fridges - or ice

Have a 60ltr evakool ice box. Works great. Travelled down the River Road , Bourke - Tilpa - Wilcannia several years back.

Temp around 46 deg. Ice box in back of ute under canopy. Was keeping ice/content cold bet 2-3 days. Transfered beers to normal esky ( ice in that lasted about 6 hours) at beginning of day and tried not to open evakool to often. Was only using crushed bought along the way.

Howdy,
Did 5 days in the lower glenelg nat park in april, mild weather, used a Kookaburra??? with a 10kg block and 2 x 1.25 kg blocks of ice, brought most of it home too, always kept it in the shade and all the food went in frozen and the drinks refrigerated. best to pour off the water as it melts and limit opening the box as much as possible.
Had a mate raft the grand canyon, 35-40 degrees and they managed to keep ice for at least 2 weeks, at the end of each day they put the eskys in the shade with lots of wet towels and gear over them, poured off excess water and sealed some for later use so only used 1 or 2 at a time. they would also put ice blocks together when they finished an esky.
The limiting factor to you would be what quantity of beer will you consume in a week.......
NickR

Been there done that with eskys and ice----get an Engel with dual batteries and you will never look back.

I would love to hear about an ice box that keeps ice for 7 days in summer. Lots claim to keep ice for 5 days, and given the right ambient they will. Not worth the risk of a warm beer mate.

Gronk previously had an Evakool esky http://www.evakool.com.au/evakool.shtml which was great. Ice outlasted other brands when with the mates. After my small lotto win invested in fridge and solar system
My son bought a small 18L fridge from the Fridge Shop for $450 http://www.fridgeshop.com.au/ and purchased a Kit55w for $545 http://members.dodo.net.au/~landline/solarkits.htm
works a treat and uses the esky with ice to store the veges and fruit

Probably be pushing it to get 7 days out of a drink Icebox. I have got 5 out of my Waeco Icebox in Summer.

I had a lengthly chat to the guys from Downunder Iceboxes a few days ago.

Generally , you can expect an extra Day or 2 out of a Fibreglass Icebox , then one of the Poly Iceboxes from places like Tropical. The construction process and insulation allows it. The problem is , they aren't as robust as the Poly ones , which are almost indestructable.

It seems that most of the Fibreglass ones, Downunder, Waeco, EvaKool , claim the same sort of figures , and AFAIK , they would be right. Same as the Poly makers, IceKool, Tropical etc.

For my money , the Tropicals are good value. I saw a 50l one for $199 at the show. The same size Fibreglass is over $300

I have a 110 litre and a 40 litre evakool icebox.
One time I had the 40 litre full of frozen fish and placed it in the 110 litre and packed the whole lot in party ice. It was in the sun much of the time in Autumn North Qld. Too heavy to lift in and out of shade. The 110 litre was kept tightly closed. After 7 days much of the ice had melted to a cold slurry however the fish was still frozen solid in the 40 litre.

Not really a normal scenario however I swear by me evakool. I think you could keep beer cold for seven days however you would have to keep the lid closed the whole time and not let any cold air out. A bit hard to drink that way.