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Portable fermenting cart

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Since my son moved back home and lives downstairs I lost my downstairs bathroom where I did my fermenting. Just finished insulating this large cart with a removable insulated front. Holds my heater and four six or eight gallon fermenting buckets.
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perrrrrfect

is that a repurposed tool chest??
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No it's a really large AV cart used in education that I purchased from surplus supplies.
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that looks pretty sweet Bushman! its a bitch to move them around without wheels sometimes. :clap:
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I used to ferment in a downstairs small bathroom with a heater and aquarium temperature controller while doing fermentation but as mentioned I moved it into the outbuilding on this portable cart and retired the aquarium controller to a drop light. Not only did I regain the bathroom the light works great and uses much less electricity.
Below is a link to my aquarium controller, wiring is the same just switched the heater for a drop light.
http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... 85&t=25475

PS: what I didn't mention is I put L bracket son the bottom to hold the front and use ratchet straps to pull it in. Makes it easy to remove and get to the different fermenting buckets.
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Looks great! You should have went bigger hahaha!
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wish I had something with wheels. getting old makes it brutal schlepping buckets around
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BoisBlancBoy wrote:Looks great! You should have went bigger hahaha!
Actually I can hold 4 eight gallon fermenters at a time, I have 6 gallon fermenters keeps me busy enough.
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Probably smells great when it's full and fermenting away when you walk by.
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That's great Bushman! Everything in a garage should be so lucky to sit on Castor wheels.

Looks big enough to keep you busy all winter. :thumbup:
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BoisBlancBoy wrote:Probably smells great when it's full and fermenting away when you walk by.
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: Gives me a reason to keep going out to the outbuilding.
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Bushman seriously Bad Ass! Being a tool guy, I definitely nerd out on carts.
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That's good enough to put on 20" castors with rap music over it.
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juana_b wrote: Wed Jan 05, 2022 6:06 pm That's good enough to put on 20" castors with rap music over it.
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