Chest Freezer

razor8

i am in the process of purchasing a chest freezer and trying to make sure i get the right size

most models are 250 litre 310 litre or 390 litres

what size would i need to hold a heifer and 2 or 3 lambs all cut up anyone know?

_Brian

I can't really answer, but we bought a 310 a few years ago and if we were buying again I'd buy a full sized freezer. Only a bit more to buy and the same to run, if you have space, I'd say buy the 390.

razor8

thanks Brian

what can you fit into the 310 you have at the moment?

Ray

fastrac

No matter how big it is it will fill up.

endacl

fastrac wrote: »

No matter how big it is it will fill up.

Like buying a trailer. "What length is it?" "A foot short"...

davidk1394

Have 2 freezers like these. But in that freezer alone there a pig, a deer, 2 lambs and a turkey there some place. By the time a heifer goes in it'll be pretty full. I dont know what size they are but it's the biggest we could find.

_Brian

Haven't killed a heifer (yet).
Two pigs, some chickens and general frozen foods.

J.O. Farmer

davidk1394 wrote: »

Have 2 freezers like these. But in that freezer alone there a pig, a deer, 2 lambs and a turkey there some place. By the time a heifer goes in it'll be pretty full. I dont know what size they are but it's the biggest we could find.

There's a lot of meat in a heifer. I think you'll need to empty it a bit to get her in. We'd a freezer a good few years ago that was fairly full with a heifer and 2 lambs. I can't remember what size but it was one of the bigger ones available at the time.
Your probably better with the biggest one if you have space as meat is squidgy when you first get it but frozen it's hard as a rock and if your moving stuff around in it the meat might fit as well so any extra space might be welcome if trying to close the freezer.

jimini0

razor8 wrote: »

i am in the process of purchasing a chest freezer and trying to make sure i get the right size

most models are 250 litre 310 litre or 390 litres

what size would i need to hold a heifer and 2 or 3 lambs all cut up anyone know?

When we were young the ould fella used to kill a heifer and 2 lambs and a couple of chickens for freezer. It was a very big freezer. After the first year of the meat being thrown around and mixed up he got a friend to make spacers from plastic so it was well organised. All the same cuts of meat were put into one area and so on. Think the spacers were made from perspex slotted together to make 10 compartments the depth of the freezer

Base price

We used to have a large chest freezer and every year had a heifer, a lamb, a couple of turkeys and sometimes a weaner pig.
Most important thing is that the fast freeze section is large enough to freeze quantities of meat quickly so that it can be transferred into the main freezer section.
Labeling with date and seperating into different sections is also important and baskets are helpful

Who2

I bought a couple of small ones rather than using a single big one. I could never keep it properly organised in a single big one.

Icelandicseige

How long does meat last in the freezer?

Buford T. Justice XIX

davidk1394 wrote: »

Have 2 freezers like these. But in that freezer alone there a pig, a deer, 2 lambs and a turkey there some place. By the time a heifer goes in it'll be pretty full. I dont know what size they are but it's the biggest we could find.

We bought one the same size as David, Razor8. We killed a 27m old heifer and two 50kg lambs into it, tightly. There was some 300kgs of beef and 45kgs of lamb and some bits of frozen food as well.

Buy big enough, you won't regret it.

blue5000

Base price wrote: »

We used to have a large chest freezer and every year had a heifer, a lamb, a couple of turkeys and sometimes a weaner pig.
Most important thing is that the fast freeze section is large enough to freeze quantities of meat quickly so that it can be transferred into the main freezer section.
Labeling with date and seperating into different sections is also important and baskets are helpful

Or better still use a butcher who can blast freeze it for you, there's a lot of eating in a bad heifer:(

OP get it as big as possible, empty space can be filled with stacks of old newspapers in the bottom of the freezer.