What not to do

Bare with me because I suck at typing out stories and using periods and punctuation just so no one gets mad I warned you. Anyways last week before my wife and I moved got a message from a lady on Facebook saying she had a heavy freezer. Ok she also meantioned it had some food in it I get there is a old 70sor 80s freezer food in it and a block of ice. Took 2 hrs to load it with a engine hoist. Scrapper wouldn't take it because it had meat in it. So I said screw it they paid me to haul it away so I posted it for free on craigslist. Now I am trying to get the smell out of the bed of my truck it is horrible

The five senses are not friendly to a scrapper. Come to think of it, neither is the sixth, common sense. The same problem is created by skunks. Had the truck, trailer, and skid steer all sprayed. This is easily solved by parking the equipment in a field for a couple of nights. The problems comes when my scrapping partners get sprayed. They do not understand why the wife will not let them in the house. To them it is perfume.

I can empathize. I did a house clean-out as a subcontractor once where there was five refrigerators. They were supposedly emptied before his guys loaded them on the trailer. Sat on the trailer half a day; then a couple WEEKS in my lot before I processed them. Unfortunately, they hadn't cleaned the meat out of the freezer part of one. Needless to say, I was not amused. The trailer AND the driveway got a major bath.

worst one i had was this summer a lady hit me up saying she had a fridge and a small deep freeze for me so i went over there and went to pick them up and when we did she said oh btw the freezer is still full we never emptied it and you have to take it with the stuff in it. Now this thing had died in their basement and they did not know till everything was thawed out and ruined but rather then clean it out then and throw it all away she decided to just put it out in the summer sun sealed up for about a month.

I told her i would just pass because my truck was already fairly full and i was not going to have to deal with hotdogs bacon and other meats and things. Long story short she went and found a bucket and cleaned helped me clean it out then let me clean up in her basement bathroom. Later on i realized i still had that stench on me and it was on my boots and i had walked through her carpeted basement and probably got a few spots on her carpet. But for some reason i did not feel bad as she was trying to pull a fast one on me

KC....talk to your local funeral home. They have a cleaner that will absolutely knock that smell out. I know, I used to work in a funeral home and you have to have good cleaners for the hearse, embalming room, etc. I can't remember the brand name, but it's something they have to order. You can't go down to the grocery store and buy it.

A friend had his freezer go out and it leaked all over the storage room floor for probably a month before they found out. We didn't save the freezer (not worth the trouble) but got the smell out of his storage room.

I've only gotten one bad fridge, nothing it but the smell, but I just left outside with the door open for a few days before putting in the van for the trip to the yard. It came from a neighbor up the street from me, who walked it down. lol. I thought that was nice of him for giving me a stinker.

You all make me glad I don't do clean outs, an mainly focus on the ewaste side of things.

Sirscrapalot - Investing in odor eater stock.

Ya the smell is slowly going away. I put bleach venagar and baking soda in it lol. Kinda just added to the smell. I rather smell venagar than dead rotten meat smell.

Had a refrigerator once full of dead food and I took a couple of pieces of plumbers strap and screwed the door shut. That way it would not spring open when I pushed it off the truck.

I ratchet strapped it shut but when I picked it up with the engine hoist it was so heavy the lid/door tweeked leaving a gap

My land lady can't eat pork.

She raised 4 hogs one summer - got them nice and fat and had them butchered. That was terrify she said, but they stored them in a giant chest freezer out in the horse barn threw out the winter bringing in a good 20-30lbs or so at a time to last them in the house freeze. I guess the chest freeze had **** the bed some time during the winter and it wasn't until mid summer when she went outside to re-up on the porkage. She said the smell was something unimaginable.

Life without bacon...how horrible.

This would make me sad, I shall never take a fridge/freezer that would ruin that for me.

Sirscrapalot - Bacon makes everything better.