Wanted: Need to borrow a chiller - near Woburn, Sat 07th March

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Mike1979

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Im out doing a CWD cull day with a couple of mates this coming Sat (07th Mar) and we all live a fair distance away. Since the days are longer and its warmer I was wondering if a kind member on here may let us store some (hopefully anyway) CWD carcasses in their chiller after our morning session (we would then collect them after the evening session).

Happy to swap 3 or 4 jars of Mid Wales honey as a trade for the electricity :)👍

If anyone can help please drop me a direct message.

Thanks in advance

Mike
 
Come on boys....surely someone within 20 mins of Woburn, Kempston Hardwick etc has a chiller :) :) :)

Honey could be swapped for a bit of cash if you are diabetic 👍

I dont really want to have to butcher the deer after the morning session but if thats the only option to keep the meat in decent condition then fair enough.

Someone take pity on me ... please :):)👍
 
VSS said:
Take a load of frozen ice packs with you, and use them to fill the body cavities of your morning deer.
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Thanks Tim and that looks like the best option. Issue is that I am at work then driving over Friday so by the time we shoot the ice will probably have thawed :). I think I ll add some insulation to my plasterers bath and go and buy some cheap frozen veg if my ice packs have thawed out to much. Might do some field butchery to get them down in size as it will all be home consumption (not as though they are big).
 
Mike1979 said:
Thanks Tim and that looks like the best option. Issue is that I am at work then driving over Friday so by the time we shoot the ice will probably have thawed :). I think I ll add some insulation to my plasterers bath and go and buy some cheap frozen veg if my ice packs have thawed out to much. Might do some field butchery to get them down in size as it will all be home consumption (not as though they are big).
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I sometimes travel to stalk, as far as the Midlands and East Anglia, and usually stay away overnight, taking frozen ice packs with me.
Ice packs stacked tightly in a decent cool box will stay frozen for 2 or 3 days, no problem, provided that you don't open the lid until you need them.
I fill the body cavity of the deer with ice packs, put the carcass in a plasterer's bath, stack whatever spare ice packs I've got around the carcass, and cover the bath.

Works well.

Incidentally, a gralloched CWD will fold up and fit in an ordinary size coolbox together with some ice packs, without any further butchery.
 
VSS said:
I sometimes travel to stalk, as far as the Midlands and East Anglia, and usually stay away overnight, taking frozen ice packs with me.
Ice packs stacked tightly in a decent cool box will stay frozen for 2 or 3 days, no problem, provided that you don't open the lid until you need them.
I fill the body cavity of the deer with ice packs, put the carcass in a plasterer's bath, stack whatever spare ice packs I've got around the carcass, and cover the bath.

Works well.

Incidentally, a gralloched CWD will fold up and fit in an ordinary size coolbox together with some ice packs, without any further butchery.
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Thanks Tim.

Better get some water bottles in the freezer and try and dig out the ice boxes 👍

I find it funny that I have a walk in chiller at home and not many deer and where we are going there are loads of deer and nobody has a chiller...probably the fact that I am a "tool" and no one likes me :lol::lol:
 
Mike1979 said:
Thanks Tim.

Better get some water bottles in the freezer and try and dig out the ice boxes 👍

I find it funny that I have a walk in chiller at home and not many deer and where we are going there are loads of deer and nobody has a chiller...probably the fact that I am a "tool" and no one likes me :lol::lol:
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CWD doe.
Shot on the Suffolk coast, and transported back to North Wales.
I didn't have a big cool box, or a plasterer's bath, in those days!
 
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