Refrigerator full of rotten food.

[scottie33]

Should I haul off refrigerators that are full of rotten food? If so what do you guys do to dispove of it all and cleaning methods? I've had this issue alot lately!

[gustavus]

Should I haul off refrigerators that are full of rotten food? If so what do you guys do to dispove of it all and cleaning methods? I've had this issue alot lately!

I prefer them fresh, just tape the door shut lay her on her back so the juices don't run all over your truck and haul her in.

[injunjoe]

If you take it outside and spread open a sheet of plastic then tip it forward to dump all the crap out it won't be to bad. Then you can just bag up the goods, errr rotten food. Then hit it with a hose!

Personally I would not do it unless it was part of a clean out type job that paid better then just scrap.

[Mick]

I've had this problem come up. I simply won't take refrigerators or freezers with rotten food. Got one slipped in with a load of refrigerators I hauled from a house clean-out. Didn't realize it till I got home and went to stuff it with other metal. Had to triple bag the stuff for the garbage; then wash down the refrigerator, trailer and driveway. I was not happy.

[Ewasted]

Scottie, I would haul it... but Charge an additional fee for having to dispose of the food and "clean up".

[parrothead]

Where you located? If you are up north, you could let it set until the deep freeze temps come in. Way easier to deal with then.

[newattitude]

No there's an idea parrothead! I've never gotten one with food in it but I've gotten two that smelled just god awful. I taped them shut on the spot before I loaded them in the truck, it was a hot summer day and no way I wanted to smell it in my truck while driving! I didn't clean it since it was just being scrapped.

[scrapping4ever]

Years ago before I started scrapping my dad had a freezer in the garage and he did not go out there much. It was full of fish. He went out there and it smelled nasty and the power had went out and they started to rot. It got put out to the road with a bungee cord on it. Later a scrapper comes by and gets out. We warned him that it was b ad and he just put it off. When he had it on the tailgate, the bungee came off and he was like holy ****

[Mechanic688]

Last one I had loaded up with nasty food I took a length of plumbers strap and screwed it to the door
then to the sidewall of the refer. Those holes in the plumbers strap come in real handy.
Didn't even pop open when it hit the ground at the yard.

[NobleMetalWorks]

This post reminded me of a story...

When I was really young, I was convinced that my claim to fame was going to be made by being in a band.

So me and my musician friends started a band. What we really did was rent a cheap space in a warehouse, about 400 sq feet, one of the guys actually lived in it. We had a loft upstairs, plugged in a fridge and thought of it as our man cave, it barely had enough power to run the fridge, let alone our amps.

Anyway, we were sitting around one day, drinking, doing things we probably shouldn't have been, trying to dream up a name for this band of ours. One of the guys went to the fridge and opened it. It had evidently tripped it's plug because it was warm. So he started to complain about how the stuff in the fridge was all bad, and that there was purple fuzzy stuff growing on some of the food, and how it was probably toxic.

So our bluesy rock bands name ended up being purple-toxic-fuzz later shortened to toxic-fuzz.

Just had a flashback when I read the post.

Scott

[stephenholseberg]

Call the "GREEN TRUCK" franchise....

[griff5693]

[QUOTE=stephenholseberg;157198]Call the "GREEN TRUCK" franchise....[/QUlOTE]


Lmao