Old Freezer
December 19th, 2009
Found On: West Virginia Craigslist
I was visiting my grandfather and he wanted to get rid of this old freezer. He used it for deer. He said it was working last time he used it, but he has since cut the chord. It is very heavy.
If you want your item to go from ugly to menacing, we have a pro-tip for you that this guy already knows – night photography.
It makes anything scary. Anything:
See? It’s a playhouse. One that looks like it’s inhabited by a play Blair Witch waiting to cut out the play tongues of small children and leave them for dead in the play wilderness.
Do they come with free zombies?
I was just thinking that everything on this site should go into the next Resident Evil or Silent Hill game. Everything. Seriously.
He cut the “chord”? the CHORD? Why do people insist on fancifying perfectly good words? Does adding the ‘h’ makes it more “Continental” perhaps? Is plain old hillbilly CORRECT “CORD” too humble for this awesome offering? (And why did Gramps feel the need to CUT the cord, anyway? Was it snaking around the house on its own every night while everyone slept, strangling babies, tearing down shower curtains, stealing spoons, and generally creating havoc wherever it went?)
They didn’t go fancy with it; they misspelled it. Pronounced the same, there are multiple meanings for the word when spelled “chord”
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Perhaps my peevance was influenced by the pervasive, improper use of “I” instead of “me,” as though “me” is a less edumacated word and “I” is more “proper.” It’s especially prevalent in conjunctions like “Mary threw a party for Mel and I.” If you take the conjuction out, the misuse of “I” as an object becomes glaringly apparent: “Mary threw a party for I.” I’m not sure how a perfectly decent word like “me” became so disreputable.
“Me visit grandfather, him want get rid of old freezer used for deer. Him say it work last time, but cut cord. It very heavy.”
Doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, but uses “I” less pervasively I guess
It’s not bad enough that there are suspicious stains all over the freezer, but also there are holes in a formation that resembles lock hasps as if at one point in time something was put in there that needed to be kept in at all costs.
oooh zombie deers!
Usually, cutting the cord is the technician’s way to mark something as patently unsafe for operation unless properly repaired.
I think the same stains that are on the freezer are on the playhouse.
Grandpa needs to get rid of the freezer since he accidentally cut the cord and it won’t keep the bodies- I mean “deer,” frozen.
Freezer should maybe be filed under ‘itemlikelytoincriminate’.
That Wendy house is just wrong. Wrong.
But the playhouse is where the voices tell me to do things… bad things…
That freezer looks like a 1950’s Coldspot (Sears). Seen from the back.
The holes? That’s where the lid hinges were. The hinges were very massive, and had a really heavy-duty spring in them. Springs that did wear out over time, and were, eh, “interesting” to try to replace.
Or find another safe way to hold the heavy lid up: I used very big screw eyes, attached to the wall and into studs, through which I looped and secured together a heavy chain. The chain was then slipped under the handle every time the freezer lid was opened and the lid lowered against it until it was properly suspended. (The hinge was a lever-type attached into a big face plate which was attached to the lid and secured, when closed, with a big hook to latch into.
Not the finger-grip slots seen today.)
My kluge worked well; an attempt to do a real repair by replacing the springs in the hinges? Fail, big time.
The rust marks? Some of that developed over time; the amount simply indicates that the freezer was kept in a damp place. Not that it would do structural damage unless it was very severe: The steel in that thing was industrial-strength (the walls were several inches thick); the liner was also porcelain coated). Think the way cars of the era were built, and you’ll get the idea.
Would I try to revive this specimen though? Probably not; been exposed to the elements, it seems, too long for the wiring harness to escape damage. Too bad: The original problem that got the thing cashiered may well have been as simple as a busted cooling fan for the compressor! Yes, that simple; these babies ran hot and if the fan gave out? Unless one could get a compatible fan and install it (or was willing to open up the access panel on the motor side and back up a box fan to it and let it run 24/7)? Failure of the freezer to work correctly was inevitable.
Dang! You got all that from just the pic? You must be some sort of “forsensic scientist” dude….TMI…TMI….TMI arghhhhh!
Sorry about the paragraph formatting “fail”. Should I have used HTML tags?
Grandpa “El Cheapo/Lazy” needs to just load these monstrosities on a truck and take them to the local “recycling” place…..Some people are ALWAYS looking for ways to scam innocent people….
I saw that freezer in a movie….hmmmmm, was it The hills have eyes 1 or 2? the Devils Regects? gee,can’t quite put their fingers,er ah…toes on it, nevermind
I can just imagine if that playhouse were in a youtube video, it would be one of those videos where the Leprechaun is seen peering out of the window before jumping out and starts reciting a magic spell:
who comes visiting me in the cold
It must be a thief
trying to steal my pot of gold.
Here’s something to heat you up my dear
it will make you warm from ear to ear.
I use an old freezer as ugly looking as that one to keep large bags of birdseed, chicken feed, and cat food in. It’s been the only thing that keeps the raccoons out of the feed.
“Grandpa, it’s some fellers from CSI- they wanna talk about your freezer”
haha this looks like it was in saw. ima get this and donate it to the haunted house at my high school.