Followup To IH Refrigerator Story

Followup To IH Refrigerator Story FARM HOME Miscellaneous I laughed when I read the article about IH freezers and refrigerators in the last issue of FARM SHOW   Back in the mid 1950’s when I was growing up on a farm near Limon Colo my folks bought a huge chest-type IH deep freezer   They lugged it down into our house’s basement through the outside entrance since the freezer was way too big to go through any of the doors   And there it sat humming away and keeping our frozen food safe year after year after year   I think it only had one or two service calls probably to recharge the Freon  during the 50-plus years after we bought it   Well the years passed; mom and dad passed on too and left the farm to their 5 kids but the old IH freezer just kept on chugging In later years after 2000 perhaps we began to brag to ourselves and to others about that wonderful freezer which just kept going and going and going for all those years   But like anything else the old freezer finally gave its last gasp and stopped working   That was back in 2010   So we dragged it up out of the basement up those same old concrete outside steps where it had come in  Getting the freezer out required the use of a loader tractor and the 3 boys in our family that were just little kids when it came in   But the real joke was on us when the electricity bill for the farm went down about $50 a month after the freezer finally died   Heck with all the money we spent on electricity to operate the freezer over the years we could have bought 10 new freezers and still had money left over!   So anyone who’s still using one of those old IH refrigerators or freezers might want to try unplugging it for a month or two and take a close look at their electric bill Thanks for your good work at FARM SHOW   I greatly enjoy the magazine John Ottem Broomfield Colo jottem@q com

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