Buddy stopped by for some cat supplies he wanted to see my tom from the other day so I opened the freezer and it’s barely frozen there’s still ice around the walls of the freezer but things were starting to thaw some yikes. Pulled the 2 cats out and fired up the spare freezer and got that going right away the other cat from last year was froze solid under my elk hide. Nothing great in there mostly cat carcasses, snakes and some other baits a few coon pelts.

One less thing plugging up my shop but now I don’t have a spare it could have been worse like if it was summer. The last time I had liquid beavers and skunks this is no biggie I’d hate to lose my cats.

Oh yes close one. Probably my biggest worry. My freezer is usually full of beaver through the summer and the other full of bait meat. I would have no room if one would go out.

I have known the terrible freezer-quit-working story too many times. Dang lucky you caught it.

Brother of mine had a chest freezer on an extension cord in his wood shed. Apparently the condenser shorted out without tripping anything, heated up and caught on fire burning down his shed and attached house.

Yep that is always a concern of mine also. When you least expect it it will happen sure as heck!!! I got some XXL beavah blankets in mine also.

Lucky your buddy came bye when he did, good timing for you.

I have 5 large broken down freezers now. I move them outdoors and cover them to keep the weather out.

Some I have had many years so it is all good. Great idea to have a spare sitting around if you have the room.

I re purpose the dead freezers for storage, aging and rendering buckets of materials. Great for protection from flies and animals also.

It comes with the territory it seems. We all cross that bridge sooner or later. The more you have the faster they go South it seems.

I have those little alarm deals in/on all of the working freezers. They also have a digital read out on them to see the interior temp as you are walking bye. Learned that lesson a while back.

I have an old one, (heavy),in the basement that finally failed...dreaded having to remove it by myself...but... I ended up turning it into a large gun chest, all the guns, ammo and associated gun stuff fits

put a low watt light bulb in it to keep it dry...

I got some cheap water sensor alarms a few years ago. I found them on ebay or amazon. They take a 9v battery and sound like a fire alarm when the sensor gets wet. I put one inside the tankless water heater, one inside the chest freezer (wire run through a rubber plug I put a hole in so the sensor is inside the freezer and the alarm outside), and one in the basement floor drain.

Over the years they've gone off a few times, always for something we should investigate.

Technology can help with that for pretty low cost. I have a couple of freezer in a shed and my son gifted me the following for Christmas. Have not got it set up yet but know folks who have them and are pleased with them.


Mocreo Freezer Alarm

It comes with 2 sensor units )2 freezers) but you can add additional sensors if you have more freezers or refrigerators

I'm one for simple gadgets and the like. Adding all these fancy techo video screens on refrigerators and other major appliances are just more expensive crap that will break and cost a lot to fix.

With that said ,

All freezers should come with a good basic alarm that sends a message directly to your cell phone. No other stuff like remote changing the temperature or anything. Just let me know immediately when something is wrong. That's all I need.

But they don't and that is the point! But for less than $50 you can set it up to do just what you describe.