The art of the chiller.

[The Singing Stalker]

So, following on from my write up ‘A new first for me’, I need to think about a built in chiller, essentially munties and roe, no issues, fallow? I’m feiced. So I need to start thinking ahead and planning. I picked up an electric hoist, that will be a big help. But some questions.

How thick should the wall panels be?
Does the chiller need to be fitted to the size of the space, for example, I haven’t measured yet, but in order to hold 3 fallow Im guessing 3.3 meters.
Do bits need to be wired outside or can it be contained inside?

nb, I am ok at building the space, but I won’t be fitting the chiller unit myself. I know my limits.

 

[Tim.243]

So, following on from my write up ‘A new first for me’, I need to think about a built in chiller, essentially munties and roe, no issues, fallow? I’m feiced. So I need to start thinking ahead and planning. I picked up an electric hoist, that will be a big help. But some questions.

How thick should the wall panels be?
Does the chiller need to be fitted to the size of the space, for example, I haven’t measured yet, but in order to hold 3 fallow Im guessing 3.3 meters.
Do bits need to be wired outside or can it be contained inside?

nb, I am ok at building the space, but I won’t be fitting the chiller unit myself. I know my limits.

My hangers save quite a lot of height which is always an issue with long deer.ask @Norfolk Deer Search
If you get stuck into the bigger bucks at some point then a well fed one on beans wheat will be up to 80k

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

My hangers save quite a lot of height which is always an issue with long deer.ask @Norfolk Deer Search
If you get stuck into the bigger bucks at some point then a well fed one on beans wheat will be up to 80k

Biggest red I have had on your hangers @Tim.243 is gnats cock over 135kg that’s the Slack Alice. You had to make me the bigger ninja star for.

He was a big lump, but by using the hanger, it gained me a good I will say almost 2 foot on lowland red!

That’s enough room to Swiss round your floor with a hose and a brush to make sure your floors nice and clean and basically just keep everything Bristol fashion.

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

So, following on from my write up ‘A new first for me’, I need to think about a built in chiller, essentially munties and roe, no issues, fallow? I’m feiced. So I need to start thinking ahead and planning. I picked up an electric hoist, that will be a big help. But some questions.

How thick should the wall panels be?
Does the chiller need to be fitted to the size of the space, for example, I haven’t measured yet, but in order to hold 3 fallow Im guessing 3.3 meters.
Do bits need to be wired outside or can it be contained inside?

nb, I am ok at building the space, but I won’t be fitting the chiller unit myself. I know my limits.

Monobloc Chiller units are simple to fit, well within the capabilities of a working man with half a brain!

Personally avoid the old-fashioned compressor units in my personal experience. They are more expensive to run. They are also hormonal and I was bloody glad that I sold mine.

My personal advice is buy a mono block two times bigger than you need, this is because if it’s bigger than you need it wont be working as hard therefore once it’s down to temperature it will not use that much electricity because it’s on or off, that has worked well for me. Mine is now almost 6 years old this year coming and touchwood not missed a beat.

 

[The Singing Stalker]

I will do some reading up them. I would have thought that it would be like a heat exchanger in that you want the chiller to match the size of your space for max efficiency.

 

[75]

I think matched to space is better than oversized, and in fact working a bit harder than it needs to is good from a humidity perspective too I believe. Avoids something folk who know what they’re talking about refer to as shortcycling!

Mine is 1m x 1.2m internally and 3x 70kg hinds in there last week. A 4th would have gone but would have been tight! 100mm thick cam locked panels and std through-wall monobloc. Various suppliers of kits if you Google modular coldroom.

Height is your friend for loading - if you can hoist them above your rail height then lots of ways to then lower them down onto your hook / gambrel setup. I use some long s hooks to hang from aitch bone for bigger deer to maximise headroom. Same principle as Tim’s hangers.