How much FF fits in a super sack?
Im trying to figure out how to store volumes of fresh frozen material
Figuring that 20’ refrigerated conex work well for this, but want to know how much i can fit in each unit
Anyone on here have experience with bulk cold storage solutions?
My 300 “lb” super sack will hold 60 pillow packed vacuum pouches of fresh frozen. I have never tried to freeze in the super sack without having some other kind of packing in there. Maybe it would work…but I can imagine it dripping and being nasty if your freezer had a bad freeze/thaw cycle.
I had better luck using 55 gallon big blue drums for this. Easy to fill and move - froze pretty easy - no chance of leaks or anything getting in there from the freezer condensor/chillers.
I could put five 55 gallon drums on a pallet, put the pallet inside my freezer on pallet racking (double stacked so about 10ft ceilings). You still have to have a solution for getting it OUT of the 55 gallon drums. We just cut the drums off and then used a bale breaker to break down the chunks.
I think the super sack with mini packs inside worked better. Suppose it will depend on how much you are trying to process at a time and what not.
If you store it all in one big supersack the middle will be a gigantic half thawed frozen meteor, individual turkey bags would probably suffice. I like to do 1kg turkey bags for ease of accounting and because you can fluff the nugs and keep them individually chilled instead of a gigantic mass. Better terps.
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Im aware i am just using super sacks for scale as that is what i am used to working with, sorry for the confusion
When you say pillow pack what is that in #
Also other than a conex does anyone have an idea on the cheapest method for freezers? Used panels?
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I need cheap solutions for walk in freezers that preferably have nothing to do with @potguru1 i already spent half a summer fixing the first job he botched
I used to install walk in freezers for commercial businesses.
What i did for myself was built a shop and had professionals spray foam walls ceiling roof peak. Cost mayb 5grand. Bought a walkin freezer door mayb 1500.
And its just as good as any walk in freezer. Stud walls are 6in deep.
I used close cell foam outer wall and filled rest of space open cell drywalled and i can regulate temp regarsless of outside temps.
No outside twmps affect only what your doing inside. Heat cool etc
Sq footage ?
20 x 24 shop
I use it to grow but its basically 1 big walkin freezer. And the spray foam blocks all smell. I can have 50lbs of stinky ready to come down and if u dont open the door u cant smell anything. An added bonus i didnt know.
If your local to portland i had westside drywall to the foam work
I purchased a used 18’ freezertruck box (no truck) for $2500.
Deals are out there but it takes some digging, otherwise freezer containers seem to the norm for most quick solutions. custom build is a lot more time and money.
hop baler. fills rectangle bags in 20 or 100# size. easier to freeze and also stack.
Each pillow pack has 2 lbs of fresh frozen flower in it.
I would say that a kilo of ff is about a full freezer bag. So maybe look at the size of that. When a bag is filled and flattened it is approximately 14” x 18” x 5” in size if you were to use the 15x20 pre cuts.
Determine your cubic feet in the conex. Convert your bag dimensions into cubic feet. See how many bags could fill the whole inside. And I’d say about half of that number would be a safe bet as to how much you can realistically fit in there.
Barrels sound like a great idea though. Especially if you rig up an easy product removal process. The issue I would worry about is the puck at the bottom. Under the weight of the product in the top half of the barrel, it’s pushing down the bottom and making a puck. @Cassin does this ever get to be a problem for you?
the pre-cut 11"x24" bags are good for 600-1200 , the 7-8" ones are good for 4-700 or so
Store em on their sides.
Yes - I’ve had issues with this before - so I prefer going into smaller containers in one bigger container.
@Rowan I didn’t have good luck with storing the 55 gallon plastic barrels on their sides - they still get squishy and weird inside.
However - I did have good success with this with smaller fiber drums that can easily be rotated by hand. That way you can roll them once a week or so and it helps to even things out. You roll them more often the first week - to make sure you don’t get any uneven settling as everything finished up its first freeze all the way down.