Home made AC unit

[JMatthews]

This might be a viable alternative for air conditioning small areas or maybe for keeping game cool while hanging.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v...type=2&theater

[Frogger]

Cool idea.

[jim]

I love that! Would work great at fish camp in summer, when cabin temp is like 40 deg.

[terrym]

Could definitely be of value in an early bear or moose hunt. We have had to leave moose camp which was a 2 day drive to get to after 1 day of hunting when we were afraid of wasting a bull we shot opening morning. You could have built a tent and used that contraption to cool it down during the day. I have also seen guys pack in a full sized freezer and generator.

[jaycee]

Could definitely be of value in an early bear or moose hunt. We have had to leave moose camp which was a 2 day drive to get to after 1 day of hunting when we were afraid of wasting a bull we shot opening morning. You could have built a tent and used that contraption to cool it down during the day. I have also seen guys pack in a full sized freezer and generator.

My neighbor and his group [bow hunters ] do that all the time, they bone out the meat and arrive home with it frozen then cut it up properly at their leisure.

[Snowwalker]

I thought you were going to be talking about a swamp cooler.

[JMatthews]

THis is almost the same sort of thing.

[Snowwalker]

THis is almost the same sort of thing.

A swamp cooler uses cold well water that you trickle thru a radiator or over the surface of thin cloth, well blowing air thru the rad or cloth.

Works great for a cabin next to a cool/cold lake or river.
Pump water up to a tank that supplies the cabin and run a small line off the tank.

[Pat32rf]

True southern swamp coolers rely on evaporation to cool the air. They require a very low humidity to work good. Think Arizona.....not worth setting up here in Ontario with 60-80% RH. Cool lake, stream or well water will work if you can pump the water to a radiator and blow the air around...Well water is about 50F...