two.. Larry KF4LKU

Our freezer has a built in alarm.The start relays in freezers are junk.You need an alarm.

Home owners insurance will cover it if the power is interrupted. This one just failed. I use it for fast freezing meat after we butcher in our meat house. We were using the old cuts out of the house freezer before moving in the new meat. We were not fast enough this time. From now on they will have alarms. These freezers are on separate breakers. The meat didn't smell I checked them 3 days back a upright just won't hold like a chest.

Baking soda wash will fix.